Hi dev, apologies I hadn't seen your reply. Will reply tomorrow.
Tao
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Re: Dreambus Driver
One question before bed,
Is existence/experience ever subjective?
If so WHAT/WHERE is the subject?
Or is subjectivity an idea about an experiencER ?
Is existence/experience ever subjective?
If so WHAT/WHERE is the subject?
Or is subjectivity an idea about an experiencER ?
Re: Dreambus Driver
There is no 'my' DE. Where is the 'me' that experiences experience?Whoa!
You mean: whatever is not an object of consciousness does not exist i.e. it exist only in thought?
I speak to you, and then I turn away and speak to someone else -- that moment you ceased to exist?
Well, OK, you did, for me -- in my DE.
'Me', 'you' and 'someone else' are all just ideas about experience. Are there ever real existing people? Or is there just light/colour/sound/sensation?
For something to cease to exist, it would have to be there in the first place.
This is all thought story. Is there a point of awareness? Are there several awarenesses? Can you find another awareness, or just awareness?You still do exist for yourself and for someone else who might tlk with you at that time but you don't exist for my point of awareness anymore. Your existence -- when you are not with me -- is just an assumption, a thought?
'People' is an idea that shows up in awareness, so how can people be the source of awareness?
Does awareness have a source? Can u find it, or do you just find ideas that show up in awareness?
America is just an idea yes. It is not your idea, no-one 'has' the idea, it just shows up.America is just my idea? It have no existance?
Not for me, here -- sure.
Can you find America in DE?
Multiplicity is an idea that shows up in awareness.Awareness is never more or less aware. And there is nothing that awareness is unaware of.
So if it is aware of a just one thing instead of a thousand things, awareness is not less...?
Can you find a thousand things in DE?
Can you find two things in DE?
Or do you just find ideas about two things?
Is experience ever divided? Or is experience always 'whole'?
Thought says something is unknown. 'Unknown' is an idea. You are aware of that thought fully. There is no part of the thought that is unknown, and the 'unknown' that thought speaks of is imagined.Even the thought that creates an illusion of an 'unknown' is still fully known.
Could you/we elaborate on that?
You always know experience in its fullest.
Its a common belief. What would see through thought?What is it that needs to be free from focused awareness? What is it that needs openness?
How the hell did I came to the idea of "being lost in thoughts" as being less valuable than "being present"?
Do we talk about it's really irrelevant weather we are mesmerized by thought or we see through it?
You're not more aware when you are 'present'Is awareness ever limited in any way?
I guess I'm hung up on idea of being "more aware".
But I see: the ocean is not less with less waves.
Being aware of one thing exclusivelly is no better than being aware of whole room... for awareness.
Just now a certain smell evoked a memory of childhood and I wandered away from writting this.
No problem for awareness.
Am I unconscious if my awareness is in my thoughts rather than present when I drive a car?
(good recipe for quick dis-identification with anything other than awareness)
You are not unconscious if attention is in thoughts
You are fully aware of whatever is showing up.
So where is the subject in all of this?
Tao
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Re: Dreambus Driver
Hi Tao,
I will take one more day to go into your questions. I don't want to "just do them".
Thnx,
Dev
I will take one more day to go into your questions. I don't want to "just do them".
Thnx,
Dev
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Hi Tao,
Here are some of the answers.I added some thought-stream in italic.
We are just constantly and consistently repeating the subjectivity myth by using language so it became a habit.
The whole process seems to be about the depersonalization of awareness/being.
I can conceive one and the same awareness peopling, thinging and eventing around.
I could agree with the above in DE (and DE I mostly "do" in a kind of a meditative way, sitting comfortably with eyes closed), daily experience seems to contradict it, as during operative day-time I feel centered or contracted to a certain point in space, and awareness I perceive as if flowing through apertures from that point.
Kind of both worlds are being experienced.
The rest of the questions from your previous post I will answer tomorrow i hope.
Thank you for your patience and your work,
Dev
Here are some of the answers.I added some thought-stream in italic.
A default answer would be 'yes'. But in DE the subject cannot be found. Assumption is that the subject is what's doing the looking. But then again, this assumption is just an idea arising, so it is objective. Therefore subjectivity is an idea about experiencer.T: Is existence/experience ever subjective? If so, WHAT/WHERE is the subject? Or is subjectivity an idea about an experiencER?
We are just constantly and consistently repeating the subjectivity myth by using language so it became a habit.
