Not of the World

Day to day experience is structured by the activity of the mind. The mind, through conceptual thinking, divides reality into a subjective world of thoughts, feelings, and sensations, and an objective world of objects, events, and relationships. The mind perceives itself to be contained within a physical body, acting and reacting with a physical world. To the mind, the sense of separation seems intuitively true.

However, the awareness that knows both the subjective and the objective makes no such distinction.

Timeless, formless awareness is not located within the body or the mind. The body, the mind, and the entirety of perception, arise and subside within awareness. The awareness that illuminates thoughts and feeling is the same awareness that illuminates perception. There is no separate awareness for inner and outer experience. Awareness is a seamless whole, and, the kicker is, awareness is one.

You, awareness, are the formless eternity in which the universe unfolds.

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