The mind can't see pure awareness because the mind is in pure awareness, like a fish is in water.
You can sense it by shifting your point of view from the content of awareness to awareness itself.
Its job is to scan the environment and distinguish between the good stuff and the bad stuff—the stuff that will help us survive and the stuff that's dangerous. But the mind is a tool—it's not us. It's something we use—it's something we're aware of—it looks at objects. In fact, thought itself is an object. What's aware of thought? What is thought ap...
mind is in pure awareness, like a fish is in water.
It's not out there, it's inside you. It's not about controlling experience, it's about experience itself. It's about a shift in identity from the content of awareness to awareness itself. It's not about what you're looking at, but about what's looking.
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