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Posted by Lian Dao on 1/16/2008, 10:08 am, in reply to "Re: true mind, false mind"
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: No, thinking about not thinking is still
: thinking. And getting past that is no small
: matter initially, like getting past the
: I-awareness, "I am meditating"
: when meditating. Pushing past it all to pure
: awareness where there is no thought, and no
: sense of the "I", just experience.
:
: Simple, direct, bare attention is without
: thought. If one's thinking at all, awareness
: is at least partially on the thought, and
: awareness of experience is divided. In the
: moments of rapt, complete attention, there
: is no thought.
:
: My use of the word "mind" is
: probably a mistake, but I don't know which
: word is better. We have cognitive lucidity,
: we are aware. Of something. Our awareness is
: ordinarily scattered, dabbling between the
: fleeting awareness of direct experience and
: the constant mental chatter going on.
: Allowing the mental chatter to cease, there
: remains full awareness, experience.
:
: Words are crappy tools.
:
But there all we got :-)
i still prefer to say detaching false mind from true mind with all the conditional implications thereof because simply there is no false mind but only true mind and nothing to be detached therefrom. But still it MUST, MUST be done!!!! For it all hinges upon it!
Such is the paradox.
Amitofo!
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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