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Awareness is being, not doing

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Awareness is a strange experience. We could only sense this if we spent so much time being unaware. So what is unawareness? It is a blocking out of something present. It is neglecting what is manifesting to us. Notice the thing has to already BE present or manifested for you to be unaware of it. There's no sense in talking about being unaware of something not present. I am unaware of the time. I am unaware I'm feeling a certain way. I'm unaware of the chair I'm sitting on,. I can even be unaware of a thought I'm having. But these things have to be present first. What is this BEING present, and what is its nature? Well, basically it is a state or an experience that is happening to you. When we turn our attention to that state or experience, we are aware of it. It essentially becomes what it was already--a manifestation of being. So awareness in a very real sense isn't something we do. It is something we let happen. It is acknowledging the presence of what is already present. It is the unawareness, the constant blocking out, that we do and perform. And this takes alot of energy. So when we quit blocking out, we are simply ceasing to do something. We are letting go and letting something already present to us BE present. We are simply BEING instead of doing--as the lucid awareness of the presence of being itself.  


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