Re awakeness: If you can notice something now that nobody can disagree about, you've got this. If you add even one layer of abstraction, you're confused. As soon as you call it something, be it "awareness," "nonduality," "witnessing," etc., you've started an infinite discussion.
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"Yes," you object, "but there *is* awareness and nobody can deny it!" OK, but ask yourself how you know. It will always turn out to be body sensations and mental phenomena. 2/
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Awareness is always inferred. It's an idea that you are constructing. Same with nonduality, witnessing, and all the other words people are using to convince themselves they are awake. If something can be reduced to its component parts, reduce it. 3/
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Here's an example: Right now there is pressure, hearing, warmth, itching, and coolness. It the Buddha, Lau Tzu, and Jesus Christ himself were sitting next to me on the couch right now, they wouldn't get to have an opinion about this. These sensations are happening. 4/
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Awakeness just means being awake to what's happening right now before you abstract and interpret it. You don't get to decide in advance what it will be, and you don't get to reject it if it isn't what you were hoping for. 5/
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Discussions about whether we'll be conscious after death, as entertaining as they are, can only happen at high levels of abstraction; they have nothing to do with awakeness. 6/
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Awakeness isn't something you can get and own and put on your shelf like a trophy. You can be awake in this moment or not. You won't even know if you're awake unless you check. Now. Can you feel your body? 8/
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Not true. You can buy an Awakeness trophy on my website. They're plated in paladium and extremely attractive.
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Replying to @OortCloudAtlas @KennethFolk
And no doubt very affordable, all things considered.
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