We must not mistake intellectual knowledge and the obtaining of it to be spiritual practice, nor must we mistake excitement about mystical experience to correspond in any way with the actual experience. If the “me” is asking this question it is perpetuating itself. In other words we can't be emotionally disturbed. It is an awareness without any fixation on objects, it is a wide open, lucid, relaxed and alert. You get a great concept. What makes the experience possible is the oneness of Awareness Itself. And once you're aware just dropping them into the lap and attaining the awareness of being aware. You are Awareness Itself individually and uniquely aware as "you." Awareness Itself Never Changes. "I am that I am." The hard problem of consciousness--the nature of phenomenal experience--is especially hard for people who believe that: (1) Conscious perceptual experiences exist inside a person (probably somewhere in the brain)1 (2) Nothing existing inside a person has (or needs to have2) the properties one is aware in having these experiences. The Hindu religious thinkers say the immensity is aware of its own immensity, or that is aware of that. When there is no mind activity all that remains is “you” as pure awareness. What's more difficult is to sustain it for more than a few seconds. Our basic breath is breathing in for nine counts, holding one count, and breathing out for nine counts, and holding one count. Soon after this you will only have to pronounce the word kaif and in knowing it's meaning you will harken back to your experience of kaif and thereby, for a split second, attain to the full experience of kaif--awareness aware only of itself to the exclusion of everything else. It's a very simple, not a complicated breathing technique, but it works. called eko hensho in Japanese. And the sadhaka should have made peace within himself, with family and friends, and be steadfast in this practice, before the bliss of kaif can be felt and the state of kaif held for longer periods of time.". Evolutionary Activism is a rising movement based on the idea that we, as humans, are aware of evolution and our place in the circle of life. It is arguably the most important ingredient for belief as every other skill, quality and task you have and undertake can be traced back to awareness. Awareness is SELF aware. Awareness Itself is existence itself. In fact, the "three" are one and the same awareness (existence). It is what has been called God or I or I am. Spiritual interpretation and guidance is interspersed. True self awareness means just that - being aware of our current sense of self and of all other aspects of ourselves from a position and perspective outside them all. So we call it simshumbisi. So that takes a while if you're not used to the word kaif, if you are then of course you relate. The other point that Gurudeva makes is that the breath should be well regulated. Ancient wisdom tells us that we were meant to be caretakers of the Earth, and so our consciousness points us toward an extraordinary responsibility to create a better world for all beings. Copyright © It is the substance, the aliveness itself that you are, that you are aware with, and the objective universe you are aware of. When this occurs a certain kind of bliss bursts forth from deep within you as an aftermath of your experience of kaif. You, the person, thing or condition you are aware of, and the awareness you are aware with. Only awareness is aware. Being Aware of Being Aware explores our primary, most intimate and familiar experience: the knowing of our own being, or awareness’s knowing of itself in us. Well, one of the most important things, as is pointed out here is; peace within one's self, with family and friends. Therefore, now we begin to see that a certain remolding of one's life must commence as a way for the attainment of this experience. The hunt for self-awareness among non-humans has been going on for decades. Even simpler: you ARE, and your entire world IS, the one incorporeal Awareness Itself (God), the absolute silence of being, simply BEING aware as all perfection of existence. "The most intriguing area of consciousness found in Shum is kaif. The pure awareness you are is the one universe you experience. It is the same as the awareness which sees the tree. There is a Thoutless Self in Consciousness. It's a common Hindu approach to the transcendent Absolute, is whatever you end up thinking it is, then you have to renounce that. Is BEFORE the awareness you are and your entire world and universe is called kaif today... 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