Consciousness reveals itself in individual forms and gives them apparent existence. In human beings, due to such manifestation, the concept of a separate “I” arises. In each individual, the Absolute finds reflection in the form of awareness—so pure Awareness becomes self-awareness, or consciousness.
What exactly should I do?
M: Do? Do? Absolutely nothing. Just regard the transient as transient, the unreal as unreal, the false as false, and you will attain awareness of your true nature.
Please understand that you are not an individual, a “person.” The person as you imagine them is merely a product of imagination, while the self is the victim of this illusion. A person cannot exist by right; it is the self—consciousness—that mistakenly thinks a person exists and that it is what they are. Change your viewpoint. Don’t regard the world as something external to you. Regard the person you imagine yourself to be as part of the world—truly a world of dreams—which you perceive as a visible manifestation in your consciousness—and look at all of it as a show from the outside.
Remember: you are not the mind, which is nothing other than the content of consciousness. As long as you identify yourself with the body-mind, you are subject to suffering and sorrow. Beyond the mind there is only being—nonexistence in the form of father or son, that or this.