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Hi. :)

What makes you use the word "persistent"?

Kento

I don't know what to say anymore about it. Is awareness the ground of all being? Consciousness becoming conscious of itself happens within awareness.

Hi. :)

I don't know what to say anymore about it. Is awareness the ground of all being? Consciousness becoming conscious of itself happens within awareness.

While you say there is no more, there seems to be a bit more to come up, like "the ground of all being."
Pease let everything come put of the idea about awareness.


And please tell if this is too uncomfortable an observation; in that case, we could take
other approaches.


Warm wishes,

Kento

I connected it with awareness.

Hi. :)

I connected it with awareness.

What it that "I" and "it" and "awareness" in this sentence?
Could you tell what each is?

For awhile looking inside I was finding nothing/emptiness. I guess by "I" I mean my mind. It is the self or the vast nothingness. And awareness is what is prior to everything I perceive or the blank slate. I like the analogy of the sky.

Hi! :)

For awhile looking inside I was finding nothing/emptiness. I guess by "I" I mean my mind. It is the self or the vast nothingness. And awareness is what is prior to everything I perceive or the blank slate. I like the analogy of the sky.

Which part of this quote is not a concept, or not something you have learned from a book, video, or someone?
Which part is your original description based on your own experience?


Warm regards,

Kento

It was the nothingness that I felt to be me.

And awareness being prior to everything I experience like a blank slate.

Hi Jenny. :)

It was the nothingness that I felt to be me.

Could you tell what the direct experience of nothingness is? Can you experience
something that is not? How?

And awareness being prior to everything I experience like a blank slate.

Can you directly experience something prior to experience?
How?



Would it be possible that you are not aware you are taking mere concepts
as direct experience? That can happen if one is so immersed in a belief in something
that the belief has become another "reality" for that person, which happens to be a sheer illusion.
Please read through all that you wrote about "awareness," and see how much of them
are something that you haven't learned from what someone else said about "awareness."


Please doubt, and tell if you are 100% sure that all you are
talking about is something that is directly perceived (as your own experience, not
something someone else said) as either something
seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted.


My general feeling is that all you are talking about are someone's second-hand concepts, and
we wouldn't be able to go anywhere further if these concepts are held onto ; you have to be truly
wishing to discard all those concepts you have written so far about "awareness."


Please tell how you would feel if everything you know about "awareness" turned out
to be a mere intellectualization. Would it be possible to throw it away?


Warm regards,

Kento

No Jenny, we're not talking about a experience in the past. We are talking about what is
now, here in this moment.

And we are talking about you, not Rupert.


What is awareness, without all these memories and something from Rupert, Bob, or
whoever it is?

When you say "consciousness of thoughts"
what is "consciousness" in this phrase?

Are "thoughts" and "consciousness of thoughts" different?