Tag: awareness

Posh word for Noticing: I use it in respect of individual beings, noticing that something exists or is happening, but before any further mental processing happens with it. Put simply: personal sensory perception. The associated quality, when we ‘notice our own noticing’, is I Amness, the sense of existing.

Disambiguation: When I write ‘awareness’ with a small ‘a’, then the above is what I mean, and not Universal Awareness – the Self – which is primeval, non-individuated Awareness.

First sight and second thoughts

A concept from some books by Sir Terry Pratchett: First sight is when you see what is actually there, rather than what you want or expect to see. Second thoughts are those you have about what you are thinking, i.e. a kind of self-monitoring to catch prejudiced, conditioned or simply unhelpful or nasty thinking.

Love and Awareness

“Love is the movement of the light away from the source, out into the unknown. Awareness is the reflection of the light, the return movement back to the source again.” This is my interpretation of how to understand this statement of Osho.