Is Increasing Awareness An Inherently Egoic Activity, And Does The Self Have Awareness And Can It Control Awareness?

[Joseph Maynor]

Or is awareness a passive quality that is actual awareness in the moment, the awareness of the Self rather than the ego  Any sense of controlling awareness would be an egoic illusion.  Sure, the Self is watching awareness change, and maybe the ego's illusion of changing or increasing awareness, but those changes are merely passively sensed by the higher-order awareness of the Self, which is just passively observing what is, what is actually experienced.  The Self takes no action, including managing mindfulness or awareness.  Nature causes all that.  Am I right?  The Self is just noticing what is experienced.  

Edited July 24, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[ajasatya]

@Joseph Maynor awareness is passive and the ego may surrender itself to it.

are you truly present right now? how does your right foot feel?

[AleksM]

Awarness IS. 

However awarness can "become" (be) more aware of itself.  More aware of awarness.  Awarness of awarness.  The ego can perceive the effects of change that the awarness "made".  You cannot perceive with perception directly awarness, however you can perceive how awarness affected  content, and the mind Works with content it cannot work with no-thing. The mind(ego) can only perceive what already happened. When the awarness already expanded itself the ego is just perceiving what already happened (expansion of awarness).

Awarness can be aware of more awarness because it is awarness. So that means that it can only be what already is. It means that  awarness  can be more of what already is, because it is aware of itself(aware of awareness)  awarness that is infinite.

Increasing awarness makes sense only to ego. Awarness (God) can only be more aware of itself (aware of more awarness).

Already Increased awarness can latter be perceived as if the awarness is increasing, but the fact is that awarness already increased.

 

At a certain point awarness can be only aware of more awarness if it goes beyond the sensory perception of itself(ego). So that it's not only aware now but also here. That is being here and now. I have made a post yesterday about this.

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/12771-important-the-difference-between-here-and-now/