These days ‘i looked’ although when ‘i look’, it’s very uncertain what this ‘i’ which ‘looks’ is. Confusing? No.
I just sit or walk and observe, there are 6 senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste and the mind. Yes, the mind. After all there are thoughts, an inner voice, concepts, ideas and images which i witness. Besides we know that what we sense is reconstituted in the mind as an interface, in other words, the reality ‘out there’ is not what the reality of the mind is. (And is the reality of one’s mind the same as that of the other? Is my green, your green?)
Now when observing those things – not seeking them, not following them up – just observing them as they pass by, there often are some thoughts. Again those thoughts are mere things: mental objects in the mental sense-field. All these objects are just a variation of this sense field: we know light by its colours only.
Now when this is going on for a time, there is an increasing awarenes of consciousness. Just like standing on a spinning horizontal wheel seemingly makes the world move, but as we look down nothing moves, we are standing quietly on a wheel. But is there an ‘i’ then? What happens when this consciousness is not here? Is it ever not there or is it simply not stimulated, is it at rest?
The idea of there being a ‘me looking’ does induces the idea of an ‘object being looked at’. But this idea is a mental-object. What is there when this mental object is discarded? What is the ground of transient changes in the consciousness-field? When the ‘me’ is discarded, when the ‘objects’ are discarded, there is consciousness only. Consciousness then may be similar to a rope, the very end of which are the ‘me’ and the ‘object’ respectively, they do not exist outside of the mind.
There are more questions in my mind, so unclear and perhaps it is not necessary to answer them, but let's take them down:
I just sit or walk and observe, there are 6 senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste and the mind. Yes, the mind. After all there are thoughts, an inner voice, concepts, ideas and images which i witness. Besides we know that what we sense is reconstituted in the mind as an interface, in other words, the reality ‘out there’ is not what the reality of the mind is. (And is the reality of one’s mind the same as that of the other? Is my green, your green?)
Now when observing those things – not seeking them, not following them up – just observing them as they pass by, there often are some thoughts. Again those thoughts are mere things: mental objects in the mental sense-field. All these objects are just a variation of this sense field: we know light by its colours only.
Now when this is going on for a time, there is an increasing awarenes of consciousness. Just like standing on a spinning horizontal wheel seemingly makes the world move, but as we look down nothing moves, we are standing quietly on a wheel. But is there an ‘i’ then? What happens when this consciousness is not here? Is it ever not there or is it simply not stimulated, is it at rest?
The idea of there being a ‘me looking’ does induces the idea of an ‘object being looked at’. But this idea is a mental-object. What is there when this mental object is discarded? What is the ground of transient changes in the consciousness-field? When the ‘me’ is discarded, when the ‘objects’ are discarded, there is consciousness only. Consciousness then may be similar to a rope, the very end of which are the ‘me’ and the ‘object’ respectively, they do not exist outside of the mind.
There are more questions in my mind, so unclear and perhaps it is not necessary to answer them, but let's take them down:
- Are there other consciousnesses? The very idea of ‘another’ would suggest a mind-borne illusion. But it’s hard to believe there are no others. Are there others?
- Space and time are ideas, they are changes in the field of consciousness. Outside of consciousness – if there are such thing as other consciousnesses – we would be on the same space and time. That would make us one.
- So why and how is this singularity of consciousness possible?
- Is there a beyond consciousness? It would be formless, timeless, spaceless. Is there a cause? There cannot be any beyond time, beyond space, cant there?
- What’s happening during the ‘time-out’ of deep sleep? Nothing happening or simply no memory? Can i say there is nothing because a room is dark?
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