The same as above. Even 'people' are just an idea imposed on a sensation(s). Or certain sensations are encoded as "people", "table", "spider", "cat" etc.There is no 'my' DE. Where is the 'me' that experiences experience? 'Me', 'you' and 'someone else' are all just ideas about experience. Are there ever real existing people? Or is there just light/colour/sound/sensation?
The whole process seems to be about the depersonalization of awareness/being.
A point of awareness was my term for apertures from which awareness is seemingly looking and seeing specific things; a viewpoint. How we could call that?T: This is all thought story. Is there a point of awareness?
T: Are there several awarenesses?
I can conceive one and the same awareness peopling, thinging and eventing around.
As above, only conceptually. In DE "it" would be nothing, no thing.T: Can you find another awareness, or just awareness?
Those questions are about disregarding or bypassing the whole human interpretational software.T: 'People' is an idea that shows up in awareness, so how can people be the source of awareness? Does awareness have a source? Can u find it, or do you just find ideas that show up in awareness?
I could agree with the above in DE (and DE I mostly "do" in a kind of a meditative way, sitting comfortably with eyes closed), daily experience seems to contradict it, as during operative day-time I feel centered or contracted to a certain point in space, and awareness I perceive as if flowing through apertures from that point.
Kind of both worlds are being experienced.
The rest of the questions from your previous post I will answer tomorrow i hope.
Thank you for your patience and your work,
Dev
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Re: Dreambus Driver
A sequel to my previous post:
Whatever comes up in DE comes as light/colour/sound/smell/taste/sensation, with a thought labeling it as some thing, individual or generic. Thousand things or two things -- a man or a crowd, a "thing" or "a collection of things"... to see "a tree" or to see "a forest" -- both are just interpretations or labels attached on what's perceived (light/colour/sound/smell/taste/sensation).
I guess I learned some fancy ideas about "pure awareness" i.e. awareness not immersed in thoughts. But those are all just ideas too.
A thought-stream:
It seems that there is a lot of fuss about mind being "a barrier to recognition of one's true nature". This "issue" somehow keeps the focus "out there, on mind" while the thing (or, technically, no-thing) called awareness/consciousness/being/whatever-the-name that is declared as something "we search for" is much more intimate and immensly simpler than that whole jazz happening on the periphery.
Thank you,
Dev
No. This one is easy as it is abstract. I can't even find "my country". It is just another name labeled on experience.T: Can you find America in DE?
Hummm... We could cut everything down to there being only a thought about everything. Everything we talk about are just ideas, thoughts.T: Multiplicity is an idea that shows up in awareness. Can you find a thousand things in DE? Can you find two things in DE? Or do you just find ideas about two things? Is experience ever divided? Or is experience always 'whole'?
Whatever comes up in DE comes as light/colour/sound/smell/taste/sensation, with a thought labeling it as some thing, individual or generic. Thousand things or two things -- a man or a crowd, a "thing" or "a collection of things"... to see "a tree" or to see "a forest" -- both are just interpretations or labels attached on what's perceived (light/colour/sound/smell/taste/sensation).
Awareness...?D: Do we talk about it's really irrelevant weather we are mesmerized by thought or we see through it?
T: Its a common belief. What would see through thought?
I guess I learned some fancy ideas about "pure awareness" i.e. awareness not immersed in thoughts. But those are all just ideas too.
That's also a revelation. True! Awareness is not less when "lost in thought" or "being present".T: You're not more aware when you are 'present'. You are not unconscious if attention is in thoughts. You are fully aware of whatever is showing up.
A thought-stream:
It seems that there is a lot of fuss about mind being "a barrier to recognition of one's true nature". This "issue" somehow keeps the focus "out there, on mind" while the thing (or, technically, no-thing) called awareness/consciousness/being/whatever-the-name that is declared as something "we search for" is much more intimate and immensly simpler than that whole jazz happening on the periphery.
Mmmmm... How could we name different viewpoints on situation (like: "you see the table from different angle than me")? Again, I get that in DE "different viewpoints" are just a thought story... together with a subject...T: So where is the subject in all of this?
Thank you,
Dev
Re: Dreambus Driver
Hi Dev sorry for late reply
Experience without an experiencer.
What is it that makes it seem that way?
A thought says 'I experience a point of awareness'
Yet in DE no point can be found.
If thought is being referred to, it will seems as if worlds are being experienced
Yet in DE, it is seen that that is a thought,
Can be no more than a thought
Yes, so is it clear there is no subject of experience?T: Is existence/experience ever subjective? If so, WHAT/WHERE is the subject? Or is subjectivity an idea about an experiencER?
