Nonconceptual awareness is awareness without conceptualizing. It's the food, to use Alan Watt's metaphor, not the menu.
Awareness through embodied presence is awareness of and through bodily, sensual, and emotional experience. I have experienced nonconceptual awareness through embodied presence, being aware of what I am experiencing in my body in the moment when with myself and with another. I have related to another what I am experiencing bodily in response to the other, and it is very opening of new perspectives and possibilities. To me, mystery is the unknown and getting a glimpse of what it holds. What helps me open to the mystery is embodied presence, appreciating the aliveness in mystery, and letting myself be purposeless.
On Feb 23, 2024 David Doane wrote :