Non-attachment doesn't mean not being bothered. It means not feeling the need to be bothered if you can't be bothered being bothered by it.
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No-mind doesn't mean not thinking. It means not thinking about not thinking while you're thinking you're not thinking.
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I would suggest it is "watching/knowing the process of mind thinking about not thinking". Thinking is abstract, awareness/watching direct.
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No-mind means whatever I want it to mean, Franklin!
(Kidding)
No, well, I think it's rather more complicated than either tweet presents.
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Haha. Yes it probably is, but as we blunder along with trying to describe it, we sometimes get lucky and get some additional depth.
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If someone were to ask me about it, I'd say a sense of vastness is the main characteristic
Consciousness-as-cathedral, not as-living-room.
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First time I started getting into some serious no-mind, the spatial dimension of consciousness (I wasn't cognizant of having one) opened up.
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Sensations developed a relationship to each other in positional terms, and things that felt close before started feeling so very far apart.
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While I don't really know, it feels like thoughts glue sensations together. You don't get the same sense of space while in beta frequency.
Not salient right now (too much coffee, too little sleep), but typically distant extreme of visual field and hearing feel far, far apart.
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This book (the exercises) gave me instant access to multiple different levels of what I see as no-mind. amazon.com/Shift-into-Fre
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