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Self Arising Impressions
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?
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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 the point mentioned above:
Alex sees a fat man on the street. He thinks this guy is really fat; Alex assumes that the fat guy 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. When one sees the surrounding around him or her, is he/she REALLY looking at the real thing or is the external simply thought-datas gathered about the external environment? There is a different between the external and the thought-datas gathered about the external environment
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-awareness's interpretation of the external are ‘tinted' with the karmic patternings that were inherited. They (the consciousnesses) see through their own lenses of karmic conditioning.
It is an assumption to believe that people generally think alike. Humans beings are the most diverse bunch of thinking organisms! The mind simply has too many permutations, possibilities, karmic conditionings and assumptions.
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.
Because self-impressions and judgment that one has of the external environment are tainted with oneself's personal beliefs, thought patterns and assumptions, I think, it is rather difficult for one to recognize and then see pass one's own karmic conditions.
All the more, we should try not to (quite difficult) judge another person. The other person is simply seeing through his/her own ‘lense', just as we are seeing through our own. Already it is hard enough to recognize/remember ones' own internal patterning, so why be so harsh on another; when in reality we might also be seeing through our own tainted lenses of perception.
( In theory, everything is nice and easy. In practice, it is a whole new ball-game to maintain awareness under difficult circumstances.)
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.
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