Objectless Awareness

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When we look for personal experiences to gain from our meandering through life, we restrict our attention to a fraction of the whole. Collecting personal experiences is just a mental process that we turn into our primary object of attention.

Our awareness of that addiction to personalizing life is that it lacks feelings of intimacy or awe. Their presence uncovers a simple truth – the lack of an object of awareness (personal self) always brings awareness back to awareness itself. Objects such as thoughts are really reactionary after thoughts that can only exist in relation to already known objects of attention (more thoughts).

To really know anything, there must be no reference to anything “else.” It is a hoot to know that after just a few moments of consciously allowing life to be, the “experiencer” falls away under the weight of their own irrelevance.

The lack of an object of attention brings (me) back to awareness itself. Without a need or want, to filter life through a personal point of view.

This simple exercise is part of a meditation book I am writing: “Just Watching.”

Establishing a relationship with “Objectless Awareness” is a valuable and simple meditation tool.

Play with it and send me your feedback.

Perhaps, together, we can surrender to the sublime feel of awareness, being aware that we are awareness itself.

 

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Keshav Howe

32 responses to “Objectless Awareness”

  1. Bettylou

    Peace is only evident to me when I step out of the part I play (sometimes heroine, sometimes victim, sometimes judge, etc.) as a separate someone. She compares herself to others. Who compares now with a past or fears a future all around losses and gains, better and worse.
    When that drops away there is only Now, a Now that is remembered as Peace, Love, Unity, Clarity, Support and is in communication with the Wisdom and Creativity of Source. There is the freedom from the suffering and bondage of self.

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    1. mrruss1103

      Keshav says it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it. I see that this applies to many things. I recognize that there are many roles we must play, from a practical sense, Father, Son, Husband…
      I endeavor to play only the necessary roles and to do so with the awareness that I am doing so. I love what Keshav wrote here “The deal we can make is to allow the mind to continue to be an imperfect tool that does the best it can to describe what it can never really grasp or understand.”. One thing I think we can credit to our prior beliefs is that they continually strove to play their roles well. What’s different now is the knowledge that these roles don’t define me and always manage to uncover minds insecurity.

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  2. Joe

    Last night during energy work there was a voice that said “I’m ready to wake up.” There feels like a stronger and stronger push to stop hitting the snooze button. The story of Joe has been dying ,and even mind seems to be joining in.

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    1. Bettylou

      Perfect metaphor, Joe.

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    2. Keshav

      The mind continues to appear, but the moment we start to know ourselves as awareness, we are this throughout all of our activities. The non-state is completely unaffected by the thought process, emotions, or desires. These all come and go, but YOU do not. It takes us to the helplessness of thought! The deal we can make is to allow the mind to continue to be an imperfect tool that does the best it can to describe what it can never really grasp or understand. It will take that new role over Nothing every “time”.

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    3. mrruss1103

      That’s great Joe! Keep tearing those filters off…

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  3. mrruss1103

    Recently, I’ve begun to invite people outright to be willing to see me in a new way. I find most of these people are caught somewhat off guard, but willing to the point that they are anxious to do so. I don’t try to manage their experience of me, but rather, offer a refreshing perspective of me. Self-honesty I find is mandatory in these endeavors and when spoken out loud, they are mostly willing to see and open to a newfound honesty. Rule number 1, don’t be full of shit. People can handle more than we think sometimes, when all is done in honesty. Those who aren’t willing, are stuck with a chain that at some point must be released, but beyond the offer of an honest moment, there is nothing more for me to do, but to accept, let go of the chain and move forward. I think that those who trust the least, want desperately to trust the most… I can only offer all of myself with honest boundaries. One last thing, it is perfectly all right if we don’t care to be around certain people. Honesty is King.

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    1. Bettylou

      It is wonderful to be with people who appreciate me for who I am, not for someone I am pretending to be. Freedom to be true to myself is true freedom.

      “This above all, to thine own self be true; And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” –William Shakespeare (Hamlet).”

      Of course, first you must “know thyself,” Greek aphorism. Some of us get so caught up in who we think we are and who we think we should be we are strangers even to ourselves.

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  4. mrruss1103

    As I ponder, I feel the pull. Freedom is bound with awareness. I’ve discovered that I crave freedom from my chains, constantly. But… what’s new is that I’m realizing that chains are not made for breaking, still, freedom is found not in breaking chains, but rather letting them go!!! The chains that seem to bind me, are completely optional! Find the courage to let go of the bull shit and “Reclaim your power”. It is entirely up to us.

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  5. Bettylou

    It is good that I can remember that I don’t have to listen to mind telling me what I need in order to be happy. Nor do I need to hang on to images of others but rather see them with fresh eyes. There I might see who they really are, without past judgements. I may see that after all, they believe they are a someone that needs things and is desperately trying to fulfill that need. Don’t we all do that when we have mistaken our identities? Withholding judgement and trying to meet them where they are without requiring anything from them is the most peaceful way to co-exist with others.

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    1. Keshav

      Rooting attention in the presence of this eternal moment. Without time, and distance there is no us and them. Just here and now. Those fresh eyes are available first thing in the morning; for gazing into – right in the bathroom mirror. Pass it on…

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    2. mrruss1103

      The world we create, so powerful… Your one of my heroes Betty. No one likes stale bread, so wonderful is the smell of fresh bread at the bakery, even better, the taste that enters you when you take it in fresh, every moment of every day… It is we who must manage our expectations of others. I find it difficult, but rewarding. So much unclaimed beauty in the world. In this, I am selfish… and grateful.

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