 Describing the Infrastructure
“This means we have to break apart a few very important concepts, including the concept of your physical self, which is the vessel that houses the thoughts, emotions, and feelings that it animates into real-world decisions and actions; the emotional body of your consciousness, which holds this energy in the physical field outside of your body that you can contact to give rise to different emotional states; your consciousness, which is the network of multiple layers of thinking, feeling, and conscious experience that you connect to by becoming aware of yourself and by using multiple faculties of awareness to move outside of the mind's control; and your awareness, which is the placement of your consciousness into a state of observation in which you hold space for all sensations occurring within and outside of you without exerting an emotional charge” [p32 ln498].
 Physical self
Emotional body
Consciousness
awareness
This infrastructure reminds zandtao of Eckhart’s 2 mysteries of consciousness in that he initially struggled to accept both mysteries yet that 2nd mystery is now the purpose that begins ch5. zandtao described a human infrastructure in the intro, then working on gabiK's book for Chs 5 and 6 he began to incorporate gabiK's infrastructure.
First Thoughts on Infrastructure
Physical self - the vessel that houses the thoughts, emotions, and feelings that it animates into real-world decisions and actions.
This is connected to vihara and the 5 khandhas including vinnana but needs deliberation to consider exactly how and what is new - or wrong?
Emotional body of your consciousness - holds this energy in the physical field outside of your body that you can contact to give rise to different emotional states.
Some kind of aura thing that he has no relationship with?
Consciousness - network of multiple layers of thinking, feeling, and conscious experience that you connect to by becoming aware of yourself and by using multiple faculties of awareness to move outside of the mind's control.
Multiple layers? Faculties of awareness?
awareness - placement of your consciousness into a state of observation in which you hold space for all sensations occurring within and outside of you without exerting an emotional charge.
Seems like mindfulness. Implicit is that maybe you need not be aware of consciousness. Awareness means being aware of all consciousness. What are faculties of awareness?
Consciousness and Awareness
In his mind Ch5 of thezeer started just as consciousness but the more he read of "Falling Out" the more he began to understand her human infrastructure with consciousness and awareness.
“If consciousness is the sea of awareness that encapsulates all observable matter as well as the unobservable, metaphysical features that create the energetic soup of reality, then awareness is any point within this matrix. Awareness exists at every scale of reality. Every being with awareness brings a unique pixel into the experiential screen of a conscious universe, although we often don't perceive our own awareness as a vector” [p40 ln612].
Meditation - Developing my egg
This happened after noting gabiK’s human infrastructure but it was not consciously activated or developed. Developing my consciousness through TaiChi and egg of consciousness is part of my meditation now - after releasing dukkha.
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