Looking for some help please

[Lindylou]

Hi

Are you experiencing awareness right now?
Could you answer in just yes or no?

No

[Bananafish]

How is awareness perceived, when it is not experienced
in this moment?

[Lindylou]

How is awareness perceived, when it is not experienced
in this moment?

If awareness is not experienced in this moment it is not perceived in this moment? But in another moment (when fully present in the moment) it can be experienced?

Is perception the same as experience? Perception is the story thought is attaching to the experience?

If there is no experience of awareness there will be no thought-story (perception) of awareness?

[Bananafish]

Hi. :)

Please answer the previous question;
You said you don’t experience awareness
right now.

How is awareness perceived, when it is
not perceived in this moment?

[Bananafish]

Instead of asking questions regarding
the question above, please just tell
how you perceive it.

[Lindylou]

Hi :)

Please just tell how you perceive it (awareness).

It is perceived (consciously noticed) ONLY when the mind is quiet. Perhaps it can cause the mind to quieten but i think it happens the other way round. I feel a stillness, a spaciousness, an utter peace, a blurring of boundaries (where does the body stop and start, no sense of being bounded by walls, ceiling, floor of a room for example. Sometimes tears arise and there is a strange sensation in the chest.

It is perceived as always having been here, yet "I" am normally too distracted to witness it's presence.

[Bananafish]

Hi. :)

Ok, is it fair to say that you are talking about the remembrance of
something perceived before, instead of what is here, right now?

Is that something different from a mere memory?

[Lindylou]

Hi :)

Ok, is it fair to say that you are talking about the remembrance of something perceived before

Perceived before:

It is perceived (consciously noticed) ONLY when the mind is quiet.

Sometimes tears arise

It is perceived as always having been here.

Thought when I was writing:

Perhaps it can cause the mind to quieten but i think it happens the other way round

"I" am normally too distracted to witness it's presence

Here right now: (when I was writing)

I feel a stillness, a spaciousness, an utter peace, a blurring of boundaries (where does the body stop and start, no sense of being bounded by walls, ceiling, floor of a room for example). Tears arise and there is a strange sensation in the chest.

[Lindylou]

Peace, stillness, boundlessness are also a remembrance of something perceived before

[Bananafish]

Hi! Please take the questions literally, read it carefully without interpretation,
and answer only what is asked, ok?

Is it fair to say, when you are talking about "awareness,"
that you are talking about the remembrance of something perceived before?

Just in yes or no, please?

[Lindylou]

Hi.

(Sorry. Its hard to answer just yes or no when neither seems to fit and the answer lies somewhere between the two. I feel I could answer either but each would be as incorrect as it is correct. And I'm.trying to be honest)

Is it fair to say, when you are talking about "awareness,"
that you are talking about the remembrance of something perceived before?.

Yes

[Bananafish]

Thanks, yes, I can understand what you wrote about the ambiguity.

That may suggest something is not clear enough and needs further investigation.

Please take your time, as much time as needed, to post an answer. It is important
not to answer for the purpose of giving an answer ... am I making sense?


Now, is it fair to say that remembrance of something perceived before is memory?
That it is a visualization mixed with thought?

[Lindylou]

Thank you

Please take your time, as much time as needed, to post an answer. It is important
not to answer for the purpose of giving an answer ... am I making sense?

Yes I understand. (The next two questions were easy for me to answer in any case)

Now, is it fair to say that remembrance of something perceived before is memory?

Yes

That it is a visualization mixed with thought?

Yes

[Bananafish]

Thank you. :)

Have you noticed anything new, regarding what you call awareness?

[Lindylou]

Hi :)

Have you noticed anything new, regarding what you call awareness?

I don't think so, not really.

Although...sometimes I feel full, bursting with gratitude. I think thats new, or more recent at any rate