Greg Bell:

[Guest guest]

The person is not the locus of freedom.

 

The person and the rest of the world cannot be found apart from the

awareness in which all things appear. The person, the mind, body and

world arise as thoughts, feelings, and sensations. These are nothing

other than objects in awareness, and are nothing other than

awareness itself. The person does not experience; the person is

experienced. As awareness, we are That to which these objects

appear. Thoughts, feelings, sensations - these objects arise from

the background of silent awareness, they subsist in awareness, and

they slip back into awareness. The awareness in which they appear is

not itself an object but the background of all objects. It is our

true nature. But the objects come and go unbidden, without autonomy.

They are powerless and cannot do anything on their own. Objects

cannot possess or contain freedom.

 

Is there freedom?

 

The silent awareness in which all objects appear is the true nature

of all things. Awareness says YES to everything. Even if a NO

arises, awareness says YES to the NO. Awareness is without

resistance, without limits or edges, without refusal and without

obstruction. Awareness is not free, it is freedom itself. What we

truly are is not the person but this awareness, this freedom.

 

The person wants to co-opt this freedom, to own it, to behold it, to

be present to use and enjoy it. But in spite of this desire from the

perspective of the person, the person can never own That in which

the person appears.

[Guest guest]

The title of this subject shoudl read Greg Goode not Greg Bell. Please

excuse Z

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