1. "Do ideas come to you?"
They arise in consciousness just as everything I experience does.[/quote]
Subatomic God wrote:Why say "I experience", if ideas are alien to your observation?
"I" is a limitation inherent in language producing an inevitable paradox during discussions. The trick is to not ever believe in the "I" but one may use it. When we do not use "I" and "me", language can become alienating unless each limited individual human consciousness understands the paradox.
"There is no coming or going and no to and from. Things and ideas simply arise. They form."
Subatomic God wrote:Then what is "I" or "you", but information?
"I" or "me" arises as idea within consciousness. As information it informs of nothing other than its opposite. Things always allude to their opposite. The opposite of "I exist" is "I does not". "I" is an arising phenomena. An idea. So when we talk of ideas we usually and often talk using the idea "I" and "me" and "you" and "we" and "us" and "them" and "other".
Otherness is the chief thing to be resolved (into the light that is Consciousness). "Whenever there is other, fear arises."
"I have not had the experience of shock accompanying an experience of a particularly interesting idea. I have had an experience of disappearance into 'enlightenment' and shock did not follow or accompany it."
Subatomic God wrote:Expound.
No shock to expound. But the experience resolved human consciousness. Suspended it. Human consciousness (that apparently individual human pattern of thought and analysis) is a limitation, an object (of circular thought process - atoms), which arises within Consciousness, ceased. Became so still that it disappeared (so "I" disappeared), because objects (electrical impulses, effectively) are forms of motion. When motion stops there is nothing. However, on this particular occasion, there was identification with that nothing or stopping rather than identification with an "I" (which is a product of motion-electrical impulses). The source of all motion/electricity is its opposite.
"Because such "wise men" know that all phenomena, including words, thoughts, ideas, arise in the consciousness that is not their own just as the body/mind/personality of their most consistant 'everyday' experience (within which it merely seems ideas arise) is also not their own. All bodies arise in consciousness of which is not owned by one personality. Rather, consciousness is one reality within which all "seemed" bodies and personalities arise. Every personality, every body, every object are mere aspects of one consciousness".
Subatomic God wrote:And what is this consciousness?
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"Consciousness" is a word for whatever this is within which all things-events-experiences arise. If I was to replace "consciousness" with yet another word this still would not tell us anything more. We do not know what any of this is. This is why "all this" has sometimes been referred to as "isness". Beyond any word for everything we inevitably play circular word games. Consequently we would just become dizzy. No point.