 83. Illusion (Sin and Maya) |
The ego-“I” is not an “entity”, whether gross or subtle. Rather, the ego-“I” is a process—a space-time-“point-of-view”-activity (of total psycho-physical “self”- contraction) that is directed by the brain, and that is merely conditionally enacted, and that is, as such, “self”-conscious only as forms and states of mind. All forms of mind are “point-of-view”-specific—and, in the general case, they are merely modes of egoity. Therefore, in and of themselves, all forms of mind are, equally, not Reality (or “Perfect Knowledge”) Itself.
The dream-mind is brain-organized, and the waking-mind is brain-organized, and even the (potentially) “super-functioning” mind is brain-organized. All forms (or states) of mind are “point-of-view”-specific—and (thus) merely conditional, limited, temporary, and not (in and of themselves) The “Perfect Knowledge” of Reality Itself.
People tend to presume that they (each one as separate ego-“I”) are thinking their own thoughts—but, in both the ancient (or traditional) “world” and the modern “world”, it is merely brains that do all the talking (and, indeed, it is merely brains that do all the states and acts of waking, and dreaming, and sleeping).
“Perfect Knowledge” Is Intrinsic Freedom from all bondage, all of mind, all of egoity, all seeking, all sorrow, and even all of death and loss.
Conventional (or “point-of-view”-based and egoic) perceptual “experiencing” and conceptual “knowing” presumes the “world” is an “objective” phenomenon (“out there”) that is “experienced” and “known” by an “objectified” (or separate) “self” (or ego-mind). On this basis, all relations of the (thus) egoic “self” are presumed to be “objectively”-existing “things” and “others”.
All (presumed-to-be-“objective”) “things” and “others” are (by presumed-tobe- separate “self”) either sought (and clung to), or (as ego otherwise wills) avoided (and even destroyed). All that is presumed to be “objectively”-existing— including the separate ego-“I”—is always merely conditionally (and, altogether, in mind-only) arising, and always changing, and always only temporarily present. Therefore, all that is desired, sought, achieved, and loved will (inevitably) pass away from the “experience” of the perceiving and “knowing” ego-“I” (or ego-mind).
All that is perceived, conceived, or in any psycho-physical (or otherwise merely conditional) manner “experienced” will (inevitably) pass away (and, thus, be lost, or gone from mind’s perception in its present-time of bodyspace). Therefore, all seeking is inherently futile.
However, “Perfect Knowledge” Is Inherently Free of futility, dilemma, and all seeking. The ego-“I” is “self-objectified” in time and space. The ego-“I” thus (and thereby) finds only “objective things”, and “objective others”, and a total “objective world”—whether these are found in the space-time of the waking state or the space-time of the dreaming state.
“Perfect Knowledge” Is Only In and As Reality Itself.
“Perfect Knowledge” Is The Only Right and True and Reality-Based “Knowledge”.
“Perfect Knowledge” Is egoless Self-Recognition of The Reality-Nature, Reality-
Condition, and Reality-State (or Intrinsically egoless Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State) of all that is otherwise “objectified” by ego-“I”. Therefore, “Perfect Knowledge” does not arise from the waking-state mind or the dreaming-state mind—or even from the apparently “mindless” mind of the state of deep sleep (wherein attention does not arise, and only “objectless” awareness persists, without a space-time-“located” presumption of “self”). The waking-state mind, the dreaming-state mind, and the “mindless” deepsleep mind (or the psycho-physically-defined state of conditionally apparent mere, or “selfless” and “objectless”, awareness) each arise and pass (each replacing the other in a perpetually repeating cycle) in the daily “experience” of all human beings.
Because this is (even repetitively) so, it is (self-evidently) the case that human life-consciousness is not inherently identifiable with (or definable by) any one of the three commonly-“experienced” psycho-physical states (of waking, dreaming, or sleeping).
