Take the question “Who am I?"


Take the question "Who am I?"—which you have to really consider and meditate on for spiritual development—and make it instead "What is a computer?" as an analogy.

Then:



• Individual self (identity, ego) = computer itself, with individual consciousness composed of

:..... Sensory system = input (keyboard, mouse)

...... Memory = data storage and access

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..... Thinking + feeling = computer processor + software.


• Universal Self (pure being and primal awareness, "I-Am") = Electricity!!!
(Allowing the above to manifest as a functioning computer!)

• The Absolute (pure unknowable unity, at least impersonal "God") = all of the above (electricity, computer, everything, but as one).

This is obviously an imperfect analogy. 

:)

The Self and the Absolute could also be viewed as the same. Also, since the Absolute is beyond concept and category, it could be imagined as "total completeness" (like in Vedanta and Yoga) or "total emptiness" (as in Buddhism), since it is neither.




— Gabriel Fenteany, May 3, 2016



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