A default answer would be 'yes'. But in DE the subject cannot be found. Assumption is that the subject is what's doing the looking. But then again, this assumption is just an idea arising, so it is objective. Therefore subjectivity is an idea about experiencer.
We are just constantly and consistently repeating the subjectivity myth by using language so it became a habit.
Experience without an experiencer.
Yes great.There is no 'my' DE. Where is the 'me' that experiences experience? 'Me', 'you' and 'someone else' are all just ideas about experience. Are there ever real existing people? Or is there just light/colour/sound/sensation?
The same as above. Even 'people' are just an idea imposed on a sensation(s). Or certain sensations are encoded as "people", "table", "spider", "cat" etc.
The whole process seems to be about the depersonalization of awareness/being.
An idea? Awareness is SEEMINGLY looking.T: This is all thought story. Is there a point of awareness?
A point of awareness was my term for apertures from which awareness is seemingly looking and seeing specific things; a viewpoint. How we could call that?
What is it that makes it seem that way?
Good. Have you any 'evidence' of there being another awareness, other than THIS awareness?T: Are there several awarenesses?
I can conceive one and the same awareness peopling, thinging and eventing around.
Is 'daily experience' anything more than a thought appearing now?T: 'People' is an idea that shows up in awareness, so how can people be the source of awareness? Does awareness have a source? Can u find it, or do you just find ideas that show up in awareness?
Those questions are about disregarding or bypassing the whole human interpretational software.
I could agree with the above in DE (and DE I mostly "do" in a kind of a meditative way, sitting comfortably with eyes closed), daily experience seems to contradict it, as during operative day-time I feel centered or contracted to a certain point in space, and awareness I perceive as if flowing through apertures from that point.
Kind of both worlds are being experienced.
Dev
A thought says 'I experience a point of awareness'
Yet in DE no point can be found.
If thought is being referred to, it will seems as if worlds are being experienced
Yet in DE, it is seen that that is a thought,
Can be no more than a thought
Re: Dreambus Driver
Good.T: Can you find America in DE?
No. This one is easy as it is abstract. I can't even find "my country". It is just another name labeled on experience.
Can you find a world?
A self?
A brain?
A universe?
Yes exactlyT: Multiplicity is an idea that shows up in awareness. Can you find a thousand things in DE? Can you find two things in DE? Or do you just find ideas about two things? Is experience ever divided? Or is experience always 'whole'?
Hummm... We could cut everything down to there being only a thought about everything. Everything we talk about are just ideas, thoughts.
Whatever comes up in DE comes as light/colour/sound/smell/taste/sensation, with a thought labeling it as some thing, individual or generic. Thousand things or two things -- a man or a crowd, a "thing" or "a collection of things"... to see "a tree" or to see "a forest" -- both are just interpretations or labels attached on what's perceived (light/colour/sound/smell/taste/sensation).
You could say 'pure awareness' is simply DE.D: Do we talk about it's really irrelevant weather we are mesmerized by thought or we see through it?
T: Its a common belief. What would see through thought?
Awareness...?
I guess I learned some fancy ideas about "pure awareness" i.e. awareness not immersed in thoughts. But those are all just ideas too.
When attention turns upon itself, and knows itself to be.
Yet even though thought appears, there is nothing that fails to know/be itself.
'Pure awareness' is not a state
It already is.
Good glad this is seen.T: You're not more aware when you are 'present'. You are not unconscious if attention is in thoughts. You are fully aware of whatever is showing up.
That's also a revelation. True! Awareness is not less when "lost in thought" or "being present".
YesA thought-stream:
It seems that there is a lot of fuss about mind being "a barrier to recognition of one's true nature". This "issue" somehow keeps the focus "out there, on mind" while the thing (or, technically, no-thing) called awareness/consciousness/being/whatever-the-name that is declared as something "we search for" is much more intimate and immensly simpler than that whole jazz happening on the periphery.
You and me are not separate entitiesT: So where is the subject in all of this?
Mmmmm... How could we name different viewpoints on situation (like: "you see the table from different angle than me")? Again, I get that in DE "different viewpoints" are just a thought story... together with a subject...
It is just THIS
Appearing as a thought about two things
Tao
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Re: Dreambus Driver
Hi Tao,
I guess in similar stage Byron Katie invented The Work to help herself disperse the seeming concreteness of concepts...
