...so there is no I-function or I-thought accompanying what it does. A camera cannot photograph any thing separate from what surrounds it, so a camera only captures a unified field of view or being. This is why I often tell folks that a camera cannot take a picture of a tree, or any thing else. Only a graphics generator can do that by projecting an image against a neutral background.
Because humans imagine what they see as separate things, the conception of a separate observer arises who is doing the seeing. Thus the I-thought acquires increasing dominance with age. However, when we look at the world like the lens of a camera (without imagining), we only see a field of view without distinction. We call this "non-conceptual awareness" to distinguish it from the unconscious name-and-carry habit of imagining what is seen.
We can either see "what is" or we can see what we imagine, but we can't do both at the same time. Attention is either placed upon thoughts or isness. When the mind becomes silent, the subtle shifting back and forth between seeing and imagining becomes obvious.
As we grow from childhood to adulthood, we create a meta-reality in the mind that models the living truth, and we gradually exchange the living truth for the model. The process goes like this:
1. Looking
2. Imagining images (thingness)
3. Imagining symbols (words or sounds) that can represent images
4. Imagining symbols (numbers) that can represent images, ideas, or other symbols.
By learning to see without knowing (imagining) we rediscover the world that we saw when we were young children--a unified world that is alive and numinous beyond any concept of time, space, or selfhood.
Because humans imagine what they see as separate things, the conception of a separate observer arises who is doing the seeing. Thus the I-thought acquires increasing dominance with age. However, when we look at the world like the lens of a camera (without imagining), we only see a field of view without distinction. We call this "non-conceptual awareness" to distinguish it from the unconscious name-and-carry habit of imagining what is seen.
We can either see "what is" or we can see what we imagine, but we can't do both at the same time. Attention is either placed upon thoughts or isness. When the mind becomes silent, the subtle shifting back and forth between seeing and imagining becomes obvious.
As we grow from childhood to adulthood, we create a meta-reality in the mind that models the living truth, and we gradually exchange the living truth for the model. The process goes like this:
1. Looking
2. Imagining images (thingness)
3. Imagining symbols (words or sounds) that can represent images
4. Imagining symbols (numbers) that can represent images, ideas, or other symbols.
By learning to see without knowing (imagining) we rediscover the world that we saw when we were young children--a unified world that is alive and numinous beyond any concept of time, space, or selfhood.
