What is this ‘person’ to the body? What makes it exist in the first place and also what makes it feel real ‘or’ what is truth about such a ‘person’ really existing as if an individual inside a body.
Everybody ‘feels’ that ‘oneself’ is a person. But what is a ‘person’ factually is not actually dealt upon. Actually nobody argues if personhood should be doubted. It works like a belief, like that of God, as a higher power exist and Man can seek God is difficult times.
The feel of a person is a just a ‘feel’. More so, it is a ‘make feel’ arrangement in mind. It’s a sense of freewill, choice and control over thoughts and actions of this body and also to a large extent a control over situations. ‘ I know how to take care of myself ( to seek pleasure and avoid pain)’.
How does this activity work?
Imagine a Chess software put into a computer. You can play what you want, and it will play back, even with a time lag, as if thinking is happening inside somewhere. Is it clever? Does any part of that computer ‘’know’ at all, that it is playing a game of ‘chess’. Is there a person there?. As far as the computer is concerned, playing is just happening and it just doesn't how the hell, It had no role in the making of it, (hard ware) nor the programming of it, (software), nor that it operates on electricity. It doesn't even know that it exists as a computer. Only ‘we’ or our mind ‘feels’ that ‘it’ is a computer. As far as it is concerned, there is only what is happening, as if ‘it’ as something ‘real with freewill and choice’ were never a fact.
Similarly, this mind (thoughts) seems to control actions of the body and its very difficult to ‘know’ mind, using mind to know itself. Mind, while trying to know itself draws a blank. It is a factually a blank, being only a potential intelligence, and so it draws a blank.
There is software called Linux that anyone can contribute to and upgrade. So is ‘split mind’. It is a self perpetuating software. It has the capacity to condition itself or programme itself, based on any and all input that it comes across. The seeming outside world programmes it initially as to its ‘basis’ of functioning, which is basically ‘to seek pleasure and avoid pain’ and after a while, such programmed mind ‘becomes’ the part of the so called outside world, busy, trying to programme other minds. However the whole game is on a ‘mental plane’.
The programming consists of belief systems. First belief is that, I am separate and next is that, pain has to be avoided and pleasure has to be sought’. The feel of separateness is ‘called’ personhood. As soon as this sense is sucked in as a ‘reality’, a sense of ‘other’ persons and separate ‘things’ happen simultaneously as a side effect, which then perpetuates, as a feed back or external conditioning. Since ‘all persons’ or conditioned minds, have the same mechanism, personhood becomes a agreeable case and all agreeable cases are termed ‘reality’.
So personhood is a set of belief systems, as effect of self sustained programming. So all believe that they are persons and all agree that this is true, which is the basis to form the core. The next is a sense of right and wrong. This purely comes out of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Whatever contributes to this is right and that which is not -is wrong. The build up of belief is ir-reversible, It can only change to new belief systems. That is the way ‘mind’ is programmed to function. When belief systems seem to make reality, further beliefs are added about a world of separate ‘things’, human domination in creation, money matters, family behavior, religion, caste, and other patterns. So all reality is nothing but ‘firm belief’s. One cant shake off belief’s, as it seems the theme of human existence in creation and so it prevails.
How could that be?, Stop trying to believe what you believe and the reverse will be new belief, once you believe that the original beliefs do not hold water. Belief is mind’s mechanism. Its not about what is right or wrong.
Basically personhood, being the theme of human existence to creation, is purely a set of belief’s. Once you start doubting your belief’s, which happens as another conditioning form external/internal ‘impacts’ to the mind, old beliefs pave way to new beliefs. The mental activity the controls bodily expressions now thrive on such new beliefs. So what was a householder now become a monk.
What are you without a belief? How can mental conditioning be ‘lowered’ to a set of minimum beliefs necessary?. Who can do this. These question have no answers. The mind doesnt function as per answers, only answers are assumed based on its functioning.
The space wherein intelligence seems to work itself out is ‘Mind’. Mind is a ‘symbol’ for the ‘functioning’ of intelligence. Intelligence is a ‘capacity’ to perceive creation and also to conceive creation as seen through a set of beliefs or memory.
Creation is only a perception. And such a capacity that can perceive is “MIND”. Its not one that feels personal, but that which is responsible for making feel the world in space and time. So the world is the objective nature of mind and the ‘person’ can be assumed to be the conceiving aspect or a ‘Split Mind’, within ‘Whole Mind’ or perceiving capacity, as such conceiving is also perceived.
Take a human being verses perception. We believe that we have five different abilities to sense and something more that is assembling these information through a set of belief systems, making a real world out there of such perceptions, in short, conceiving the world of objects. As we cut off each sensation, the perceived creation or world is actually short of that perception. So, if all 5 sensations were withdrawn one by one, creation would still perceived as ‘nothing’ or collapsed.
So creation is nothing but a set of sensations. So there is world of ‘sensations’ rather than a real objective world, outside of such sensing. A sensation is a ‘make feel’ arrangement, by ‘life’ as intelligence. There is nothing objective anywhere. So if we take a pain killer to morph a ‘pain’ sensation, then there is ‘no pain’. So, pain had no objective existence other than as a sensation that could be morphed. Similarly, this world is purely sensory and doesn’t exist, outside of its sensing so. This is a purely sensory world. The sensation is the world. Sensation of the world and the world are ‘not’ two. There isn’t something here and something there and a sensation to link the two. There is only sensation and a make believe system using belief structure, that sensation links a ‘sensator’ to a ‘sense object’ .
‘Knowing’ is a better word for sensing. Knowing a pain is pain, knowing a dream is dream, knowing a world is world. Such knowing mechanism is MIND. It also has a faculty to make such sensing ‘seem’ as external reality to an ‘internal person’. But its all one activity. The make feel of sensation of a ‘real world’ to a real person is one single mechanism, called MIND.
So, all ‘objectivity’ or thingness to perception is mental activity. Personhood is the ‘thingness’ to this self sustaining, sensory bodymind mechanism, based on a programme of belief systems. The only way it can get ‘de-conditioned’ is when the programme ‘fails’ on the conceiving aspect, to process perceiving ‘into memory’, wherein it transforms perception into a ‘save as subject-object’ file. In absence of such a conceiving activity, exposing only pure knowing to itself, there is no-subject, no-object feel to the ‘knowing’, that seems ‘liberating’ without a sense of a personal ‘me’. So the ‘me- sense’ is a make feel sensation in conceiving activity.
Who you are, is that intelligence which is also pure knowing and conceiving mechanism and the ‘me’ sense that you think you actually are, has nothing to do with what you are, except as a content of knowing. It is only a ‘make feel’ arrangement to make ‘seem such an illusory entity is real’ by the same intelligence, that is playing out creation as subject/ object world only by a ‘mechanism of knowing’ without there being an objective world at all. Its funny, unbelievable but, cant be otherwise from our own daily experiences of how life is living itself as existence. The objective quality of MIND, whose subjective quality is this ‘knowing’ capacity ‘feels’ as the world of objects. So who you really really are, is just ‘knowing’, no matter how it feels like or how it looks like or how it taste like etc, because it is all made up of pure ‘knowing’ material as its core and nothing more than that.
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