Prior to Awareness - 18th Jan. 2016

Name: Prior to Awareness - 18th Jan. 2016
Uploaded: 2016-01-18
Duration: 8 min 46 s
Description: Ananta explores whether anything can exist prior to awareness and distinguishes between phenomenal sensory perception and the pure seeing of the Self.

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Ananta guides a contemplation on the primacy of awareness, explaining that even the most sublime concepts or sensory perceptions require awareness to exist. He points out that while the word 'awareness' may feel inadequate, it points to an unlabeled, non-phenomenal reality.

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Whatever that something might be, is there any way to know its existence without the awareness of it?

The word that we use, awareness or witnessing, doesn't seem enough. It is the unlabeled label.

Awareness is not referring to phenomenal sensory perception; it is that which knows even this.

contemplative

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