A New View By Sandy Jones

A New View By Sandy Jones

This seems to be one of most asked of questions, in one form or another::

" After awakening does one actually identify with Awareness and not with being the person one always thinks himself to be?"

And I cannot answer this in any 'non-duality' or 'Absolute' way ....so I will just say this from my heart in the way it comes today:

For me, (and I am the only I can speak for) this little bit of understanding that I have gleaned makes it so much easier to not get 'sucked into' the scene….not to get enveloped by 'what my senses might be telling me' and what 'my judgements of things' might report back to me.

I can stand 'above' in a sort of more transcendent place, knowing that nothing is what it appears and all appearances are nothing, including even the idea of 'me with a mind of my own'….In other words, I can remain fairly peaceful, and to a degree quite steady and grounded when 'things seem to go a wry'….or at least, I can 'return to' this 'steady place' in a split second, and stand upon this Ever Present Awareness.

And now, somehow, having gleaned the Transcendence of my Being, it feels essential to 'see' from this 'higher plateau' at all times....making all the 'lesser views' quite interesting and wonderful in their own right.

This Awareness is clearly always Here and It is 'My True Identity' therefore knowing that I am not 'a little life inside a body, a mortal being who contains awareness' I see that any so called point to 'my life' is just to be this joyful expression of my heart as best I can.

And at the same time, I can be less 'involved' (as in hurt by) and more like a witness upon the scene. I am become more like the audience watching the play, than an actor who gets caught up in and believes he is actually the role he is playing.

Therefore 'things are less personal' and yet I enjoy the play so much more; I am interested in what will happen to the characters and hopefully, for me, I want them to all be heros and warriors and rebels and indignant saints, revolutionaries, fighters for the rights and freedom from the 'machine' and want them all to find passion and glory and freedom....So I write and share.

The action on the scene becomes quite wonderful, including the fight scenes and the chaos and suffering souls because Something was shown me that tells me this life, right now, is Our very own story of "our Awakening" being told as an act, a play. The plot is unfolding here right before our very eyes (seeming to take place in centuries of time and the on- goingness of history). The story is told from the looking backward position. The story has already been completed. 'We' are the audience watching the play that is about 'our won awakening' ....so, in fact we are already Awake. This 'life-event-thing-in-time-experience'' is the play, the story about 'Our Self Discovery' of "Our Return From The Wilderness".

Yet, the fact is, this play could not be written or played out if we were not Here As "the Awakening Already Happened"....( how to say this better?)

The play is great and I enjoy it...But I know that nothing in the play holds The 'Real Value' and so I feel less afraid of everyhing that happens and or the possible 'can happens'.

And I know the ending is a good one...everything turns out just wonderful in the end.

So, now I am more open to Life, Realilty, The Light of Being ( the light in the projector that projects the film on the screen) and I am willing to learn by way of Its Very Presence and Being.

I see I have no choice about 'what happens' here in this time/space scenario' but 'what happens' has lost its power to make me a subject to all the changing events and circumstances. I am not pushed over and spun around by 'scene' or by what happens 'out there'. I see that the Light and Spirit of things holds 'more value' than the scene. So its much easier to go for what I see as the good stuff, the good stuff for me is This Awareness, This EverPresent Wonder that is being all this activity and time. Love has taken president over 'matter'…Heart and Spirit, the Unseen Light of Life (Awareness) has priority over the comings and going of this transient lesser light world view

Does anything change? Yes, my perspective has changed and this certainly does change ones tangible world 'out there' in a million ways…Yet, at the same time nothing has changed, in that I am still here doing and being and living in a body I am still paying bills and eating lunch and watching tv, working, playing, sleeping and expressing myself via words and computers. I am watching my own little adventure unfold and watching the Amazing Wonder and Beauty of This Sweet, All Pervasive Mystery that is being all that I Am.

I have only Gratitude for this Light that leads me, for this Grace that has come to me….and I am knowing and not knowing all at once….It is a Balance, A Balance between two views, that seems for now a good place to live from….I guess…at least for now….Until whatever... ( and everyday, every moment, I would say it differently, as I am never for a moment who I was yesterday, or even an hour ago….that is Amazing Thing of It.

Love to all, Sandy Jones

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