For some folks, sitting as awareness within the shared being aspect of Self which they share with existence, while blissful, is not enough. There is something within their hearts that must understand the living dynamic aspect of reality before they can rest. My heart was one such heart. When I put truth as the goal, this life unfolded in such a way as to reveal the nature of the dynamic aspect of reality, and it was understood to simply be behavior. The word nature means behavior and all the dynamic nature of reality is its behavior. It doesn’t matter how complex it appears, the closer you look at it, it is simply encased movement or behavior that appears to be forced into particular forms which we call energy. Energy essentially means an availability to do work that has been encased. A quantum of energy is such an encased packet of available work. Reality and its essential natures are simply stillness and movement. What’s important to note is that the stillness is not empty, it’s full of the potential and power to move. All movement arises from the appearance of stillness. Stillness is the essential nature of the agent of reality and this stillness are presence acts as the canvas for the dynamic flow of behavior.
Additionally, It is possible to recognize that your own feelings of awareness and agency are inseparable from this canvas of reality itself. In fact, the platform of mind and perception upon which your agency appears to use when it engages in reality were developed through the nature and behavior of reality itself. This means, you are essentially reality being aware of its own Self! To simply sit and be reality experiencing its own self is a dynamic form of true happiness. In my school of the yoga of supreme identity, we simply call this the flow of awareness. Whether your eyes are closed and you’re simply sitting within your own awareness or looking outwards and simply being reality aware of its own Self and its behavior, in essence they are identical and both of them in their essence are non-dual self-knowledge or self-awareness. With the dynamic version, there is the opportunity to observe and recognize the power that moves the entire universe as our own. Knowing that we are filled with infinite power is important because we think of ourselves as a limited body and mind that lives and dies, but in truth we are the agent of reality that is immortal and lives as all lives. Lives come and go, but the One that is living and flowing as the entire experience and its witnessing is forever, and is your true Self.
Food for thought: Reality appears to move, we all appear to act in the universe, but since reality always remains reality whether appearing to be still or moving, did anything actually happen other than reality being aware of its own Self?
