num_pages: 128
description: Everybody is aware all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts feelings sensations and perceptions. All people share the experience of being aware but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. Most peoples lives consist of a flow of thoughts images ideas feelings sensations sights sounds and so on. Very few people ask What is it that knows this flow of thoughts feelings and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?The knowing of our beingor rather awarenesss knowing of its own being in usis our primary experience our most fundamental and intimate experience. It is in this experience that all the peace happiness and love we have ever longed for reside. The happiness we have sought for so long outside of ourselves in situations objects and relationships turns out to be always present always available in the simple knowing of our own being as it is.The knowing of our own being shines in each one of us as the experience I am or I am aware or simply as the thought I. Because this simplest most obvious most familiar and intimate experience is to the mind not a thing or nothing it is overlooked or forgotten by the vast majority of humanity. The overlooking of our own being is the root cause of all unhappiness and therefore the root cause of our search for happiness. What is the nature of this experience of being aware? The contemplations in this collection will lead readers toward their own experiential understanding of that which we all call I.Being Aware of Being Aware is the first and introductory volume in the Essence of Meditation series of collected meditations on the fundamentals of non-duality. Each volume will include six essays compiled from contemplations led by Rupert Spira at retreats.
language: English
title: Being Aware of Being Aware
publisher: Sahaja