Yet concepts alone can be the blinders which stop us from ever recognizing the simple, naked awareness- present right now. The awareness nature gives the power to free up from beliefs and let truth reveal itself as beyond limited concepts and human language. We then can see that God, Dharmakaya, or any other imputation, isn’t found in concepts alone. Some even call it our higher self or true mind, and now modern science is using meta-awareness because it’s hard to deny the power. This is why awareness is the essence of Dharma-it’s our Buddha nature. We don’t have to try to be aware, it’s already here and happening, even in the womb it was there. We have awareness of beliefs we have awareness of two hours ago, of our dreams, and how much awareness depends on how much we’re blocking, and how much we’re standing in the way. Sitting with our present state of consciousness whether happiness or anger can be a major empowerment. This goes along with why we can’t sit with our own emotions and thoughts, we feel like we’re not supposed to have them and we need to get rid of them-but that’s just more fuel to the fire. Not only that, spiritual practice itself can be more conditioning, more fuel for the fire of samsara, on top of immense materialistic conditioning which starts as kids with commercials, billboards and constant psychological advertising, which can manipulate thoughts and emotions. It can truly throw people into a world of concepts and beliefs that our conditioned self will grasp to empower itself. Then we form even more beliefs and conceptual proliferation around the core. It starts as a belief or idea and many times ends up as a haunting ideal lingering in the background of our mind. By Dawai Gocha Every religion gives us an end goal, many times culture does too, whether it’s heaven, enlightenment, or getting rich. We don’t have to try to be aware, it’s already there and happening, even in the womb it was there.
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