PREMISE PAPER
Foundations and Applications of
Present² Awareness (P²A)©
From the time we are born, we are subject to Conditioning. Conditioning, typically, is: (1) being encouraged and expected to behave as an Identity; (2) being encouraged to be separate, independent, and self-sufficient from the need for care of the parent, community, or state; (3) being encouraged and expected to live in Agreement with others mostly; and (4) being an Identity and in various states of Agreement as our only means of surviving and relating to others and to ourselves in the world. Conditioning is readily apparent when we review our direct experience of being reared, raised, educated, civilized, and indoctrinated into the world.
Conditioning is the origin of Suffering in living. Conditioning is the origin of Suffering because Wanting (desire; resistance; avoidance of discomfort) is the cause of all Suffering; and all states of Wanting are by-products of Conditioning. Conditioning is, both, the act of being Conditioned, and is also the set of beliefs, points-of-view, opinions, judgments, positions, stories, dramas, attitudes, personality that are the set of forms that constitute our Identity. So, Conditioning is both a force of human existence and is at once also presentation of various aspects of human existence when human existence is limited to Identity.
Similarly, Awareness effortlessly is and is also a presentation of being human in the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be (of which we could not yet be privy).
Awareness, as we will come to know Awareness together in this conversation, is the polar dimension to Experience. Experience is the way we live as an expression of Conditioning. Thusly, Awareness is the only resolution to Suffering. (I have not claimed that Awareness eliminates Suffering or cures Conditioning. Yet, if Suffering is a presentation of Conditioning in living Experience, then Awareness is a treatment for the presentation of Conditioning in living Experience.)
Without Awareness, I do not see reality as it is—I see reality as a projection of my Identity bound up in Experience.
Now, I am not creating here that the presentation of Conditioning in Experience is somehow wrong, and Awareness is somehow righteous. There is nothing wrong with Conditioning. Conditioning just is. Conditioning has consequences. Those consequences may lead to the end of humanity because many attributes of Conditioning correlate with behaviors of human beings that lead to the utility, expense, and death of each other and of the living planet that we inhabit. Though I will say here that I am not out to champion the cause of doing away with Conditioning in order to save the planet or to save humanity from itself. I don’t suppose to know or be invested in whether there is a master plan or destiny for humankind. I don’t suppose to know if humanity is capable of saving the planet from our expense of it. I don’t suppose to know if humans are the last or best hope for the perpetuation of life on our planet.
In the realm of opinion, I will conjecture here that Conditioning is apparently the first chapter of the story of human Consciousness. Conditioning is an opportunity for humanity to know itself as conditioned. We can then make of Conditioning what we will. We can engage our Conditioning with will from being ourselves as Awareness to complete the polarity of Conditioning-Awareness.
Polarity is a law of human Consciousness. (Human Consciousness is access to perception within Experience and Awareness.) Also, as far as we know so far, Polarity is also a law of the physical world as well. Polarity simply holds that for any thought or force that is held, then the counter-thought or counter-force is created as effect. Push creates counter-push. Pull creates counter-pull. Right creates wrong. Wrong creates right. In creates out. Out creates in. Dark creates light. Birth inevitably results in death. Death inevitably underscores initiation of birth.
To be Complete (or to have parity between polarities) in human Consciousness is the state of holding both sides of a polarity as real (or valuable) or is holding both sides of a polarity as unreal (or antithetical). Rather than holding only one side of a polarity as real or valuable.
By example, I point to the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful… Most every one of us who are not living at the level of the polarity of Survive-or-Die, live the polarity of “to be successful” or “to be unsuccessful.” Moreover, we live the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful within a game. The game in which most of us live the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful is a Finite game, a game with a beginning, an end, boundaries, winners, losers, rewards, penalties, costs, expense of resources, rules, and various other aspects of gaming in finite terms.
To be Complete with the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful, I choose to hold both sides of the polarity as real or unreal in an instant. When I choose to hold Successful-Unsuccessful at the same time as real, I identify those measurements at which I am successful and those at which I am not successful now in a finite game. I am Complete, or perhaps balanced, regarding success. Most often, I choose to hold both sides of Successful-Unsuccessful as unreal. When I choose to hold Successful-Unsuccessful as unreal, I am choosing to play an Infinite game, a game the purpose of which is to continue the play indefinitely, a game without a beginning, an end, boundaries, winners, losers, rewards, penalties, costs, expense of resources, rules, and various other aspects of gaming in finite terms.
