--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@> > wrote: > > > > > > It took a while, but it just occurred to me how different > awakening is from what we are > > looking for. We think we are looking for eternal life for the > self when the body dies. > > Instead what really happpens in Awakening is the oppposite: the > self "dies" ( or the > > notion of what the self is dies) while the body is alive and goes > on living for a while longer. > > > On a related note: a totally western, traditional psychiatrist > told me the other day that the > > sense of self is really just an amazingly quick "data sweep" of > the different activities in the > > brain, giving rise to illusion of a self in control of things. > Pretty nice description, > > especilaly coming form the neurscientist perspective on the mind. > > Perfect! :-) And the amazingly quick data sweep continues once the > self is Awake-- the difference being that after Awakening, the > amazingly quick data sweep is for the purpose of establishing a > context for relative functioning only, whereas before Awakening, the > amazingly quick data sweep is also in order to re-establish our > (false) identity. :-) >
The (false) identify is still re-established with every data-sweep. However, this data-sweep no longer overshadows Self so the re-establishment concerns integration of different sensory/thought processes (as it always does) and no longer is perceived as the most permanent "thing" present, so the integration of different sensory/thought processes is no longer identified as out "true self." The "Self," in this (TM) case being [TM] samadhi, which is what is left over when the thalamus stops allowing sensory processing OR sensory-cortical feedback processing while still remaining alert. The brain is constantly optimizing itself physically. However, this optimization is constantly being challenged by new sensory/thought input, so samadhi-style optimization seldom becomes dominant. With enough exposure to samadhi during TM, alternated with regular activity, samadhi becomes stable (dominant) outside TM and Self is never overshadowed by the data-sweep self.
