Lesson 9 - Neither Body Nor Mind
Man's individual awareness is like a little ball of light, but it is
also like a camera. It photographs. It registers. It understands. It is
pure intelligence. Man intuitively knows where he is in the mind at all
times, but the first step in awakening on the path of enlightenment is
to separate awareness from that which it is aware of. We say, "I am
sick," and in the English language that means my body is sick, or, I am
aware of this body not being in a perfect state of health. The mystic
knows that he is not his body. He can even remember dropping off the
body many, many different times, getting new bodies through the process
of reincarnation. We are not what we are aware of. We are separate from
that which we are aware of--a pure state of awareness, only flowing
through many areas of the mind. If we live in San Francisco, we are not
San Francisco. If we live in unhappiness, we are not unhappiness. That's
only one of the cities of the mind. This is a great meditation. You can
grasp this awakening in thirty seconds. You can grasp this awakening in
thirty hours, or thirty minutes. You can grasp this awakening and have
it come to you vibrantly in thirty weeks, thirty months, or thirty years
or thirty lifetimes. It just depends upon your willpower.
As soon as we can understand awareness being detached from that which it
is aware of, we have a vibrant energy, a tremendous drive, and a
tremendous willpower is released from within us. We begin to live with
the feeling that we can do anything that we want to do, almost as
quickly as we want to do it. We want things to happen now, for we
vividly see the area where they already exist within the force fields of
the mind.
How do we live our life from this point onward? We begin to apply this
philosophy in every department of our lives. There are some habit
patterns in our subconscious mind that have not caught up with this new
perspective as yet. They will become apparent to us as we continue on
the path. As soon as we find awareness totally identified with a
subconscious area that has become conscious, we should turn inward
immediately, detach awareness from that which it is aware of and just be
pure energy. If you do this, you can expect a beautiful life, a
beautiful relationship with the being of yourself. Claim the being of
yourself as you. You have enough knowledge now. You do not have to keep
looking for the being of yourself in the hope of discovering it. Just be
the being of yourself and travel through the mind as the traveler
travels around the globe.