Transformational understanding!

Q: ... but can you speak a little bit more about
how we move from the intellectual understanding
to the kind of lived experience or recognition?

A:  The intellectual understanding, of course, is important.
The understanding
about truth,
about reality,
about one reality,
about the reality of consciousness. 

The understanding that
I am not that which appears.
I am the awareness, the consciousness.
I am not an object in time and space.

I am the eternity of being. 

These understandings are not intellectual.
These understandings are transformational. 

You cannot think that you are not an entity which appears to you, and that rather you are the awareness which perceives the body mind form, which perceives the world.

 You cannot think that, you cannot adopt that as an belief and get any understanding.

If it's a belief, it's not an understanding,
and there is no satisfaction in the belief. 

You will not experience the, I – I get it.
You want to experience "I get it". 

It's when there is this moment of understanding
I am does not mean I am something.
You know, this this this and this is awareness.

You know, awareness is not something you perceive.
You perceive a mountain,
you perceive a tree,
you perceive a thought,
you perceive a creative image,
you can perceive a hunger,
you perceive a sensation.
You cannot perceive that which perceives. 

You cannot perceive awareness, consciousness.
There that's an understanding!

Source: Satsang with Magdi: The nature of the Self (09/26/2024)