Often, we want to be aware so that we can then expand and grow. We assume that awareness allows us to know things in great depth and that knowledge will allow us to know things in a better manner. This eventually, we assume, will allow us to grow. Well, it may appear so, but is that true? If we understand that there is a distinction between knowing and awareness, then perhaps we can comprehend the fallacy in our assumption.
Our assumption (and our ulterior motive) being to grow. It comes from an innate instinct of becoming boundless. But, in a materialistic world we get confused and assume that continually growing, we’ll become boundless. But boundless is something that cannot be bound. The paradox is we’re trying to bind our knowledge by gathering assuming that this is awareness. On contrary, awareness is not about knowing. Awareness is simply about being aware. Awareness is a possibility to realisation – a realisation of the nature of our being.
I am floored by your understanding of awareness.
Its taken me 40 years and a lot of false starts to get to a small glimpse of what you are alluding to.
And it also took me a lot of listening to / trying to understand what at first seemed to be rather abstract and not at all related to reality words of some very deep teachers of this insight into awareness. Thankfully it all seems much more concrete now. I think its the experience of it that is required ... words can only point to it, I guess.
Some call it "Is-ness", some "Beingness".
For whimsical personal reasons ... I like to call it muchness (like in Alice in Wonderland…