We need to learn to rest in awareness. We need to be conscious of our consciousness. So, we need to be aware of being aware. We need to be conscious of being conscious. We need to understand that all senses, all images, perceptions, people, places, things, conversations, and situations are the mind. Awareness itself has no form, yet it gives rise to experiences that we can see in form; we can experience sound, touch, taste. Awareness is nowhere, yet it allows us to experience time and space.

Our conscious awareness is who we really are. It is not the chatter of the mind; it is not your thoughts. Growing up and developing personalities, we’ve developed a belief, a wrong belief that as we think, we are. But as we contemplatively think, as we consciously think, so shall we be. Yet not 95% of our lives, 95% of our actions are run from the subconscious, from the record of the past, from memory, behaviours, attitudes, perceptions, and events that have already passed, attitudes that we grew up with.

Your sacred self is not subject to death or form. The sacred self is our true self or our soul. In Christianity, there’s a famous prayer called The Lord’s Prayer. You might know it as “Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” In the original Aramaic, Christ’s opening words to the prayer were, “Oh thou, from whom the Breath of Life comes.” That Breath of Life is your soul, your sacred self. In the Eastern traditions and the wisdom traditions, when we speak of the Sacred self, we also know that our soul is unborn; it has always been. It cannot be killed, hurt, or bruised. So, it is not in space or time; it is not in form, yet it is who we are.

Getting consciousness right

Getting this distinction right straight away of who we are is very, very important to the work we do here to create any Paradigm Shift, any life with meaning. We need to become more and more conscious, as conscious as the body, the heart, and the mind can bear. Your contemplative intelligence allows you to just rest in being. After all, you’re a human being. We’ve been led to believe a lie when we glorify busy, when we glorify targets and destinations beyond the value of resting in stillness. We forget the value of peace and the consequences of no peace. It is suffering that makes us remember. What we want to do is become conscious of your authentic self, beyond your name, beyond descriptions, beyond definitions.

Conscious awareness is the state that we get into through rest and stillness that gives us the ability to perceive, to intuitively feel, to be conscious of externals, external events, objects, energy, and sensory patterns. We cannot experience these things through the five senses. Paradoxically, when we want to experience them, we become still. To develop a contemplative mindset means to look at the world exactly as it is. Ego defense mechanisms become no longer necessary. We can gaze intently; we can feel intently; we can observe intently, consciously, the world around us and the world within us as we experience it.

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy,

Beyond your personality is a self that goes beyond mental images and concepts; it goes towards a direct experience of the Divine. Plato said contemplation was the form of the good or other Divine forms. It is a state that brings about a mystical Oneness, Unity, or Union with reality, rather than running from it; we run towards it. This is the meaning of life, and it is the meaning of resting in stillness. So now let’s let go of all the roles you play. Let’s let go of all the roles you play as a human being; all the masks you have to wear, all the hats you have to put on. Let’s rather look at awareness and consciousness. The roles we play are part of the scenery, as William Shakespeare says, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his act being seven ages.” Through our lives, of course, we play the parts of the infant, the lover, the foolish and the wise, the youthful and the elderly. Shakespeare stated that this would all end in a second kind of childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Indeed, he’s right. We will move past the teeth, the eyes, the taste, and everything else.

We will move past our five senses, our attitudes, traits, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. We’ll even move past our personality itself. Spiritual Awakening is waking up from the projections of the body, heart, mind, of our environments and our worlds. Just be conscious of being conscious. If we grasp and hold on to form, whether it’s Clay or even a thought, we experience a kind of Suffocation. That’s what holding on does, that’s what clinging does. Letting go is freedom. It’s Bliss. It’s

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