...one can shift attention away from thoughts to what is seen, heard, felt, etc (attend the actual), or one can attend thoughts (watch thoughts without jumping on board), or one can shift attention to consciousness (be the I am), or one can shift attention to existential questioning (simply looking without knowing but wanting to know).
IOW, one loses interest in thoughts, and simply attends, or watches, or notices. In so doing the mind becomes quiescent and illusions of various kinds simply collapse. If you spend a fair amount of time simply looking without knowing, then one day you will discover that the conventional sense of selfhood (a "me in here" looking at "a world out there") has vanished. It is not usually a whiz-bang kind of experience. It will be a subtle but obvious realization. You will say to yourself, "Well, I'll be d**med! There never was an me!" From that point on there will be no personal identification with awareness. There will only be a unified field of being (that is not a unified field of being) doing what it mysteriously does. Enjoy.
IOW, one loses interest in thoughts, and simply attends, or watches, or notices. In so doing the mind becomes quiescent and illusions of various kinds simply collapse. If you spend a fair amount of time simply looking without knowing, then one day you will discover that the conventional sense of selfhood (a "me in here" looking at "a world out there") has vanished. It is not usually a whiz-bang kind of experience. It will be a subtle but obvious realization. You will say to yourself, "Well, I'll be d**med! There never was an me!" From that point on there will be no personal identification with awareness. There will only be a unified field of being (that is not a unified field of being) doing what it mysteriously does. Enjoy.
