https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui3vIvymDE
the teacher here is your own experience.
"human being" needs not concepts attached. Stay with this and discover what it is.
"to be" is enough
"I" word is the most important word because all other words came after it. I am needs to be before you are.
"I" is our natural name. am = to be, what does "I" mean ?
('i and my Father are one' maybe was used as a pointer, like My name and the Father's are the same name... From ACIM)
(self existant one) = 'I'
I must be before I am aware of you.
presence that I feel is
- the self of the waking state
- the dynamic being
- the seed being
- the seat of perception
what is in front of the presence? --the person
presence is aware of your attention to. Watch this. See how attention shifts from
the presence to the person or the person's concerns.
once this happens, presence seems to get drugged and forgets to watch what is happening.
Bring your attention back to awareness and keep going back there.
Eventually it will be easier to stay as awareness. When consciousness becomes self-concious, it no longer believes in the person.
When we forget, go back and say "I am not the body" "I am not the mind" or better still look to see that this is so. All phenomenon is like clouds that come and go from this place of witnessing.
in deep sleep, we have no experience, we are no one. We are, but there is no "I am feeling", no person, no dreaming. We love this state, as it is a natural one. Enlightened ones love being "no one" in the awakened state.
Am I aware of the "I AM" feeling?
Yes? Don't add anything to it, no concepts, no adjectives, no stories, no desires...
This is what you are --the unchangeable one.
be "no one" inside in this way. On the outside be a person to function in the world, but on the inside always be "no one" Identify with the I Am feeling, the space of presence. The personality appears in front of it. See this now.
Even the feeling of "I AM" is watched. See this now. The Self is more subtil than the feeling of I Am.
outwardly we say "I did this and that" but inside I am watching it so I am nothing here. That is why enlightened beings can say they are talking, but that talking is happening (because they see it happen)
Identity has separated from the activity of the person.
the person: the idea of who you think you are.
but if you are aware of the unchanging as you, then dropping attachment will be natural
attention goal: find your stability in the unchangeable
- the person needs the presence to be, but the presence does not need the person --you can not say "you are not" because you must be there to say something
- the person is constant in the waking state, but the Constant always is presence