Hi :) so, yeeaarrss before I knew anything about ND, Iād have moments where Iād think to myself, āItās so weird that I have eyes, but itās not my eyes that let me actually see, itās the fact that Iām aware and thatās how I even know I can see/or know of my eyes being able to see.ā But I always assumed awareness was just in the brain and I wouldnāt give it much thought. To me, thatās just a simple fact that anyone can agree with. Since finding ND though, I struggle to understand how being aware that youāre aware, made people take a huge leap to where they started saying, āI come before my sight/other senses. Omg, that means nothing around me is real. I created it all and I can do crazy things like fly or have anything I want.ā Does that make sense? Like, how did people or bloggers come to such a crazy conclusion? How does one even prove that everything is truly fake or doesnāt exist without them? How does one know for sure that if youāre not aware, things donāt keep existing? None of us have passed on or experienced complete unconsciousness, so how can we really know that things donāt continue without our existence? How can we really know that things are unreal without feeling like youāre going crazy and starting to believe strangers online?
Because this isnāt a belief system, it is not a theory or a religion for people to need to believe what I say. I am not saying anything besides simply describing actuality. The people who arrive at the Knowing do so because they completely turn away from the illusory stories and abide in THAT.
Itās simply just a perspective change, Awareness is not located in the brain because Awareness transcends the concept and apparent existence of this thing called brain, separate from the idea of the brain can you find such a thing? You canātā youāre left with ā ā , an inconceivable emptiness.
Placing sole attention on Awareness helps one to take the focal point of view from experience and place it on the one thing that is Knowing of experience, the actuality that remains constant. It is a meditative practice that allows one to gradually realize from repetition that this thing called mind, that qualifies and labels what reality seems to be is actually fickle and has no actual effect without Your attention, then one begins to see that this mind is illusory, it is imagined the instant it seems to be.
My words and explanations can only go so far, this is self investigative , that is why believing me is a waste of time. Belief is weak, knowing is notā knowing is achieved from directly experiencing the Self , from contemplation, self enquiry, observing the observer. All different ways to see the same thing.
Not from consuming strangers online, allow me to also add non duality is an ancient understanding, gurus from hundreds of years back till date have written books and taught this understanding so others may be curious enough to want to have this Knowing for themselves. We didnāt just develop some weird philosophy and decided to indoctrinate people on tumblr, we read we got curious we realized and we hope to help others do the same.
I donāt like how non duality is seen as some new age doctrine when it is the actual nature of Reality, it pervades everything and you would know this if you looked inwards and sought to understand the Self.
Once it is seen it is never unseen.
