Simply Being

As the light of awareness collapses back to its source, all appearances are understood, perceived and experienced as the untouchable stillness of beingness knowingly, and there is great fullness, aliveness and love. This collapse, or in other words glimpse, is awareness knowingly being at one with its source of beingness.

As the light of awareness attends to appearances away from its source, there is a sense of separateness as the experience of all appearances as the one beingness is lost. This experience of separateness is reflected in the mind and body as a perception of separate subject and object, of a self that is separate from the world around itself. This is accompanied by thoughts that personalise the self. The name "I" that we give to the self refers, in this case, to the separate person the mind believes itself to be, in contrast to the beingness that is the single source of all that appears.

How does awareness collapse into the source of its own beingness? I suggest three steps: open-minded curiosity that lets go of prior beliefs and is open to the possibility that all existence is one impersonal reality; understanding of the experience of thought (mind), sensation (body), and awareness; and subsequently, the experience of simply being impersonal beingness.

The effects of this experiential glimpse on the mind and body are commonly experienced as peaceful aliveness, clarity of mind and thought, and perception of beauty in all that is sensed—all subsumed within the love that is the very substance of beingness. Actions of the body that arise are experienced as beingness and not as belonging to a personal entity. The pure stillness of beingness is experienced, and what appears is but a flickering refraction of light that holds no substance and cannot distract from the pure aliveness and love of beingness. As a voice is heard, it is experienced as the voice of beingness speaking, not as a person. All faces are experienced as appearances of beingness. All bodies are experienced as appearances of beingness. The provisional story of being a separate person is recognised to be without foundation in light of the awakened experience of impersonal beingness, which the mind cannot know to be a limited personal beingness, as the experience of it is without boundary. It is the container of experiences of mind and body rather than being contained by them.

Here, we are free of the fear and inadequacy of "personalness." Fearless thoughts and actions of the grateful loving aliveness of beingness arise, and the universe appears as a miraculous mirror of this.

Love,

Freyja