Recognizing Present Awareness
Recognizing awareness takes no time. If you are looking for it in time, you are overlooking it completely. It is always and already present. The future is merely thought appearing as an object in awareness. People spend decades, even lifetimes, meditating, praying and engaging in spiritual practices, looking for awareness, not realizing that awareness is what is looking. It is the awake space in which all objects — including meditation mats, prayers, and spiritual practices and books — arise and fall.
The background of this screen is like awareness. These words are objects appearing and disappearing on the background. Although the words can be helpful to point to the background, the background itself remains unchanged and untouched no matter how clear, unclear, spiritual or unspiritual the words are.
No matter how many thoughts you have about awareness and no matter how many practices you do in order to find it, awareness is the timeless, formless, empty, unchanging awake space in which all of that happens.
As you stand up from this reflection and continue searching for awareness, notice what is already looking. Notice the space in which all of your seeking energy arises. Each emotional and mental movement towards a future moment of awakening arises in the awareness that is already present. Once you recognize awareness, you see that it is synonymous with “spirit.” The spiritual search in time is a denial of spirit, which is already here.
~ by Scott Kiloby
