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Originally Posted by The Cobbler's Apprentice
that implies we should have no " view" at all of what we wish to "become".
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which is a view. better perhaps is to have no view about views. it's not a matter of changing what is, it's a matter of changing fundamentally what our attention is on. changing fundamentally our perspective. changing fundamentally our relationship with what is
like one is in the middle of new york's times square on new years eve....(before covid) bumping into all of those people on the street then one takes an elevator to the roof top of a skyscraper and stands there alone looking down on the crowd one was in the middle of a few minutes before... one's perspective has changed
we are in this moment, there is input of various kinds. maybe we are in a coffee shop, so there is what we see, a woman at the counter.... the smell of the coffee, so input sourced from our nose and eyes and ears.... she asks us what we want to order...input to awareness, ....at the same time, input from from our thoughts... what we are thinking, what thoughts appear to us......what are we focusing on? paying attention to? the smell of the coffee? is that the main thing in that moment thought is going on about? the thing we have focused our attention on? probably we are focusing on whatever the brain puts up there as thought based on our habits and patterns of thought, maybe something of a sexual nature which is common in males.. a fleeting thought that resonates in some way....
our perspective is that which receives and "feels" the input. what the senses are perceiving and what thoughts that appear based on that.
but there is another perspective the sages talk about. to not be a "center" so to see the whole movement as one. so me and that woman at the counter are one, not two. i am a camera moving around that space as is she, different inputs, lenses aimed in different directions at different things in the same general space. and her mental input, her thoughts, are based on her habits and conditioning and stored memories and such. so our input is different. but both are cameras with an inner dialog and can be recognized as such. there is no difference.
and our perspective can be of this absolute sameness. when we shift from perceiving ourselves as the content of consciousness. we are that which receives the content, not the content itself. so then we recognize oneness. there is no difference between any of us.
some are aware we are all the same and some are not. there is nothing to do or achieve or become, this is all just non-sense of the inner content, thought. different ideas that come and go yet our perspective can be they are us or me or worthy of our attention. one can invent all kinds of important meaning in this inner input.
if we truly know the content is not us, our attention is not on it, then what is our attention on? well one can find out. it can't be put into words as words are the domain of inner content. the "news feed"
a different perspective results in a different experience of the same content.
you knocked on the Benedictine Door but left because you didn't get what you wanted
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