Keith,
Sorry, but could you explain the paragraph below one more time? I really
want to get it, but I'm not at the moment.
Cheers.
Fil
On 3 April 2011 22:04, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> [...]
> However, other than the logically positive moment in time whereby an
> activity takes place in consciousness (that is, a thought occurred),
> consciousness is typified by negative or analytical processes. That is, when
> I announce the thought to a self (myself if you must), it is audited within
> a cycle of production (materialization) and reception -- and hence there are
> multiple moments and a self for each moment. If we negate the initial self
> (I had a thought) and allow that maybe it was someone else who had the
> though, in my thinking space (domain) then we have radically de-privileged
> not the thought (it still is a hard positive moment) but the soft positive
> moment that I had the thought. Thinking now becomes a passive event in which
> there is a non-I who apprehends that a non-I experienced a thought in a
> thinking space that a non-I is open to engaging with.
> [...]
> This is ok, and it is fun to do it - it's call detachment in Buddhism - for
> many people it is disturbing if not bordering on madness.
>
>
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