By STEVE MUTUA.
IF you are aware of your cancer, the cancer will not be cured by just being aware of it – that is true.
But as far as psychological unrealities are concerned, the moment you are aware of them they disappear – because they do not exist as realities, they exist only as illusions.
You have seen a ghost standing in the dark: now you bring light, and you say there is nobody. Just the shape of the tree was giving you the false impression that somebody was standing there.
The ghost has disappeared, because in the first place the ghost was not there.
Awareness helps, brings transformation, because the illusions that you are suffering from are not realities. If you become aware of a rock, the rock is not going to disappear.
But if you become aware of the ego, the ego is going to disappear, because the ego is not a reality.
If you become aware, fear is going to disappear, because fear is not a reality. If you become aware, death is going to disappear, because death is a lie, it is not a reality.
Awareness functions in two ways. One: if something is real and you become aware of it, it becomes tremendously beautiful, it becomes psychedelic, it becomes very colorful.
If it is unreal, it disappears. If it is real, it becomes more real; if it is unreal, it becomes absolutely unreal.
Awareness is a light. If you bring light into the dark room, darkness will disappear, but the paintings on the wall will appear.
When the room was dark, the paintings were not there; although they were there, you could not have seen them – for you they were not there and darkness was there.
When you bring light, darkness is there no more and the paintings have appeared.