Bentinho Massaro - from "Insights Into Awareness"

You are not in the World, the World appears in You

All appearances together is what we may call the world, or sometimes it is 

called Maya. It is much like a dream-world which simply appears/exists 

within mind/consciousness. 

There cannot truly be proven to be a world 'out there' that's separate from 

awareness. „Separate from Awareness‟ means that it exists as something 

other than pure perception; as an individual object, an autonomous 

reality.

Even if we could find solid indications of there being an actual world out 

there, separate from awareness, then where would that perception/proof 

occur? By what is it known? That very piece of evidence and the process 

of investigation, all appears within awareness.

Can we prove something, can we state something is here, when we are 

not aware of that perception?

As an analogy, Einstein once suggested: "Does the moon really exist if we 

are not looking at it?"

The entire world exists within awareness. Like a dream, it exists within the 

mind alone and is never separate from mind. Dream = Mind, World = 

Awareness. There is no dream that does not consist of mind. There is no 

dream that exists of some individual substance or power/nature. All 

appearances within a dream, no matter how real they look and feel to the 

sensory perceptions, consists of Mind/Awareness and appear in 

Mind/Awareness alone. 

So too does the „biggest‟ appearance of all: The world in its totality, the 

universe, appear within awareness. In this sense we can use the proverb 

that says: "You are not within the world, the world is within you."

We can try to pick apart our thoughts and emotions for an eternity as if 

they are objects perceived by a perceiver, and not ever realize awareness 

fully.

We have to start seeing that all appearances exist as one single 

appearance/perception and that all 'individual aspects' are nothing more 

than one, total, pure perception within awareness. 

Only if we start to recognize that awareness is free from, yet fully 

pervades/permeates the appearances as a whole at all times, will we truly 

make a shift in experiential consciousness, which starts to recognize the 

natural presence of what's never touched by any appearance yet in which

all appearances exist as.

free awareness