The understanding of consciousness and awareness is not an expert affair at all. The expert's knowledge is founded on all of what has been discovered in the past. What we can genuinely discover for ourselves, by ourselves, is not dependent on knowledge. When I think I have to ask an expert, or get guidance, it is because I am following a line of knowledge, and this leads to what is already known, and the known is not consciousness and awareness. If I truly don't know, that is all the understanding necessary to discover the nature of consciousness and awareness.
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Essentially I am talking about a contemplation, a meditation, but it is not a formal, practiced, meditation, and neither it is an informal, preferential, meditation. It is meditation whereby there is no time, no space, no separation between a practitioner and a result. It is the immediacy of all the senses, all the activity, with no effort, and no desire.