Awareness and Superficiality

 

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Awareness and Superficiality

When we become aware, then everything becomes superficial, outside us. When a moment of awareness is there, then nothing is deep; everything is outer and superficial because we are standing at the innermost core of our being. From that vantage point everything is superficial. For example, suppose we are sitting on the balcony of our house. It is not on the outer or superficial, but from inside the house it will be just on the boundary, on the surface.

The more aware we become the more things will become superficial. One can become scared sometimes, because even love will look superficial. If we watch and are alert, then whatever we do will look like acting, because we are no longer identified with it. It is no longer an act, but just acting.

So, a really aware person becomes an actor on the great stage of the world. He is never in anything deeply. He cannot be, because something transcendental is always there. Whatever he is doing he is always far away. Not that he is not authentic. He is, but he is so deep himself that nothing can be deeper; anything relative is superficial. This is a good insight. Nourish and enjoy it more, and don’t start condemning because then we will miss the whole point. Don’t start saying that this is superficial and that nothing deeper is coming – there is nothing deeper.

When consciousness is there, that is the most profound and the deepest thing there is. Even if God is standing there, He will be superficial, because He cannot be deeper than our awareness. He will be an object of awareness, just like any other object. Our consciousness is depth itself, unending depth. So, it has been a good insight.

Now we should try to live it twenty-four hours a day. Accept it, and not condemn it. It is beautiful, and everything will look superficial and appear like acting. Just become aware and act in the moment every day; by and by we will become pure awareness.