Identification Is For Thought, Not For Awareness

[The Don]

Instead of feeling that awareness is identified with everything, in other words identical to everything, that all experience is equally pervaded by awareness, we feel that awareness is exclusively identified with one particular object.

It is not the identification of awareness with objects that is the problem, it is the exclusive identification of awareness. We could say that naturally awareness is equally identified with 'that' is the same as all objects.

Naturally awareness is one with all objects. That is equally intimate with all experience. For example the sound in the so called distance is as close to awareness as my most intimate thoughts and feelings.

From awareness' point of view, it is always identical to the totality of experience.

What we have to understand is that the exclusive identification is never for awareness. Awareness is always one with the totality of experience. In that sense it is identified with everything.

It is thought alone that says awareness is identical to some things and not others. In other words what is commonly called identification. Identification with a thought or a feeling which is a shorthand for saying the exclusive identification with a thought or a feeling is for thought, never for awareness.

[WindInTheLeaf]

So we are aware of everything but confuse ourselves by our senses, to apply larger significance to some aspects of all-there-is and less to others?