Know What You Really Are [2]
How can you know how to live if you don’t know what you really are?
The second video:
The transcript:
By the end of this video, you will be happier, bolder and wiser than you can now imagine. Because you will know the one most important thing you must know to live the life you are created to live, what you really are.
There is only one place you can look to find out what you really are. All the other things you have been led to believe you are and lived as until now have all come from outside you. Your name, your job, your nationality, all given to you from outside of you. Your family role is decided by the family you have around you, outside of you. Even the age you identify as is only known through counting the risings and settings of the sun outside of you.
But if you want to know what something is, should you look at what’s around it, as you’ve been doing, or at it? At it, of course. So you’re not going to look around you anymore. To be told what you are from the outside, you are going to look within you to know what you really are from the inside.
You can hear me, you can also see the screen in front of you, the words on the screen. Wherever you are, you can also see the other things around you, in front of you, behind you, above and below. If starting now, you take five seconds to breathe in, you can feel the air coming into your body and the expansion of your body 1–2–3–4–5. And when you breathe out, you can feel the air leaving your body 1–2–3–4–5. Now close your eyes and choose one of your arms.
Keeping your eyes closed, can you sense the arm you’ve chosen from the inside? Can you feel and know the arm exists and where it is without looking? So there is no thought or idea that says there’s my arm. Just a direct sensing, an immediate and natural knowing of where the arm is.
Now, while still sensing your arm, open your eyes to look at the screen again. You can sense your arm. Hear these words and see the screen and what’s around you. Because there is a quality here called awareness. This moment there is a field of awareness here that is watching the screen, listening to my voice, and also sensing your arm a second ago.
The same field of awareness also sensed your body expand as you breathe in. Try it again, breathe in for five, and the field of awareness will sense the expansion of your body 1–2–3–4–5. And as you breathe out, the awareness will sense your body return to its neutral state 1–2–3–4–5.
We call the field of awareness, that is sensing all these things, consciousness. Do you remember yesterday where you went, what you did, who you saw? You can remember where you were, what you did, and who you saw yesterday, because the same field of awareness here this moment, watching this screen, listening to my voice, and sensing your arm, was also there yesterday, watching, listening and sensing, what was there yesterday.
If the same field of awareness here now had not been there yesterday, you wouldn’t remember yesterday, it would be somebody else’s yesterday. You can only remember yesterday, because the exact same field of awareness here now was also there, then.
Can you remember further back in your life, when you were a child at school? Can you remember your first teacher, your first friends, your first lessons, when you were young, you were very different. Today, your body was very different, your mind was very different. And so your thoughts were very different. But you can still remember your first teachers, friends and lessons, because even though so much has changed, something that was there is also here. Now.
The field of awareness, the consciousness, watching, listening, and sensing, now, in this moment, is the exact same field of awareness that watched, listened and sensed your childhood. If it were a different field of awareness, back then to the one here now, it would have been somebody else’s childhood.
As you go into the future, the same field of awareness, the same space of consciousness, here now, watching, listening and sensing will experience all your future, all the places you might see, all the voices you may hear, and all the foods you may taste, until one day you will die.
When you die, your body may still be here. Your body may be at your funeral. But will you see who comes to your funeral? Will you hear the speeches? Will you smell the flowers? No, because you’re not there. You’re gone. What’s gone? The field of awareness is gone. The consciousness is gone. The consciousness that saw your first teachers and friends and is here, this moment, looking at this screen. Listening to these words is gone. You are gone.
When the consciousness is gone, because this is what you really are. You don’t have the quality of awareness. You don’t have consciousness. You are the quality of awareness. You are a free space of Consciousness in the Universe.
This is the only thing you can be because only when it’s completely gone, will you be completely gone? Are you feeling the awe of realizing your true place in the universe? You have found and proved for yourself firsthand the most important truth you must know to live the life of freedom you were created to live, the life you are meant to live, can only be lived once you know what you really are.
You now know this is the truth, hidden from us under a noisy surface, but not very difficult to find when you look, because it is the truth. Until we find this truth, what we call our progress will mostly be taking us faster and further in the wrong direction. The proof is already around us in our growing levels of stress, sadness, anger, and worry.
Now see if you can stay connected to the discovery of what you really are, to answer two simple questions. As you continue to sense the space of awareness you are, can you look inside to see if you can find a border or boundary to awareness? Is there a limit or edge where awareness stops? Take a look inside and look for an edge to awareness. You can pause this while you look. But take the time to look.
You found no limits did you, because there is no limit. No end point for awareness, no age, you are an infinite quality. You can only ever be infinite. You can never be made any more or less than you already are — Limitless. Now, staying connected to knowing your true self, see if he can look inside to answer this next question. Are there any gaps in awareness? As you look inside, are there any areas missing any holes in here? Take a look. Look for any gaps. Again, you can pause this one. But it’s important that you look.
There is nothing missing, nothing lacking, no gaps or holes. And they never will be because they never can be. You are totally complete and will always be complete. You have found directly for yourself simply by looking that what you really are, is an always limitless and complete field of awareness. A miraculous quality in the universe that has been led astray to believe it is other things and to live as other things.
