[MD] cognitive awareness

[MarshaV]

You've got it Joe!  You're right on the mark!   - Marsha 



On Jul 31, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote:

> 
> On 7/30/10 10:16 AM, "Ham Priday" <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> [Ham]
> Dear Marsha --
> 
>> You wrote "ALL awareness is proprietary to the self.", and I
>> continue to maintain that there is no self.  An "independent self"
>> is no more than a flow of ever-changing, interdependent,
>> inorganic, biological, social, and intellectual static patterns of value.
>> On reflection, the awareness I describe has nothing consistent
>> or central about it, either.  I think it best that I keep it away from
>> analysis which will surely distort the experience into an
>> independent entity, which is what intellectual analysis is prone to do.
> 
> You avoid analysis for the very reason that the "independent entity" you
> thnk is a "distortion" of your experience is in fact your "self".
> 
> I know you're tired of hearing me say this, but "inorganic, biological,
> social, and intellectual static patterns of value" is a conceptual idea.
> Ideas are thoughts structured by the subjective mind and sometimes
> communicated to others by words and symbols.  Patterns are relational
> configurations recognized intellectually and added to ideas or precepts.
> Neither ideas nor "patterns of value" exist without a cognizant agent to
> realize them. YOU are the cognizant agent of your values.
> 
> To put it as simply as I can (i.e., no analysis required), YOU are your
> SELF.
> 
> May the peace of understanding comfort you,
> Ham
> 
> [Joe] 
> Hi Ham, Marsha, and all,
> 
> "The sun of quality,” he wrote, “does not revolve around the subjects and
> objects of our existence.  It does not just passively illuminate them.  It
> is not subordinate to them in any way.  It has created them.  They are
> subordinate to it!”
> 
> And at that point, when he wrote that, he knew he had reached some kind of
> culmination of thought he had been unconsciously striving for over a long
> period of time.
> 
> ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE p. 305 paperback edition.
> 
> Joe
> 


 
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