Awareness Is Dynamic

When we stop manipulating and controlling it, we discover that awareness itself is not fixed. When awareness is not directed, it may rest for a while. It may be globally aware, so that everything in your senses is being taken in all at once. Often, the more you relax, the more globally aware you become, feeling the totality of experience, taking in everything and all experience as a single whole. But then things might change. Awareness is curious by nature. You might have a tickle in your toe or a feeling in your side or a contraction somewhere, and awareness will naturally, spontaneously move in that certain direction. 'Naturally' is the key word here; it will move not because you think it should, but because it has a natural way it wants to flow. Allowing everything to be as it is does not generate a static state. Awareness may go to your foot, to pain, or to tension. It may go to a sense of joy. It may hear a bird outside and it might just spontaneously listen to the bird, then it may become global and take in everything all at once. Awareness may suddenly become curious about silence itself and enter into silence. Allowing everything to be as it is actually generates a much more dynamic inner environment than the words suggest. You have to discover within yourself what this actually means.

What you will find is that awareness is very dynamic; it has a tendency to move around. Sometimes awareness will stop and rest in a deep sense of silence and stillness. By letting go, we allow awareness to do what it wants to do. It goes where it needs to go. We realize that awareness has an intelligence in and of itself. The invitation for you as a meditator is to become very engaged with where awareness wants to go, with what it wants to experience, with what it wants to look at. You are engaged; you're right with it. You are willing to go where awareness wants to go.