Where the memory would be recorded? If anywhere?
Related thought-stream:
Do we come to a point where all sensations light/colour/sound/smell/taste/touch could be considered as thoughts too? As... interpretations of ... I don't know what ... by the mind? As imaginations? (including "the mind", as the name for thought-flow).
"Perception is imagination", I remembered I read long time ago in Nisargadatta's books -- now this comes up revived.
We can cut through this if we say the persons itself are just a thoughts in awareness...
It somehow... feels strange...
I ask. You answer. Is there a difference? What are you to me? What am I to you? Concepts?
Messed up.
Tao, I'll have to come back to this tomorrow; I'm too dull now and sleepy, sorry. Will continue this and answer the rest.
Thnx,
Dev
Conceptually -- yes. In DE -- yes. Although the phantom is still alive, sometimes opaque, sometimes transparent.T: Yes, so is it clear there is no subject of experience? Experience without an experiencer.
I guess in similar stage Byron Katie invented The Work to help herself disperse the seeming concreteness of concepts...
Where the memory would be recorded? If anywhere?
I'll have to see that clearly in DE.D: A point of awareness was my term for apertures from which awareness is seemingly looking and seeing specific things; a viewpoint. How we could call that?
T: An idea? Awareness is SEEMINGLY looking. What is it that makes it seem that way?
Related thought-stream:
Do we come to a point where all sensations light/colour/sound/smell/taste/touch could be considered as thoughts too? As... interpretations of ... I don't know what ... by the mind? As imaginations? (including "the mind", as the name for thought-flow).
"Perception is imagination", I remembered I read long time ago in Nisargadatta's books -- now this comes up revived.
Hummm. Three persons are watching the same event and they come to me and tell me slightly different description of what happened. So we have four versions of the event.T: Are there several awarenesses?
D: I can conceive one and the same awareness peopling, thinging and eventing around.
T: Have you any 'evidence' of there being another awareness, other than THIS awareness?
We can cut through this if we say the persons itself are just a thoughts in awareness...
It somehow... feels strange...
I ask. You answer. Is there a difference? What are you to me? What am I to you? Concepts?
Messed up.
Tao, I'll have to come back to this tomorrow; I'm too dull now and sleepy, sorry. Will continue this and answer the rest.
Thnx,
Dev
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Re: Dreambus Driver
Hi Tao,
A sequel:
Everything we could talk about here are thoughts and concepts anyway.
As per
That applies to a 'I experience a point of awareness', too.
Flashback (a story):
Once I got a kind of satori. It happened in a rush-hour crowded tram, watching persons close to me looking out of the windows. Tram was moving. Their eyes would single out, pick up an object and then follow it for as long as it would be within the field of vision, and when it was gone (in a one or in two seconds; very quickly), their eyes would blaze forward to pick another object to follow, and it repeated all over again all the time. I was just amazed.
Although I didn't know why, back then.
Nowdays, I'd say there were two modes of perception: one that's singling out things and the other that would let the things just pass by, without focusing on them. I don't know if "detached" would be a good word...?
Singling out means focusing on thinking/thinging.
The other one sounds like DE.
Between us, I must say that this "attention turning upon itself" is quite a lousy way to said it. I know that from my past experience in yoga where the same phrase was heard too often and it became quite frustrating.
It's like practicing to see the back of your head. If you turn quickly enough...
It should be repeated all over again that it is a description and not a prescription, as it cannot be done. It sounds like a doable thing, but it's really a carrot on the stick. One could spin at this point for years.
I'd say: when attention RESTS, irrelevant to thoughts/perceptions going on. Registering everything, but not being involved.
And it is not about knowing at all, knowing anything the way we usually know things. It's rather unknowing... and staying in/as unknowing.
What still escapes me is that sometimes it was said here "a medium AS which all arises.
Is thought separate from awareness?
Thank you for your work,
Dev
A sequel:
I need some assistance with that last sentence.T: Awareness is SEEMINGLY looking. What is it that makes it seem that way?
No, "daily experience" is a thought, ... as well as "America" and "my country".T: Is 'daily experience' anything more than a thought appearing now?
Everything we could talk about here are thoughts and concepts anyway.
As per
and alsoA thought says 'I experience a point of awareness'
Yet in DE no point can be found.
If thought is being referred to, it will seems as if worlds are being experienced
Yet in DE, it is seen that that is a thought,
Can be no more than a thought.