You are everything you can ever be from the moment you arrive to the moment you leave. But what happens between those two moments is what matters to you. Live as what you are. Or do you live in insanity? Some people say they can imagine out of body experiences, moments when they leave their body. If you can imagine such a moment, what is it that leaves your body? What is the you that leaves? It’s the field of awareness. It’s consciousness.
It’s the free, infinite and complete space of awareness. That is you. Live connected to the truth you have now discovered and you will always be on the path to living your fullest life. The life that was meant for you, your greatest potential, your greatest fulfillment and you will live fearlessly because what does something that can only ever be limitless and only ever be complete have to fear? Nothing.
Nearly all the fear you have ever felt only happened, because you lost touch with what you really are. And instead, you try to live as things, you’re not forcing yourself in the wrong stressful direction, and punishing yourself when you failed.
Live as what you really are in the life you were meant to live, and you can never fail. There is one thing you must be careful of, at this point, an error you may make, due to many years of previous training, an error that will keep you from living the life you were created, to live, keep you from ever knowing your true purpose. Your entire life, you have been carefully trained to create new ideas and concepts within awareness within you. Since your youngest days, you have been taught to look out at the physical world. And then based on what you see, and sense, create ideas and concepts within the space of consciousness. That is you.
We call this learning. As an example, to show you how this works, close your eyes again. Earlier in your life, you saw in the physical world, the flag of the country where you live for the first time, and many times since. Can you imagine this flag now, with your eyes closed? See all its colors and shapes, see it as clearly in your imagination as you can. The flag you’re seeing right now, with your eyes closed, doesn’t exist in the physical space where you saw this flag for the first time, and where other awareness, such as me, could see it.
But as you’re seeing this flag, and its colors and shapes, it must exist somewhere. So it must exist in some kind of space. But not the physical space. The flag you’re seeing now exists in the space of consciousness, in the field of awareness, the space that won’t be at your funeral, the limitless and complete space that is you.
Can you imagine if this space disappeared? Try to imagine it now. Can you see that you would disappear with it, because you are the space? You can open your eyes now. At school, and in most of your life, you have been trained to sense things in the physical space, and then create new ideas and concepts that relate to what you’re sensed within the space of consciousness within you.
You were presented with countries and flags, numbers and letters, shapes and objects. And you created concepts and ideas within the space of awareness within you that you now hold and associate with those experiences. That’s why I can say the sound, flower, and you immediately see within the space of consciousness, a picture or an idea of a physical form you were taught to call ‘flower’.
Your highly trained habit of creating new ideas and concepts within you means you might repeat this old habits now, with the discovery of what you really are. You might simply create a new idea within you, an idea, a new thought that you are a field of awareness. But where is this new idea, this new thought created? Where does it exist? Where is it held? It exists within the space of consciousness within the field of awareness.
But the lived experience of being the space of consciousness, of being a limitless Field of Awareness can’t be created within the space of consciousness you are as an idea or thought within itself. So thinking you are awareness is a mistake.
Having the thought or idea of being a limitless and complete space of consciousness will not save you from the stress, sadness, anger and worry, that comes from living as something you’re not. The idea that you are awareness will not take you to your deepest purpose to live fearlessly, passionately, with your true purpose.
You must not have a thought or idea that you are awareness, but live connected to the directly sensed experience of being awareness. Knowing you are awareness by feeling it, sensing it, and so living it, not thinking it.
Earlier, when you closed your eyes and sensed your arm, you knew where your arm was not through a thought or idea. But by becoming still enough to be able to sense your arm directly. Without thoughts or ideas. You just knew where your arm was, through direct thought free sensing. The field of awareness you are, must be sensed and connected to, to be directly known in exactly the same way. Because the space of awareness holds or thoughts within it. No thought can ever hold the experience of being the space of awareness. You can only ever connect to the experience of what you really are. You can’t think it.
If you try to use thoughts to understand what you are, and through that, discover your purpose, the right thing to do for your life, then your thoughts will become very confused and frustrated. And you will always fail at finding your true self and finding your true purpose.
There is only one way for you to live in fearless freedom and wisdom. It is to live directly and deeply connected to the experience of feeling. And through that knowing who you are and can only ever be an infinite and complete field of conscious space within which all your thoughts and experiences happen.
You sensed and experienced what you are earlier. Maybe when you looked inside to see if you have a boundary or limit. Take another look inside for the edge or boundary to awareness. Now look for a limit to awareness, a place where awareness stops, pause this and have a look for it. Once you’ve taken a look, press play again.
To look for the limit to awareness, you had to slow down your thoughts. So you could sense and connect to the field of awareness, the conscious space what you really are. And then you could look and you didn’t find an edge, you will never find an edge. Because there is no edge. Because you are infinite.
It’s exactly the same when you looked inside to see if there were any gaps in awareness, anything missing or lacking in you. Take another look inside now. To find any gaps in you find any gaps in awareness. Pause this and take a look now.
