I thought I would write a mini-series of articles on how our perception changes when we notice our nature. I have written about our perception of distance, so what about movement?
MOVING THROUGH THE WORLD
As a human being in the world, when I move I move through the world. I travel from A to B.
This is how others see it, and how I often talk about it since it’s how most people talk about it. And it has some use. It’s not wrong, even if it’s not the full picture.
THE WORLD MOVING THROUGH WHAT I AM
When I look in my first-person experience, I find I am something more fundamental than this human self in the world. I find I am capacity for the world (what allows my experience of the world to happen). I find that the world, to me, happens within and as my sense fields. And I find that the world, as it appears to me, happens within and as what I am. Any content of experience – this human self, others, the wider world, and anything at all – happens within and as what I am.
Here, I also find that when this human self moves in the world, what’s actually happening is that the world, to me, moves through me. It moves through this field of experience. It moves through and as what I am.
What I am forms itself into the appearance of the world moving through me.
STILL ESSENCE
When I look more closely, I find that my nature forms itself into the world as it appears to me.
And this means this moving world is moving. And it’s also all happening as my nature, as (what a thought may call) consciousness.
So there are three things happening at once.
This human self moves through the world.
The world moves through me. It moves through my sense fields and what I am.
And the essence of it is not moving since the moving world, to me, happens as what I am. It happens as consciousness. Its essence is always the same.
IN DAILY LIFE
For me, this makes daily life more interesting.
Yes, this human self moves through the world and that’s how I talk about it with others.
For myself, I notice that the world moves through me. It’s fascinating and gives me a quiet joy to notice it.
And I also notice how it’s all happening as what I am, and the essence of it all is – in that sense – still.
Note: I have written similar articles on distance, time, doership, the physical, and this human self.
DRAFT FRAGMENTS
LOOKING MORE CLOSELY
When I look more closely, I find more.
I find that my nature forms itself into the world as it appears to me.
And this means this moving world is moving. And it’s also all happening as my nature, as (what a thought may call) consciousness.
So there are three things happening at once.
This human self moves through the world.
The world moves through me. It moves through my sense fields and what I am.
And nothing is really moving since the moving world, to me, happens as what I am. It happens as consciousness. Its essence is always the same.