Cleareaching

Along with the focus of attention to the experience, goes interpretation. Interpreting is an impersonal habit which we use to give our experience a name, because we want to know what’s going on. The moment anything happens, all our attention starts focusing on it and we try to get rid of it, repair it or understand it. With this focusing on our sensation, we immediately exclude the rest of life. Suddenly, our life consists only of the sensation and a feeling of “I” focusing on it, like tunnel vision. One end of the tunnel is the feeling of “I” and the other end is the sensation we want to get away from. It’s interesting to investigate how the habit of interpreting experience is linked to the focus of attention. The more the focus of attention is outwards, the more interpretation takes place.

Every human drama consists of a sensation and a trying to get away from it: we call it suffering. But what drives this mechanism of always searching for an exit from a sensation? Honestly, nothing. It’s just the mind’s interpretation of the sensation. This interpretation, this labeling divides our experience into good and bad, into wanting and not wanting, making our world appear in terms of duality.

Awareness on the other hand is the oneness. It’s the vigilance, the wakefulness, that which sees and is already awake – infinite, undisturbed, ever-present wakefulness. We, as awareness, have never been asleep to expect to reach some awakening. We have just been believing in our interpretations. That wakefulness, though, is never affected by them.