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.
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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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Close attention to the visual field does the same. Particularly in areas where I can see far. Looking at mountains or stars = very trippy.
It took a lot of vipassana-style meditation to start really breaking into the whole "holy shit that's far" aspect of it, though.
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Also tried with visual field where there are x depth perspectives? Tree partially behind chair, car, houses, clouds etc...?
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Yeah. I experience spontaneous cessations of thought sometimes when eyes move rapidly from one horizon to another, even just table to sofa.
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