I was observing my thoughts yesterday, when I came to this
rather alternative way of seeing things
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When we interact with the world and others, are we really engaging
the external environment or are we really just interacting with our
thoughts and ourselves?
A scenario to illustrate:
Alex sees a fat man on the street. He thinks this guy is really
fat; he must be living a very fortunate life. Whether the fat guy
is really living a fortunate life, we will never know. But to Alex,
it is true at the moment he conjures the judgement.
My opinion is that all vision, impressions are self-arising. The
external is because it is. The external is really not directly
related with the thoughts that arise. The thoughts that arise are
self-aware interpretations of the external. Therefore all
judgments must originate from within oneself. When we dislike
someone, do we really dislike the person or are we disliking the
image of the person that arises in the mind.
Looking outwards to include other points of
self-awareness/consciousness, we see that all are just
consciousnesses self-awaring of themselves! This is quite hard to
explain and I am not sure whether I am getting it accurately. The
individual points of self-awarenesss interpretation of the
external are tinted with the karmic patternings that were
inherited. They (the consciousnesses) see through their own lenses
of karmic conditioning.
When viewing a single object, three individuals will have 3
different views/interpretations. But none of the views is the
TRUTH. They only reflect images of the TRUTH.
So
what allows points of awareness/consciousness within an
environment or world to understanding one another. It is
cultural conditioning and a fairly common/standardized set of
system of beliefs that binds and creates the impression of
interaction. We literally live in a huge belief system, confined
within our thoughts and conditions!
Looking at another level above, we see that all self-awarenesses
are different angle of ONE source focusing on different
directions.
