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The asleep/awake thing I still believe is the placement of consciousness by the two autonomous respirations.
Sense organ/sense object-consciousness-impact-feeling is the placement of consciousness by the two autonomic respirations, with perhaps different emphasis of sense waking or sleeping, and the in-between hours are the traditional times of practice. ...
You are welcome to post my comments anywhere you feel is appropriate. I confess, I copied them to my blog. I believe in the vocabulary I have developed to describe these things (of course, it’s bits and pieces of the Pali Cannon, Tai-Chi teachings, and cranial-sacral theory, so I’m just the collector of it), and I have come to understand ...
As to the witness of the place of consciousness conditioned by ignorance, attachment, or aversion, this is as constant as the experience of suffering in our lives; the trick is to recognize a sense of location as consciousness occurs, and to do that it’s necessary to accept that consciousness is not continuous. Hence the great wisdom of the ...