Without a concept -- a thought -- no start or end points of any experience could be found. In that sense, no experience could be singled out from the totality without a thought. "Nothing is happening" does not neccesary means all is peaceful or "there is nothing out there", it could mean as well "nothing is being picked up" from totality. Or "the sections, the divisions (proclaimed by thought, which frame "something") are seen to be fictive".Could anything be perceived without a thought label pasted on it?
That applies to a 'I experience a point of awareness', too.
Only experiencing, seemingly framed by thoughts into sequencional experiences -- this, this and this (whatever the labels) -- instead of continual experiencing... which we could call being or "resting in experiencing".Can you find a world (in DE)? A self? A brain? A universe?
Flashback (a story):
Once I got a kind of satori. It happened in a rush-hour crowded tram, watching persons close to me looking out of the windows. Tram was moving. Their eyes would single out, pick up an object and then follow it for as long as it would be within the field of vision, and when it was gone (in a one or in two seconds; very quickly), their eyes would blaze forward to pick another object to follow, and it repeated all over again all the time. I was just amazed.
Although I didn't know why, back then.
Nowdays, I'd say there were two modes of perception: one that's singling out things and the other that would let the things just pass by, without focusing on them. I don't know if "detached" would be a good word...?
Singling out means focusing on thinking/thinging.
The other one sounds like DE.
You could say 'pure awareness' is simply DE. When attention turns upon itself, and knows itself to be.
Between us, I must say that this "attention turning upon itself" is quite a lousy way to said it. I know that from my past experience in yoga where the same phrase was heard too often and it became quite frustrating.
It's like practicing to see the back of your head. If you turn quickly enough...
It should be repeated all over again that it is a description and not a prescription, as it cannot be done. It sounds like a doable thing, but it's really a carrot on the stick. One could spin at this point for years.
I'd say: when attention RESTS, irrelevant to thoughts/perceptions going on. Registering everything, but not being involved.
And it is not about knowing at all, knowing anything the way we usually know things. It's rather unknowing... and staying in/as unknowing.
Not sure I got that. Could you rephrase this, please (if you consider it important)?Yet even though thought appears, there is nothing that fails to know/be itself.
This I get. A state can arise. It is kind of a background or a medium in (I use "in" again) which all arises. In that sense "it" is prior to arising of any and every "thing" or "think" (thought).'Pure awareness' is not a state. It already is.
What still escapes me is that sometimes it was said here "a medium AS which all arises.
Is thought separate from awareness?
"One and the same awareness peopling, thinging and eventing around?", like I said in a previous post?You and me are not separate entities. It is just THIS, appearing as a thought about two things.
Thank you for your work,
Dev
Re: Dreambus Driver
Yes although it is worth noting here that this is considered 'post-gate' work.Conceptually -- yes. In DE -- yes. Although the phantom is still alive, sometimes opaque, sometimes transparent.
I guess in similar stage Byron Katie invented The Work to help herself disperse the seeming concreteness of concepts...
And DE is all that is needed.
But nothing needs this to happen
What is it that needs/wants the phantom gone? The phantom itself?
Does that phantom have any reality?
Awareness is not actually looking, it only seems that way.D: A point of awareness was my term for apertures from which awareness is seemingly looking and seeing specific things; a viewpoint. How we could call that?
T: An idea? Awareness is SEEMINGLY looking. What is it that makes it seem that way?
I'll have to see that clearly in DE.
An aperture is imagined, is it not?
When you look, the aperture is not there, and 'never was'
Can you taste the word 'honey'?Do we come to a point where all sensations light/colour/sound/smell/taste/touch could be considered as thoughts too? As... interpretations of ... I don't know what ... by the mind? As imaginations? (including "the mind", as the name for thought-flow).
"Perception is imagination", I remembered I read long time ago in Nisargadatta's books -- now this comes up revived.
Could you describe the experience 'blue' to someone who has been blind from birth? Would your description give them the actual experience of blue?
Direct experience is not a thought.
Thought just labels/categorises/conceptualises experience
'Three persons' and 'event' are thought stories, appearing in THIS awareness.Hummm. Three persons are watching the same event and they come to me and tell me slightly different description of what happened. So we have four versions of the event.
We can cut through this if we say the persons itself are just a thoughts in awareness...
It somehow... feels strange...
I ask. You answer. Is there a difference? What are you to me? What am I to you? Concepts?
Messed up.
Are there actually 3 people watching an event?
Has there ever been 3 people?
Has there ever been an event?
