Matt and rewrisk, I have found your recent dialogue quite interesting and thought-provoking (in a good way ; ) ). While I was in India, quite recently, I became interested in the teaching of Ramana Maharshi and Nisaergadatta Maharaj. I'm finding that what you've both been writing about here creates a synthisis of these master's teaching. rewrisk's talks about "reflective awareness" and Matt talks about coming back to awareness without thinking. This 'coming back to awareness' without concious effort seems to cancel out the 'reflective' aspect of rewrisk's "reflective awareness" and recreates the 'state' the 2 above masters refer to in their teachings. In other words, just awareness itself is what is left and you are that. Hope I didn't manage to misread or misrepresent what you both wrote earlier?
Mike
