[MD] Reifying carrots

[MarshaV]

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     "Likewise, resting in a state of consciousness in which the tendency towards reification is temporarily suspended does not result in any of the benefits of the union of quiescence and insight into the ultimate nature of reality.  William James may have been referring to this in his discussions of "pure experience," which he characterized as "plain, unqualified actuality, or existence, a simple _that_," prior to the differentiations of subject and object and of mind and matter."  Buddhist contemplative insight is better characterized as becoming lucid during the waking state.  In this truly "awakened" state of consciousness, we not only stop reifying phenomena, we directly perceive their empty nature, recognizing that all things exist only as dependently related events arising relative to a cognitive frame of reference."
    (Wallace, B. Alan, 'Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness',p.100) 



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