In an Infinite game for being human potential, a polarity I hold is: Every living entity has a potential to fulfill (or not to fulfill). I also hold: To live to human potential (or not) is to be Awareness (or not).
Being Awareness, I am a corollary of reality. When I am truly of reality, I am Life – complete, not wrong, and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be (about which we cannot know yet).
When Have “You” Arrived?
Awareness effortlessly is and is also a presentation of being human in the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
In the realm of opinion, I will conjecture here that Conditioning is apparently the first chapter of the story of human Consciousness. Conditioning happens in Experience as an opportunity for humanity to know itself as conditioned. We can then make of Conditioning what we will. We can engage our Conditioned Experience with the will of Awareness to complete the polarity of Experience-Awareness.
“You” are here when you are Awareness now. Awareness happens effortlessly, realized by an act of attention of Consciousness as Choice, of Identity as Conditioning, and of Experience as secondary in importance and power to Awareness.
Who “You” Really Are
You are Life – complete, not wrong and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
Where is the Power?
Awareness is the only resolution to Suffering. Not cure. Just resolution.
What’s the Point? and
What You Really Want
Every living entity has a potential to fulfill. To live to human potential is to be Awareness. Being Awareness, I am Life – complete, not wrong and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
Living Life with Value, Purpose and Spirituality
Value is an aspect of judgment which is a presentation of your Identity. If you pursue value or seek “to be about your values,” you will always be creating the polar state of no-value or “not being about your values.” You will be in your experience of living as good or bad.
True Purpose is being Life as Choice. Choose an intention. Live the intention as reality without pretense, stories, or drama.
Be Purpose-full.
Spirituality is Life Knowing itself as it really is. Said another way, Spirituality is being Awareness where Awareness reveals Life as complete, not wrong and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
Be Awareness (aware of Consciousness as Choice and of Identity as Conditioning) where Awareness reveals Life. Reveal Life.
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All rights reserved by Greg L. Kilgore 2005. “Present² Awareness” and “P²A” and “Practice of Present² Awareness” are servicemarks of Greg L. Kilgore.
Conditioning is the origin of Suffering in living. Conditioning is the origin of Suffering because Wanting (desire; resistance; avoidance of discomfort) is the cause of all Suffering; and all states of Wanting are by-products of Conditioning. Conditioning is, both, the act of being Conditioned, and is also the set of beliefs, points-of-view, opinions, judgments, positions, stories, dramas, attitudes, personality that are the set of forms that constitute our Identity. So, Conditioning is both a force of human existence and is at once also presentation of various aspects of human existence when human existence is limited to Identity.
Similarly, Awareness effortlessly is and is also a presentation of being human in the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be (of which we could not yet be privy).
Awareness, as we will come to know Awareness together in this conversation, is the polar dimension to Experience. Experience is the way we live as an expression of Conditioning. Thusly, Awareness is the only resolution to Suffering. (I have not claimed that Awareness eliminates Suffering or cures Conditioning. Yet, if Suffering is a presentation of Conditioning in living Experience, then Awareness is a treatment for the presentation of Conditioning in living Experience.)
Without Awareness, I do not see reality as it is—I see reality as a projection of my Identity bound up in Experience.
Now, I am not creating here that the presentation of Conditioning in Experience is somehow wrong, and Awareness is somehow righteous. There is nothing wrong with Conditioning. Conditioning just is. Conditioning has consequences. Those consequences may lead to the end of humanity because many attributes of Conditioning correlate with behaviors of human beings that lead to the utility, expense, and death of each other and of the living planet that we inhabit. Though I will say here that I am not out to champion the cause of doing away with Conditioning in order to save the planet or to save humanity from itself. I don’t suppose to know or be invested in whether there is a master plan or destiny for humankind. I don’t suppose to know if humanity is capable of saving the planet from our expense of it. I don’t suppose to know if humans are the last or best hope for the perpetuation of life on our planet.
