Hey Allen,
.I don’t follow what you are saying here, Allen. You mean awareness of where the sensations are happening in the body and that there hasn’t been an awareness of the sensations being in the body before?
yes where in the body the emotion and ive noticed this unchanging awareness since i was very young thinking it resided in the color image Labeled Allen/ body
Okay…thanks for explaining. We will be looking at the body in depth later…but let’s touch on it now.
Press a finger down onto the top of the ‘head’
Notice what is actually present.
Is it a head, or is it just sensation labelled ‘pressure’ and thoughts/mental images ABOUT a head?
Can a head actually be seen? Can you actually see your head right now?
So can an actual ‘head’ be found?
Now thoughts arise in AE about awareness ,always been there, meaning, all thoughts and yet some point to something.
I don’t follow this either. Can you explain what you mean please?
yes.refering to realizing that previous statement was just a thought appearing now about a "state of awareness always being there" and questioning if thought pointed to some experience
Nice LOOKING past the surface of what thought says to actually see what is!
. So, some thought points to AE in that the label ‘fear’ points to a sensation in the body? Is that what you are saying: and that other thoughts just point to further thought story ABOUT fear?
yes exactly
Terrific! Nice breakdown of story into AE :)
. Sensation are sensations and thoughts are thought. So sensation appears AS actual experience as does thought. But what thought says the sensation is, ie fear and what thought say ABOUT fear is just a story.
Can you see this?
yesyes both stories about sensation labeled "fear"
Great! I know that this can become repetitive, but I like to make sure that what is being pointed at is very clear. Confusion and doubt have a habit of reappearing! :)
Just to qualify that thoughtsensationtastesmellcoloursound appear AS AE and not IN AE. That would mean that they are contained in something and that there is a something that appears in something = two. Can anything be found that contains thoughtsensationtastesmellcoloursound (AE)?
hmmmm..... yes was slipping into AE experienced in awareness .Awareness not a thing hmmm....so just AE and thought of memory of experience just a thought appearing now. no one to to have memory.puzzleing!!and puzzleing just a thought. Damn
Yes! "Awareness" is not a thing. It is a concept that describes the process of thoughts arising about the thoughts that arise.
The word ‘awareness’, ‘consciousness’ and ‘experience’ are all words used that point to the knowingknown. Unfortunately the word ‘awareness’ and ‘consciousness’ have a lot of meaning attached to them, so I use the word ‘experience’ or ‘knowingknown’.
. So, was anything found lurking underneath or behind the ‘fear’?
yes a thought of me being afraid of "i"being experiencer. Damn
Yes, but other than a thought, was there anything found in the sensation labelled ‘fear’, or is it just a sensation?
Here is another exercise about seeing WHAT IS, as opposed to what thought says it is!
As you have seen, thought tends to add “virtual layers” about experience, by adding story about what IS. The more complex the idea, the more “virtual layers” have been added. So what needs to happen is to strip the layers of story away, until all that remains is the bare bones. And, there is way to determine when you have stripped away all the layers that are pure fantasy, and you have only the bare bones left. If you can replace the thought with “blahblahblah” and what it was referring to remains, you know you are down to the bare bones.
So, for example: thought says: “There is sound.” Now, replace the thought with “blahblahblah.” Look at experience, with thought only saying “blahbahblah.” Is there still sound? If yes, that thought is referring to actual experience. That’s a “bare bones” thought, with all additional story layers stripped.
Now, if thought says: “I am hearing that sound,” replace the thought with “blahblahblah.” Look at experience, with thought only saying “blahblahblah.”
Is there a person hearing, without the thought saying so? If no, then you know that the thought has added “virtual layers.” It’s fantasy, and it isn’t confirmed as actual experience, because what it was saying didn’t remain when the thought was replaced with “blahblahblah.”
That’s the inquiry. So for every thought that comes up, to determine whether it is referring to actual experience or whether it is pure fantasy, replace it with “blahblahblah” and check whether what it was referring to remains.
Next time a story about 'fear' appears with sensations, do the above exercise and let me know what you find.
Much love,
Kay
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