Beyond Good and Evil
Awareness, in its limitless capacity, effortlessly captures all forms—the world of tangible form and the subtle realm of thoughts and emotions. Yet no form, no concept, can ever truly capture awareness. Like theories of love, attempts to define or contain awareness within a conceptual framework inevitably fail to convey its full essence. Awareness is the container that cannot be contained.
Awareness knows all dualities, positive and negative, light and darkness, joy and sorrow, yet remains inherently neutral, unconditioned by the content it illuminates. It is the impartial witness, observing the spectrum of human experience without judgment or preference.
Awareness contains the entirety of the moral and ethical landscape. Yet, in its own essence, awareness is inherently empty of any fixed moral or ethical code. Moral and ethical constructs that arise within the field of awareness are interpretations and agreements made within the realm of form. Awareness, that which knows form, transcends form. Formless awareness simply is—the fundamental light of being that illuminates the concepts of both right and wrong.
The inherent emptiness of awareness is fullness itself.* This inherent fullness or wholeness transcends conceptual knowledge, although we could say that its experiential nature is the fullness love—the felt sense of a shared, underlying unity.
When the recognition of our fundamentally shared being is fully integrated in the world of form, the constructs of morality and ethics which are born out of a need to prevent harm and neglect, lose their necessity. When the recognition of our shared being shines, the impulse towards harm and neglect dissolves.
Awareness is the fundamental reality that we already are and have always been.
In fact, awareness is the only experiential reality there is.