"Once the essential, irreducible nature of the mind has been recognised, and its inherent peace and unconditional joy accessed, it is necessary to face ‘outwards’ again towards objective experience, re-aligning the way we think and feel, and subsequently act, perceive and relate, with our new understanding. The culmination of the inward-facing path is the recognition of the presence, the primacy and the nature of awareness– or, in religious language, spirit or God’s infinite being –which transcends all knowledge and experience.
However, it is not yet the full experiential understanding in which awareness itself, or God’s infinite being, is known and felt
to pervade and saturate all knowledge and experience, and indeed to be its sole substance and reality. It is to recognise the transcendent nature of awareness but not its immanence.
If we do not reintegrate this understanding with our objective experience, then a fragile alliance will persist between our essential, irreducible nature of pure awareness and all objects and others. This often manifests as a denial or rejection of embodied life in the world and may readily become a refuge for any lingering sense of a separate self. The process by which this reintegration or establishment takes place, although implicit in the inward-facing or
Vedantic tradition, is, in my opinion, best elaborated in the Tantric tradition."
-- Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware
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