[philosophy] The Direct Experience: The Way of Non-Duality by Alessandro Sanna EPUB

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Who am I? What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the meaning of existence?

The “non-dual” understanding of reality provides enlightening and reasonable answers to all these perennial questions. “Non-duality” is based on the idea of the primacy of consciousness over matter: matter is a manifestation of consciousness, and not vice versa.

This book provides a surprising initiation into the perennial philosophy of non-duality through the perspective and arguments of a computational physicist. The result is particularly understandable, enlightening and encouraging. In this book the author has developed and presents 10 suggestive, convincing and compelling analytical arguments in favor of non-duality. These arguments are a game changer.

Experiences are given in 2 ways: as presentations and as representations. Presentations are direct experiences expressed non-verbally, like qualia, and refer to themselves: they present themselves. Representations are indirect, conceptual, expressed verbally and refer to something other than themselves: they present something other than themselves, that is, they represent a presentation or another representation.

Having clarified this thinking tool, let's move on to consider what is meant by non-duality of subject-object. In a cognitive act, 3 elements are distinguished: the knower, the known and the knowing. The known is reality, the being: the internal or external object known. The knower is our mind. The knowing is the awareness we have of the known, it is our consciousness. For example, when we listen to a sound, 3 elements are present: the listener, the listening and the listened to; that is, subject, verb and object complement. Now let's check what mode of existence these 3 elements have. If we pay attention we will discover that at the level of representation these 3 elements are separate from each other, while at the level of presentation these 3 elements coincide: they have a single undivided presentation. In fact it is easy to realize that presentationally only one thing is presented: the sound (listening_listened_listening), while only representationally we have the 3 separate elements. The known is separated from the knowing only representationally, but not presentationally. The knower is separated from the knowing only representationally but not presentationally. While you listen to a sound your mind consists only in that listening; and the object listened to is present only as listening. Since these 3 elements are presentationally coincident then the known (reality/being), the knowledge (awareness) and the knower (mind) are the same thing: Reality (Being) is Consciousness. All reality is only a vibration in awareness.

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