The Subtle Change In Awareness

Awareness of awareness isn’t pure awareness, as it’s still a duality of being aware of some aspect, and relating to this. In pure awareness, there is no notion of being aware; there is just awareness or consciousness, resting in consciousness.

In the Tibetan Nyingma tradition, there are eight consciousnesses, plus one. Five are of the senses, and there are three of mind: perception, judgement and memory. The ninth is pure awareness or pure consciousness.

The eighth consciousness of memory is also called the all-ground, where all information is held. We can mistake this for our being which we call ‘myself’, but it is just memories. It is the feeling of being aware and conscious – the feeling of self.

In being aware of awareness, we are doing something.
Our reality is the ninth.

Pure awareness can only be acknowledged, or its presence realised,
and any attachment drops.

This is why we also have to drop the meditation.