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Last month, I read some amazing ideas in Ken McCloud’s online newsletter, Unfettered Mind.  A few of the ideas, in particular, had a strong impact!

leading to a deeper and broader understanding of  “awareness”

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I thought I might share my own “take” on these ideas with others who stop by Pocket Perspectives.

I’m not sure how much I do “understand” these ideas, but I’ll share my beginning attempts at that. Perhaps others might resonate with this awareness, too?

To help myself “understand,”  I used the memory and image of the sky and the reflection of the sky in small mountain lake that I hiked to a few weeks ago…I find that some approximation of a deeper understanding of “awareness” seems to resonate when I imagine this scene or look at this photo.

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I noticed that by just “opening” to a basic, broad awareness of these analogies and ideas, and NOT thinking too “logically” about them, that some understanding seemed to arise.

The use of the analogies of space, silence and stillness seems to lead to a broader awareness of “awareness”… if that makes any sense?

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expanding upon each line,
with my own beginner ideas and understanding

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space

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silence

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stillness

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awareness

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awareness
an “experience” of awareness…perhaps, the sky
a reflection of awareness…perhaps, through words and concepts

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0bjects….sounds…movement
….thoughts, feelings or sensations….
all of those arising, abiding for awhile and departing,
comings and goings, comings and goings

And “behind” those comings and goings?
steady, consistent and ongoing
space, silence, stillness and awareness

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