Wrote to someone days ago:
Also you seem to be misunderstanding the person above when you said " Maybe there is a “place” where only awareness of being exists. " What's not denied is the 'awareness of being', in fact, it is very possible to experience the shutting of all five senses with only Mind remaining (as in a state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi or bardo), as a mere 'awareness of being' or a 'pure sense of existence'. There is nothing wrong with this. Buddhism acknowledges six senses, so even when five senses are shut or gross concepts dissolve, there can still be the luminous presence of Mind.
But this Mind is not an unchanging background or something ultimate and special apart from the stream of manifestation, it too is a manifestation. the only problem is thinking that this "awareness of being" is something behind experience as some Ultimate Experiencer. The person above is trying to point out that this "awareness of being" (although formless) is still a manifested experience and not some hidden Experiencer or background, which will be an illusion. As he said, " If being did know itself in total voidness, that very "knowing" would itself be an experience, hence the void would not be void. God cannot be separated from creation, because the potential for creation is already Known."

It is also important to realize that this "awareness of being" or "sense of being" or "sense of existence" or "Presence" is not actually a background. As Thusness wrote before:


(1:01 AM) Thusness: pce (Soh: pure consciousness experience, as in http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/library/topics/pce.htm ) is about direct and pure experience of whatever we encounter in sight, sound, taste...
the quality and depth of experience in sound
in contacts
in taste
in scenery
has he truly experience the immense luminous clarity in the senses?
if so, what about 'thought'?
when all senses are shut
then with senses open
have a clear understanding
do not compare irrationally without clear understanding
(1:06 AM) Thusness: lol...but do not put it across to him so bluntly


is it a pce?
is there emotion
is there feeling
is there thought
is there division or complete stillness?
so what is "I AM"?
just that pure non conceptual thought
(5:11 PM) Thusness: indeed
that experience itself is pure conscious experience
there is nothing that is impure
that is why it is a sense of pure existence
it is only mistaken due to the 'wrong view'
so it is a pure conscious experience in thought.


Also, in 2009:


Hi theprisonergreco,






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