A:  Yes, "I AM the awareness" is still identifying with something.  You said it - there IS awareness.  Awareness of thought, body, whatever...  awareness IS.  That's the unchanging factor or ground of any experience.

What you're missing is that, for your statement to be true, that awareness IS - awareness of thought, awareness of body - that means thought and body are objects.  Objects appearing TO YOU.  To awareness. 

Anything that is an object by definition must appear in awareness (or anything appearing in awareness must by definition be an object).

If you appeared, there would have to be another "you", another Self, to be aware of that object. 

So YOU do not appear.  You are the invisible subjectivity in which all objects (body, mind and world) appear.  Isn't this the case in direct experience?  Isn't this pure subjectivity what we really mean by "I"?  This open space, this pure activity of knowing?

Doesn't this describe perfectly THAT which we "call" awareness?

So awareness is like the mirror, reflecting the world, body and mind.  Ever-present, never changing.  Pure experiencing itself.  Like a presence - knowing itself.

The "I AM" is the identification in beliefs - identifying with something as a separate "thing" - object - body-mind or awareness.  Awareness precedes the "one" who could identify.


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randall

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