90. The Person That We Think We Are:

What would be the idea when we say that there is a person to a body. A character, that may be good or bad or unknown? 

There is definitely a difference between a dead body and a live body. The person that we think we are also seems to die with the body or disappear somewhere. But that is ‘life force’ to a body, rather than the person to a body. The person seems to be there, playing out, as a felt character, day after day, as if such a character to the body is real. Its like a ‘real’ story of ‘a character’ to a body. But is there no evidence of one, even though all bodies behave, like individual ‘persons’ with likes and dislikes inside of each body. When we try to see with our own experience, we cannot experience such a ‘person’ at a particular point in the body, but we somehow, accept, that ‘we are’ such a person that is always there and afraid of whatever we don’t like, as a person.

Life plays out bodies as different real characters, other than just as a ‘life force’ animating bodies. The life play out as if protecting its individuality, by socialising, loving, hating etc etc, as if to make sense, as individual entities, even though, all bodies, have the same ‘life’ as animating principle. Also there is an effect to believe others as ‘people’ and ourselves as dealing with them, in this world of people. The character that we make to our body and other bodies, gives an effect of a person inside the body who seems to take responsibility for what he does or does not do.

If we try to analyse what this person in the body, we see that, this ‘person’ that we are, is more like a capacity to cognise. So the body has life which is nothing but the intelligence to cognise. So the intelligence of the body to cognise is the basic 'me' or 'he' that basically makes ‘a person’. Thoughts that arise in perception, give reality, to ‘react’ to a story, which mind spins out as thoughts, as if all such people are real, and have to be dealt with.

There is also an intelligence that grasps knowledge. We say the person is intelligent or dumb. This intelligence seems to grasp knowledge by dividing all sensation into parts and reassembling to form a concept which is then seen as the whole. For example it  'divides 'what is seen outside as a splash of colours and cuts out bits of the scenery to make them into separate objects, puts concepts onto them that are taken out of the baggage of knowledge and converts them to make them real things. It then assembles these 'things' to form the world that is seen. Like for example, it can isolate certain pattern of sounds to make them into music or language or words etc. In other words, it is an intelligence that can make meaning from the basic cognising after separation into so called things or concepts about what is being cognised.

Depending on the efficiency of this second set of intelligence that seem to be in use, the 'person' has the capacity to cognise data and recognise as ‘concepts’. The 'person'  is then regarded as more intelligent or not, depending on the capacity and  if the concepts thus made are agreeable to other 'persons', it is regarded as intelligent or else the capacity is regarded dumb.
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So there is basic cognising intelligence and a recognising intelligence or conceptualising intelligence. The re- cognised concepts are then stored in memory 'God knows where' for a 'future' use of 're-experience'. Actually the re-cognising is the 'experience'

There is another intelligence used to operate the body, like giving out the right impulses to move the hand and legs and the neck etc. Or for that matter move the lungs or digest food or pump blood etc.

So these three segments of intelligence or energy act in various ways which is responsible for the creation of the unseen ‘person’ in the ‘seen’ body.

So, the unseen 'person' is basically a ‘set of intelligence’.

We can see the body and feel the ‘person’ even though we cannot see the person. This is like cutting out a circle in a paper and feeling the circle even though it is cut off and not there. Or seeing the presence of intelligence as the 'absence' of the 'person' and conceptualising as the ‘person’ that seems to be present.

Meaning to say that even though there are only animated bodies; the intelligence that seems to be ‘in’ the body is taken as an image and converted to being a ‘person’. The conversion of the 'intelligence' of 'other' bodies 'seems' to be happening in 'our' body. Meaning - all the 'persons' are  only concepts .

This is also extended to things. We see a shape and convert this shape and colour in our head to read as table, chair. However the names of the things are given more to the shape and colour and believed to the 'things' itself as if existing on its own even if the shape and colour wasn't.

For example, if we take a 'flower', we see a flower or experience a flower. But if we stick all the parts of the flower like petals and sepals and stem etc, we see it as parts of the flower. Where did the flower disappear now?. The imagination of the whole flower was different from the imagination of the flower assembled out of parts. It is like seeing a ‘person’ is much different from seeing an assembly of or addition of hands and legs and head etc. All these activities happen on its own without interference of a central controlling authority because that control is the intelligence itself and acts on its own without a controller.
 

What is the difference between seeing people as animated bodies and seeing animated bodies as 'persons' and giving reality like father, friend, enemy etc. How is it that we are able to recognising the person that can't be seen?.

Firstly we need to understand that all appearances are itself an interpretation of a basic energy or intelligence. Meaning, if there is vibration of energy at 20 hz to 20000 hz, this appears as sound. Factually there is only vibration and the 'sentience' or intelligence, that feels personal, converts this vibration to appear as sound which is only heard by us but it does not exist other than as vibrations. So there is an appearance thrown upon by the vibrations appearing as sound.

 We can accept similar behaviour with colours because colours are nothing but 'appearances' of vibrations.

 Since the vibrations are converted to and appearance of 'sound' at the source of vibrations itself, and similarly colours at the source of 'colour vibrations', the intelligence that acts as the convertor of vibrations to appearances, is basically 'available' at the 'source'. This intelligence of cognising is available at the source of vibrations rather than happening after it came in contact with the body or rather than happening inside the head. So 'life' or that intelligence that we say as cognising capacity, seems to be in space in the vicinity of sound and colours to make them appear from its basic format of vibrations to its appearing or final format as sound or colours. Similarly is the hardness or softness. So, all sensations are basically cognising capacity of different types of vibrations.

 Going in the same direction, we can attribute cognising power of 'life' to cognise tastes and smell which also seem to appear in the space of awareness. However since cognising is happening both inside and outside the body, and some of the cognition appear close to the body or inside the body (and rest outside the body), we discount what is happening outside and think that all cognition is happening ‘inside’ which is not true..

 The person that we think we are is only this cognising capacity (and the recognising capacity as things through use of knowledge). There is no other individual person that is hiding inside the body and carrying out these duties of cognising. So when we say -I see or I hear, we are not putting an effort to see or hear, but is happening on its own because the intelligence is already doing the needful. So the 'I' has no role as a separate activator of converting vibrations to appearances.

The worst part for all of us is that this three set of intelligence bundles (cognising, recognising, and causing movements of the body)  are all arising out of a single set of intelligence bundle which is the basic energy that is vibrating also.

This means that the source of the vibration is that intelligence, that is also doing the cognising, and playing out bodies.

So,  there is only this energy and we can give it any name from GOD to consciousness to awareness to whatever you want to name it, because, naming it is conceptualising it and becomes the objective appearance of the subjective energy.

So where is the person? Only an non-objective appearance that exists as a concept of the ‘presence’ of the absence of the person that is not.