I thought I'd revisit this, because it raises an interesting thing about Mind patterns.
Do you think that Being follows the kind of relationship structures that you outlined above, i.e. a knife is to cutting as Being is to experiencing phenomena other than Being?
What I mean is that you seem to be cubby holing Being into a cause and effect type of linier mind logic.
You are defining Being in terms of its relationships, just as you establish relationships between all other phenomena, and then you seem to be working from the assumption that Being and Mind can ONLY function within these relationshipial patterns that you have defined.
We are getting into some pretty esoteric stuff here, and my eloquence fails me perhaps, but what I am trying to say is that it seems you are trying to apply the rules of a physical world to that which is both within, and yet not bound by space and time.
For the most part, our mind thinks in terms of relationships....as I stated, this is usually relationships between objects in space, or between events in time.
For example, a knife can cut an object in space, but it cannot cut itself in space. This is because the spacial relationships allow for the first, and do not allow for the second. How an object relates to other objects and itself in space determines its capabilities....similarly, in a more linear way, events occur in time and relate to each other along a lineal time line.
The Mind likes to categorize things in these ways....But Being is not a "function, thing, or event" subject to Mind's logic chains of spacial and temporal relationships.
Very often at this forum I read folks saying that Being, or Consciousness, or Awareness, or Mind, cannot be or be doing XYZ...Or describing "things" as "prior to, or separate from, or not the same as, or relative to..."
Its all a type of categorizing mind movement that is frankly a kind of mental absorption.
Moreover, its a way of trying to "grasp" that which is not subject to the linearity of space and time, and yet one with space and time, with a mental understanding.
To say that just as "a knife cannot cut itself, Being cannot experience itself" is your Mind trying to impose the logic and relationships of space and time upon that which is both within but not bound by space and time.
Said more plainly, you are applying the logic of physical and temporal laws to something not bound by them, and saying its insane to think otherwise ;-)
Honestly, I have a little chuckle whenever you guys try to define these things within the logic and rules of a physical world....you define things that have no relationships within a framework of relationships.
And then defend it vigorously.....how insane is that?