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Addressing posts 1 & 2 in my view, the key is to accept rather than negate, whatever is, as it appears in our awareness but with the proviso that we do not assume ownership over the object, the word ‘object’ meaning thoughts, emotions and sensations too. If we own it but do not want it, we fight it. On the other hand, if we do not own it, we merely look at it, in vibrant nonchalance. In as it applies to my approach, this is key shift in orientation, in as how we approach our meditational immersion or for that matter, our moment to moment response to life as it unfolds.
The basic Buddhist (or was it Ramana?) inquiry is useful here, asking ‘to whom do these thoughts or sensations come?’ Slowly, in a continuum of attentive mindfulness, our awareness is animated, poised in the void, in rippleless silence. The images that move upon the screen of our awareness are then merely shadows playing upon it, powerless to impact the core of of our consciousness or aliveness.
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The Self has no attribute
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