photo by axinia
Thoughtless awareness. The state I often refer to and regard as the source of amazing states of my being like joy, bliss, easiness of existence and love.
Thoughtless awarenesshas been described by Buddha and the Sufi’s of North Africa as also by Saints in India such as Eknath and Gyanadeva.
This state is a higher state of awareness which bisects the past and the future. Usually human beings are most of the time unable to enter the present because the mind is either thinking about the future (Ego) or the past (Superego). Interestingly, we are only in a present when we watch something in admiration, or enjoy some action to its full measure (like a child).
In the state of thoughtless awareness we are free to think about whatever we want but we don’t have unwanted thoughts in our mind at all, we have complete control over our mind. Our mind becomes very relaxed yet completely focused on any tasks we need to perform in our daily lives.
Form a regular point of view it is actually almost impossible to reach that state: how to have NO THOUGHTS? And still be aware? Be alert? Be efficient?
The trick is that it is indeed possible and relatively easy to achieve BUT NOT WITH THE HELP OF THE MIND! To tell you the truth, most of the meditation/self-help/yoga techniques make me laugh as there you learn to control your mind with the help of your mind. Isn`t it absurd?
My experience tells that Self-realisation enables one to enter into the new dimension (physically perceptible!) where one can easily do beyond the mind. With me it work this way: I feel the cool breeze over my head which relaxes the scalp and then somehow the brain. It is absolutely real because I can not force it and sometimes I do not feel it/ or feel warm – and even if I want very much to have it the other way, I just can not influence that. It is just there – or it is not. It is like the 7th sense!
When I feel it clearly it is incredibly enjoyable (like drinking the divine nectar) and at this moment I just can not think. I am aware of the surroundings but the power of joy and love is stronger. And if I am lucky to enjoy this pure state for 5 minutes than I feel like charged with tremendous powers and billions Watt of Love…
Of course we need to think to perform our jobs, to achieve something in life, but that thinking is of a different nature to the incessant rambling of the mind.
I wish from the bottom of my heart that as many people as possible could experience that absolutely outrageous state of being. Then we would definitely have far less stupid ideas floating ín the air and causing wars, hatred, envy, lust and greed.
And one more thing: in the state of thoughtless awareness you are brain-wash resistant! Like in a fortress: still, powerful and truly free…
LOVE, axinia
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The photos by axinia touch my heart, and your words pierce me with the truth. Is it possible to remain calm in such conditions? I think it is needless to talk on what happens when we step into thoughtless awareness. Let’s enter the http://trustlight.blogspot.com .Just the incredible things happen in the hospitals for the people with psychiatric disorders. What was black becomes the white and otherwise – the ego becomes the apple on the apple tree nearby the window under the heavy bars…
Where should I put my awareness there? I don’t want to become blind and deaf to tears – I want to rejoice over the smiles I discover there and I refuse to think what for could be the sharing of the pictures I have discovered there.
Wow, that sounds so … so unprofessional, but I am not a professional indeed. The huge eyes of the child are watching me from a mirror and I cry – I don’t want to become the unseen and the needless.
Sorry for my English, but it is hard to talk plainly even in my native Lithuania.
axinia, got something for you in my blog. please check itout when you have time.
as always — you have great posts sharing insights that not all people ever imagine to write about.
keep inspiring!
Beautiful photograph.
Thoughtless awareness becomes paradox for most. Making efforts to become thoughtless is falling into trap which creates hurdles.
It is a beautiful moment, if arrived at one. It is a journey where you reach at the destination without taking a single step. Stop walking and you are arrived at the destination.
Regards.
Wow, JV, such a clear message!
“Stop walking and you are arrived at the destination.” I love it.
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Is the thoughtless state a concept or reality? If the latter, how can one validate its existence?however, one can imagine the significant benefits to the life form,if this possible concept can manifest to a level where consciousness identifies and acknowledges yet is not conscious of so doing.
dear Edward,
everyone who ahs experiences even a glimps of thoughless awareness, know how it feels and know that it IS reality
let me know as soon as you get there!
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I have given some more details on my blog here: http://gopal4mission.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/thoughtless-awareness-faq-on-basic-concepts/
thank you, that is an interesting collection!