How Do i Really Know That i Am Awareness Itself

[SQAAD]

My question is , if Awareness is formless, how do you really know that it even exists?

It is like trying to grasp the air.

I experience sounds, thoughts, images, etc. That is valid. But then how do we go to the next step, that what is being Aware of All this, is Awareness itself.

What if just thoughts , images, etc exist with no Awareness at all?

How would we know?

Personally i have experienced that there is a Pure Formless Consciousness that is Aware of Everything and Everything is housed "inside" of it.

But in my current state , i have no access to this realization except for brief moments.

Edited April 20 by SQAAD

[Breakingthewall]

Exactly, without the object there is no consciousness, and the object is change, therefore consciousness is change. In the absence of change, consciousness is extinguished. Therefore, consciousness is an emergence from reality, not reality.

You could say that in deep states of meditation, one reaches empty consciousness, but this isn't real. In those states, there is simply an absence of thought, but one is aware of one's own existence , empty of thought. This isn't enlightenment; it's consciousness void of thought, and it's essentially the same as thought. True empty consciousness would be cessation, and it's non-consciousness.

Edited April 20 by Breakingthewall

[Leo Gura]

46 minutes ago, SQAAD said:

Personally i have experienced that there is a Pure Formless Consciousness that is Aware of Everything and Everything is housed "inside" of it.

You already know it's real. You just need to do more work to make it more palpable for you.

It's not that awareness exists. It's that existence exists. How do you know that existence exists? Here it is.

Drop the notion of awareness and replace it with existence. Pure existence. The air in your room is pure existence. It has no qualities other than empty existence.

What you're looking for it just the air in your room.

Edited April 20 by Leo Gura

[Carl-Richard]

11 hours ago, SQAAD said:

But in my current state , i have no access to this realization except for brief moments.

Keep going. Awakening is waking up from the dream, but you go back to sleep. Enlightenment is waking up and carrying it into the dream, being lucid in the dream, lucid dreaming. It's only a matter of repetition and eventually letting go of all control or agency.

Edited April 20 by Carl-Richard