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Old 24-01-2020, 04:22 AM
janielee
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Originally Posted by sentient
Pure Awareness itself being vast, empty, open, space-like and not having form, substance, content, self-nature ….. and yet it is lucid, awake, beyond duality and unobstructed by conceptual overlays…….
I’d call this the ‘spatial dimension’.

It seems to me that Anatta teachings are the pointers that lead to the experience, the realization of Shunyata.


But when we ignore the ‘spatial dimension’ altogether and just focus on the 'form dimension' - after a while this becomes our default mode …… and there we have it. A separate self-identity - Ego is born.


To me the skandhas/aggregates are like a DIY - project.
How to build a separate self - ego with seemingly solid, seemingly permanent and impenetrable walls - in 5 easy steps.

https://www.beezone.com/Trungpa/fiveskandas.html


Teachings and Meditation starts to reverse this process ….

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Yep............
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