PERCEPTION VS MEMORY

Thought has its place functionally (in the office, etc.) but all fear and sorrow is thought.

Experiment, investigate if you can SEE (watch light consciously) and THINK at the same time. Or if you can listen and think at the same time.

OR.. if you think, you don't see because thinking is actually hypnosis, if you see, you cannot think.

Is it possible to watch and listen while thinking? Is it possible to think, pursue goals, while actually watching and listening?

Usually when people say "yes, of course I can see", they only think so. What they mostly "see" is their memory.

Can there be contact with thought/memory when there is contact with the (Unitary) perception of energy?

The "Gorilla in Plain Sight" Experiment: Psychologists have famously demonstrated inattentional blindness. If you are deeply engrossed in a complex thought process (like trying to solve a problem or worrying about the future), you can look right at an object or hear someone speaking to you and completely fail to perceive it.

Neural Competition: The brain's "central executive network" of thought (responsible for problem-solving) and the sensory networks compete for bandwidth. When your internal monologue is running loud, it blocks the contact with the Universal energy which is always reaching the brain.

Thought is always a delayed reaction of memory (old), whereas pure seeing, perceiving, listening is always immediate (new).

"You" are trapped in the machinery of thought (in fact "you" are a product of thought). You aren't seeing the sunset; you are seeing your own psychological commentary about it.

 

B PRECINCT OF THE MIND	C PRECINCT OF THE MIND
UNITARY PERCEPTION (UP)	FRAGMENTARY PERCEPTION
Other possible names: Holokinesis (D. Bohm), Universal Perception, Dhjana (Buddhism), Channa, Zen, Yoga, Metanoia (Jesus), Choiceless awareness, Attention (J. Krishnamurti)	Thought, symbol, language, knowledge, imagination, history emotion of fear, sorrow, anger
Perception of all perceptible energy without effort or motive
Complete undivided perception of reality, not directed towards any object or goal	Distorted perception of reality, the horizontal conflict (subject - object)
No direction	Direction
The "vertical"dimension	The "horizontal" dimension (in time)
Holokinesis, movement from here to here	Movement from here to there.
True life	Imaginary life, illusions challenged by the reality, which causes:
Freedom from psychological suffering	Psychological suffering
Always new, transforming, changing, flowing	Always old, imaginary obstruction of the flow
Unitary Universal energy	The META Process of thought:
No identification (with thought)	Mnemonic - memory, Eidetic - ideas, Thymic - emotion, Autonomic - the events of the autonomous nervous system
Alignment with, oneness with the changing transforming reality in every moment ("God"'s will)	"My" will
The Essence	Description
The Unknown. I don't know (also what UP is). Uncharted, pathless.	The Known. I know... Techniques, definitions, blueprints to copy, imitate, "follow"
Unitary, Undivided Wholeness	Division
Wholeness without a centre	Ego-centric, the thinker, the controller, the doer, the ego, the "I", the "me" vs "not me" (the environment"/ the objects)
Being	Doing, acting on the objects
Peace	Conflict, arms race, permanent war
Contentment for no reason, not seeking anything	Seeking satisfaction, experiences, sensations, pleasures
Stillness and silence	Pursuit of goals and objects
Contact with all perceptible energy (perceived in the brain)	Contact with thought (perceived in the brain)
Cooperation	Competition
Constant learning without an end	Conclusion
Intelligence	Intellect, hierarchy, obedience, tradition, comparison
Love, attention, freedom	Possession, control
Irrelevant time. Here, now	Absolute time. Past, present and future
Unfocused	Concentration/ hypnosis/ contraction
The hologram	The lens
Wholeness in every part	Fragments and things identified and defined by thought
Modern Physics: Quantum Physics, Theory of Relativity	Newtonian physics
EPR paradox, entangled particles, double slit experiment, E=mc2, the Block Universe,  Irrelevant time, fields interacting, probabilities, wave function, the observer paradox	The approximation of the "billiard balls interacting", inclined plane, masses
Absence of "free will"	The illusion of "control" over "my life" (even if sometimes functional)
Second Awakening	Daydreaming
General prosperity. Broad based sustainable economy prioritizing modern healthcare, housing, infrastructure, education. Regeneration of natural resources. Ecology.	Unsustainable economy based on "growth", theft and competition. K-shaped economy. Short term profit, boom and busts. Instability. Geopolitical rivalry and spheres of influence. Diverging growth. Producers (e.g. China) vs consumers (USA). Currency wars. Corruption.
Regeneration (also of the body and mind)	Progressive degeneration
Jesus, the Buddha, Zhuangzi, Meister Eckhart, Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm, Ruben Feldman Gonzalez,	Nietzsche, Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz, Hitler, Stalin, Himmler, III Reich, Autocracy, Despotism, Totalitarianism, Jihadism, Terrorism, etc.
Universalism	Nationalism (= "patriotism")
Aloneness	Loneliness
No toxic drugs, no smoking tobacco, sleep rellieving stress, love for silence stillness	Toxic drug use, smoking tobacco, stress, lack of sleep, entertainment, music, sport events, night clubs, etc.
Extasis (to stand outside of oneself)	Inside (the skin) vs outside

 

 I DON'T KNOW

WHAT IS Unitary Perception (UP)/Zen/Yoga/Dhjana? 

