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Do you believe it is possible to experience a state of pure awareness?
- Thread starter Gambit
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Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Why not try it and see?
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
A question from the outside looking in.
Yes, emphatically. It is possible to experience a state of so-called "pure" awareness. If awareness is aware ONLY of itself that is pretty much the definition of self-realization. My guess is that you are working with a very limited definition of self, correct?
Gambit
Well-Known Member
I'm asking you.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
That sounds like seeing yourself in a mirror without a mirror.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I've experienced the nature of mind, but I'm not sure what "awareness being aware of itself" really means.
Why are you asking the question?
FunctionalAtheist
Hammer of Reason
I'm finding this a bit confusing. We begin with awareness of our environment. Proceed to awareness of ourself. Proceed to awareness of our awareness. Proceed to differentiating between awareness of our environmental verses self-awareness. And then remove 1) the awareness of our environment 2) the awareness of ourself 3) the awareness of the awareness of our environment, and are left with only the awareness of our self-awareness, while not actually being aware of ourself?
Gambit
Well-Known Member
A question from the outside looking in.
Yes, emphatically. It is possible to experience a state of so-called "pure" awareness. If awareness is aware ONLY of itself that is pretty much the definition of self-realization. My guess is that you are working with a very limited definition of self, correct?
Self-realization implies self-awareness. You have to be aware of a self in order to realize it. Right?
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
"Self-realisation" means different things to different people. Some would say it means experiencing no self, some would say true self, some wouldn't express it in terms of self at all. The language here is quite tricky.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Mystics call it the void. It's pretty intense, not being able to hide anything from oneself, but more than worth it.
Indira
Member
The state of no intention and/or unabridged truth is necessary..no small feat, for the interconnectedness of All to be viewed. Human shortcomings lean towards the path of least resistance so recognizing unity and impermanence is not easily realized.
Indira
Member
Babel has been taken to an art form..overcome Babel and peace is possible..
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
No wonder you're confused...! I enter the void regularly, and I can't sort this out. Why don't you back up a bit - what's the source of your confusion?
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
That sounds more like communion than isolation to me. Perhaps one of us misunderstood the question?
Gambit
Well-Known Member
Because I want to know if there are any who believe it is possible to experience a state of pure awareness?
Gambit
Well-Known Member
Yes. You got it.
Indira
Member
I did not use isolation as a description..where do you see that? I'd agree with you about communion.
Gambit
Well-Known Member
That's why the question I am asking is a profound one.
Gambit
Well-Known Member
Why is the experience of nothing intense?
Gambit
Well-Known Member
I'm simply asking if it is possible to experience of state of consciousness in which awareness is aware of ONLY itself.