SHACK 4145 ALIVE

Courtesy Saatchi Art

 Do you feel alive? Not just feeling emotions, thoughts that race through the mind, stuck thoughts, moods you cannot shake and troublesome echoes that you can't find the reason why and where they came to be and why they pop up spontaneously as if they have an independent life of their own?

Can you be aware without thought, not the suppression willing not thought, not trance, mindfulness, any mind technique, to be just simple plain aware. Being conscious of being aware, aware of awareness, an empty dynamic,

Can you be conscious without any emotion or thought and feel not think I AM ALIVE, just feeling alive, not a smidgeon, not a mite, not an infinitesimal dot of anything, a truly empty mind, in fact there is no mind at all and yet you can be self aware, you are awareness plain and simple you are aware of self, you are self aware. Your true nature is self awareness, you are conscious because you are aware of being conscious which is awareness of consciousness which is Life.

In fact it is the content of the mind, the accumulation of data, facts, experiences, held onto as a base or reference of which this entity, the ego assumes its identity and reality and preserves it at all costs although it has no solid base, it's usual content is someone else's ideas and perhaps a modification or reconfiguring of them at least and these maybe from the ancient past and adjusted to suit a new era epoch yet on close examination without bias are only a makeover and a patched glossy seemingly original set of ideas and usually found to be not wholly satisfactory. Awareness is not mind. 

Being aware of Self, Self Awareness without thought, not even a hint or a subtle ego trick at the back of mind, 'I will be empty', it's not so much a thought but a shadowy echo of a  force, a seduction on a very subtle extremely sinuous exotic lithe like the slithering snake and when the opportunity arises strikes and leaps in to cover and take over the awareness, it cannot obliterate the awareness it merely distracts the focus and produces emotions of pleasure or pain to distract and cause the emotions as a distraction which come from the content of mind. When watching the mind without judgement and the mind is caused by the content of the mind and this content of mind is not consciousness or awareness, it is the consciousness and awareness which are the the witness to the content and not the content. So by attention without intention you become to see not by judgement that this content is not real, it does not have any substance and in fact you become to realise I am not the content of my mind I am that which observes it, if you  then try to analyse who is this observer you become back to the subtle thought and in mind again.

We are the conscious expression of the Universe being conscious of Itself. The Universe is Self Aware and as such should we be an expression or creation of the Universe it maybe we are Self Aware as well.

SHACK  aka  GEOFF