Self awareness
Self awareness
How does the consciousness work?
Re: Self awareness
(Don't ask me) ...just kidding!
Maybe this will shed some light >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCGDQPZYmQM
Re: Self awareness
Spontaneously and effortlessly.
A metaphor to explain:
Awareness = water.
Mind = sediment suspended and swirling in the water.
Pebble = consciousness.
- In seated meditation practice, mind eventually stills like a pool of clear water, and "you’re" not there anymore to notice when that happens.
- The water stills. The sediment settles to the bottom of the pool and doesn’t stir. Eventually, for unknown reasons, a pebble drops into the water, sinks through the water and stirs one grain of sediment back into the still water. The sediment begins to stir again, and to rise up into the water, swirling.
- With practice, the passage of the pebble through the water steps outside of time, and without the sediment stirred, reveals a new world to awareness.
- The new world is experienced without judgment, or effort.
- The judgment of the experience comes later as thought, after the experience.
- After the experience of the world without thought, much of the water remains clear as it was, and only the sediment necessary for moments after the experience is stirred into awareness by the pebble, the pebble that also assesses the need to stir some sediment.
- Who drops the pebble? Indeed. From whence does consciousness arise to make manifest the thoughts that enter into awareness, sometimes so dense that they cloud the water’s perception of time?
- Answer: From the nameless thing of many names.
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Re: Self awareness
What do you mean?
How does it arise?
How does it do what it does?
It seems to simply be, to me. Working implies some kind of (not necessarily mechanical) process. But it seems to simply be. I'm not saying there is no process but I suspect the idea that consciousness only occurs in complexly interrelated matter is a myth.
Re: Self awareness
All nameless names, in other words, all there is, is this, this, this, this unknowing.
Re: Self awareness
How does a transformer work?
Answer: Well, he hums like - oooo...
But seriously, if you find out the answer, please share it. It could be the most important discovery of all time.
Answer: Well, he hums like - oooo...
But seriously, if you find out the answer, please share it. It could be the most important discovery of all time.