awareness is like Legos

[Jay Ray]

I originally wrote this as a response to someone who was having trouble understanding that every object is made of awareness.  

think about it like this,

Imagine you live in a Lego world. You are a Lego man and everything you have ever seen is made of Lego's. You are made of Legos, your car and house is made of Lego's and so are all of your friends as well as every possession that you own.

now lets say that one of your Lego friends says "wait, that over there is a house, not Lego's, you see it has such and such dualistic qualities, therefore a house exists....it is a house. end of story" 

no, that over there is not a house, it is Lego's that you call a house.  Another person may disagree that it is a house. However disagreement that it is a house doesn't take away from the fact that it is made of Lego's.

but really all that there is is Lego's in this example. 

the same is true of consciousness. There isn't "a notebook" for example, there is awareness that has been named "notebook", someone may see it differently or call it something else. However the awareness of it still is there and does not need a name.

Without these names for things, it would seriously impede human survival, If you didn't know the difference between "food" and "poison" this would be fatal, but both are made of the same thing, consciousness. 

Lego food and Lego poison are both make of the same thing.

 

I hope this metaphor helps. 

[Jacobsrw]

1 hour ago, Jay Ray said:

I originally wrote this as a response to someone who was having trouble understanding that every object is made of awareness.  

think about it like this,

Imagine you live in a Lego world. You are a Lego man and everything you have ever seen is made of Lego's. You are made of Legos, your car and house is made of Lego's and so are all of your friends as well as every possession that you own.

now lets say that one of your Lego friends says "wait, that over there is a house, not Lego's, you see it has such and such dualistic qualities, therefore a house exists....it is a house. end of story" 

no, that over there is not a house, it is Lego's that you call a house.  Another person may disagree that it is a house. However disagreement that it is a house doesn't take away from the fact that it is made of Lego's.

but really all that there is is Lego's in this example. 

the same is true of consciousness. There isn't "a notebook" for example, there is awareness that has been named "notebook", someone may see it differently or call it something else. However the awareness of it still is there and does not need a name.

Without these names for things, it would seriously impede human survival, If you didn't know the difference between "food" and "poison" this would be fatal, but both are made of the same thing, consciousness. 

Lego food and Lego poison are both make of the same thing.

 

I hope this metaphor helps. 

Nice little metaphor. The problem people have is a fundamental belief in concepts. They believe in what they see according to it’s relationship to a specific concept. A tree is green with a brown stall. A house is large with windows roof and a door. All these inferences requires concepts and for these concepts to be applied to the experience being observed.

Without the association to concepts each being would harness the ability to see awareness as it is. As the fundamental layer of experience.

Concepts must dissipate just as equally as the ego-mind creating them. Only then can experience be known for what it really is.