The Great Perfection of Being a Human Being: The Direct Knowing of Being and the Metabolization of Experience

In this paper we have phenomenologically explored the profoundly human experience of awakening to Being. We have explicitly explored the phenomenology of Direct Perception of Being and we have phenomenologically elaborated the Metabolization of Experience and the Power of the Transmission of the Field of Awareness which is the Field of Being. We have also elaborated the Traces of Metabolized Experience that are the energetic radiant field of luminous Being that continues life after life and death


Introduction
Rongzom Zangpo, the brilliant Dzogchen Master of the 11th century CE Tibet taught that All Human Beings are the profound field of awakening. In the language of phenomenology, this means that all Human Beings are the profound field of Being. All Human beings are manifestations of the field of Being as the field of Being in singular expression. I am and you are, a manifestation of the field of Being as the field of Being in our own form of singularity.
In this phenomenology of immanence, the manifestation and the manifesting are ontologically of the same Being. The Great Dzogchen invocation declares "May I realize that all phenomena are the Dharmakaya." This invocation in phenomenological language means "May I realize that all phenomena are the self-manifestation of Pure Being. All Phenomena are Pure Being". This is an explicit declaration of philosophical immanence (Rongzom, 1017).

The Meaning of Awakening
Rongzom Zangpo taught that Awakening means our direct knowing of Being. Awakening is our non-conceptual experiencing of the ontological openness of our awareness. Awakening means our direct knowing of our non-conceptual experience of the radiant illumination of the Being of our awareness. And our Awakening, furthermore means our direct nonconceptual knowing experience of the continuous unfolding of the "Presence of Being." Awakening is our direct knowing experience of Being and is not a mere belief about Being or a thought about Being.
As Cardinal John Henry Newman describes in his great text 'An Essay on The Grammar of Ascent,' belief is an intellectual ascent to ideation. Belief is a function of our mind. Belief is an intellectual experience (Newman, 1903).
Awakening is a direct non conceptual experiential knowing of Being, an unthought known to be thought in time. Thought itself is not the mental ideation about a belief. True thought reflects the direct experiential knowing of the Being of Phenomena and our direct experiential knowing of the Phenomena of Being. Our direct knowing of the Being of phenomena reflects the union and integration of our mind within our field of our Being. Ideation is mind alone knowing. Thought is the knowing that reflects union of our mind knowing phenomena and our awareness knowing the Being of the phenomena.

Direct Knowing of Being
Awakening is the opening of our Being's perception of Being.
Awakening is the experiential opening of our direct knowingness of Being.
Our Awareness knows Being and the Being of beings. Awakening is the awakening of our awareness of the field of Being within us, and the field of Being pervading us, and surrounding us. Our deepest and truest awakening is the unfolding experiencing that we are the field of Being which is infinite in its horizons, vast and multidimensional.
In becoming aware of our own innate innermost field of awareness, we experience Being that is manifesting within us and around us. Being is always manifesting beings. Being is always manifesting the Being of beings. True awakening is simply the lively experiencing of field of Being which is always present in its manifestation and manifesting. The manifestation and manifesting of Being as beings, is both experiential and ontological oneness. This oneness is the sameness of Being in all the beings and as all beings. This is the experience of Una Voce that Dun  (Bauer, 2020).
In the Dzogchen Tibetan tradition Dudjom Lingpa elaborated that there is the same oneness and same Purity of the Being in all human beings.
As the Dakini said to Dudjom Lingpa "You and I are indivisible" (Lingpa, 2015 This knowing is non conceptual and is a direct pre-reflective knowing.
This is the natural way of seeing what is.
Knowing the field of Being as human beings is natural mysticism.
Human Being-ness is awakened, and human beings are the field of Being.
They are the field of Being's direct knowingness. Our Direct open knowing is our own Being knowing the field of Being. Our mind knows form and our awareness knows Being. Awareness is our Being knowing Being. Our Mind is ontic and our awareness is ontological. Human beings are ontic ontological beings. Our sense of self is an ontic ontological sense of self.
Our sense of self is our sense of embodied Beingness (Bauer, 2019). do not the experience the actuality of Being which manifests them, and is manifesting the world within which they live. The rationalistic mind devalues direct knowing. The person who is located only in their rationalistic mind, dissociates themselves from the primordial field of direct knowing. This is the most basic dissociation of human beings, the dissociation of their mind from their immediate direct awareness of Being. This is the loss of their ground of Being-ness. Their sense of self becomes their mind alone.

Phenomenological philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty and Martin
Heidegger and existential psychoanalysts such as Rollo May, Donald Winnicott, Menard Boss, Michael Eigen, and Henry Elkin experientially describe that we are ontic ontological Beings. We are ontic as mind and body, and we are ontological as Being as embodied Being. Our sense of self is our sense of our embodied Being (Trigg, 2016).
Rongzom Zangpo describes how all the places of our experience, all the locations of our experience are the spaces of our experience and within these spaces of experience, the naturally manifestation of self-appearing gnosis takes place. Self-appearing gnosis is the direct perception of Being and the perception of the Being of Phenomenological forms. Our experience contains the sixth senses. The senses are perceptual fields of human beings within the field of primordial awareness, primordial knowingness.
The field of awareness is the field of direct knowing, the field of Gnosis.
Gnosis or Jnana or Direct Perception is the naturally occurring field of direct knowing which contain and holds the human's sense fields, and the sense fields of the embodied mind and body. The field of direct

