What is consciousness... I know it is something we strive for each and every minute.... and evidently from the story you just told... it can be found when we are not actively looking. Nick this reminds me of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". Are the people in the cave seeing reality or are the shadows on the wall reality.... thank you for the reminder of the essence of consciousness.
Of course the title makes it sound like I understand consciousness. I don't. I'm not sure comprehension could sit alongside consciousness in the same sentence. But I do have an observation about its nature. Through the close up experience of thousands of people. Myself included.
And importantly, years ago a thought stumbled upon me ... 'whether I understood and of this or I didn't was irrelevant. It would work as it does either way. So I was off the hook with regard to any understanding. Perhaps I should rename this audio (which was spoken without thinking!).
Thank you for sharing. It relates to my experience that being conscious is a practice of listening, of receiving. In my native language, Dutch we use 'bewust-zijn' something like aware-being of being aware. I like this word because it indicates that I am part of a greater 'being'.
Your insight also relates to; I have arrived, I am home.
I also have the feeling that the 'mental' formation 'to use something' is a mistake. it has a bias of the possibility to possess.
I will reflect on your suggestion to practice absence of the need to do something in this moment of time. maybe the need that pops up is a misunderstanding. Like some dew on your glasses. At this moment in time, I feel that this approach feels somewhat opposite to the suggestion in the poem 'bystanders'.
Bystanders- I imagine awareness to arrive in one in a moment of stillness. This is my experience. And when one becomes aware I imagine the second part of the equation maybe to act on what one has become aware of. And sometimes such awareness compels one to act and there is a consequence to the status quo (and so it may be easy to pretend not to be aware, and stand the danger of becoming a bystander).
The ‘approach’ is start with nothing (no act of the mind) then let it (find you). Then when one has let it, allow that awareness to cause your next move.
This strikes so directly. Thank you, Nic. "The origin point of such awareness is not of one’s own mind, and therefore carries significant risk." And yes, haunting.
What is consciousness... I know it is something we strive for each and every minute.... and evidently from the story you just told... it can be found when we are not actively looking. Nick this reminds me of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". Are the people in the cave seeing reality or are the shadows on the wall reality.... thank you for the reminder of the essence of consciousness.
Of course the title makes it sound like I understand consciousness. I don't. I'm not sure comprehension could sit alongside consciousness in the same sentence. But I do have an observation about its nature. Through the close up experience of thousands of people. Myself included.
And importantly, years ago a thought stumbled upon me ... 'whether I understood and of this or I didn't was irrelevant. It would work as it does either way. So I was off the hook with regard to any understanding. Perhaps I should rename this audio (which was spoken without thinking!).
Thank you for sharing. It relates to my experience that being conscious is a practice of listening, of receiving. In my native language, Dutch we use 'bewust-zijn' something like aware-being of being aware. I like this word because it indicates that I am part of a greater 'being'.
Your insight also relates to; I have arrived, I am home.
I also have the feeling that the 'mental' formation 'to use something' is a mistake. it has a bias of the possibility to possess.
I will reflect on your suggestion to practice absence of the need to do something in this moment of time. maybe the need that pops up is a misunderstanding. Like some dew on your glasses. At this moment in time, I feel that this approach feels somewhat opposite to the suggestion in the poem 'bystanders'.
Thank you.
Bystanders- I imagine awareness to arrive in one in a moment of stillness. This is my experience. And when one becomes aware I imagine the second part of the equation maybe to act on what one has become aware of. And sometimes such awareness compels one to act and there is a consequence to the status quo (and so it may be easy to pretend not to be aware, and stand the danger of becoming a bystander).
The ‘approach’ is start with nothing (no act of the mind) then let it (find you). Then when one has let it, allow that awareness to cause your next move.
And yes to greater ‘being’!
Thank you. Consequence for the status quo is very helpfull. A drop of water wakes up the seed. The seed becomes a tree. A bird finds his nest.
This strikes so directly. Thank you, Nic. "The origin point of such awareness is not of one’s own mind, and therefore carries significant risk." And yes, haunting.