sparaig wrote: > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> --- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>>> >>>> >>> No you don't understand what I'm saying. Certainly >>> the mind is >>> "contained" in consciousness but what happens if the >>> local tax collector >>> calls you and says "Peter, you own $5,000 in back >>> taxes and have to pay >>> up by the end of the month or we'll take your >>> house." Do you remain >>> "meless" or does "the Peter and the tax bill" >>> suddenly become the center >>> of focus? My bet it is the latter. :) >>> >> I understand you perfectly well and I still argue that >> you are confounding consciousness with mind. "Me" is >> an artifact of consciousness projected into and >> identified with mind. This creates a "me" or an "I" >> that is experienced as self. But this "me" or "I" >> doesn't exist, it appears to exist in waking state, >> but in CC this disappears and it becomes very clear >> that there never was an "individual" called Frank, Tom >> or Bob. In CC there is a perfect duality of >> "empty-Self" and everything else including all >> functions of mind. So you get the tax bill and >> freakout in CC as you would in waking state. However >> there is no you to freakout or not freakout in CC. Who >> you are in CC has nothing to do with anything in the >> relative. When you have a waking state "me" you >> freakout over the bill. When you don't have a "me" >> freakout over the bill still occurs, but it has >> nothing to do with who "you" are. >> > > Perhaps, though for many, freeakout might be too strong a reaction to > something as trivial > as a bill for backtaxes. Even many non-CC people are able to take such things > in stride. Not a freakout but a reminder we still have to deal with sleepwalking zombies.
This actually happened to me so that is why I used the example. In my case the bank who had the mortgage failed to pay the supplemental taxes. Also I didn't know I was supposed to get a copy of the tax bill even if the bank was paying the taxes. That was the title insurance company's fault. So some five years later I get a bill for taxes due and 2 weeks to clear it up. The bank took care of it but if I had been away I could have returned home with someone else in my house just for the taxes owed.
