Dan-Desire and Being

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Hi Dan,

 

, Daniel Berkow <berkowd@u...> wrote:

> Without any images, reality

> is neither inside or outside.

 

Still, it seems the pointer "look inward" can be helpful,

because "inward" is generally ignored and "outward" gets all the

attention.

 

Eventually it becomes clear that there isn't an inside or an outside

to anything, but there's no denying the usefulness of "introspection"

in clearing up common misperceptions.

> "All this -- as is" is reality --

> it just isn't inside or outside,

> and thus there can't be situated

> any entities living or dying.

 

Thousands of entities appear to take birth and die every day... yet

the consciousness "in which" this appearance occurs isn't born and

can't die.

> I become a doer through imagining that

> these thoughts placed there are acting

> on behalf of an entity to make things happen.

 

Yes, as if "I were making the thoughts happen" or "thoughts are

occurring to me." Similarly, as if "I am doing something"

or "actions happen to me."

 

Thoughts appear to arise and subside, actions appear to take place...

but there's no 'center' to these, no location in time or space.

> Perception with no perceiver isn't perception

> in the usual meaning of the word.

> It doesn't give a report of "events outside" ...

 

True... perhaps it has been called "apperception" in order to

distinguish it from "perception" :-).

> With no inside or outside, nothing is represented

> or construed.

> It is simply "what is" ...

> Memory can function, thought can

> arise -- but where is this occurring?

> Where am "I" located?

 

Nowhere in particular... :-). It seems the "in particular" deserves

special emphasis.

> There is only the acausal, undivided being ...

 

Ahh, "There is only ..." -- 'my' favorite mode of expression ;-).

 

Love,

 

Tim