Pure Awareness...

from Consciousness is All by Peter Dzubian


Pure Awareness is not the same as body.

Slowly, silently, be aware of the body again as it holds this book.

That body, like every other thing, is an item you appear to be aware of. That body never is aware of you; the body is not even aware of itself.

Always, it is Awareness alone that is aware—not that body. That body is not You.

Awareness is You.

What You are as Awareness, pure Consciousness, goes far beyond a body, a mere thing.

A body isn't your identity, for a body is like an unaware mannequin. By itself, a body doesn't know anything in order to be an identity. Only Consciousness is conscious to know anything. If there were no Consciousness present, the body couldn't be identified even as a body.

Notice how all things that Consciousness appears to be conscious of, even the body, are identified. They have names or labels—body, hand, book, tactile sensation, thought, emotion, room, etc.—identifying them as the particular things they appear to be. How many such things in your universe, by themselves, know they appear to be there? None.

It is thanks entirely to Consciousness being present that all things can appear to be identified. Things always depend entirely on Consciousness being present to give them their identification.

No thing has any awareness, any intelligence or ability to identify itself. No thing has its own identity.

Consciousness is the only Identity.

By themselves, things don't even know they appear to exist. This book doesn't know it appears to be here; nor does the hand, nor the sensation of touch. The body doesn't know it exists.

Not one single thing in the entire universe knows that it exists!

The only One conscious to know anything exists is Consciousness. It is the only One that knows there is such a thing as existing!

You know you exist, which means Consciousness, not any thing, is Your Identity.

Since you are not an identified thing called a body, you cannot honestly take the point of view of a body. Ever. It is not your point of view to take.

Only what is true of Consciousness is true of You.

So never be intimidated by Consciousness, Awareness, or any other synonym, or put them up on a pedestal just because they are spelled with a capital letter. The Consciousness that is gently being aware right here, now, never is in awe of Itself.


Consciousness always is silent, peaceful—yet absolutely certain in being present.

This silent, peaceful certainty isn't what Consciousness is to you.

This silent certainty is You.



Consciousness is All
by Peter Dzubian
page 18-19

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