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The enlightenment of Gautama, later called “the Buddha”, concerned the nature of suffering- is it not so?
What is relevant to the experience of suffering is that the continuity of consciousness and the consequent impression of self are illusory, that in fact consciousness exists only in connection with sense organ and sense object, and ...
Out in the woods, even if you have no particular goal in mind, you still might use a compass and a map to avoid walking in circles. To be straightforward with suffering, a relationship between where I am and what I feel with the movement of breath is useful.
I find a description of such a relationship in the teaching of Gautama, although the notion ...
Today I found an interesting article by Olaf Blanke and Christine Mohr about OBE (out-of-body), heautoscopic (seeing one’s own body at a distance), and autoscopic (sees one’s own body as though from outside of one’s body) phenomena. Here are some excerpts:
The self is experienced as distinct from other ...