In my own experience, there are moments where I see something that I haven’t seen before, such as what is really going on in a certain relationship in my life, or how I have been unwitting applying a single heuristic over and over, or how I have been holding tension my body, and it feels like a big gong has just rung with truth. But I think what’s really going on is that I was seeing things in one particular way for a long time, and then upon seeing things in just a slightly different way, I let go of some unconscious tightness around the previous way of seeing things, and that letting go frees up my mind to actually think, and that’s such a big relief that I feel this gong ringing with truth. It seems that letting go of seeing things one particular way is what the energetic release is about, rather than the particular new way of seeing things.
I mention this just because it’s the thing that seems closest in my own experience to the direct experience of self-evident truth. It seems that when I see that I have been holding to one particular way of seeing things, it is self-evident that it’s better to make a conscious choice about how to see things rather than just being unconsciously stuck. But it does not seem to me that there is any self-evident truth in any particular replacement way of seeing things.
Well, I would just say that the significance of it for me comes from the connection between the conclusion “I am” and practical life. I like to remind myself that there is something that really matters, and that my actions really seem to affect it, and so I take “I am” to be a reminder of that.
Thank you for sharing this.
In my own experience, there are moments where I see something that I haven’t seen before, such as what is really going on in a certain relationship in my life, or how I have been unwitting applying a single heuristic over and over, or how I have been holding tension my body, and it feels like a big gong has just rung with truth. But I think what’s really going on is that I was seeing things in one particular way for a long time, and then upon seeing things in just a slightly different way, I let go of some unconscious tightness around the previous way of seeing things, and that letting go frees up my mind to actually think, and that’s such a big relief that I feel this gong ringing with truth. It seems that letting go of seeing things one particular way is what the energetic release is about, rather than the particular new way of seeing things.
I mention this just because it’s the thing that seems closest in my own experience to the direct experience of self-evident truth. It seems that when I see that I have been holding to one particular way of seeing things, it is self-evident that it’s better to make a conscious choice about how to see things rather than just being unconsciously stuck. But it does not seem to me that there is any self-evident truth in any particular replacement way of seeing things.
I’ve never seen that feeling described quite that way, I like it!
Out of curiousity, how do you feel about the proclaimed self evidence of “the cognito”, “I think therefore I am”?
Thank you!
Well, I would just say that the significance of it for me comes from the connection between the conclusion “I am” and practical life. I like to remind myself that there is something that really matters, and that my actions really seem to affect it, and so I take “I am” to be a reminder of that.