{"id":2694,"date":"2013-09-12T16:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Awakening-Together.org\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2017-08-18T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T02:00:17","slug":"timothy-conway-our-real-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/timothy-conway-our-real-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Conway &#8211; Our Real Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">There is only AWARENESS.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Sages have called this by many names\u2014God, Pure Spirit, I AM THAT AM, Absolute Reality, the Nondual Self, Brahman\/Atman, Being-Awareness-Bliss, Tao, Unborn Buddha-nature, Dharmakaya, Zen Mind, Clear Light, the One, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Awareness, while being entirely open, transcendent, formless, changeless, timeless, spaceless, and world-less, is also THIS which is right now looking, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, thinking, intuiting. Awareness has also manifested ItSelf as all these sensible\/perceptible objects\u2014namely, the various sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes, thoughts, memories, emotions, psychic impulses and other momentary arising-vanishing formations or phenomena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Awareness is thus\u00a0<b>WHO YOU REALLY ARE<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>EVERYTHING EXPERIENCED<\/b>, that is to say, Awareness is\u00a0<b>WHAT EVERYTHING ESSENTIALLY IS<\/b>. The phenomenal universe of minds and bodies (99.9999999999% empty space at the subatomic level, according to physics) is the marvelous, mysterious \u201cdream-play\u201d of Divine Awareness. In other words, all worlds of\u00a0<i>form<\/i>(on physical and subtle levels) are the expression of\u00a0<i>formless<\/i>\u00a0Awareness. All changing \u201cthings\u201d are manifestations of the unchanging NO-THING (the transcendent Awareness-Spirit-God-Self) that YOU ARE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\"><b>You cannot know, perceive, find or grasp Awareness as an object of experience<\/b>, since Awareness is fundamentally\u00a0<i><b>not an object<\/b><\/i>. Rather, Awareness is the eternal Subject (one might even say: Awareness is THIS which subsumes and transcends the subject-object split). Therefore, YOU can only BE Awareness, abide as THIS Awareness, remain as THIS, flourish as THIS, shine as THIS, and freely function from THIS Awareness. You cannot touch or look at formless Awareness, just as a fingertip cannot touch itself or the eye cannot directly see itself. In short,<b>though Awareness is not knowable or perceivable as an object, Awareness is quite\u00a0<i>live<\/i>-able and\u00a0<i>be<\/i>-able<\/b>, because\u00a0<b>YOU ARE THIS AWARENESS.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Everyone is always actually coming from or functioning from pure Awareness. But not everyone is\u00a0<i>conscious<\/i>\u00a0of This. A kind of Divine sport, mischief or\u00a0<i>play<\/i>\u00a0(Sanskrit:\u00a0<i>lila<\/i>) is rampant, wherein beings (who are, after all, the God-Self in disguise) appear to have forgotten their real nature. They masquerade in various forms of egotism, not living in\/as Divine Love. They appear to be caught in various states of greed, aversion, shame, anger, frustration, fear, euphoria, boredom, confusion, despair, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">How, then, does it \u201cfeel\u201d to be awake to one\u2019s real identity as Divine Awareness? Direct experience along with the testimony of sages reveals that Divine Awareness is\u00a0<i>most authentically and gloriously being lived<\/i>\u00a0when the following\u00a0<i><b>enlightenment factors<\/b>\u00a0are present<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 A sense of utter freedom and simplicity, akin to \u201czero-gravity.\u201d Behavior is spontaneous, free-flowing, unstuck, unfixated. One is simply\u00a0<i>available<\/i>\u00a0and motivated only to love and serve all beings as OneSelf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 No more being trapped in narrow, exclusive identifications with a petty \u201cme\u201d (\u201cmy\u201d needs, roles, opinions, abilities, emotions, possessions, etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 No more felt-sense of separation between a \u201cme over here\u201d and a \u201cyou\/it\/them out there.\u201d Rather, there is the nondual intuition of profound\u00a0<i>oneness<\/i>\u00a0with all beings as their very Heart. One \u201cloves thy neighbor as thySelf,\u201d and his or her true Self is right HERE, zero-distance from \u201cmy\u201d true Self. There is just this Omnipresent Open Divine Reality, the Self in Whom all beings live, move and have their being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 No manipulative pulling or pushing of experience with heavy, binding likes-dislikes, attachments-aversions, greed, lust, anger, fear, disgust, hate, and so on. (Various emotions may arise from time to time, but are immediately or fairly quickly recognized and \u201cseen off\u201d as not being one\u2019s real nature but merely passing Divine dream-expressions, and so are dissolved in Clear-Light Awareness.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 Whatever happens in the manifest world of forms (the phenomenal field of unmanifest Awareness) is not resisted or denigrated, but loved and appreciated as the poignant, playful expression of Spirit. And, most paradoxically, there is a strong but spontaneous Divine motivation within this non-resistance and sense of inherent perfection to remedy injustices, right wrongs, heal traumas, and help improve conditions for all sentient beings and the commonweal. The Self of all selves is in profound nondual empathy with all selves, who are the poignant personal play of THIS Supra-personal One Awareness-Isness-Aliveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 One is quite content to\u00a0<i>just be<\/i>, not driven by any restlessness or a sense of dilemma into the busy-ness of egocentric \u201chaving and doing.