Being Aware of Being Aware

by Rupert Spira

As long as the dreamed character is focused exclusively on the objective content of her experience, she will never recognise the nature of her own mind or, therefore, the reality of her world, and will never find the peace and happiness for which she longs. In order to know her own nature, she must turn her attention away from the objects of experience, towards that with which they are known. She must know the nature of the knowing with which all knowledge and experience are known. She must become aware of the experience of being aware, which is the essence of her own mind. At night, the sun doesn’t disappear. It continues to shine with the same brightness. It is the earth that has turned away from the sun and, as a result, has fallen into partial darkness. As soon as the earth turns round, so to speak, that part of it that was in darkness lights up.