Rays of the Absolute - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

VeRSe ThRee
Awareness Is emptiness
Awareness often times can be imagined to be the end
of it all.
Sometimes Awareness fused with a Supreme Witness
or Supreme perceiver can be imagined to be the
Absolute.
Awareness once unfused from the Supreme Witness
appears as a floating almost amoeba like lens,
floating on the Emptiness.
The experience of witnessing the Absolute is called the
Supreme Witness.
The Supreme Witness does not actually witness the
Absolute.
Rather it Witnesses its perception of the Absolute.
The Vijnana Bhairava: “When you have a desire to
perceive this state you can only perceive it when it
comes down one step lower.”
In this way, the emptiness which is also consciousness,
appears as the ,Supreme Witness which witnesses
the emptiness, “As If” the emptiness is something
different, and is not itself
This is why in The Shiva Sutras the Supreme Witness
is called the Supreme Perceiver.
The Supreme Witnesses witness the emptiness or void,
with awareness as its nature.
Actually the Witnessed emptiness and the emptiness
and awareness are one and the same.
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