Self-existing awareness.

 Self-existing awareness, is awareness that is just there – self-existing – not created by anything. In meditation, we can see all the debris in the mind. So what sees all this debris? It’s self-existing awareness.

 Self-existing awareness is just there: you don’t have to do anything, but merely be aware. This self-existing awareness can either fixate on the debris in the mind, or be aware of its own essence, which is clear, pure, uncontaminated emptiness.

 It’s that simple. It’s that ordinary.

 This is our basic ground – open space. It’s what we really are, before ego. This primordial intelligence, this basic ground, is called Alaya in Sanskrit.

 So how did ego come to be?

 This open intelligent empty space, this self-existing awareness, became attracted, enthusiastic, over energised about ‘being’… that’s all (we can see this as it happens at every moment!). This Alaya ignored its self-existing awareness, and developed a negative Alaya, called Alaya-vijnana – storehouse of consciousness (this is where the karmic seeds are stored). We became ‘self’ conscious, and sacred empty space began to fill.

 So self-existing awareness became ‘self’ conscious – and an identity was created.

May we in every incarnation improve by 1%,

so in a hundred incarnations we will be enlightened.

Perhaps this ‘is’ your last incarnation!