I often seem to use the word "Awareness" in the same way this author uses "Vigilance", but the same challenges arise for both of those words: a) That some opposite (non-awareness? non-vigilance?) is implied to also exist, and b) There is someone who IS (or isn't) Aware or Vigilant, and perhaps makes that a practice. It seems to me that the infinite Awareness, or bliss of BE-ing has NO actual opposite, only our temporary distractions from it as long as we see ourselves as separate. From the perspective of separation we can appreciate and value Awareness (or not), exercise and practice Vigilance (or not). But perhaps a clearer perspective may be that Awareness actually applies to the larger wholeness within which all of this transient dream of duality plays out?
On Dec 24, 2022 Ted wrote :