This Question: Are You Aware? - 10th January 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides the seeker to investigate the nature of awareness by distinguishing direct insight from mental inference, pointing toward the non-dual reality of the 'I' that knows existence.
You know you are aware because you know what awareness is, just as you know what sight is.
I am more interested in what you find when you look without making any mental conclusions.
What is the distance between this 'I' and that which knows your existence?
contemplative
Transcript
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So I said I'm not sure if I'm getting the question itself. They ask, 'Are you aware?' Like, it's kind of clear, what is this? Are we aware of the table? Yes. Or, 'Do you exist?' I can say yes. So, 'Are you aware?' Kind of... this is empty for me. I don't know.
Let's start. When I say, 'Are you hearing this voice?' Are you hearing this voice? You will say yes, because you know what hearing is and what voice is. I don't go into details and just... okay, yeah, I see what you mean. So when I say, 'Are you seeing this body in front of you?'
Mm-hm.
You say yes because you see that you are seeing. If I say, 'Are you hearing this body in front of you? Are you hearing this photo frame?' No, because you know what hearing is and you see that you are seeing it with your sight, and you're not hearing it. So you have to know both sides of the equation, which is what is hearing and what is being heard. Same way, what is sight and what is being seen. If you had no idea what hearing was and I say, 'Are you jump-off-vacating a body in front of you?' You don't know what 'jump-off-vacating' is. Now, when I say, 'Are you aware of something?' you say, 'I am aware' only because of the 'of'—what is being perceived. Yes?
But if... if I was saying, 'Are you jump-off-vacating this tissue box?' No. But, 'Are you aware of this tissue box?' Yes. Therefore, you must know what 'aware' is. This is like you know what sight is, what hearing is, and you don't know what 'jump-off-vacating' is. Like, you are referring to some feeling when you say, 'I am aware of my existence.' What are you? It's just some knowing. Just don't think it's in front. It's just something is here and I can say I know it, but even later than it happens.
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Now, is this knowing dependent on anything at all for itself? Is it coming and going? Is it changing? You see, because you see it's the kind of knowing. This knowing, what is the distance of this knowing from you?
Looks like sometimes something is outside of it. This is something trying to be inside of it, but that's why it is outside. It's not always like that. Sometimes it's just kind of blank or something. Like you said, a knowing of existence itself, or 'I am aware of my existence.' So this event, what is its distance from back there? Are you and... I didn't worry about that, whether existence is outside of it or I must be somehow together with it, otherwise...
Yes, but this when we say 'must be,' it means it's an inference. I am more interested in your insight. What do you find when you look? Can you repeat the question? I'm saying that when we say 'must be' or 'should be' or 'can be,' that means we are using my mind to come up with an inference. You have a concept of how it should be, therefore it could be the truth. I am more interested in what you are finding when you're looking for yourself without making any mental conclusion. So the question was this: 'I.' What is the distance between this 'I' and that which knows your existence?
They are a little bit separate, yes.
How much?
Just as much... just enough to say that they're separate so I can see it.
You could be seeing. Then don't be concerned about that. This 'I,' what are the qualities or attributes of this 'I' that sees? Even that... this is... now you don't have to worry about any answers.
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