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Post by tenka on Sept 27, 2024 14:29:00 GMT -5
An individual is a creation of the mind based on memories of the past and projections into the future. Well my understandings is that everything is of the mind, but let's say for a moment, forget about memories and past projections and home in on one's self awareness now. Are you in awareness of all that is or not? |
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Post by tenka on Sept 27, 2024 14:31:59 GMT -5
Is this question really any different to the perennial conundrum, "Who am I"? I agree, for one has to understand / realise to a degree what one is before one can say if there can be individualisation or not. |
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Post by andrew on Sept 27, 2024 15:50:29 GMT -5
:: senses Tenka about to enter the conversation ::  Is there any point flogging a dead horse, that's not really a horse at all? |
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Post by sharon on Sept 28, 2024 1:05:24 GMT -5
An individual is a creation of the mind based on memories of the past and projections into the future. Well my understandings is that everything is of the mind, but let's say for a moment, forget about memories and past projections and home in on one's self awareness now. Are you in awareness of all that is or not? Where does Awareness end? Is the same question. Personally I don’t know. I do however recognise that boundaries are necessary to live a healthy ‘individuated’ life. This boundary making is done neurologically. |
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Post by lolly on Oct 2, 2024 2:58:44 GMT -5
To me it seems to be continuously forming, and everything in the past contributes to that. Now this is happening, so it's having the effect of changing the way I am. In a deeper sense, the insights open locked doors and unwind bound up knots, which is more profoundly transformative. If the way through you is pretty clear you don't resist the changes as much, even when the transformations are quite extreme. From my perspective it's not such a big deal because it's part of everything that changes, which I think is quite distinct from the presence of awareness that is more of a constant. However, it is important to be an acceptable character so others offer you more opportunities, and you aren't generally shunned and ostracised.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Oct 5, 2024 11:48:24 GMT -5
If there is anything in life that can make you negative, it's not an external event, or a person, it's in you. You are the source of your own negativity. You are then not-yet-an-individual, you are merely reactivity. You have said 'I' to your conditioning, which is always the wrong sense of I.
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