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I suggest that you (choose to) become aware of awareness (notice you are aware) and stay with that, long enough to ‘get’ the absolute strangeness of it.
The immeasurable mystery of it.
(And, if you want) all the while asking your question -
- which has never been answered conceptually, and never will. Find out that thought cannot capture it.
You may find it’s exactly the same as asking “Why do I exist at all instead of nothing?”
If you allow your attention rest on awareness itself, stillness may be there, and if stillness is, then the question may dissolve in the stillness, along with the sense of ‘I am observing awareness’.
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Here are concise points capturing the main ideas in that passage:
The existence of awareness is presented as a profound mystery rather than a problem that can be solved intellectually.
Instead of analyzing awareness, one is invited to directly notice the fact of being aware.
Sustained attention to awareness itself may reveal its "strangeness" or inexplicable nature.
The question "Why does awareness exist at all instead of nothing?" is suggested to be equivalent to "Why do I exist at all instead of nothing?"
The passage argues that conceptual thought cannot ultimately answer such questions.
Attempting to understand awareness through thinking may reveal the limits of thought itself.
Resting attention on awareness rather than on thoughts about awareness may bring a sense of stillness.
In that stillness, the question may lose its urgency or dissolve rather than receive a conceptual answer.
The distinction between an observer ("I") and awareness itself may begin to fade.
The overall perspective is experiential and contemplative rather than scientific or philosophical in the analytical sense.
A central theme is that some questions may not be resolved by explanation but by a direct experience that changes one's relationship to the question. 🌻
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