Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

(Darren Dugan) #1

experience oneself as a subject: As stillness? As
unmoving? As eternal? These are all quality words,
characteristic words.
Student: I am that which does not change or
move, which can not be negated. All experience,
including of a void, or of the spark of awareness at the
heart center departure from me appear in this
awareness of them.
Ed: It sounds so abstract, like a definition as
opposed to something coming from your heart.
Student: I can describe one of the experiences to
you [or more if you wish]. It is hard to summarize
them. The spark experience I just referenced was as
follows.
Upon walking on a beach path, the body was
suddenly absent from me. What was then observed,
was a 'speck' [spark] of 'awareness' [Somehow this is
the received interpretation] moving down the beach.
Its location was in the 'area' where the heart 'was' and
the images of the scenery were still 'moving' as though
the body was moving.
This 'speck' then also vanished from me and all that
remained in my knowing [nothing else whatsoever]
was an image of the sky. Oddly, this image 'tipped' and

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