so to reflect - which I am suggesting is the defining
characteristic of the mind - is to -
to have a thought -
is to have a thought - and to know you are having the
thought
now in reality - there are not two phases (as in time)
to this
the having is the knowing
the knowing is thus - what?
it is if you like the fact of the thought - and its
awareness
the point is though isn't that - the awareness cannot
really be distinguished from the fact of the thought -
the having
and so
thought - too is just this - awareness - writ small
an instance thereof
what I am suggesting is that awareness - thought -
mind - is reflection
or 'reflection' is a term - name - to describe -
awareness
so
we can take what I have just said above -
and think about it
reflect on it -
this is what?
to posit the thought expressed
and to what?
essentially just to regard it - as an object -
of thought
so it is really - a subject - something thought -
being - becoming - the object of thought
being included in - within the range of another
thought
being subsumed?
in any case it is clear that the magic of it is that
thought (awareness) can be subject and - can be an
'object' - of awareness
it is this possibility - inherent in awareness -
that gives it - a logical fluidity - a capacity to be
knowledge / to be the object of knowledge - that
distinguishes thought from other manifestations of
nature
so - it is thought that is fundamentally dualistic
in its activity - its expression
and what of the nature of such a 'thing' if you can
call it that?
beyond this logical fluidity - I can't see what else
you might say of thought - it's inherent nature -
it has this facility - or this facility is a description
of it - what it does - what happens - beyond that -
beyond such expressiveness - it is essentially unknown
we know awareness
we know self awareness
we know the fact of it - its existence - its experience -
we can to some extent describe and define it
but we can never see it for what it is (beyond this
facility)
it is thus a unity - with two aspects - subjective and
objective
matter (non-conscious) - I would suggest is one dimensional
it is a shell
