Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Awareness itself is our Identity

A Guide to Awareness and Tranquillity

By William Samuel

“Awareness itself is our Identity. Awareness is being aware. Awareness is beholding. We are this Awareness aware whether we take thought or not. As Awareness only (not the possessor of it), we simply view things without judgment; without planning and calculating; without comparison and criticism; without dividing and subdividing and without making a critical analysis of everything. As Awareness we behold! We muse wholeheartedly. We enjoy color and form. We examine the infinite detail of Deity. Effortlessly, we see the precision and perfection of the ALL that NOW is!

“In so acting, I assure you we are not worrying about the blunders of yesterday or of what might happen tomorrow. As Awareness, one is active NOW, and — listen carefully — NOW is all right! NOW is always all right!

“Life is unencumbered NOW. Awareness is free NOW; but the very minute one starts labored thinking, the instant he begins planning, calculating, reasoning, judging, criticizing, condemning and worrying, the NOW seems covered with a veil, and we have plunked ourselves right back into the middle of the cause-effect area of human activity called ‘the seeming dream.’ The start of that dream is personal thinking, thinking that is not the great necessity the world makes of it. The time for thinkers is coming to an end.

“NOW is now already. It needs nothing to help it along. ‘The world is a perfect vessel,’ wrote the sage. ‘Perfection is spread over the whole face of the land,’ says the Christ.”

I knew then that this was the teacher for me.

“‘HE SHALL RETURN TO THE DAYS OF HIS YOUTH’

“Those who study this ‘philosophy’ with us on Lollygog are always amazed to find a return of youthfulness, not only in outlook but in action and appearance. Why should there be surprise? To be this NOW of UNJUDGING Awareness is to let go the great weight of opinions, notions, prejudices, quirks and idiosyncrasies which, added to personal memory, are all there is to ‘age.’ It is the one who acts as though he possesses life who ages and seems to suffer the decline and death of the deceiver.

“ ‘Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God (who is Being all there is to the Awareness reading these words) fainteth not, neither is weary? He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength . . . but they that wait upon the Lord [they who will simply be the unjudging, motiveless Awareness we be] shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.’

“When one lets go the worried plans intended to improve the already perfect NOW, he discovers the Self that ‘turneth the shadow of death into the morning.’ ‘The former things are passed away . . . and there shall be no more death.’

“ ‘If there be a messenger . . . an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness . . . his flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; he shall return to the days of his youth . . . and his life shall see the light!”

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