Awareness is the Seer, Mind is the Seen
Awareness is the light that illuminates all experience. Awareness is the silent witness that observes our thoughts arising and passing, our emotions shifting, our perceptions changing. As the unmovable witnessing presence, awareness, the seer, is distinct from the seen.
Thinking and perceiving occur in the mind, but the mind lacks the capacity to comprehend the infinite awareness out of which it is made. Mind is simply the ongoing flow of awareness manifesting in a particular way. All activities of the mind, the patterns and the promptings, arise within awareness and are known by awareness.
Fundamentally, awareness is always the seer while the mind is the seen. In the midst of life’s unfolding dramas, awareness remains constant, unmoved. Aware presence is always present, always aware. It is the eternal seer, the unchanging substance from which all experience unfolds.
By recognizing ourselves not as a limited mind but as the illuminating presence of awareness, the mind is free to continue its dance, but we are no longer lost in its movements, anchored instead in the silence and stillness of the seer.