Do I do anything?

[Mason Riggle]

Sometimes this thought occurs:  Of course the organism called "Mason Riggle" is doing things, like typing this sentence, digesting food, growing hair, thinking thoughts, etc.,

It also occurs, that one of the things the organism called "Mason Riggle" sometimes does is recognize that the organism "Mason Riggle" is doing these things all by itself.

The 'awareness of what my organism is doing', is just something else my organism is doing all by itself. 

It seems that "I", this 'awareness', the knower who knows this, is also just something else my organism is doing. 

Is there anything that this awareness  does, other than 'be aware'? 

[cuteguy]

Awareness is the substance of "you" and "the world", and it is self-aware. Just look at a wall and see that its "pixels" are vibrating; that is awareness vibrating to make that wall that you're looking at. It makes it and it is aware of it.

[Moksha]

Something cannot be aware of itself. Awareness requires a higher order. Only nothing can be aware of itself, which is exactly what consciousness is.

[Endangered-EGO]

@Mason Riggle  I had a similar thought, often meditation happens by itself for me, but also regular day to day activities can happen without "me-doing-them". I believe (I don't know for sure) it is the effort that is involved that gives us the impression that we are either actively doing something or it happening passively or on it's own. By effort, I don't mean concentration, but more like the struggle of the ego? I honestly don't know how to put it into words. For example I'm not actively typing this: My mind seems to be thinking thoughts an my fingers do weird movements on their own. The fluidity of those things are incredible. I could type all day lol.

Sometimes for a few seconds running happens on it's own, But running is effort I guess?

ehmm... Actually I don't know, I should probably investigate the parts of "me" that are doing stuff. 

[cuteguy]

@Moksha Exactly. Awareness/Consciousness is no-thing. It makes what seems like things, but it itself is not a thing.

[Moksha]

@Endangered-EGO Who is "I"? Is it possible "you" aren't making a choice at all?

[Mason Riggle]

14 minutes ago, Endangered-EGO said:

 regular day to day activities can happen without "me-doing-them"

Yes. It seems rather, that 'I' is something that occurs, rather than something that 'does things'. 

Similarly, there is no 'tree' inside a tree that has to 'try to be a tree'.. trees just 'are trees', effortlessly. 

I never have to 'try to be myself', I just am always 'being myself'.   If I ever try not to be myself, then that is 'what I'm doing', which is just more 'me being me', and I do that effortlessly. 

Edited November 3, 2020 by Mason Riggle

[Endangered-EGO]

@Moksha  Yes, but I don`t realise it all the time throughout the day.

@Mason Riggle  I wonder if effortlessness can be all the time throughout hard activities. Maybe this effortlessness should be used to create more good habits...

[Mason Riggle]

@Endangered-EGO

53 minutes ago, Endangered-EGO said:

  I wonder if effortlessness can be all the time throughout hard activities. Maybe this effortlessness should be used to create more good habits...

If I'm always being myself effortlessly, what else is there for me to do but 'be myself', which I'm always doing?

It seems silly to me to suggest that a tree might use it's 'lack of trying to be a tree' to be a 'better' tree.