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Post by howtalk on Dec 3, 2010 15:54:31 GMT -5
hi run
i think you have a great attitude towards this.
you had a glimpse of something, but you are not sure what, and you sound open to allow answers to come where-ever that may lead you. Most would want to solidify a belief system around the experience, and wall off other ideas.
What seems to be true is never something the "me" can understand, thus to try and understand it mentally will already lead to confusion. the best that can happen is like an embodyment of it in the cells. Crappy answer I know, but hard to say it-
or better to say, the experience or glimpse is always there, always behind everything that mind and body is doing. Maybe not flush in awareness, but just always in the background touching. And just allow that to be. Then it can come into awareness as it wants.
Let go of the need to control or understand it, and you might be surprised what happens to it
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Post by mits on Dec 8, 2010 5:03:33 GMT -5
You know when you go to bed and you re-live allthose experiences in your head that occured throughout the day - it seems like your watching a film at the cinema, spool after spool. Well try observing the awareness that is watching those experiences, it is quite bizarre and of yet I don't know what to make of it....
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Post by m on Dec 8, 2010 5:23:13 GMT -5
mits, what is quite bizarre ? why do you want to make anything with it? m You know when you go to bed and you re-live allthose experiences in your head that occured throughout the day - it seems like your watching a film at the cinema, spool after spool. Well try observing the awareness that is watching those experiences, it is quite bizarre and of yet I don't know what to make of it.... |
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Post by mits on Dec 8, 2010 14:23:43 GMT -5
M: By this I meant I used to believe that awareness was limited to physical mind and body only, but with what I have discovered there seems to an awareness within an awareness watching my thought, feelings, events encountered throughout the day. This is what I meant as I can't quite put my finger on what this awareness is? Hope it makes sense?
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Post by m on Dec 8, 2010 14:58:41 GMT -5
mits, your "I can't quite put my finger on what this awareness is? " reminds me of the tools provided by Douglas Harding (The headless way). May help you. I suggest you have a look. On the internet,you will easily find some exercises of the headless way of Douglas Harding. m M: By this I meant I used to believe that awareness was limited to physical mind and body only, but with what I have discovered there seems to an awareness within an awareness watching my thought, feelings, events encountered throughout the day. This is what I meant as I can't quite put my finger on what this awareness is? Hope it makes sense? |
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Post by enigma on Dec 8, 2010 18:11:49 GMT -5
M: By this I meant I used to believe that awareness was limited to physical mind and body only, but with what I have discovered there seems to an awareness within an awareness watching my thought, feelings, events encountered throughout the day. This is what I meant as I can't quite put my finger on what this awareness is? Hope it makes sense? If I'm understanding you right, the awareness of thoughts, feelings, events, is consciousness.(The first one, I guess.) We can be aware that we are aware of these things, which is just self awareness. (The second.) Aware of being aware is still the same awareness. You're also aware of being aware of being aware, but this doesn't imply there is an awareness within an awareness within an awareness. |
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Post by mamza on Dec 10, 2010 3:49:50 GMT -5
I tried something many people wouldn't agree with and experienced something to this effect, and knowing where you're possibly coming from I can wholeheartedly second that 'weirdness' to it. The problem is that you get caught on it and try to make sense of it instead of just letting it happen. The more you try to piece it together, the less likely it is to happen again because you're so busy thinking about it.
The dream part doesn't fit me so well...I feel like I live an entire life in my dreams on the off occasion that I remember it. Really weird things usually happen....horses morphing into gorillas...lamp-posts into jack-o-lanterns.. weird stuff. Sometimes I fight and conquer frightening things, sometimes I hide. Dreams are fun no matter the kind!
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