Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00004)

W.Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
> Mar 1 2005
>
> RE: Self

> If "you" think of "yourself," you are already thinking of a "self" that has
> passed into memory. You are looking backward at what "you (memory) did."
> Or, am I wrong?
Dallas, are you equating "you" and 
"self" with "memory" and ... But 
"memory" has parts to it, so does one 
pick and choose parts from one's memory 
to represent "one's self," or what ... 
and, if so, "who" does that choosing ... 
and, if so, if that "who" is defined in 
some manner, "who" does that choosing 
... and, if so, if that "who" is defined 
in some manner, "who" does that choosing 
... etc, etc ... ^:-/ ...

My more or less current speculation 
about "self" would seem to suggest that 
it might be likened (at a stretch ...) 
to what "one" sees when looking trough a 
multi-colored, patterned window like the 
one's they have in some churches (where 
the "self/one" Is the seeing, itself, 
rather than some interpretive, 
second-hand, dualistic memory or karmic 
influence or colored window). "Just 
being" meditation for me seems to 
suggest that it might evolve, at some 
point, into a kind of transcending of 
the colors and patterns (karma/maya) in 
that window.

Speculatively,
Mauri