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An Awareness Which Is Not An Awareness

November 19, 2020  /  Paul Goodberg

Recently I have read a few of the remarkable books of Alexandra David-Neel. In one of her books, “Initiations And Initiates In Tibet,” I found a discussion of what is described as the state of awareness which is available to the most advanced meditators. In this advanced state, the practitioner experiences a non-state, an experience of non-experience.

For me, this is the state I enter when I am open to the ‘inside of silence.’ I have also met this state ‘inside’ the sound of a bubbling creek which is how I first met this state of non-awareness.

No technology will open this non-awareness for you. Rather, it is a spontaneous opening during which all perception ceases. Afterwards, you might try to describe or characterize this non-experience or you might decide not to talk about it.

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