Date:08/17/2024 08/18/2024
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Sara
Sitting Meditation
Discovering the Original Nature of Consciousness
The original nature of consciousness is not noise or confusion, but clarity, openness, and awareness itself. Discovering this is the heart of inner practice.
1. What Is the Original Nature of Consciousness?
It is awareness before concepts, memory, and reaction. Not the absence of thought, but clarity unhidden by thought.
2. Characteristics of Original Consciousness
1.Natural awareness: No maintenance required.
2.Non-attachment: Thoughts leave no trace.
3.Stable clarity: Not disturbed by conditions.
4.Open capacity: All experience is allowed.
5.Effortless presence: No control needed.
3. What Obscures Original Consciousness
1.Conceptual overlay: Ideas replace direct knowing.
2.Emotional fixation: Feelings dominate awareness.
3.Identity formation: Content becomes self.
4.Reactive habits: Automatic response replaces seeing.
5.State-seeking: Chasing special experiences.
4. Ways to Return to Original Consciousness
1.Resting as awareness: Awareness becomes the ground.
2.Letting go of control: Stop managing experience.
3.Direct experience: Stay with immediate sensation.
4.Allowing everything: No exclusion.
5.Familiarization: Repeated recognition.
5. Facts About Original Consciousness
Is it a new state?
No—it has always been present.
Does it need to be created?
No—only uncovered.
Why is it hard to notice?
Because it is too familiar.
Conclusion
Discovering the original nature of consciousness is a return from content to awareness itself. When obscurations loosen, clarity shines naturally, and practice returns to its true foundation.