In the realm of opinion, I will conjecture here that Conditioning is apparently the first chapter of the story of human Consciousness. Conditioning is an opportunity for humanity to know itself as conditioned. We can then make of Conditioning what we will. We can engage our Conditioning with will from being ourselves as Awareness to complete the polarity of Conditioning-Awareness.
Polarity is a law of human Consciousness. (Human Consciousness is access to perception within Experience and Awareness.) Also, as far as we know so far, Polarity is also a law of the physical world as well. Polarity simply holds that for any thought or force that is held, then the counter-thought or counter-force is created as effect. Push creates counter-push. Pull creates counter-pull. Right creates wrong. Wrong creates right. In creates out. Out creates in. Dark creates light. Birth inevitably results in death. Death inevitably underscores initiation of birth.
To be Complete (or to have parity between polarities) in human Consciousness is the state of holding both sides of a polarity as real (or valuable) or is holding both sides of a polarity as unreal (or antithetical). Rather than holding only one side of a polarity as real or valuable.
By example, I point to the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful… Most every one of us who are not living at the level of the polarity of Survive-or-Die, live the polarity of “to be successful” or “to be unsuccessful.” Moreover, we live the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful within a game. The game in which most of us live the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful is a Finite game, a game with a beginning, an end, boundaries, winners, losers, rewards, penalties, costs, expense of resources, rules, and various other aspects of gaming in finite terms.
To be Complete with the polarity of Successful-Unsuccessful, I choose to hold both sides of the polarity as real or unreal in an instant. When I choose to hold Successful-Unsuccessful at the same time as real, I identify those measurements at which I am successful and those at which I am not successful now in a finite game. I am Complete, or perhaps balanced, regarding success. Most often, I choose to hold both sides of Successful-Unsuccessful as unreal. When I choose to hold Successful-Unsuccessful as unreal, I am choosing to play an Infinite game, a game the purpose of which is to continue the play indefinitely, a game without a beginning, an end, boundaries, winners, losers, rewards, penalties, costs, expense of resources, rules, and various other aspects of gaming in finite terms.
In an Infinite game for being human potential, a polarity I hold is: Every living entity has a potential to fulfill (or not to fulfill). I also hold: To live to human potential (or not) is to be Awareness (or not).
Being Awareness, I am a corollary of reality. When I am truly of reality, I am Life – complete, not wrong, and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be (about which we cannot know yet).
When Have “You” Arrived?
Awareness effortlessly is and is also a presentation of being human in the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
In the realm of opinion, I will conjecture here that Conditioning is apparently the first chapter of the story of human Consciousness. Conditioning happens in Experience as an opportunity for humanity to know itself as conditioned. We can then make of Conditioning what we will. We can engage our Conditioned Experience with the will of Awareness to complete the polarity of Experience-Awareness.
“You” are here when you are Awareness now. Awareness happens effortlessly, realized by an act of attention of Consciousness as Choice, of Identity as Conditioning, and of Experience as secondary in importance and power to Awareness.
Who “You” Really Are
You are Life – complete, not wrong and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
Where is the Power?
Awareness is the only resolution to Suffering. Not cure. Just resolution.
What’s the Point? and
What You Really Want
Every living entity has a potential to fulfill. To live to human potential is to be Awareness. Being Awareness, I am Life – complete, not wrong and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
Living Life with Value, Purpose and Spirituality
Value is an aspect of judgment which is a presentation of your Identity. If you pursue value or seek “to be about your values,” you will always be creating the polar state of no-value or “not being about your values.” You will be in your experience of living as good or bad.
True Purpose is being Life as Choice. Choose an intention. Live the intention as reality without pretense, stories, or drama.
Be Purpose-full.
Spirituality is Life Knowing itself as it really is. Said another way, Spirituality is being Awareness where Awareness reveals Life as complete, not wrong and not in need of rightness, living to unjustified potential, absent of needless suffering, free of need to be identified, free of need to be differentiated from others – Peace – of the Universal Sameness that every human being has ever been, is, and will forever be. Forever, unless there is a state beyond Universal Sameness which has yet to be.
Be Awareness (aware of Consciousness as Choice and of Identity as Conditioning) where Awareness reveals Life. Reveal Life.
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All rights reserved by Greg L. Kilgore 2005. “Present² Awareness” and “P²A” and “Practice of Present² Awareness” are servicemarks of Greg L. Kilgore.
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