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What is self-awareness?

Papoon

Papoon

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Gambit said:
The subject of perception and the object of perception are united as one during meditation.
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Yes, and in post-meditation as one's practice develops. The distinction between meditation and non-meditation is what is dissolved through right use of method. The important point here is to allow the meditation method to dissolve that distinction, rather than preempt the process by a speculative intellectual substitution for the practice.
 
atanu

atanu

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Spiny Norman said:
What does "in" our self mean? Where does our experience occur? Is our experience a "self" or just experience?
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Particular experiences occur in particular organs. But the most general experience of existence, running through all particular experiences but not linked and/or dependent on any object, is the Self itself.
 
Papoon

Papoon

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Spiny Norman said:
What does "in" our self mean? Where does our experience occur? Is our experience a "self" or just experience?
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I just quoted you back to you with 'self' and 'mind' swapped in sentence position.
The two terms are pretty much interchangeable anyway, and especially to a Buddhist. By which I mean - the Buddhist position is that the aggregates (effectively, 'mind') are anatta (' not self' ) - which statement is only made because mind is perceived as self, right ?
So mind and self ( both wrongly perceived) mean the same thing.
I hope that makes my intent clearer.
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
Papoon said:
The two terms are pretty much interchangeable anyway, and especially to a Buddhist. By which I mean - the Buddhist position is that the aggregates (effectively, 'mind') are anatta (' not self' ) - which statement is only made because mind is perceived as self, right ?
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I am using "mind" to mean the space where thoughts and feelings arise. We assume "my thoughts" and "my feelings".
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
Papoon said:
So what is this 'space' ?
Does it have inherent existence ?
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I imagine it as being located in my head, but I think that's just because most of the sense organs are in the head. And no, I don't see it as having inherent or independent existence.
 
Papoon

Papoon

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Spiny Norman said:
I imagine it as being located in my head, but I think that's just because most of the sense organs are in the head. And no, I don't see it as having inherent or independent existence.
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So is it something ?
If not, thoughts cannot be said to arise in it.
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
Papoon said:
So is it something ?
If not, thoughts cannot be said to arise in it.
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A space is the best way I can think to describe "mind" it at the moment. I suppose you could think of it as a "container", but that might be misleading.

How would you describe "mind", practically speaking?
 
Papoon

Papoon

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Spiny Norman said:
A space is the best way I can think to describe "mind" it at the moment. I suppose you could think of it as a "container", but that might be misleading.

How would you describe "mind", practically speaking?
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I wouldn't. It's imponderable.
 
Papoon

Papoon

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Spiny Norman said:
:rolleyes: Why ask me question's about it then? o_O
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For fun, and deconstruction of certainties, and BTW, you asked me questions too.
Also, because Buddhist logic is often presented as if it contains answers to philosophical questions, such as the one posed in the OP, which it does not, nor was ever intended to.
Your turn...why were you asking me questions ? LOL
 
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