Re: Dreambus Driver
Yes, except direct experience. 'It is' regardless of whether thoughts are there or not.T: Is 'daily experience' anything more than a thought appearing now?
No, "daily experience" is a thought, ... as well as "America" and "my country".
Everything we could talk about here are thoughts and concepts anyway.
We can only use descriptions to point to DE.
IndeedWithout a concept -- a thought -- no start or end points of any experience could be found. In that sense, no experience could be singled out from the totality without a thought. "Nothing is happening" does not neccesary means all is peaceful or "there is nothing out there", it could mean as well "nothing is being picked up" from totality. Or "the sections, the divisions (proclaimed by thought, which frame "something") are seen to be fictive".
That applies to a 'I experience a point of awareness', too.
Yes goodCan you find a world (in DE)? A self? A brain? A universe?
Only experiencing, seemingly framed by thoughts into sequencional experiences -- this, this and this (whatever the labels) -- instead of continual experiencing... which we could call being or "resting in experiencing".
This is an appearance in awarenessFlashback (a story):
Once I got a kind of satori. It happened in a rush-hour crowded tram, watching persons close to me looking out of the windows. Tram was moving. Their eyes would single out, pick up an object and then follow it for as long as it would be within the field of vision, and when it was gone (in a one or in two seconds; very quickly), their eyes would blaze forward to pick another object to follow, and it repeated all over again all the time. I was just amazed.
Although I didn't know why, back then.
A dream that something is 'looking'
What exactly is it that would single things outNowdays, I'd say there were two modes of perception: one that's singling out things and the other that would let the things just pass by, without focusing on them. I don't know if "detached" would be a good word...?
Singling out means focusing on thinking/thinging.
The other one sounds like DE.
What has the ability to let things pass by?
Do you have any choice or control over what appears to be?
A lousy description, yes. But not a carrot on a stickBetween us, I must say that this "attention turning upon itself" is quite a lousy way to said it. I know that from my past experience in yoga where the same phrase was heard too often and it became quite frustrating.
It's like practicing to see the back of your head. If you turn quickly enough...
It should be repeated all over again that it is a description and not a prescription, as it cannot be done. It sounds like a doable thing, but it's really a carrot on the stick. One could spin at this point for years.
Ask yourself the question, 'am I aware?'
In between the question being asked, and the first thought that appears, what do you find?
Is anything ever 'involved'?I'd say: when attention RESTS, irrelevant to thoughts/perceptions going on. Registering everything, but not being involved.
And it is not about knowing at all, knowing anything the way we usually know things. It's rather unknowing... and staying in/as unknowing.
Yes, thought does not diminish or hide awareness in anywayYet even though thought appears, there is nothing that fails to know/be itself.
Not sure I got that. Could you rephrase this, please (if you consider it important)?
Awareness 'always' is
Regardless of thought
Yes'Pure awareness' is not a state. It already is.
This I get. A state can arise. It is kind of a background or a medium in (I use "in" again) which all arises. In that sense "it" is prior to arising of any and every "thing" or "think" (thought).
Or to be more specific,"One and the same awareness peopling, thinging and eventing around?", like I said in a previous post?You and me are not separate entities. It is just THIS, appearing as a thought about two things.
One and the same awareness appearing to people and thing around
Tao
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Re: Dreambus Driver
Hi Tao,
Was trying to write something but I'm dead tired.
Will skip this day and write tomorrow.
Sorry for delay,
Dev
Was trying to write something but I'm dead tired.
Will skip this day and write tomorrow.
Sorry for delay,
Dev
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Hi Tao,
"Out there" seems to be only ideas. The whole existence seems to be just an idea. "In here" seems to be also an idea, projected backwards ("attention turning to itself"). Projected onto... nothing, it seems...
Can't find anything. Before, this have been received as horrorfull realization... Not so much these days.
But whenever an experience would become known, it will be received together with a label already sticked on it -- if not a description than (the second time it is perceived) at least a reference to a memory .
In DE we actually learn to see this two-folded nature of all the inputs -- sensorial plus conceptual.
And more and more it seems to me that they are inseparable.
On the other hand -- and as I said in last post -- an event is known only when it is conceptually cut off from totality and pointed out or presented as "something" due connotation and values projected on it that differs it from its background... And there's always a "someone" for whome it is done.
Beside that, the totality of life cannot really be called an event.
Like that watching from the window of the moving tram: if there is no picking up on something now-and-now-and-now, i.e. in continual gazing everything passes by and nothing gets singled out as a point, as an experience. Nothing is noticed. No event.
