Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.
Interpretation
Awareness is innate and beyond intellectual constructs, illuminating reality without distortion.
This quote by Toni Packer emphasizes that true awareness exists independently of the thoughts and contexts we create. It highlights the idea that while our perceptions can be influenced by our thoughts, genuine awareness is clear and unobstructed, providing insight into reality without any judgments or separations imposed by the mind.
In practice
In a meditation class, this quote could inspire participants to focus on being present rather than overthinking.
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.
Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise
I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.
Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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