It sounds like the memories generated by a mind with a substantial amount of enlightenment should be notably different than those of a person who still has a fully established sense of self. I think I see a little of what I’m pointing at hinted in “An example of a no-self experience”. If I’m right, it suggests (yet another way in which) I’ve got a lot of work to do in my own practice, and it might be diagnostic as to how a practice is progressing along one axis; I’d be interested to see a discussion on the topic.
Yeah. I find that many experiences that I’ve had in meditation-induced states are basically impossible to recall precisely: I will only remember a surface impression or verbal summary of what the state felt like. Then when I get back to that state, I have an experience of “oh yeah, this is what those words that I wrote down earlier really meant”.
That tracks with descriptions I’ve heard from other meditators of working with the mind in rarified states, but it’s unfortunate for the purposes of discourse. Ah well; back to the cushion, then!
It sounds like the memories generated by a mind with a substantial amount of enlightenment should be notably different than those of a person who still has a fully established sense of self. I think I see a little of what I’m pointing at hinted in “An example of a no-self experience”. If I’m right, it suggests (yet another way in which) I’ve got a lot of work to do in my own practice, and it might be diagnostic as to how a practice is progressing along one axis; I’d be interested to see a discussion on the topic.
Yeah. I find that many experiences that I’ve had in meditation-induced states are basically impossible to recall precisely: I will only remember a surface impression or verbal summary of what the state felt like. Then when I get back to that state, I have an experience of “oh yeah, this is what those words that I wrote down earlier really meant”.
That tracks with descriptions I’ve heard from other meditators of working with the mind in rarified states, but it’s unfortunate for the purposes of discourse. Ah well; back to the cushion, then!