simple awareness...

"It's true that you are probably engaging in some activity or other in this present moment.

For example, right now you are reading these words on this page.

What you are doing in the present moment is constantly going to be changing.

You may set aside this book and take a drink of water, eat something, or go answer the phone.

But whatever you happen to be doing, the most basic sense of existence is always about being.

Being is always the very simple reality of your conscious awareness in this present moment.

The `doing' of the present moment is always obviously secondary to simply being.

Now I am reading; now I am taking a drink of water; now I am eating something; now I am talking on the phone.

What is the one common factor in every one of these statements? Isn't it the now I am? The now I am precedes any particular doing.

The now I am is the substratum, the most basic underlying reality that makes possible all the varied, ever-changing human experiences or doings.

Before we are anything else—a man, a woman, old, young, well or sick—we are a human being.

So, there you go.

The mystery is solved.

Who you are is being itself, simple awareness in the here and now."


p.67

Francis Bennett

I Am That I Am

Non-Duality Press