Bill Reinecke Is there any such thing as attention? Is it directed? Or is there just a succession of objects arising on their own? If it is directed then who does that?
Magdi Badawy As a separate imaginary self, there is no doership and no directing. Thus from that perspective arisings are perceived as occurring on their own or are perceived as occurring out of a personal will.
Upon the understanding of That which I am, the one universal reality, doing and non doing dissolve.
In between, meaning upon a glimpse into our true nature, we apply ourselves to awakening from the impression of separation.
That is the sadhana.
Upon the understanding of That which I am, the one universal reality, doing and non doing dissolve.
In between, meaning upon a glimpse into our true nature, we apply ourselves to awakening from the impression of separation.
That is the sadhana.
Bill Reinecke Also, aren’t objects discrete? If you ask me to close my eyes and ask, how many birds do you hear, I say “A blue Jay and a tit mouse. Oh, and a helicopter!” How is the answer “one?”
Magdi Badawy As a separate imaginary self, there is no doership and no directing. Thus from that perspective arisings are perceived as occurring on their own or are perceived as occurring out of a personal will.
Upon the understanding of That which I am, the one universal reality, doing and non doing dissolve.
In between, meaning upon a glimpse into our true nature, we apply ourselves to awakening from the impression of separation.
That is the sadhana.
Upon the understanding of That which I am, the one universal reality, doing and non doing dissolve.
In between, meaning upon a glimpse into our true nature, we apply ourselves to awakening from the impression of separation.
That is the sadhana.
Magdi Badawy “One” does not refer to that which is perceived. Oneness does not refer to minds or to images on the screen.
Oneness refers to that which is real. The reality of consciousness/Awareness.
The reality of Self.
One reality. Infinite dream impressions.
Oneness refers to that which is real. The reality of consciousness/Awareness.
The reality of Self.
One reality. Infinite dream impressions.
Bill Reinecke So perception has elements or threads but it is all one piece, all one tapestry?
Are objects separate from each other?
Magdi Badawy Can you separate thought A from thought B?
What is the separation between the observed and the observation?
What is the separation between the observed and the observation?
Perception refers to a perceiver and a perceived. That is a thought process.
Apperception refers to perception sans perceiver, sans thought.