Pre-Discursive Awareness Explained: Unlock Inner Peace and Clarity

Pre-discursive awareness.

What is that?

I first came across this about a dozen years ago when reading a thousand-year-old tantric text called the Recognition Sutra. It's a Kashmir Shaivist text, translated by Christopher Wallis.

Pre-discursive awareness.

Let's break that down. Before discursive awareness, in other words, that awareness that exists before we start to attach names or labels to things. So I look at an object and I just see what I see. I don't try to categorize it or place it in a pre-existing box. It is simply pure awareness.

Why is this a meaningful concept? Why is this important?

According to the Recognition Sutra, pre-discursive awareness is that way of being or that dimension of ourselves that is pure, clear, and unfettered by the content of our experience. And if we can rest in that pre-discursive awareness, we can tap into our own authentic self, our own true self, that self which is unsullied by the content of the experience of our lives. And therein lies peace, love, and happiness. Now, of course, resting in that prediscursive awareness doesn't just necessarily happen. It doesn't roll off a truck rolling down the street. It requires a particular kind of meditation for most people in order to achieve that with any regularity.

So hit me up if you know anything about this or if you're curious to learn more about this. Shoot me a note. Leave me a comment. Prediscursive awareness. What would it be to rest, even for just part of the day, in that crystalline, clear self-awareness? Have a great day.

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