Zero to 1: Going Beyond Meaning
5 INSIGHTS
I.
The very fact that we can recognize and make meaning suggests something in us transcends meaning altogether. Just as a bird flying overhead can observe an entire meadow, we can step back and witness the meanings we create.
II.
As the bird flies overhead, it can see many of trees, rivers and animals so clearly because it is beyond them.
In the same way, there is something in us that is beyond the world of objects, content, relationships, and meaning.
III.
So, what is it that is beyond the world of objects, meaning and relationships?
IV.
It is pure awareness itself that both contains experience and transcends it. This consciousness is not another object of meaning but the awareness in which all meaning arises.
V.
To transcend meaning, to go beyond states of mind and body, one only has to practice being aware and become the witness of experience.
Watch as the whole game unfolds before our eyes.
This witnessing presence is consciousness itself.
5 Quotes
I.
"The witnessing consciousness is like the sky, and experiences are like clouds. No matter how many clouds pass across the sky, the sky remains unaffected."
Mooji
II.
"Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it."
Ramana Maharshi
III.
"The observer is the observed."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
IV
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."
Meister Eckhart
V.
"You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself."
Eckhart Tolle
1 Question
Who is it that perceives? Who is the perceiver?