Perspective from Centerlessness
When the center shifts from egoic thinking to centerlessness, ownerless, apparently omnipresent awareness, Â inner and outer become less distinct until everything just seems to be happening in awareness. From this perspective, the apparent interconnectedness of all things becomes a predominant feature. No sense of ownership arises. The view from here seems fundamentally truer, freer from interference of mental machinations.
From open awareness, one still cannot be sure what others are experiencing, but we can see signs of whether they are still trapped in webs of thought and conditioned habit energy or if they too have awakened from that dream-like, conditioned state, if they are bound up in thoughts and the resultant self-sense or have opened beyond that. We can see it because we also have been through that territory and know the signs.
If pure awareness becomes predominant for me here and you say you also have undergone this shift and opened to it, and no sense of ownership of pure awareness arises in either of us, it becomes apparent that this ownerless, omnipresent awareness is common to us both. Is this a deduction? Can I be certain I am experiencing what you say you are experiencing? Not really. Yet we seem to be sharing the same ownerless pure awareness. It experientially seems abundantly clear.
Is this deduction valid? It seems so because the very nature of being rooted in pure awareness, rather than entangled thought, is that everything apparently is happening in this ubiquitous, field of awareness and is not separate from it. It’s not my pure awareness. The “my” isn’t arising. Where is “other” here? If you experience the same, isn’t it obvious that we are experiencing the same field of awareness?
Even if one of us is mired in thoughts and pure awareness is no longer predominant, at least one of us can still see that has happened and that most people live their lives in this occluded state. But it is still clear that when the entwined thoughts subside, what is left is pure awareness, which is also apparently life itself. Even the thought thickets that may arise and overshadow are happening within pure awareness.
Some may be wondering if anyone out there actually exists since there only seems to be ubiquitous pure awareness, but this may be the wrong question. If you strike me in the face I will naturally assume you exist. Or if I feel your love. The question for me is do we both share the same primal awareness? On the surface, apparently not. But when one experiences as awareness itself, it becomes abundantly clear that we must.
