Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)Total awareness is the ability to see everything from every possible perspective in every moment. It is not merely adopting a balanced position between two opposing perspectives, but to be capable of seeing both simultaneously. It is to be able to raise oneself up to the perspective of a god and to lower oneself to the perspective of a grain of sand. It is to be able to see not only from these extremes but also from every point along the continuum between them.
The complete perspective granted by such an awareness encompasses all possible subjectivities of all possible entities. It is from this paradoxical position that all that appears permanent is also impermanent and all that appears separate and distinct is also a continuous part of the whole. It is from here that it is possible to see all particulars and thus also to be completely free of them. This is the freedom of emptiness, which is also liberation from attachment.
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