I DON'T KNOW.

The "I" doesn't know. Where the "I" is, freedom, truth, UP, Zen, Dhjana is not.

The "how" is the domain of thought (the META Process). I will give you a definition, a blueprint and you will imitate it, copy it, follow it according to a pattern, conform to it (in time, with effort, on purpose).

UP is not like that. It is immediate, before and beyond thought and time. It has nothing to do with thought the definition and knowledge. It is when thought is not. 

There is no path to UP/Freedom, it is always new. 

WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS THE WAY

Few people ever slow down enough to notice: at the level of  Unitary Perception (UP)/ Dhjana/ Yoga, which is raw awareness, all experiences share the exact same substrate.

This is an instant and complete liberation.

Is being in peace equal to the "greatest pleasures"? Well, what is the difference?

Peace is not a different moment than this moment and is not found by striving for pleasures, experiences and sensations.

The C precinct of the brain (the META Process of thought) sells us the story that peak experiences (achieving a major goal, traveling to a bucket-list destination, intense sensory highs) contain a secret substance called "fulfillment." But chemically, dopamine is just a short-lived signal designed by evolution to keep you seeking the next thing. Once the peak event happens, the baseline resets.

If you look at the raw state of being alive - breathing, feeling the temperature of the air, observing light and shadow while sitting on a park bench - it is chemically and consciously identical in its fundamental nature to any other moment. If a person is stressed, anxious or checking their phone while sitting on a beach in Tahiti, their subjective experience is actually worse than someone who is fully alive here, in his hometown, wherever it may be. It's not crucial WHAT is being perceived in UP but the QUALITY of the perception (the perception which is free from the horizontal conflict of the subject - object).

In that sense, nothing is a "consolation prize". If you are fully present, it contains 100% of the reality available in any given second.

Believing that some future event will finally fix you, make you permanently happy, or elevate your worth is an illusive trap of the META Process. If you look forward to something with the expectation that it will cure your internal state, you will be disappointed every time. That is the illusion worth dropping.

When you realize that no future outcome will fundamentally surpass the peace of just being fully here, stress evaporates. You no longer need the future to be a certain way.

A lot of human suffering comes from resistance - demanding that reality be different than it currently is. We turn simple situations into "problems" by layer upon layer of mental narrative. That can be all seen in UP.

"Not choosing" doesn't have to mean sitting motionless in a dark room until you starve. It means dropping the friction. When you stop overthinking and stop trying to control what's happening, choices are clear. You're hungry? You eat. You're tired? You sleep. You feel like walking? You walk.

You don't need to force a grand life plan to justify your existence. The Universe has been running quite smoothly for 13.8 billion years without our intervention; it can handle the steering.

If the highest achievable state is simply peace with what is right now, then you don't have to win every race, build an empire, or optimize every hour. You are allowed to just exist. And if you pursue something, you can do it lightly, knowing that whenever it starts to cause anxiety or stress, the bench in the park is always there - offering everything you were actually looking for all along.

 PEACE

Knowledge, definitions, opinions, conclusions can only be chewed for some time and spat out. Unitary Perception (UP)/Dhjana/Channa/Yoga means to let yourself to NOT know.

"You" cannot be in peace. You don't know peace and you cannot know peace. You, the self, is thought. You are produced by thought to act, do something in the "environment", make a change to an object, pursue a goal (which means the horizontal conflict of subject-object).

UP is the perception that is NOT directed towards any object or a goal.

For the peace of UP to be "closest"/"easiest", there should be silence and stillness. The first step is to suspend all language. 

 MEMORIES ARE NOT REALLY CONNECTED.

Water under the bridge. I am not really the I from a moment ago, a day ago, a year ago. You are not you from a moment ago, even though the self (which is a product of memory/thought) is functionally useful, at work, etc. 

"The belief that memories are connected brings the ego to life. This is known as the reification of the ego. Reification means to give reality to something that is not real."

Ruben Feldman Gonzalez

PLANS AND CHANGING REALITY

We must readily adapt our plans to the changing reality.

 If TV is on (and you don't have control over the TV set) then TV/ads is simply one with the reality/ true lif/ Unitary Perception (UP)/ Dhjana/ the Universe.

If we go to the beach and some people there are blasting music on their loudspeakers, or if there's chattering going on and on in the flat you share, than the chattering is one with the reality. That's what's happening. It is what it is, not better or worse than something else than something else that you would maybe prefer instead.

The best way is to be one with all that is happening without any conflict, which is UP/ Dhjana/ Yoga/ The transforming Universe.