I think it can be an ongoing effect, which is why a lot of realizers can stick with the cosmic interpretation of their own awareness.
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this is a crucial point. different meditators may experience the same/similar meditation-related mental arising.
some will seek to elaborate on their experience, perhaps even reify it.
others simply recognize it as mental arising and can thus let it go.
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thus the common instruction to allow mental arising to come and go, without elaborating upon it, making it some "special thing"
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I generally agree, but some people will too readily ignore or negate a serious window of opportunity because they’ve been taught to see all meditative experiences as just more sensory arising.
Nuanced approach is optimal; but yours is probably safer on avg.
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Or C) dismissing the opportunity to look at it as just whatever, which given the abiding results that can come from looking at it seems... stupid.
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Source: looked at the things. did not cling. they were fun.



