Indigenous Peoples Literature: Our Place in the Universe: ‘the first factor of enlightenment’

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Our Place in the Universe: ‘the first factor of enlightenment’

‘Life, for each of us, is just a series of moment-to-moment experiences’.

These experiences start when weare born and continue until we die,

rushing headlong after each other, so that they seem to merge into a whole

that we call ‘my life’.
Awareness is the constant substratum in which all things appear to arise, exist and subside.

If we choose to identify with this deepest level –awareness - (the perceiver)
rather than the surface level, mind/body (the perceived), then thoughts
and sensations are seen for what they truly are, just ephemeral
(existing only briefly) objects which come and go,
leaving awareness itself totally unaffected.

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