Again, to look you had to first slow down or stop thinking so you could sense and connect to being the space of awareness. And only then you could look for the gaps and you looked and you didn’t find any because there can’t ever be any. You are always complete.
You answered these two questions, not by analyzing and thinking with thoughts, but by slowing down thoughts maybe even stopping them so that you could sense and experience the space that is left when thoughts stop, so you could connect to what you really are.
And then you could look, you experienced the space that won’t be at your funeral. Because you are that space. The thought, ‘I am awareness’ is a devious imposter. It’s a mistake that can make you feel very clever and superior, as you have discovered the biggest secret in our history.
But it takes you nowhere, connecting to sensing and experiencing the space of awareness. What you really are, the only thing you can ever be, is the truth. That is the only path for you to live the life. You were created for your greatest, freest, fearless life away from the torture rack, not the one you’ve been sold and controlled to live in, by fear.
What is the point of your one shot here? If it was never really your one shot, if you never really lived your life, as what you really are, knowing your true purpose here. If as the song goes, when the end is near, and you’re facing the final curtain, you had never really done it your way.
You have found the experience, that is your inner compass, your real deep touchstone that will take your life to what you were created for. It’s been inside you all along. Where else would it be? I have not asked you to have faith, or believe in anything that you can’t see, and sense directly and test for yourself.
For your one time here, your only shot at going in the right direction with your life and maybe taking this world in the right direction with you. You must keep connecting, looking and testing for yourself. Look deeper, look as deep as you can.
Awareness is always born free. But it is turned into a slave. When you lose connection with what you really are, and your original purpose, to live as something else with invented purpose. You are an infinite complete and free quality in the universe.
And you are here for a reason. But to know that reason, you must live connected to the experience of what you really are. There is no other way for you to fulfill your true purpose in the universe and find your true destiny. If you don’t understand what’s been said here, or don’t believe it, or have more questions, where are these thoughts you’re having happening?
If you can see you are having thoughts, then these thoughts must exist somewhere in some kind of space. They’re not happening in the physical space. We can’t all see your thoughts. The thoughts are happening in another kind of space. They’re happening in the limitless and complete space of consciousness. They’re happening in you.
You won’t be able to have these thoughts at your funeral. Because even if your body is there, the space they’re happening in will be gone. You will be gone. You are the space that thoughts happen in the infinite and complete space.
In this video, you have rediscovered what you really are. To deepen your connection to the truth you have found. Listen to this again, within two days, as audio only.
Experience tells us that this will allow more stillness and a stronger connection to the limitless and complete quality you really are. To preserve the work you have just done towards a happier, bolder, wiser life. You need the final piece of the puzzle. That is to understand how you as a field of awareness, lost yourself from the truth in the first place. And you will break the illusion that will otherwise waste your entire life and send you to your grave, having never achieved the one thing you have spent your entire life trying to achieve.
So don’t waste what you’ve done here. Stay exactly where you are, and watch the story of your life as you have never seen it before. In the next video. Once you see how awareness is removed from knowing it is limitless and complete, you can live limitless and complete. You will live happier, bolder and wiser.
But as we end here, can you keep gently holding the experience of what you really are? Can you stay connected to the truth a while longer and be a still space of awareness: Free, Limitless and Complete? That is watching, listening and sensing in stillness. Continue to sense the limitless field of awareness. You are Now.
THE END
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I was asked to “PLEASE check out… even if it is only video…; then share your feedback with everybody, even if it is negative.”
So to be complaint, in what I intended to be proper social media manner (no direct criticism), I typed (note, for Medium I had to make more paragraphs than in original):
Watched first and second videos. Not saying good or bad, but there are some thoughts I can’t think, it seems.
I have never had a sense of self based on name, age, job, family role, nationality, or religion, such being social constructs that exists as consensus narratives. Just as I’m pretty sure I have no soul, i.e. the word references nothing I can discern, I also don’t have a self to discover its true nature, what it really is. The self looks like an illusion, an explanatory fiction created by language, that which bewitches our intelligence.
To define who and what I am, I compare myself with other animals and see no difference in kind. I am a storytelling animal, and most other humans tell stories of how they are different in kind from other animals/plants/metazoans/protists/eubacteria/archaeans, but I don’t.
I do tell stories, but I don’t believe them. Cetaceans may tell better stories. I don’t know as I don’t speak cetacean. Some dolphins know over a hundred human words. No human knows one of their words.
That all humans are barking mad is evident. We not only tell stories, but we believe them too. As noted, we are storytelling animals, but modern humans don’t seem to understand the implications of this, i.e. that there are no true stories. There is no me other than the world.
Eric (not my real name)
The next video in the series, Video 3: How you were trained for a disappointing life that will destroy the world.
Evidently the author viewed my feedback as positive and commented that I “will very much enjoy the 3rd video! :-)” I had used far too many words to say, “not even wrong.” But as I am likely wrong about everything, as usual, with this urging I did start watching the third video a week later.