The Certainty of Our Own Being

The key points–

  • Awareness is aware of itself and knows itself without requiring the agency of anything but itself
  • Awareness, unlike perceptions, feelings, thoughts or sensations, doesn’t come or go
  • Therefore, the presence of awareness is who we really are
  • There is no separate self
  • In the placeless place of awareness, we never find an object
  • In reality, there is no separation and when we experience the all-pervasive intimacy of awareness in relationships–we call it love, and in the perceiving of objects–we call it beauty