Recently I was doing a noting practice, when for about 10 seconds I was not aware of anything to note. When this ended (a sensation arose), I became aware that I now knew something about the noting entity (don't know what else to call it). What I suddenly knew was that the noting entity has no properties. No location in space, no extent, there was nothing that could be said about it. This did not come to me as thought, but as a kind of raw awareness or intuition. I'm tempted to call it a revelation because of the way it seemed to come to me from elsewhere/nowhere.
Is that description coherent enough for anyone to be able to help me understand it?
This is a very nice window opening, in my opinion.
Mind is often bound up in thoughts and feelings. So, when mind begins to see its faculties without these as clutterings, it starts to experience and know otherwise.
If one starts to think too much about the experiences (what does this make me: a sotapanna, a non-returner, a big head, etc), then thoughts are back. No problem. If one starts to experience dissatisfaction in not generating this nothing-to-note mind, then some emotion is back. No problem. What to do? There are many practices. I like to be at the senses: just hearing (not thinking, "I hear"), just seeing, etc, and volitional state is willing, benign, receptive. This is like noting, but now there is no noter. Even if you have a tendency to note, it will drop away.
Anyway, more of whatever you're
doing will probably point your way, because a person goes through themselves, their source of thought-feelings to get to mental application without those.
It is very tempting to analyze this sort of experience. No problem. Thinking, thinking.