--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It took a while, but it just occurred to me how different awakening is from what we are > looking for. We think we are looking for eternal life for the self when the body dies. > Instead what really happpens in Awakening is the oppposite: the self "dies" ( or the > notion of what the self is dies) while the body is alive and goes on living for a while longer.
> On a related note: a totally western, traditional psychiatrist told me the other day that the > sense of self is really just an amazingly quick "data sweep" of the different activities in the > brain, giving rise to illusion of a self in control of things. Pretty nice description, > especilaly coming form the neurscientist perspective on the mind. Perfect! :-) And the amazingly quick data sweep continues once the self is Awake-- the difference being that after Awakening, the amazingly quick data sweep is for the purpose of establishing a context for relative functioning only, whereas before Awakening, the amazingly quick data sweep is also in order to re-establish our (false) identity. :-)
