There's Nowhere Outside Awareness

Feel yourself as the space-like presence of awareness. Be aware of your next thought. Where did it come from? The outside? Or did it arise within awareness? For anything to arise from without, there would have to be a place outside awareness. But if thought arises within luminous awareness, there’s nothing thought could be made of other than awareness. Imagine you are a newborn having your very first experience. No past or knowledge of a body to refer to, just raw sensation, which you’ll later conceptualise as a body. Does this sensation have a shape? An age? A gender? Is it located within or outside awareness? There’s nowhere outside awareness in which the sensation could arise. The very substance of our experience of the body is awareness. There is nothing other than awareness. Just see over the course of the day the effect this understanding has on mind and body, activities and relationships.