Your actual experience
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Your actual experience
You perceive 'ever-changing form'.
You seem to be (or have) a particular body/mind. However, is this body/mind that you seem to be (or have) not, after all, just another part of the 'ever-changing form' that is 'perceived' by what You are?
Because 'ever-changing form' is 'the perceived', NO part of it at all (such as ANY body/mind, or ANY subpart or 'owner' thereof) can actually BE 'the perceiver' of it, that You are.
Have you, in all honesty, ever actually had even a single experience of 'the perceived' (including the particular body/mind that You seem to be or have) having any perception of it's own, of any kind at all?
You, as a 'perceiver', are absolutely changeless and formless.
As such, in truth, You have no location or edge, and so You do not begin or end. You are infinite and eternal, as the One unthreatenable Emptiness itself.
You are Pure Awareness.
Peace.
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Re: Your actual experience
What part of "cogito ergo sum" do you not follow?Relinquish wrote:You are aware.
You perceive 'ever-changing form'.
You seem to be (or have) a particular body/mind. However, is this body/mind that you seem to be (or have) not, after all, just another part of the 'ever-changing form' that is 'perceived' by what You are?
Because 'ever-changing form' is 'the perceived', NO part of it at all (such as ANY body/mind, or ANY subpart or 'owner' thereof) can actually BE 'the perceiver' of it, that You are.
Have you, in all honesty, ever actually had even a single experience of 'the perceived' (including the particular body/mind that You seem to be or have) having any perception of it's own, of any kind at all?
You, as a 'perceiver', are absolutely changeless and formless.
As such, in truth, You have no location or edge, and so You do not begin or end. You are infinite and eternal, as the One unthreatenable Emptiness itself.
You are Pure Awareness.
Peace.
You have covered Descartes in at least your Philosophy 101 class in college, right?
Did that not have an impact on you then ?!
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Re: Your actual experience
I don't think there's anything wrong with the OP stating Descartes from his own viewpoint. We can read others works, but sometimes it only clicks with us on a personal level when its experienced through our own eyes in our own way.YIOSTHEOY wrote:
What part of "cogito ergo sum" do you not follow?
You have covered Descartes in at least your Philosophy 101 class in college, right?
Did that not have an impact on you then ?!
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