We confuse awareness with mind.
Mind is a mechanism for storing impressions from yesterday. With those impressions, we conjecture a tomorrow. But neither yesterday nor tomorrow have any actual existence. Time is just brain activity in the present moment.
Suffering arises when we allow the mind to overshadow awareness. Freedom arises when awareness outshines the mind.
Awareness and mind are only connected through our choice. Mind becomes the finite content in the infinite space of awareness, because we choose to conjure a past and future.
Awareness is not in time. Time is in awareness. But
awareness itself is pure and eternal Presence. Spontaneously self-luminous, self-awakening and self-nourishing, awareness needs no sensation, no memory, and no "I" to experience the boundless bliss of its own nature.
Does awareness require a brain? Or is the brain a temporary host that awareness visits to enjoy the theater of individuality?
For several million years, humans have been so entangled in brain-mind that we were not even aware of awareness. Now awareness is blossoming.
Awareness seems abstract at first, and the world concrete. In the end, awareness is solid as a diamond, and the world cloud-like, ever-dissolving.
This is not metaphysics, but practice.
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