Who Is Aware?
The inquiry into who is aware leads to the discovery of the silent witness consciousness that is always present and knows itself directly.
So, [the] ‘you’ that is Aware is which one? Who is Aware? Who is Aware? I say ‘Are you Aware now?’ You say - yes. So ‘you’ that which is Aware, is which one? Who is Aware? The mind (like he was saying earlier), the mind will obviously [say] ‘I person, I am Aware’. So, don’t follow the mind, look. Don’t ask how to look, just look. Don’t ask what will I find, just look. Who is Aware? [Silence] Automatically… automatically the looking happens. There is no ‘how’ to it. If I say banana, banana comes no [referring to an image of a banana]? tiow you thought of banana? It just comes. Even if I say ‘Don’t think banana’ -banana comes. So there is no ‘how’ to it. In the same way when I ask ‘Who is Aware?’ The insight is apparent. Simpler than imagining banana. But it will not confirm to what your mind wants.
Key Teachings
- The question 'Who is aware?' points to the observer of awareness itself, revealing the nature of consciousness as the knower of all experience
- True awareness is that which observes all experience while remaining unchanging, unaffected, and self-luminous
From: Freedom Means Everything Can Come and Go - 16th October 2020