Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
bodily energy, a fear, but very rarely are humans able just to
experience that fear directly as pure energy without labeling it and
without emphasizing the thought. So I get people used to
experiencing their bodily energies as different arisings than the
thoughts, so that they can become aware of all of those energies,
and let all of those energies just arise and fall within what they are.
Once people start doing that, they start to experience a natural
ease in their lives, they start to experience that they're able to
recognize this awareness in all situations, and that they're able to
allow all the phenomena just to appear in disparate, they don't feel
like they have to do anything with it anymore. They don't have to
change it, they don't have to understand it, and they don't have to
categorize it, which takes a lot of the pressure off of living. And
what opens up so wonderfully is that there's just wisdom there,
there's an ability to be and experience your Self as the flow of life
instead of having control and manipulate all the phenomena. And
then at that point, then I get people to recognize themselves as this
awareness, you can see all the appearances as coming and going
within that.
Then it just takes a little bit more to see the third thing, which is
that appearances are inseparable from the awareness, and that
just comes from really looking closely into our experience. For
example, if you look at a chair, something as simple as a chair, the
mind has been superimposing its memory where it stops one so
much on our experience. It's almost like the chair is telling us it's
a chair, it's a separate object. But a chair never speaks, it never
says anything, it's a thought that comes up to habitually label that
as a chair. But as you start to see that that's just a thought, and
when you see that the thought is inseparable from awareness, in
other words, it's a movement of awareness, it's moving inseparably
within awareness, when you walk up to the chair and you look at
the color of the chair, when you're looking from awareness, you're
not looking from person, I'm Scott, an object, looking at a chair,
you're looking from that awareness that you've Now recognized.
You can't find a line between the awareness and the color of the
chair, or the shape of the chair, it appears. Even if you found the
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