The Awareness Principle

271 Pages·2008·2.97 MB·English

by  K Heinipz

Selected Writings on

THE AWARENESS PRINCIPLE

Selected writings on:

THE
AWARENESS

PRINCIPLE

A radical new philosophy
of life, science and religion

New expanded edition 2008

Acharya Peter Wilberg
First published 2007 by
Exposure Publishing,
an imprint of
Diggory Press Ltd.

This edition published 2008 by
New Yoga Publications,
an imprint of
New Gnosis Publications

© Peter Wilberg 2007

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ISBN 978-1-904519-09-6
Mantram

The pure Awareness of any self, identity, body, world or universe
Transcends every self, identity, body, world or universe -
Yet pervades and takes shape as them all.
Note to the Reader

The project of achieving an ever-more precise exposition of what I call
‘The Awareness Principle’ – the understanding of Awareness itself as the
singular and ultimate reality behind and within all things - is an on-going and
evolving one. As a result, I have found myself formulating new expositions of
this Principle – and the ‘Practices of Awareness’ that follow from it - in
different contexts or in what appear to be only slightly adjusted terms. This
work is a second anthology of such expositions or ‘selected writings’ on The
Awareness Principle’ - taken from a variety of earlier essays and books.
Consequently however, many of the texts it contains may seem repetitious in
their message or even near-identical in their phrasing and wording. In asking
for the reader’s tolerance here, I can only remark that even the slightest of
differences in wording and context between the texts included in this volume -
as well as the element of repetition itself – may be useful in reinforcing the
reader’s understanding of its message. And just as the One singular reality
behind all realities can take countless forms, so is there no end to the ways in
which a single principle and its practice – not least one which seeks to give
expression to that One reality and offer a direct experience of it - can be
refined and re-thought.

Acharya Peter Wilberg 2008
“… awareness qua awareness [is] not awareness as a topic within, or
relative to, a context that defines it by confining it, as e.g. social
awareness, physical awareness or awareness physically analysed …
Rather, without trepidation, awareness ‘itself’ – awareness without
confinement – is our topic; awareness without imposed limits as our
‘context’… Awareness as such is a truly primitive term, unlike
‘consciousness’ (with all its differentiated levels) which … always refers
to being ‘aware-of-something’, of some content, as vivid or vague, sharp
or dim as it may be. Awareness … belongs to no one exclusively, has no
restrictions, derivations or explanations … just is. Awareness is a
singularity beyond personality and impersonality – which cannot be
contained, curtailed, expanded or transcended from ‘without awareness’.
It is not as important to simply label this awareness with a word like
God, the Absolute or what have you, as to submit and abandon yourself
to this singularity of awareness … the awareness that runs through you
as one person of a multi-personal universe of unlimited awareness …
[This] ‘spiritual’ awareness cannot be locked up in churches, temples
and mosques … from which imposing directives issue forth, nor can it
thrive diluted as part of the mainstream culture it is supposed to be
educating.”

Michael Kosok - ‘The Singularity of Awareness’

“Now thinking which constructs a world of objects understands these
objects; but meditative thinking begins with an awareness of the field
within which these objects are … the field of awareness itself.”

John Anderson (translator of Martin Heidegger’s ‘Discourse on Thinking’)
The most fundamental scientific ‘fact’ is not the existence of a universe
of things in space and time but awareness of such a universe.

We can no more explain awareness as such by any ‘thing’ we are aware
of than we can explain dreaming as such by something we dream of.

Awareness is nothing in need of scientific ‘explanation’. For by its very
nature it is no ‘thing’, and thus not explainable by some other thing.

Awareness is not a ‘thing’ that can evolve from or arise out of an
unaware or insentient universe of things. On the contrary all things in
the universe emerge and take shape out of a universal awareness.

Everything and everyone is a portion and expression of the universal
awareness that we call ‘God’. God is not a person, but all persons are
personifications of the universal awareness that is God.

Everything and everyone is a shape taken by the universal awareness
within that awareness.

Awareness is everything. Everything is an awareness.

Awareness is nothing enclosed within our bodies or brains. It is the very
space within which we experience all things – including our bodies
themselves.

Peter Wilberg
CONTENTS

PREFACE................................................................................................................13

OPENING VERSES..............................................................................................17
Awareness as Absolute Principle...........................................................................19
Awareness as Ultimate Reality...............................................................................20
Awareness as Field Consciousness........................................................................21
Awareness as Perception.........................................................................................23
Awareness as Space.................................................................................................25
Awareness as Time..................................................................................................27
Awareness as Matter................................................................................................29
Awareness as Meditation........................................................................................31
Awareness as Freedom............................................................................................32
Awareness as Body and Soul..................................................................................33
Awareness as all the Elements.....................................................................................36
Awareness as Awakening........................................................................................38
Awareness as the Self..............................................................................................40
Awareness as God and as all the gods..................................................................41

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................43
Welcome to the World of Awareness...................................................................45
The Awareness Principle Defined.........................................................................52
Beyond Science, Psychology and Religion...........................................................53
Historical Roots of The Awareness Principle......................................................54

THE PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE OF AWARENESS.............................57
The Principle of Awareness....................................................................................59
The Primary Distinction and the Primary Choice...............................................60
Attaining Freedom through Awareness................................................................63
Living without -and with - Awareness..................................................................66
The Awareness Principle Again.............................................................................68
Awareness beyond Identity - the ‘Atman’............................................................69
The Basic Practice of Awareness (1).....................................................................72
The Basic Practice of Awareness (2).....................................................................73
Summary....................................................................................................................76

MORE ON THE PRACTICE OF AWARENESS...........................................85
The Traditional Practice..........................................................................................87
Meditation as a Practice of Awareness.................................................................88
Meditation, Movement and ‘Just Sitting’..............................................................94
Practicing Sitting as Meditation.............................................................................99