Can It Possibly Be This Simple?

Q: There are times when what's seen seems to be viewed from "behind," somehow. Right now for instance, there's a sense of something peering out and calmly/neutrally watching as fingers type this message. Whatever this watching is, it's neither judgmental nor personal.

But there's always something in what's seen that seems personal. There always a body in the foreground. The typing fingers I mentioned are attached to a body that's always here. It seems dualistic to me.

A: You said, “there's always something in what's seen that seems personal.”

From what is this seen? Awareness.

You are describing something that is content of awareness, or objects appearing in awareness. There is still just this awareness. The contents, like the apparent personal body, appear when there is a thought of them. 

It is only in a thought that a body appears. Otherwise, there is no body. In awareness, nothing is, and everything is. You can’t single out separate things like bodies in awareness. Awareness is only aware of itself.

So, to awareness, there is no body. The statement you make above is only true in thought. See thought as the “creator” of that illusion, and where does it go? It never existed. The body never existed.

Where there is no thought of a dualistic body, none appears. It is the thought itself that gives the illusion of a body. What is noticed in awareness? Awareness does not differentiate between these forms. And we notice that the non-judging, non-dividing, is always the same. And within that non-dividing, there arises a thought. Look at the thought and see it as just that. Without the thought of separate bodies, there are none.

Q: Can it possibly be this simple? This is the entire universe, the whole thing, manifesting here and now? There's only one thing, one awareness, and it's aware right here... and without a separate "me" anywhere to be found?

A: You’ve stated it beautifully. Awareness is aware of itself, and as you say, it’s aware right here! The consciousness is simply aware that it is.

This is the only “I.”

No thought of “I am a person” creates a person. Nothing is ever created. The thought “I am a person” arises, in consciousness. Consciousness does not create anything from that thought. No person was ever created.

Thought gives the false impression that there is a person. Thought gives the false impression that there is a universe. None of it ever existed.

Only consciousness, conscious of itself. And it is conscious right here.