Aware of Awareness
By Michael Erlewine
Am I aware that I am aware? That’s a question that goes without saying or, as is said, you can say it again. And who is asking? Why would we ask?
And it’s not like a stuck record, hiccupping on itself.
There is no place to go beyond the top except down, and it’s not like that anyway. It’s more like the old saying, “You can’t step in the same river twice,” because it is the water that is changing every moment, not the river.
It’s the same with awareness. It’s not what we are aware of that is the point, but rather the awareness itself, that we are aware.
Yet, how can we be aware of awareness itself?
We can’t and have it also be immersive, which by definition it is. Awareness of awareness is non-dualistic, meaning it has no object to be aware of other than itself, just as we can’t see our own eye.
Awareness of awareness is recursive, meaning our awareness is what we use to be aware. How can it be aware of itself, other than it is, and that by reflection, based on the analogy of an infinite hall of mirrors.
We lose all objectivity when we try to be aware of awareness itself, and when the dewdrop slips into the shining sea, and is gone.
[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
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As Bodhicitta is so precious,
May those without it now create it,
May those who have it not destroy it,
And may it ever grow and flourish.
