To help guide you into this recognition, try the following simple exercise.
Guided Meditation:
- Close your eyes and settle into stillness. Let your breath be natural.
- Begin by observing your thoughts. Notice them as they appear and disappear. Ask yourself: “Do my thoughts change? If yes, what do they change from? And what do they change into?“
Watch their movement with quiet curiosity. - Now shift your attention to your feelings. Notice any emotions or sensations present. Ask: “What does this feeling change from? What does it change to?“
Observe the flow of emotion without interfering. - Turn to the body. Feel its posture, its subtle movements, the pressure, the breath. Ask: “Is my body changing? From what to what?“
Gently notice the changing states of the body. - Now focus on awareness itself—that which has been watching your thoughts, feelings, and body. Ask: “Does my awareness change? Does it shift from one state to another?“
Look directly into the nature of your awareness. Is it moving? Is it different now than before? - When you recognize that awareness does not change, rest in it. Let it be your ground.
Notice: while sounds arise, feelings stir, and time flows—this awareness remains the same.
It does not follow sound, it is not touched by emotion, it does not age with the body.
It is here, still, reliable, present - Stay with this recognition. Notice the gap between that which changes and that which does not.
See how the changing cannot pull or disturb the unchanging.
Let this clear distance between the two settle in your heart.
Dies ist die Kern-Erkenntnis: In jedem von uns gibt es einen Aspekt, der sich niemals verändert, egal was die Welt bringt. Dein Gewahrsein ist nichts, das man ergreifen oder erreichen muss. Es ist bereits da—vor dem Denken, vor dem Fühlen, vor der Wahrnehmung. Es ist nicht an die Zeit gebunden. Die Zeit bringt Veränderung, aber das Gewahrsein bleibt gleich.
By returning to this presence again and again, clarity grows. You begin to recognize your true self—not as the ever-shifting experiences of life, but as the silent, steady presence behind them. That presence is not far away. It is who you are, right now.
Reconnaître la conscience immuable
Conscience immobile
In the midst of our daily lives, filled with constant motion, sound, and sensation, there is something within us that never moves. Something that does not change.
While everything we experience through our five senses is in constant flux—thoughts arise and fade, emotions swell and recede, the body shifts and reacts—there is a silent awareness that remains steady. It watches, but is never altered by what it sees. It hears, but is never changed by what it hears. This presence is not an object, not a sensation, not an emotion—it is awareness itself.
When we close our eyes and turn inward, we may begin to sense this unmoving background. All else may rise and fall—memories, feelings, even the breath—but this quiet presence remains. It is not an experience in the usual sense, for it does not come and go. It stays.
And yet, many find it hard to let go of the changing phenomena, because without recognizing this awareness, it feels like letting go into nothing. We fear we might lose everything—thought, identity, feeling, meaning—and fall into a void. But when we recognize that awareness itself is still here, alive, and untouched by change, letting go becomes safe, natural, and deeply peaceful.
This awareness can exist completely independent of any object, event, or change. But objects cannot appear without awareness. All things that come and go appear for the one who sees. They require the presence of awareness to be known, but awareness does not require them in order to be. The dependency flows one way: phenomena depend on awareness, but awareness is free.
This is why it is so important to train ourselves—again and again—to notice and rest in this unchanging presence. The clearer we become in recognizing this distinction between what changes and what does not, the easier it becomes to rest in that which is stable, rather than being swept away by the ever-moving.
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