Dontaskme wrote:
So are you saying it is the ''mind'' that knows the experience of being a body? ...
Nope, I'm saying the word "mind" is how we refer to the experience of being a self-aware or self-conscious body, specifically the experience of being a reasoning intellect.
And you say the body came first, so the mind aka the 'knowing experience of being a body' must have come from the body, is that right?
For a supposed 'non-dualist' you appear to really want there to be a separate 'mind'? But yes, 'mind' is the word we apply to the experience of being a self-aware or self-conscious body.
But then, does the mind know how it knows it's having the experience of being a body? ...
By the experience of being a self-aware or self-conscious body.
does the mind know how or why that experience of being a body disappears at the death of that body, ...
Yes, it's because the body is dead so there is no 'mind' anymore.
and does it know how it reappears again in a new body?
It doesn't reappear in a new body.
Can the mind know how or what or why it is ?
Yes, but you'd have to explain what you understand or would accept by 'know how', 'what' and 'why'?
If NOT, then all known knowledge must be a pretence, right?
You'd have to explain what you understand by 'knowledge' here?