To put it in different way: when there is no interest, three persons does not register, neither does the event.
I wonder how it is noticed at all.
But go back to your saying above: "We can only use descriptions to point to DE."
Who should do it? Do we have any choice or control over what appears to be? Puzzling.
I heard "more and more people are waking up". You want to say that -- as per awareness itself -- it is totally irrelevant weather its mode is -- or it is -- attached or detached? Be it wavy or not, ocean is no less nor more? Why then so big talk about "the quality of being detached"?
Thank you for your time and help,
Dev
Hummm.... Yes, it seems to be the phantom itself.D: Although the phantom is still alive, sometimes opaque, sometimes transparent.
T: What is it that needs/wants the phantom gone? The phantom itself? Does that phantom have any reality?
"Out there" seems to be only ideas. The whole existence seems to be just an idea. "In here" seems to be also an idea, projected backwards ("attention turning to itself"). Projected onto... nothing, it seems...
Can't find anything. Before, this have been received as horrorfull realization... Not so much these days.
No. The description may convey the label but not the actual experience.T: Can you taste the word 'honey'? Could you describe the experience 'blue' to someone who has been blind from birth? Would your description give them the actual experience of blue?
But whenever an experience would become known, it will be received together with a label already sticked on it -- if not a description than (the second time it is perceived) at least a reference to a memory .
In DE we actually learn to see this two-folded nature of all the inputs -- sensorial plus conceptual.
And more and more it seems to me that they are inseparable.
In "can you taste the word 'honey'", the taste could be considered an event. The raw sensations in DE could be considered an event.D: Three persons are watching the same event ...
T: 'Three persons' and 'event' are thought stories, appearing in THIS awareness. Are there actually 3 people watching an event? Has there ever been 3 people? Has there ever been an event?
On the other hand -- and as I said in last post -- an event is known only when it is conceptually cut off from totality and pointed out or presented as "something" due connotation and values projected on it that differs it from its background... And there's always a "someone" for whome it is done.
Beside that, the totality of life cannot really be called an event.
Like that watching from the window of the moving tram: if there is no picking up on something now-and-now-and-now, i.e. in continual gazing everything passes by and nothing gets singled out as a point, as an experience. Nothing is noticed. No event.
To put it in different way: when there is no interest, three persons does not register, neither does the event.
Sometimes all this sounds like a double-talk -- you and me speaking about there not being you and me...D: Everything we could talk about here are thoughts and concepts anyway.
T: Yes, except direct experience. 'It is' regardless of whether thoughts are there or not. We can only use descriptions to point to DE.
> OK.@: watching persons looking out of the windows.
T: This is an appearance in awareness. A dream that something is 'looking'.
Hummm. It seems to being "drawn in" or "letting them pass by" happen.D: Two modes of perception: one that's singling out things and the other that would let the things just pass by.
T: What exactly is it that would single things out? What has the ability to let things pass by? Do you have any choice or control over what appears to be?
I wonder how it is noticed at all.
But go back to your saying above: "We can only use descriptions to point to DE."
Who should do it? Do we have any choice or control over what appears to be? Puzzling.
> Nothing.@ "attention turning upon itself"
T: A lousy description, yes. But not a carrot on a stick. Ask yourself the question, 'am I aware?' In between the question being asked, and the first thought that appears, what do you find?
That's a big one. Will return to this. This should be checked again.@ attention, registering everything, but not being involved.
T: Is anything ever 'involved'?
So regardless of the state of "being mesmerized by thoughts" or of "being detached" (that is more valued in "spiritual world") -- awareness is the same, and all those different values that have been put on this two states are just irrelevant... or are considered to be relevant only "out there", on surface or periphery of being, in "dream world"?T: Thought does not diminish or hide awareness in anyway. Awareness 'always' is, regardless of thought.
I heard "more and more people are waking up". You want to say that -- as per awareness itself -- it is totally irrelevant weather its mode is -- or it is -- attached or detached? Be it wavy or not, ocean is no less nor more? Why then so big talk about "the quality of being detached"?
Thank you for your time and help,
Dev
Re: Dreambus Driver
Hi Dev
Is the 'becoming known' the concept itself, implying an 'event'?
Without 'becoming known', there is experiencing.
Does anything 'know' experiencing?
Or is experiencing simply the knowing of itself?
For there to be a something, there has to be something else to experience that something.
