You can say already, “I am aware of this sensation in my body,” the one that we started with. So awareness is throughout the physical body, right?
And we can notice, if we pause, there’s awareness of the whole body. If something were to brush against your knee or your elbow right now, you would probably notice that and you would probably notice it without effort. It would just be an automatic, “Ah yeah, there’s that sensation of noticing that.” So the awareness... is throughout the body.
Now if we check a little further,we can recognize, if... I snap my finger here out to the left of myself, I hear that. The sound... I receive the sound, and again, I notice it without any effort.
I can perceive... sound there. No effort. Sound comes in. I’m aware of it. And if the sound happens to the right, same thing. And you can imagine this yourself too, at this moment, to just... experience this for yourself.
There’s the space out to the left, if there’s a sound there, you’ll notice it. Space out to the right, on the other side, if there’s a sound there, you’ll also notice that. And if there’s a sound behind you, you’ll notice that If there’s a sound in front, you’ll notice that. If there’s a sound above, there’s a natural automatic noticing of that. And if there’s a sound really anywhere, it’s just something you notice without effort.
So, you can pause to just register that for a moment. Because it’s having this experience of this...capacity to notice that really is what Awareness is…
And if we check, there’s really not an edge to it. So... I notice what’s out to the left. I can notice… if the sound happened really far out, it could be really very far out, if it was loud enough, I would hear that, it would just come in, I would experience it, it would happen without effort. So... this awareness is a sense of… it’s the capacity to notice that’s really all around, all around us in all directions, simultaneously and it’s throughout our bodies also.
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