(CHOICELESS) AWARENESS IS OUR NATURE
IF YOU BECOME silent for a moment you will become aware of all that is happening around and within you. This is because the very nature of life is awareness. Life and awareness are synonymous. Awareness is our reality. Awareness is our real nature. We are nothing but awareness.
Also this awareness is totally choiceless,
in the sense that awareness does not choose. It takes everything into account which
comes into its sphere of knowing. For example, when you are silent you become
aware of all that happen around and within you – birds chirping; dog barking;
child crying; car honking; thoughts and emotions arising within etc. You become
aware of all. Awareness does not reject anything. Awareness is total
acceptance.
Our truth or reality is choiceless or pure awareness. Awareness does not divide or reject anything. Choice is of the mind. Mind chooses; mind divides; mind splits. Because mind loves to divide; mind loves to split. Mind exists in division. All problems; all struggle; all complications are due to split or division of life. Mind exists in division. In the mind everything is separate and hence this world. In awareness there is no division. Everything is just one. In oneness there is no mind. Awareness is oneness and oneness is divine.
Choice is made-up; created by us and hence unnatural. That which is unnatural or artificial, is what we know as unconsciousness. Choiceless awareness is consciousness which is our original nature and realizing our original nature is self-realization or enlightenment. The only thing we need to do to reclaim our original nature is to slowly and slowly become more and more silent. Silence, not of the speech but of the mind. In other words you can become silent only when you drop your mind. In silence or no-mind state you are face-to-face with the reality. There is no one standing between you and the reality. That’s what choiceless awareness is. To meditate is to become silent. To meditate is to become aware.
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