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[Magical Realist]

On "self-awaring"..

My term for the ideal of becoming aware of whatever one is doing as one is doing it. A self-transparency and tacit feel of the flow of energy in our mind and body. Self-aware thinking, and feeling, and speaking, and writing, and listening, and seeing, and moving one's body, and dreaming, and remembering, and imagining, and even knowing. Each activity being lucid to itself in its own distinctive style of happening. For instance speaking as listening to and tracking your saying and steering what needs to be thought and said next. An intuitively-felt fusion of the fluency/intention of using words both as speaking and thinking reciprocally and at the same time. This of course goes to the concept of Zen as being deliberate and mindful of what one is doing, even of self-awaring itself! What remains of the self or any selfness at all when it is diffused thruout one's being as just the effortless paying attention to and making present, in its own natural mode of happening, of whatever is arising in us at all times?

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."--Zen saying

[Magical Realist]

You are never really in any place at all when you're driving. You are now in a movie, with scenes and characters and events and background music streaming all around you. And you, with your caramel latte in your shiny just-washed car, are the star of the show!