Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:21 pm
As best as I can understand what you wrote in this post, I have understood you have these beliefs. I'm just not sure how to connect them to deciding
1 here you were reacting to something real outside you.
or
2 here you were just reacting to something in yourself.
There is no 'you' or 'I' or 'me' .. these are merely concepts/thoughts known in consciousness..
Reactions are all that there is to be known in this conception, in consciousness.
That which observes the known reaction, is unknowable. If the observer was known, the observer would be able to experience itself as the object known as the image in imageless consciousness. But consciousness can never experience itself as an object known, because objects know nothing. Consciousness is this immediate knowing, the only knowing there is, one without a second. There is no other knowing, and so no image known to consciousness, in consciousness, as consciousness, for consciousness, can see or know anything because it's simply an image of the imageless, it's an illusion appearing real as consciousness is real only by association via the mind of concept....in this conception, albeit illusory.
Don't forget that all words are merely concepts known...no word has ever been seen to exist outside of the knowing of them, which is consciousness, the one and only unitary action of seeing, that cannot be seen.
This knowing is a nondual unitary action appearing as reactionary, and is wholly outside of space and time duality, aka the dream of artificial separation, the thought realm, which is made up of mere concepts which know nothing, as they are being known by consciousness.
Knowing is outside or beyond each known thought, insofar as ''knowing'' or ''consciousness'' is not the thought. But is the knower of every thought as and when they arise in knowing. So thought is neither in nor out of consciousness, because conciousness is all there is. No thing knows this.
There is nothing sacred or spiritual or divine about any of this except as conceptual empty storytelling, all very fleeting and temporal with about as much reality as a mirage is to the observer of a mirage, or a dream is within the dreamer.