This piece of blog could be a good ‘pointer’.
How to we experience this world. Is there an experience-er.
How do we know?
It feels a subject - object world and it is impossible to
make out the truth of what we are, unless it happens as an ‘insight’. If all
thoughts with meanings are happening on its own, if all actions, as a result of
thoughts and its meaning, is happening on its own, if all analysis of what is
seen and heard is happening on its own, then what is the role of ‘me’ in all of
this.
There is something known as a phantom leg. In this the patients
leg is amputated and there is an ‘experiencing’ of a leg, as if the original
leg was not amputated at all. There is itching, and all feel, as if, you had
the leg intact. Now, all the ‘experiencing’ of that ‘no-leg’ is happening, but
at a place where there is no-leg or where there is ‘nobody’ to experience. It
can be said, that, experiencing is happening about that leg to nobody and
nowhere. So is the ‘experiencing’ of all ‘THIS’ which is ( the so called
universe, including your body mind). So everybody is free as even that somebody
was only the ‘experiencing of it’ by nobody or mysteriously ( symbolised as
consciousness).
No-one can know, what is happening exactly there, in terms
of factuality. There is nothing happeing factually, outside the experiencing and
there is no-one as experience-er, outside of experiencing. Everything there is ‘mental’
and ‘mental’ is a word used for ‘nobody’ or to mystery (symbolised as
consciousness). .
Similarly we experience visual objects, where there is
nothing like objects, sounds where there is nothing like sounds, pain where
there is nothing like pain. Here ‘nothing like’ means- ‘apart from the experiencing
of it’ or stand alone facts, outside the experiencing of it.
The experiencing of a visual is not ‘the visual’. We dream
at night. Say, Nanda is the dream character.
The dream character, say, is experiencing a snake bite. The dream character also
experiences fear. The Nanda lying on the bed is also experiencing a rapid heart
beat. So many experiencing’s are
happening on its own and some interpretation is also happening, explaining a meaning to that dream character ‘happenings’
and also that which is happening to the ‘one’
lying on the bed.
So there is series of experiencing happening and thoughts
happening, with meaning, about the experiencing happening. Now the meaning
happening is happening as if, it is happening to a ‘body mind’, but that
body-mind is also an ‘experiencing’ of that what is happening.
So, mysteriously a body-mind is first ‘happening’ as an experiencing
and as an extension to that experiencing, another experiencing ‘as world’ is
also happening, and experiencing of thoughts are happening to make meaning, as
if that ‘extension’ is experienced by the this experience as ‘body-mind’.
The ‘feeling’ of hate, love, anger, seems to appear to this
body, as a reaction, to the experiencing of that outside world and the totality
of all this bunch of sensations seems as if a ‘world’ is happening to a ‘person’.
The ‘Person’ the ‘visual’, ‘audible’ olfactory, etc etc are
all sensations. Sensations or sensing is another word for experiencing. So
there is ‘world of sensations’ that is happening and since there is ‘no world’
outside of these sensations, and no-one to whom it is happening, it is
impossible to see, what is happening, outside of these sensations.
So ‘one set’ of sensations is happening ‘to mean’ as body –mind’
and ‘another set’ of sensations is happening ‘to mean’ as the world, and there
seems some action in the ‘second set’ and some reaction in the ‘first set’ as
if the ‘first set’ is experiencing the ‘second set’, the meaning to which is
enabled in thoughts, as thoughts are ‘meaningful’ experiences. So we are
directly experiencing ‘meanings’ of ‘sensations’ or ‘thoughts’ of ‘experiences’
which makes a subject- object world.
Outside of experiencing, there is no world, no person, no
body, no mind and so, nothing ‘real’ is happening. If happening of experiencing
is regarded as ‘psychic’, then all there is, is a ‘psychic’ world out there,
like a dream, including a dream character in a dream world, all being played
out well, but no-one experiencing this waking dream as an objective ‘entity’.
That no-one (objective) is what is called consciousness
which is the experience-er, as well the experiencing of something ‘that is not
happening at all’ objectively.
If all this can make sense to that ‘no-one’ that you are, because
experiencing this is the reading of it and meaning of it, then, the pointing has pointed well. Or else, this
pointing will become a seed of doubt to the ‘individual’ to have his or her
path, trying to get this, which is also an experiencing ‘of a person’ trying to
get this, ending in success or seeking.
