While I was walking to the supermarket I used my awareness like a radar to investigate what makes reality real.<\/p>\n
Walking with strong steps, feeling, remembering the list of things I had to buy. Seeing how important is awareness, and how fickle it is. Loosing what was happening around me when I glued my awareness in my thoughts.<\/p>\n
I tried to swallow the experience, the sound the cars, the hot climate, the coolness of the orange ice cream. Then I saw a young boy listening to music in a Walkman and I wondered which music he was listening, I didn\u00c2\u00b4t know which was his reality, what he was thinking or feeling.<\/p>\n
I didn\u00c2\u00b4t know the reality of the people that was passing by inside the cars, the reality of people walking in the street. I only could perceive the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that was within the reach of my awareness.<\/p>\n
I didn\u00c2\u00b4t know all the details of the space around me: The height and color of the buildings, the speed of the cars, just an overview. And then I remembered a movie: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Inception\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about entering the dream reality. They said in that movie that you just need a few elements of reality and then your mind fills the rest with what you already know. In this movie it was said that a thought deep rooted in our mind can define or destroy us. And then I realize how repetitive thoughts sometimes limit possibilities, narrowing our view so that we cannot see a way out.<\/p>\n
Is this reality like a dream? Or is it a mixture of everybody\u00c2\u00b4s awareness? Or yet, a mixture of everybody awareness filled with what they already know, impregnated with their past, their memories, their thoughts. A reality pervaded with everybody\u00c2\u00b4s models. A reality confirming what we keep repeating to ourselves.<\/p>\n
So what is new, what is really changing? Can awareness expand out of the reach our own stories and models? It is definitively a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While I was walking to the supermarket I used my awareness like a radar to investigate what makes reality real. Walking with strong steps, feeling, remembering the list of things I had to buy. Seeing how important is awareness, and … Continue reading