p.s. last 2 posts

marrying the previous 2 posts of course leads to this: if the self doesn't change (that is to say: we are always the seer not the seen, which fits the facts that we can't see ourselves, and other people only "think" they can, as we only think that we "see" them) ... if the self doesn't change then it makes no difference to the self whether we are in Africa or in Russia. Only the surroundings change, we do not: indeed only the surrounding change BECAUSE we do not change. Then it also follows that it makes no difference whether we are surrounded by women or not, or money or not, or power or not, or a healthy body or not, or a body or not, or even a consciousness or not! If there is anything that you think is consciousness, then it to is not-you!

Now this awareness, and this argument, is good for momentary illumination but it is too light a diet for me at the moment. I still crave the baser things, things of higher calories. But I'm getting there I hope, decade by decade, enjoying a progressively less rich diet and purer experience.