This is the misperception of thought. Because thought cannot grasp that this is all appearing as totality 'itself'
Without these conceptual divisions, there is only seemless totality.
In fact, it is not even seemless, as 'it' is already whole and timeless.
Even with these conceptual divisions,
There is still only totality.
A thought?
These are words appearing in/as experiencing itself.
Do they have an author?
Is there an author or creator of these words?
Is there a chooser or controller of these words.
When you appear to be typing, is there any choice over what words appear?
What is it that is choosing?
It allows room for some assumption of a self to remain
You said yourself, the seeing that used to produce horror, no longer seems so bad.
Fear holds the self in place
Some people it seems are never ready to let that final assumption go
But even that is just an appearance.
There is only ever one 'thing' that can ever wake up to itself.
And it is not a thing, not a person
And when it 'wakes up to itself'
It is seen that it never really was unawake!
Can totality ever become detached from totality?
Tao
Good.Hummm.... Yes, it seems to be the phantom itself.
"Out there" seems to be only ideas. The whole existence seems to be just an idea. "In here" seems to be also an idea, projected backwards ("attention turning to itself"). Projected onto... nothing, it seems...
Can't find anything. Before, this have been received as horrorfull realization... Not so much these days.
So what causes an experience to 'become known'?No. The description may convey the label but not the actual experience.
But whenever an experience would become known, it will be received together with a label already sticked on it -- if not a description than (the second time it is perceived) at least a reference to a memory .
In DE we actually learn to see this two-folded nature of all the inputs -- sensorial plus conceptual.
And more and more it seems to me that they are inseparable.
Is the 'becoming known' the concept itself, implying an 'event'?
Without 'becoming known', there is experiencing.
Does anything 'know' experiencing?
Or is experiencing simply the knowing of itself?
Yes good. 'Event' is only ever a concept, implying that there is something separate from totality. That some'thing' always comes with the self assumption. .I.e an experiencer, and also a 'time' assumption.In "can you taste the word 'honey'", the taste could be considered an event. The raw sensations in DE could be considered an event.
On the other hand -- and as I said in last post -- an event is known only when it is conceptually cut off from totality and pointed out or presented as "something" due connotation and values projected on it that differs it from its background... And there's always a "someone" for whome it is done.
Beside that, the totality of life cannot really be called an event.
Like that watching from the window of the moving tram: if there is no picking up on something now-and-now-and-now, i.e. in continual gazing everything passes by and nothing gets singled out as a point, as an experience. Nothing is noticed. No event.
To put it in different way: when there is no interest, three persons does not register, neither does the event.
For there to be a something, there has to be something else to experience that something.
This is the misperception of thought. Because thought cannot grasp that this is all appearing as totality 'itself'
Without these conceptual divisions, there is only seemless totality.
In fact, it is not even seemless, as 'it' is already whole and timeless.
Even with these conceptual divisions,
There is still only totality.
What is it that says there is a you and me speaking?Sometimes all this sounds like a double-talk -- you and me speaking about there not being you and me...
A thought?
These are words appearing in/as experiencing itself.
Do they have an author?
That is for you to answer.ummm. It seems to being "drawn in" or "letting them pass by" happen.
I wonder how it is noticed at all.
But go back to your saying above: "We can only use descriptions to point to DE."
Who should do it? Do we have any choice or control over what appears to be? Puzzling
Is there an author or creator of these words?
Is there a chooser or controller of these words.
When you appear to be typing, is there any choice over what words appear?
What is it that is choosing?
YesThat's a big one. Will return to this. This should be checked again.
You could perhaps call it a stepping stoneSo regardless of the state of "being mesmerized by thoughts" or of "being detached" (that is more valued in "spiritual world") -- awareness is the same, and all those different values that have been put on this two states are just irrelevant... or are considered to be relevant only "out there", on surface or periphery of being, in "dream world"?
I heard "more and more people are waking up". You want to say that -- as per awareness itself -- it is totally irrelevant weather its mode is -- or it is -- attached or detached? Be it wavy or not, ocean is no less nor more? Why then so big talk about "the quality of being detached"?
It allows room for some assumption of a self to remain
You said yourself, the seeing that used to produce horror, no longer seems so bad.
Fear holds the self in place
Some people it seems are never ready to let that final assumption go
But even that is just an appearance.
There is only ever one 'thing' that can ever wake up to itself.
And it is not a thing, not a person
And when it 'wakes up to itself'
It is seen that it never really was unawake!
Can totality ever become detached from totality?
Tao
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