TWO REALMS, ONE REALITY: THE SELF

In our experience there are two realms or dimensions of experience, phenomena and awareness.  A phenomenon is anything that appears in awareness.  It may be stuff of the material world, mind stuff or emotion.  Nevertheless it is all phenomena, appearances within the realm of conscious awareness.  The second realm or dimension is awareness itself.  I am awareness essentially.  Of course I am also of the nature of the stuff of the phenomenal dimension but only insofar as it appears as a function of awareness.  When I show up as awareness, then the world appears.  We may assume or believe that the world is there no matter what, that is, whether awareness or consciousness is present or not.  But that the world is there may be a given.  What the world is depends upon awareness. My awareness is also the phenomenal and therefore Reality itSelf. In that fact it follows that I am that Real and that the unity of the two realms is the Self.  Therefore rest and abide in the pure awareness of  one's true Self.