Post by enigma on Oct 23, 2010 4:27:26 GMT -5
It's not that something lies beyond that we can guess about. It's simpler than that, though talking about it will make it sound more complex. Mind is the process of creating experience, and this happens by identifying qualities, and this happens by conceptually forming dualistic polarities and the result of this process is to conceptually break wholeness into parts by differentiating it. Mind essentially assigns qualities and labels to perceptions for the purpose of creating apparent separation, which is then used to form temporal events.
This is all very cool because we couldn't have experience without it, but it's all imagined. We come to take this process so much for granted that when we want to know what is actually doing all of this, we naturally turn to mind for answers and begin the process of differentiation again for the purpose of identifying and experiencing that which is prior to this separation process. IOW, we try to use a duality generator to identify nonduality. If mind succeeds in identifying something, it becomes another conceptually differentiated object; mind has split the unsplittable again and turned it into another object of awareness that the wholeness we're looking for is observing.
So wholeness can never be an object, and therefore cannot be an experience. Again, mind is so accustomed to experience being the only known reality that it doesn't notice that there is an experiencer that cannot, itself, be experienced, and about which nothing can be known, and to which no labels will stick. It can, however, be realized.
This is all very cool because we couldn't have experience without it, but it's all imagined. We come to take this process so much for granted that when we want to know what is actually doing all of this, we naturally turn to mind for answers and begin the process of differentiation again for the purpose of identifying and experiencing that which is prior to this separation process. IOW, we try to use a duality generator to identify nonduality. If mind succeeds in identifying something, it becomes another conceptually differentiated object; mind has split the unsplittable again and turned it into another object of awareness that the wholeness we're looking for is observing.
So wholeness can never be an object, and therefore cannot be an experience. Again, mind is so accustomed to experience being the only known reality that it doesn't notice that there is an experiencer that cannot, itself, be experienced, and about which nothing can be known, and to which no labels will stick. It can, however, be realized.