Memory in the market-place...

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Nisargadatta , " Tim G. " <fewtch wrote:

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> Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033@> wrote:

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> > > No investment in the past, which includes " space " as well -- as

remembered.

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> > Not sure what you mean by " includes 'space' as well " ...

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> > Do you mean the sense of there being space is due to memory?

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> > - Dan -

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> Basically, yes... the notion of 'something out there', outside awareness.

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> As it's memory, it isn't out there, outside awareness -- but arising 'here',

as memory.

 

D: So, following you here: you're saying that spatial perception depends on

memory. That makes sense to me. And even in observing " human development " as

if occurring " out there " : Infants take a while to develop a sense of space.

They have to build up enough experience in memory, then the template of time and

space can be implemented: inherited memory, inherited with the body-mind, which

is a memory template.

 

Yes, that memory template is used to position " things " out there where " I "

interact with " them. " And the " I " assumes awareness to itself, in a location

" here. " Because " things " come and go, but " I " remain " here " as the " one who

interacts with the things that affect me. "

 

And awareness doesn't really have a personalized location. Just that memory

gives that assumption, in order to develop concepts of things existing in space

and time, with which " I " interact.

 

Understanding that memory doesn't have the power to " make " anything, the

actuality is nonlocal awareness. And what is perceived as " things " is that

awareness. Even memory arising is that awareness.

 

One understands this first-hand and directly, or not. Words, even " awareness, "

are translations for the sake of " mind, " which is memory/thought. The word

" awareness " is used because " this is first-hand, direct, what one considers most

oneself, the here-ness " of one's being.

 

Memory/thought can be the basis for being fooled, but need not be.

 

- D -