If you relax and allow this experience of unfixed knowing, you will discover what Buddhist writers call the clear open sky of awareness. It is empty like space, but unlike space it is sentient; it knows experience. In its true state, consciousness is simply this knowing—clear, open, awake, without color or form, containing all things, yet not limit

Mind in the West is commonly equated with thoughts themselves, but in Buddhist contemplative science it is that spacious awareness in which thoughts arise, capable of reflecting on itself (meta-cognitive awareness) and recognizing the true nature of things (meta-cognitive insight).

In my experience, going directly into the immediate embodied experience of our fear turns out to be a much faster, more direct way to dissolve neurotic organization than addressing the historic issues that gave rise to that organization in the first place.