The Nature of Awareness

Our essential nature, which is aware of the content of our experience, is nature is peace and happiness. It does not need to be made such through practice or effort or discipline. But until it either dawns on us spontaneously or until the friend points it out to us, we tend to overlook it in just the same way that we overlook the screen behind the movie or the space of the room. Well, awareness is like that. It is even more obvious than the space. And yet, and then when somebody points it out, we say, oh, yes, of course, how could I possibly have overlooked the simple fact that I am aware?