The Danger of Making Awareness into a Thing
El peligro de convertir la conciencia en una cosa
A student reflects on the nature of the "I" as something made of itself, and the teacher cautions against turning awareness into a fixed concept.
The Danger of Making Awareness into a Thing
A student reflects on the nature of the "I" as something made of itself, and the teacher cautions against turning awareness into a fixed concept.
And that "I" is the only thing that is made of itself, so to speak.
You can say it's made of itself, but I prefer to use the Buddhist pointing of emptiness, because otherwise it's very easy to make it into a thing. If you say, "What you truly are is awareness, what you truly are is consciousness, and awareness is aware of itself, and it's made of itself," it's very easy to turn that into a thing. This happened to me: "I am the concept 'awareness.'"
Right. I guess when I'm saying it's made of itself, I'm also saying it's not made of anything else.