Self-awareness
Instead of being aware of something, just be aware that you are aware.
Feel your own presence, and become still.
Eckhart Tolle
Become aware of being aware.
Say or think «I am,» and add nothing to it.
Be aware of the stillness that follows the «I am.»
Sense your presence—the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness.
Remain aware of yourself, and all else will be known.
Ramana Maharshi
The Unchangeable can only be realized in silence. Once realized, It will deeply affect the changeable, Itself remaining unaffected.
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your True Nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does Self-Awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady Self-Awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.
Put your Awareness to work, not your mind. The mind is not the right instrument for this task. The Timeless can be reached only by the Timeless. Your body and your mind are subject to time; only Awareness is timeless, even in the now.
The Awareness that you are will open your eyes to what you are. It is all very simple. First of all, establish a constant contact with your Self, be with yourself all the time. Into Self-Awareness all blessings flow. Begin as a center of observation, deliberate cognizance, and grow into a center of love in action.
Stay in that love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate yourself and love the investigation.
This union of the Seer and the Seen happens when the Seer becomes conscious of himself as the Seer. He is not merely interested in the seen, which he is anyhow, but also interested in being interested; giving attention to attention; aware of being aware.
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, and expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Note—a more detailed instruction to this approach is available via this website, and in the books and videos by Nisargadatta and Rupert Spira, amongst others.
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