By: Peter Wilberg
You thought that union was a way you could decide to go.
But the soul follows things rejected and almost forgotten.
Your true guide drinks from an undammed stream.
— Rumi
The awareness of a thing is not itself a thing. It is a thing-free Awareness.
The awareness of a thought is not itself a thought. It is a thought-free Awareness.
The awareness of an emotion is not itself an emotion. It is an emotion-free Awareness.
The awareness of an impulse to act or speak is not itself an impulse to act or speak.
Being free of impulses to act or speak, it allows you to act or speak freely.
Choosing Freedom Through Awareness
If you are not aware of the way you are thinking, feeling, speaking or acting you cannot choose to think, feel, speak or act differently.
In other words: if you are not aware, you have no choice.
That is why the Fundamental Choice that each of us can and needs to make is to Be Aware. For awareness itself automatically expands the range of alternative choices we are aware of at any time and in any situation.
In this way it automatically extends our Degree of Freedom. Without identifying with awareness – Being Awareness – our actions cease to be free choices and become mere reactions to things we are aware of.
With awareness, we become aware not just of 'how things are' but of the countless choices available to us in responding to them.
Every moment of everyday life we are constantly faced with choices – whether to do or say something or not, whether to do or say one thing or another, whether to do or say something in one way or in another way.
All the moment-by-moment 'micro-choices' we make – whether to work or rest, eat or drink, move or stay still, even whether to let a particular thought pass or not, or whether to let ourselves fully feel a particular feeling or not – affect not only our entire day but our entire life – and the life beyond that.
Remember then, at all times and all situations, that Awareness alone is Freedom.
Bio:
Awareness itself is the ultimate nature of reality, the source from which all things and all beings emerge and the very stuff of which they are composed.
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You thought that union was a way you could decide to go.
But the soul follows things rejected and almost forgotten.
Your true guide drinks from an undammed stream.
— Rumi
The awareness of a thing is not itself a thing. It is a thing-free Awareness.
The awareness of a thought is not itself a thought. It is a thought-free Awareness.
The awareness of an emotion is not itself an emotion. It is an emotion-free Awareness.
The awareness of an impulse to act or speak is not itself an impulse to act or speak.
Being free of impulses to act or speak, it allows you to act or speak freely.
Choosing Freedom Through Awareness
If you are not aware of the way you are thinking, feeling, speaking or acting you cannot choose to think, feel, speak or act differently.
In other words: if you are not aware, you have no choice.
That is why the Fundamental Choice that each of us can and needs to make is to Be Aware. For awareness itself automatically expands the range of alternative choices we are aware of at any time and in any situation.
In this way it automatically extends our Degree of Freedom. Without identifying with awareness – Being Awareness – our actions cease to be free choices and become mere reactions to things we are aware of.
With awareness, we become aware not just of 'how things are' but of the countless choices available to us in responding to them.
Every moment of everyday life we are constantly faced with choices – whether to do or say something or not, whether to do or say one thing or another, whether to do or say something in one way or in another way.
All the moment-by-moment 'micro-choices' we make – whether to work or rest, eat or drink, move or stay still, even whether to let a particular thought pass or not, or whether to let ourselves fully feel a particular feeling or not – affect not only our entire day but our entire life – and the life beyond that.
Remember then, at all times and all situations, that Awareness alone is Freedom.
Bio:
Awareness itself is the ultimate nature of reality, the source from which all things and all beings emerge and the very stuff of which they are composed.
Article Submission by Article Submission Express
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