The Anatomy of Awareness, Part Two: What Is Consciousness?
This is the second excerpt from The Anatomy of Awareness, my 260-page book illustrating a groundbreaking, mindbending new theory of human consciousness known as Wave/Containment (recently completed, and currently seeking publication). Be sure to read Part One, entitled “Notes on Dying”. For more information, look here.
An old master was once asked, ‘What is the Way?’
‘The Way is right before your eyes,” he replied.
“Then master, why do I not see it for myself?” his student asked.
“Because you are thinking of yourself.”
Flustered, the student continued. “What about you: do you see it?”
To which the master responded: “So long as you are double, saying I don’t and you do, your eyes are clouded.”
The student nodded and departed, apparently satisfied with the answer. Yet after several days, he came back to the masters home and asked: “When there is neither I nor You, can one see it?”
The master smiled and shook his head in amusement.
“When there is neither I nor You, who is the one that wants to see it?”
