Proof? Remember there are no separate sensations, there is just feeling. How is that different from being aware or sensations, isn’t that the definition of feeling – the experience of sensations? Anyway, we are not drawing conclusions here (based on other stuff), that would be still an assumption , we are observing what is here. What is here is feeling_seeing_hearing_tasting_smelling_thinking – inseparable THIS. We are not interested in thought content – be it logical conclusions or not. If there is no one or no-thing to be seen observing, experiencing, then it is thought content. It’s very simple. There is thinking which labels the experience (even thinking itself), maybe that is what you’ve taken as awareness/Tom/self?The fact that every sensation is felt ? For me this is proof of awareness, if no awaring entity or something is to be found, maybe each sensation is aware of itself. There is a sense of awareness because sights are seen, sound are heard, thoughts are thoughts.
Here is a video that migh bring clarity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lm3G0_ ... ex=17&t=8s
And another one just for your entertainment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfltmzRG-g
As long as it is known that it is illusionary… That is why we do that inquiry – to see what is illusionary and what is realThe separation of senses create a distinct thought that there is a world outside that there is a body because thoughts label sensations as of the body or outside the body depending on their characteristics. Creating the sense that there is more than what is experienced, that there is more than what is experience. An illusorily clear demarcation between inside and outside. Experience of the outside being less clear than the inside.
Good! So just because that sensation is being assumed to be connected with thinking (brain in the head) and seeing (eyes in the head), it is taken for an epicentre. But in DE, can such a connection be found without the “helpful hand" of thought content?There is a very stable ever present sensation that make the top of the head. It give rise to the sense that this is the center of experience. And that therefore thinking arise close to this sensation. Because all else is much more dynamic than this stable sensation is felt like an epicenter.
Yes, we did. And this was a reminder of that as sometimes old conditioning takes preference (like “thinking happening in the head”). Remember, it’s not about knowing stuff – a shift can only happen through looking (not knowledge). So if you have to look again, and again, and again, this is what it would take for a shift to happen. The more the illusion is seen, the less it is believed, the more being glued to thought content is loosened up :). As a result, less suffering, more peace, acceptance of THIS as it is...just a sensation, or many, with thoughts referring to these as head. didn't we already talk about the body and the fact that it's only sensation ?
I was asking of a real one, not imaginary one. In this inquiry we are not interested in thought content, only what can be observed as experience. Thought content is about experience not a real one, only the arising of thought is DE (just to remind you)Yes there is a location used to label the sensation, "top of the head"
Yes, mental images are thoughts. In this case the question was related to your previous statement that thoughts seem to come from the head: “It feels like it's happening in the head, there is a definite sensation in the head and that's where thoughts seems to arise.” I actually quoted that so you can see why I’m asking the questions. So if a “head” is mental image/label + sensation, I asked can a thought come from a sensation (i.e. from/in the “head”) or a mental image/another thought (i.e. head) And by "come from" I mean arise, come into existence within the sensation or the mental image. Does it make more sense now? This is how language sometimes is mistaken for reality... Otherwise, yes there is no difference between a mental image and a “verbal” thoughtIt's all a description, how could I know. Mental images and thoughts are illusory separations, how do you split them arbitrarily, to then ask if one come from the other. in THIS there is no distinct separation, or at least none that is seen.
Where do you draw the line between mental images and thoughts ? Aren't mental images visual thoughts ? it's all just words with different sense in different context for different people.
If there is the 5 senses and the thoughts relating to them
Then isn't the mental images also a thoughts as it is relating to the 5 senses to label it.
Anyway, you made it clear that “head” is just a sensation that not necessarily is involved in thinking, it just IS present with thinking.
It doesn’t have to be a big decision. It could be a decision of how you chose what to have for dinner or to buy a certain brand of cereal or whatever happens in your every day life. Please indulge me here!As for the third exercise I apologize but no decision come to mind. In fact there is no feeling of making major decision or anything like that. Event seamlessly seems to follow each other, you ask for a decision that "I" took, I don't think "I" take any decision, it's just the mind is polite enough to narrate it in the first person in an attempt to explain, most likely because that's what was learned in the past
You are doing great!
Love
Rali

