Re: Perception and Consciousness
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:38 am
But consciousness is the only seeing that really sees. Thought only talks about the seen. Consciousness is the seen. Consciousness is also thought - this is why you (consciousness) can witness thought, but (the content of) thought cant witness consciousness.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:03 am Seeing consciousness as itself rather than as thought is something I find quite hard to do
I can understand it as a concept but simply accepting it is for me very counter intuitive
It might be counter intuitive, or rather opposite to how thought works, to simply accept something as truth, but to find truth/consciousness in concepts is even more counter intuitive.
This is not really true. You actually never experience anything from your own personal perspective - why? Because the personal perspective is only an idea, conceptual thought.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:03 am This is because everything I know and experience is from my own personal perspective
You cannot be "aware of consciousness existing outside" of you. Simply because there is no "you" that it could be outside of.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:03 am So I am not aware of consciousness existing outside of me only of me being conscious
But: For the same reason you also don't ever experience a "me being conscious". The "me" is an idea. An idea cannot be conscious. It can be know, yes, but it itself cannot know anything. This is the major mistake: People identify with an idea - the separate me - and then they believe that this idea is conscious... (or to be more precise: consciousness identifies with an idea)