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I think "Perfect" is pretty subjective.

Clay is always soft.

There are multiple aspects to the practice. I also believe there is a legitimate reason why this isn't taught in the book (transmission is an important factor). I wouldn't mess with the brain with mere guess work. Just go to a seminar.

Hi Vortex, mind sharing the answers you might have gotten?

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YES YES YES!!! MWAAHAHAHHAHAHH!!!

Maharshi is not a witness.

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I answered your question with your own words. Awareness and phenomena always arise together. Awareness changing phenomena is action. Phenomena changing awareness is non-action. Will is the interplay of awareness and phenomena.

Look! The Buddha is talking to retards like you.

Look into the I. Good bye!

The book is pervaded by space. The book is in space. But there is also no space apart from the objects within space. Good. Not one, not two. What is "dimension"? Heaven is awareness. Earth is phenomena. Man is "I."

Good. You just have false insight and false interpretation. Not really. Don't go overboard. I can say I'm my foot. And that wouldn't be so wrong. Then maybe then I'll say I'm my hand, and that wouldn't be wrong either. It's not me. I can be, but I am nowhere inherent. I can control it. It can control me. Heaven and Earth, I am man. Let Brahman out of this. That's not what I'm saying. How funny. You first mention it and say "what I say has nothing to do with this." All sensations are not awareness. Matter is not space. Right now, is not time.

Your mother has big feet. Thereavadans travel the path to ending the habitual manifestation of body after death. Mahayan's seek ending of habit by seeing its origin. Vajrayana practitioners physically dissipate the body into mere light.

Free floating "I"? Yes you can say that. But I don't know if you mean what I mean. The source is not used in the sense of "A creates B out of nothing" but the "existence of A is dependent on B" At my hand a book. Is there space in the book, or is the book in space?

Is objects, then, time?

A conditioned belief and habitualization, like all beliefs. Only non-belief is true belief. It is parallel identity with whatever arises. Awareness is not a sensation. It is not separate from arising phenomena. It is the dimension of existence.

Where is it?

Thought is not separate from awareness. But thought is not awareness. Space is not matter. Matter is not space. When there is space, there is matter. When there is matter, there is space. Change happens by matter or space. Thought arises due to patterning of awareness and manifestation's interplay. Alaya is another form of awareness. A habit, a formulation. Not one, not two. I'thought' is not thought. It is I"ness." Whether that I"ness" is in the body, or the mind, a false attachment to inherence, is another story.

Why talk about time? Is time faith? Can you find time?

Awareness.

Awareness and thought are not separate, nor are they the same. Awareness is a primordial dimension that is basis ("basis" NOT as is ground of experience like Advaita) of phenomenal existence. Like time and space, they are not things. I can't point out to you what time is or what space is, or where it is. I can tell you how it is through the contents and characteristics of time and space. It wouldn't be wrong to say that the source of matter is space, but the source of space is also matter. It is same with consciousness and phenomena. "I" thought is not thought as you'd imagine. You keep thinking awareness is some sort of "thing" that is like the table, or body. I'm not coping out by telling you to think for yourself. You really need to think for yourself, so I keep saying it. You also need to seriously meditate to have some more tools to think with. You lack experience that comes without conceptual insight. Let insight arise from experience instead.

Illusion and reality are opposing terms. If all is one opposing term, then the other term ceases to have meaning, and so do both concepts lose their meaning. At a certain level of practice, the world disappears. Then your body disappears. All is seen as a dream like manifestation of the mind.

I suddenly began to see the world through my belly. And from my belly I saw the weird way I saw the world beforehand, which was through the eye. I wrongly conclude that I've always seen through the belly, so that belly-seeing become a permanent habit as the eye-seeing once was.