Understanding pointers as just pointers

A finger pointing at the moon
does not describe the moon,
it just points to the moon.

Pointers to "what's looking", pointers to awareness,
may not describe or explain awareness,
they just point to awareness,
as an invitation to turn your attention
to the direction of awareness itself,
to induce awareness of awareness.
"Be aware of being aware. That is all."

If we don't understand what we are looking at,
we can still look at it, can't we?
Maybe the understanding of what it is
will somehow come to us, or maybe the
understanding of the subject will never come.
Maybe the subject is impossible to understand,
beyond understanding. 

Is it possible for anything real
to be inherently beyond understanding?
Would that ever be 'okay'?  Or acceptable?
I don't know.

Maybe there is special value in being aware of awareness,
resting in that, not knowing 'what' it is,
or how or why it is, yet it undeniably is.
And furthermore it intuitively feels that it is itself 
essentially what we are, our innermost being.

It is astonishing.