What is it to be transformed?

Kinfonet Discussion
183

So the problem is not naming but identification.

You are more than your name and that applies to everything.
At the same time, through identification, everything has the potential for an infinite jumble of words.

184

There is a body, evolved from the animal but nothing sensationally different but the brain development compared to our neighbors is. And apart from just being able to fill itself full of knowledge, the brain has the ‘potential’ to ‘free’ itself from ‘identification’ with any ‘thing’: the name, the body, the accumulation etc and become as nothing (not-a-thing). That is how I understand “infinite potential”. It is as if mankind stalled in its development, thinking ‘danmcderm’ was a ‘work in progress’ when it was actually a ‘roadblock’.

185

We don’t know if it’s a “roadblock” or a new development that requires a new approach. “Progress” takes time, and seeing what the brain is doing does not take time.

The conditioned brain knows it is limited by the tyrannical authority of desire/fear, knows this is made possible by its bicameral structure, and that it can’t observe this sleight of hand operation from inside. So the roadblock is the question of whether awareness is free of the self-limiting brain.

186

IF the observer is the observed, the brain is refusing for whatever reason to see that. Instead it sees itself as the observer and everything around it as separate, the object of its observation. It has isolated itself from the rest of the world. The ‘roadblock’ is whatever keeps that pernicious illusion from being dissolved.

Is that what “you are the world” is pointing out?

187

If the human brain began limiting itself thousands of years ago, can we accuse ourselves of “refusing” to be free, or are we just conditioned by thousands of years of conditioning to never question what the brain is doing?

it sees itself as the observer and everything around it as separate, the object of its observation. It has isolated itself from the rest of the world. The ‘roadblock’ is whatever keeps that pernicious illusion from being dissolved.

What “keeps that pernicious illusion from being dissolved” is that awareness of what the brain is doing is distorted or denied by the brain’s conditioning, lack of self-knowledge, and the possibility that awareness is outside the brain.