Thank you, I can get that, I think ... our being is remarkable - or not, I guess. Whether some other entity put us here or we are just an 'accident', we certainly have a conundrum to savour so at least we ought never to be bored.
please excuse my groping for understanding, my ignorance, my struggle to understand - but, what does this mean, how can or will it make a difference to my life, to how I experience the world in which I live?
I readily accept that what I accept or think I know as reality is, in all probability, a creation of my mind, indeed that I myself may be a creation of my own mind, that all may be a creation of my own mind but, nevertheless, if reality is not what I tend to consider it, even if I am a concept of my own mind and so is all else that I perceive to be reality, then my mind, at least, must be a part of reality, must it not?
I'm sorry, I'm a little lost but appreciate that someone is airing what I consider to be a real and significant question about me, and you, and they, and ...
Of course it is (as in your mind is part of reality)! But acknowledging that mind and reality are simply ways we define and explain certain phenomena in experience - in other words, ways in which we tend to produce certain set conceptual filters - allows the possibility of (perhaps) realising something is going on before the filtration. This pre-analytical root where the distinctions between mind and world haven't yet become sharp (or even appeared at all) might not be of any use or even interest. It's there as a more primal state, before any notions of it's usefulness. The part that might be put to use, in that it might loosen up some of the strictures of belief which can cause unnecessary suffering, is that this state is one before even the dualities of mind/world, yours/mine etc. I think of 'it' as a place from where all subsequent experience- and then our beliefs about experience- flow.
Thank you, I can get that, I think ... our being is remarkable - or not, I guess. Whether some other entity put us here or we are just an 'accident', we certainly have a conundrum to savour so at least we ought never to be bored.
That's it! The fact of our being at all is the mystery. It's refreshing in itself!
please excuse my groping for understanding, my ignorance, my struggle to understand - but, what does this mean, how can or will it make a difference to my life, to how I experience the world in which I live?
I readily accept that what I accept or think I know as reality is, in all probability, a creation of my mind, indeed that I myself may be a creation of my own mind, that all may be a creation of my own mind but, nevertheless, if reality is not what I tend to consider it, even if I am a concept of my own mind and so is all else that I perceive to be reality, then my mind, at least, must be a part of reality, must it not?
I'm sorry, I'm a little lost but appreciate that someone is airing what I consider to be a real and significant question about me, and you, and they, and ...
Of course it is (as in your mind is part of reality)! But acknowledging that mind and reality are simply ways we define and explain certain phenomena in experience - in other words, ways in which we tend to produce certain set conceptual filters - allows the possibility of (perhaps) realising something is going on before the filtration. This pre-analytical root where the distinctions between mind and world haven't yet become sharp (or even appeared at all) might not be of any use or even interest. It's there as a more primal state, before any notions of it's usefulness. The part that might be put to use, in that it might loosen up some of the strictures of belief which can cause unnecessary suffering, is that this state is one before even the dualities of mind/world, yours/mine etc. I think of 'it' as a place from where all subsequent experience- and then our beliefs about experience- flow.