Why People Don’t Understand It

It is awareness/consciousness – that which sees and knows.

Animals spend their entire lives surviving, searching for food and looking out for danger = desire and aversion. Humans are just the same – plus, being socio/political religious/ritualistic animals, we’re always looking out there for comfort and for something to blame. All creatures, throughout this infinite universe, have to put up with the inevitability of old age, sickness and death.

Being dissatisfied and irritated by others’ socio/political religious/ritualistic antics, we suffer because we constantly identify with what’s ‘out there’ as we misunderstand what’s within.

There is something essential being missed.

What we miss is that first moment of sanity – just observation, the presence of awareness or consciousness. That is what and where we are. When this is actually realised, life becomes far simpler. Of course, this is only for that particular individual, as everyone else is still running around like cultivated lunatics 🙂

Lunatic: affected with periodic insanity dependent on the changes of the moon (TB: and situations).

When the mind is brought to silent stillness through meditation,
it is realised that, in essence, mind is empty.

That which realises this is consciousness
pure consciousness, the very essence of mind.

This is all we need, to understand with clarity.