\u201d One is deeply relaxed, living out of the peace of \u201cdeep sleep wakefulness\u201d (as sages paradoxically call it), even in the midst of helpful actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 Genuine happiness prevails, not restless giddiness: a simple bliss, not dependent on circumstances or people for fulfillment. The essence here is\u00a0<i>being clear<\/i>, not \u201cgetting high\u201d through agitated euphoria or rushes of adrenaline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 Though fallible aspects of the personality may still infrequently arise, their healing transformation happens lightly within an overall Taoist sense of \u201cperfection perfecting itself perfectly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u2022 One is in Love, radiant as Love, always dying into and reborn as Love in each timeless moment&#8230;. Love for and\u00a0<i>as<\/i>\u00a0the Self of all selves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">If there is somehow the feeling that \u201cyou\u201d aren\u2019t authentically living from True Nature, the Real Identity or Spiritual Awareness, there is\u00a0<i>nothing \u201cyou\u201d as an ego-sense can really \u201cdo.\u201d\u00a0<b>Spiritual realization occurs spontaneously via the Grace of Awareness, not as the result of causative ego-efforts.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Yet being in the presence of true sages is a big help. Enlightenment communicates itself\u2014not as a dualistic &#8220;transmission&#8221; but as a profound type of &#8220;resonance&#8221; within the Self-same Self.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Sages have also given some classic counsel on ways for the ego-sense to subside, for the personal consciousness to open up to the clarity and emptiness-fullness of Supra-personal Consciousness. That is to say, for the spontaneous full awakening to THIS REALITY which is \u201calways already the case\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\"><b><i>Just BE<\/i><\/b>\u2014and no need to get restless or make a big deal out of just being. Just deeply\u00a0<i>relax<\/i>\u00a0and<i>let go<\/i>\u00a0of all sense of being a thing-like \u201cme.\u201d Let selfish self dissolve (\u201cdie\u201d) into Being. Detach and abide as the undisturbed Witness from all sensations, thoughts, memories, emotions, self-images, and whatever else may be fixating you. (Whenever formations arise in consciousness, there is just watching and letting go of them, moment by moment&#8230;)\u00a0<i>Empty out<\/i>. Dwell as no-body, no-mind, no-thing. Remain as\u00a0<i>the pure Absence which manifests \u201cthe Presence\u201d<\/i>\u00a0of consciousness, energy, experience, relationship, totality. Be quite\u00a0<i>simple and uncomplicated<\/i>, without struggle or striving or posturing. Come from natural depth, not the surface mind, though in fact YOU, the real YOU, are the totality of surface and depth, inside and outside, everything and No-thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\"><b>Remember that there is no need to\u00a0<i>become<\/i>\u00a0pure Awareness\u2014YOU\u00a0<i>already are THIS<\/i>\u00a0in your original truth.<\/b>\u00a0Let body-mind function spontaneously, freely and lovingly according to the Divine Will, and simply\u00a0<i>stay<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>abide<\/i>\u00a0as what YOU always\u00a0<i>fun<\/i>-damentally are: the vast, spacious, seamless, unlimited, radiant expanse of Clear Light-Awareness. Know that, amidst all the changing aspects of your world, YOU are the\u00a0<i>Changeless One<\/i>\u00a0that has been and will be unchangingly HERE throughout \u201cyour\u201d lifetimes. Underlying all perceptible forms and persons, YOU are the formless Awareness that is miraculously \u201cdreaming\u201d these forms and persons. This Awareness is complete and unimprovable\u2014the pristine openness\/emptiness\/fullness of Divinity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Moreover, this Divine Self of Absolute Awareness, YOUR real identity, is not \u201cin the world.\u201d No,\u00a0<i>the world is in YOU<\/i>, it floats in Awareness like an amazing dream. The world is the mysterious, poignant expression of this creative Awareness, which is eternally savoring all kinds of experiences of ItSelf while being utterly free of all experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Beyond\/before\/during all forms and experiences,\u00a0<b>AWARENESS ALONE IS &#8230; right HERE (closer than the body-mind-ego), the Groundless Ground of All,\u00a0<i>the Only Being<\/i>, the Pure Experiencing of all experiences.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">May all be awake as this Absolute Being, this Divine Love, this incomparable Bliss, this perfect Freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">The real Truth is that all are\u00a0<i>already AWAKE<\/i>\u00a0as this ONE REALITY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright 1990 by Timothy Conway, Ph.D.<br \/>\nPosted with Permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enlightened-spirituality.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enlightened Spirituality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is only AWARENESS. 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Awareness, while being entirely open, transcendent, formless, changeless, timeless, spaceless, and world-less, is also THIS which is right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Timothy Conway - Our Real Nature - Awakening Together<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/timothy-conway-our-real-nature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Timothy Conway - Our Real Nature - Awakening Together\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is only AWARENESS. 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