The Natural State of Awareness is Bliss

The Natural State (Sahaja) vs. Focused Awareness



The actual state of awareness of most human beings is a focused state of awareness, thus the assumption that the focused state of awareness is the "natural" state of human awareness but...it is not true.

No focus is required for awareness to exist or to experience Bliss.


The true natural state of awareness is unfocused objectless awareness. This is the awareness of Awareness, of Space, of Oneness, of Grace and of Bliss.
There are two notions amongst spiritual practitioners and spiritual paths concerning spiritual Enlightenment (assuming that Enlightenment is even recognized on a given "spiritual" path):


The first notion is that the path to Enlightenment requires no effort.

The second notion is that Enlightenment is achieved after both time and effort.


Although, each notion has its merits both are misleading. The reason for this is simply that neither perspective states clearly what the exact nature of Enlightenment actually is and/or precisely how it is to be Realized. When the what and the how are not made plain, all discussions about Enlightenment are irrelevant.


The most important point that is not emphasized sufficiently, that is not clarified explicitly and that is not stressed often enough is that...Enlightenment is a fundamental qualitative shift of awareness, rather than a change in awareness.


To shift awareness is easy enough to do but what is this shift and how is it effected?


Descriptions of the experience of Enlightenment are useless in this regard. The process of Enlightenment must be defined, described and understood independently of any indications, intimations or information as to "what Nirvana feels like."


Enlightenment comes through a shift in awareness from a focused state to a defocused state and from a defocused state to an unfocused state. The experience of Enlightenment, in a word is Bliss. In ten words or less it is the Blissful Awareness of Space and Oneness. It is effortless to defocus awareness and yet it requires practice. It takes effort to focus awareness and yet we are so habituated to it that it seems effortless.


To focus awareness is to make effort and to defocus awareness requires no more effort than it takes to learn how to do it.


Yes, the usual condition of focused awareness that most human beings share, participate in and that the majority know, suffering so well is based upon effort. When this effort ceases the fundamental Enlightened nature of Awareness becomes apparent. It is Self-Evident.


It is in breaking the pattern of habitually focusing awareness upon objects, movements and patterns that requires sustained effort that awareness may become defocused.

Resting in the natural state of unfocused objectless awareness or Enlightenment is effortless. It is only the defocusing of awareness that requires practice.


These are the critical distinctions lacking in much of the Neo-Advaitin Satsangs and discussions. There are only two questions that a spiritual teacher needs to answer and they are: What is Enlightenment? AND How is Enlightenment achieved? AND The second question is more important than the first! The answer to both questions is found in the focus of awareness.
It is the focus of awareness that is the critical key piece to the whole jigsaw puzzle of this spiritual breakthrough or experience of Self that we call Enlightenment.


Right, in this, Now. As these unique ideas are being thought, words are being typed and potentially read during some possible future instant on the other side of my Self...there must be a focusing...of eyes...of hands...of thought...of awareness. All of this experience of life, expression, creation, communication and action happens in a field of focus.


Defocusing Awareness as a Practice
This is the real challenge...how to convey something that I cannot show you, that I cannot point to and that no abstraction or analogy will help you to experience.


Really, the question, the challenge and the answer are all one and the same...SELF.


None can give you Awareness of your own Self.
Already, Awareness is possessed.
I cannot give you Space.
Already, Space is everywhere.

You cannot become One.
Already, You are in Oneness.


Your attention is focused upon objects, upon your life, upon your environment and upon your imagination...now take, turn or twirl your focus the other way. Spin it around. Get behind. Get before. Get behind. Get outside. Get beside. Flip your focus inways. Flow your focus outwhere. Fill your focus with One-Ness. Twist awareness backward. Unwind awareness. Unfind yourself. Lose yourself. Leave yourself. Retreat Space-ward. Unbuild delusion. Evaporate illusions. Free your Self. Self-Liberate. Space dissipate. Where there are two, there is One. There is Oneness between every two. Spatiospherically Spread Out Awareness. Why not? Whatever experience says you can't is false. Whoever says it is impossible is wrong. The Infinite Is Already! Expand and see for your Self...


Expand your awareness...find the limits of your awareness...are there? Can you?
Penetrate deeply by focusing intently and striving to find the Oneness between forms.
Open your awareness as wide as you can, including as much within your awareness as can be contained.


Space is larger than all forms and You are Space.


Focus your awareness upon Space and find that the two are One.


Focus your awareness upon the largest Object of all, SPACE, SELF, AWARENESS, ONENESS.


To defocus is to refocus. It is to realize that the unfocused and objectless Awareness contains all objects, forms, energies, patterns and is the root of every kind of focus.



Focus upon an object: a thought; an emotion; a sensation...now make it fuzzy.
This is defocused awareness.

Take every assumption that you know for sure...scrap it, drop it, lose it.This is beginners mind.


Every hitch, hold, anchor or reference point that you keep...leave it, let it go, float away.

This is unfocused objectless awareness.



Not-focus. No-focus. Defocus. Not this. Not that. Not-self. Self.