Intertwined Union of Mind and Awareness Field
This intertwined union of mind and awareness allows the One Knower to know the Non-Duality of Being within the Duality of beings, and to know the Duality of beings within the Non-Duality of Being. This is the natural path of self-liberation. The experience of the Non-Duality of Being within the Duality of beings and the Duality of beings within the Non-Duality of Being is the path of Immanence. This is not the path of Transcendence. This is the self-liberating experience of oneness within difference and difference within oneness. As the Dakini said to Dudjom Lingpa "You and I are indivisible".
Our field of awareness both supports and can permeate the field of our We can become directly aware of the field of Being by becoming directly aware of our field of awareness. Our awareness is our field of Being move further and be in the field of Being and the field of Being surrounds us and permeates us. We are not only holding the field of awareness, we are in the field of awareness. The field of awareness surrounds us. The field of Being is infinite in its horizons, vast, and multidimensional.
Nonetheless, we can still move even deeper and further and we become the field of Being. We become what we are. We are the field of Being. We are the innate field of primordial awareness. We become the great expanse.

Ongoing Continuity of Being
The power and actuality of the field of Being becomes our own ongoing continuity of the experience of Being. This ongoing continuity of Being continues throughout life, and naturally continues life after life and death after death. Our own Being within the Sea of Being is described in Dzogchen as Being unborn and undying. Being is our formless awareness. Our experience of formless awareness is the nature of our experience of Being.

A Phenomenological Meditation
In the phenomenological meditation of Becoming aware of awareness and in becoming aware of awareness, we come to know the Being-ness of our own Being. And through the cumulative use of this phenomenological meditation we more deeply and completely embody the Being-ness of our Being. This form of Phenomenological Meditation is a process of the experiential unfolding of the embodiment of awareness that is our becoming embodied Being. Our Meditative absorption of awareness, -by becoming aware of awareness-is naturally occurring gnosis, is the naturally occurring direct knowing of Being. This direct knowing of After establishing our self in awareness of awareness, and in our direct knowing of Being, we then integrate our mind and the functions of our mind into this field of awareness, into this field of Being. Then as the One Knower whose mind knows the form of phenomena, and whose awareness knows Being, then we as the One knower -whose mind and awareness are now integrated-, can know the Being of phenomena and the phenomena of Being. We can know naturally the Non-Duality of Being within the Duality of beings and we can know the Duality of beings within the Non-Duality of Being. This is the path of natural selfliberation. Being manifest beings by self-manifesting Being existing within beings as Being. The Dharmakaya is the power of self-manifestation. The Dharmakaya is the cosmological power of compassion.

Luminous Nature
Ordinary conscious awareness is luminous by nature. Naturally arising gnosis is the nature of Being. Naturally arising gnosis or jnana is the direct knowing of Being. You can know gnosis and yet not be able to language gnosis. You can know gnosis and yet not think or conceptualize gnosis. Knowing gnosis is a non-conceptual knowing, an unthought Rongzom describes how all phenomena are seen to be manifestations of Being within the single vast sphere of Bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the nature of awareness, as compassion, and compassion is the primordial self-manifestation of luminous Being-ness within our self and others.
Bodhicitta is the experience of awareness within our self and others as Pure Being, as the manifestation of Pure Being.

Transmission and Manifestation
In our manifestation of Bodhicitta we have the power to transmit and manifest our experiencing of luminous Being into other human beings.
We can transmit and manifest compassion into the world, we can transmit Pure Being into the world. We can transmit the Pure field of Primordial Awareness is the power of manifestation.

Luminous Energy
The awakening of awareness is an awakening of the energy of Being, the 'phusis' of Being. Phusis is a Greek word meaning emergent Being. Gestalt approach to the metabolization of experience is foundational and the essence of gestalt psychotherapy (Bauer, 1976). The metabolized experience is transmuted and the metabolized experience becomes the embodied field of lucid and luminous Being.

Existential psychoanalysis such as Winnicott, Masud Khan, Austin
Deslaurier, Michael Eigen, Henry Elkin, also emphasize the power of the metabolization of experience in order to have authentic experience of embodied self -Being-to unfold and to be sustained through time (Winnicott, 1971).
The awareness field metabolizes bliss and metabolizes love, and

The Metabolization Process and The Traces of Experience
The metabolization process of the embodied awareness field is much more powerful than our minds capacity to metabolize experience and to metabolize the experience of events and circumstance. Our embodied field of awareness metabolizes the experience of thoughts, sensations, memory, fantasy and the immediate experience of circumstances and events. This metabolization of experience is a source of self -liberation. All metabolized experience becomes the experiential field of Being. This is an important understanding and yet not easy to understand. All metabolized experience becomes the experiential field of Being. In the metabolization of experience, all experience becomes integrated within the field of Being as the field of Being. All experience becomes assimilated into the field of awareness which is the field of Being. The "form" Being. This absence of presence is an absence of our embodied self as the sense of our embodied Being. Without the base of Being, ontological metabolization does not take place. Without ontological metabolization, the subtle dimensions of our radiant field of Being will not become experientially apparent and translucent.
Awareness is a field of direct knowingness, a field of energy, a field of spaciousness, a field of light and a field of the direct self-illumination of Our embodiment of Being brings forth the experience of the indestructibleness of our ontological Being-ness.