AWARENESS

[Pravin Kumar]

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Colin Drake
Awareness On Facebook a discussion arose, Suggesting awareness is a consequence, Of experience which comes and goes, Just a conclusion, devoid of real essence. This partial awareness, noticing by...
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Awareness On Facebook a discussion arose, Suggesting awareness is a consequence, Of experience which comes and goes, Just a conclusion, devoid of real essence. This partial awareness, noticing by...
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Awareness

On Facebook a discussion arose,
Suggesting awareness is a consequence,
Of experience which comes and goes,
Just a conclusion, devoid of real essence.

This partial awareness, noticing by the mind,
Requires an underlying conscious screen,
Whereon all thought and sensation we find,
By viewing which they may be singly seen.

For all that is detected by the mind and senses,
Automatically by this screen of Awareness is seen,
From which the mind selects its interests,
Of the flow of thoughts and sensations that have been.

This you can experimentally prove,
For whilst you are focussed on this rhyme,
To sensations in your toes you can move,
Which have been in Awareness all the time.

The mind is like a spotlight focussing upon
Details, the whole picture overlooking,
Consisting of all mental content and sensation,
Items from which its sequentially hooking.

This whole is Awareness and its contents,
The perceiver and the objects that it sees,
The former a constant conscious presence,
The latter as ephemeral as the sea breeze.

This Awareness, Consciousness at rest,
Is the vital, fundamental, Absolute essence,
Constant and unchanging thus the best,
By which all can be seen, full of radiance.

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A poem from 'Poetry From The Simplicity of Awakening' based on a chapter of 'The Simplicity of Awakening'.

I write (and read) these posts, based on my meditations and contemplations, as much for my own benefit as for that of 'others'. For this helps to keep me 'awake' in this illusory, and impermanent, world ... our perception of which is based purely on our physical, and mental, configuration.

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COLIN DRAKE