 Originally Posted by debrajane
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Direct Experience
There are raw experiences; hearing,seeing, touching,smelling and tasting. There are sensations in the body, hunger, thirst or pain. This is what we refer to as Direct Experience.This is the level of experience of cats, dogs and new born babies.
Then there are thoughts.
Thoughts layer concepts over these raw experiences. A thought, or label, or concept, is never the actual. Some thoughts point to the actual and some thoughts point to other thoughts. This is the realm of make-believe. This is the realm of of "I".
Is there an "I" in Direct Experience?
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 Originally Posted by debrajane
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When you stay with your immediate, Direct Experience you perceive only sights, sounds, taste, sensations, thoughts and emotions. None of those experiences belongs to you. They start belonging to you only when a "my" or a "mine" arise.
You can sense the environment. You can sense "aliveness ". Without thinking, aliveness is still there. Beingness is still there. We are talking about Direct Experience here.
Don't theorise, "look".
Stay with bare observation and what is seen. Really try to describe what that false sense of self, is.
Is it really false?
Does it seem true?
If this launches you into a "present moment" investigation, go with it, act like your own scientist. Verify whatever you can by observation.
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 Originally Posted by debrajane
2:44 (...) 4:44
(4:44)...You will start to realize that thinking is happening on its own and that having control of thoughts is another illusion. (4:50)
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(5:12) This large and complex program is running itself, there is no "I" making it happen. Actions arise on there own too. There is no doer deciding what to do, though it appears that there is.
Doing happens, walking happens, speaking happens. No doer involved.
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If there is no self, there's also no other, there's just life in another embodiment.
The same life that's expressing itself, through you.
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Close your eyes and search for the boundary of a "you".
(...), were do you end? and where does this world begin? (...)
When you open your eyes, what happens? Is there really a "you" looking out of two holes in your head? Are you doing the seeing? or are sights just here without any boundary?
Here and Now look. ...
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Is there inner and outer in this experience?
Do you know what perception is and how it works?
Perception is a collection of memories that massages the data received when a stimulus occurs.
Before this data goes to the brain for processing perception is a frame of reference. A bias (we all develop) that judges and alters our experience.
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..., we can never actually see reality for what it is. Our perception will always shape our experience to fit our memories.
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This sense of self is an artifact of thought.
LU Enlightening Quotes - 04
Direct Experience
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