'Consciousness is One'/Another angle/short!!/I promise

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Hi Benjamin,

 

You wrote,

>If this happened to you - and I have no reason or inclination to

>disbelieve it - then you are very lucky. For me, it's still

>basically theoretical, with occasional flashes of insight and

>inspiration.

 

This gave me another idea on how to approach this, though the approach we are

already on is fine. This one is more experiential.

 

I've looked through your many messages and see the following.

 

1. For you, it seems that the distinction between the subject and object of

thoughts has vanished.

 

2. But there's still a distinction between what seems to be "this thoughtstream"

and "other thoughtstreams."

 

 

For me, it happened the other way around (and this is in another online essay).

 

1. First, the distinction between various subjects vanished. I no longer

experienced myself as a separate subject, nor was any other thing experienced as

a subject. There was subject and stream of arisings, but it wasn't mine or

localized in any way. There wasn't felt to be one subject per person, but

rather the Subject or Witness. So this was still a perceivable distinction

between the arising objects and the Subject to which they arose.

 

2. This felt wonderful, but that wasn't the point. It wasn't quite what Advaita

was talking about, there was still that subject/object dualism. I was using the

Advaita teachings of my satguru Krishna Menon as a guide. So I looked into this

subject/object distinction very very intently for several years. Every minute

that the mind wasn't doing something else, it immediately became drawn to and

melted in that contemplation. Then one day, the gap disappeared.

 

I'll get bask to your posts in a more substantial way sometime today...

 

Harih OM,

 

--Greg