| | Hey just wondering if someone could point me to a good source explaining what is meant by luminosity when used by people on this forum and how it relates to some other terms. It is only recently since I think got 1st path that I could really understand at all the idea of my own Awareness as a thing. But now I can understand a little what people are talking about when they say your 'true nature' is timeless, being-as-awareness.
When I tried before path to work out what the background to the sensory experience was, I would seem to get "me", the idea of a watching entity in one place, which was seemingly very very "me", and the objects were very not-me.
Now, when I look at the visual field, say I look at the kitchen sink, it just seems less separate from the total sensate field and 'myself', leading me to say that it's a bit like my own being-as-awareness being over there, as the sink (for now).
(There was a period of a couple of days where this sense really went overdrive, where it would seem that if I looked at the floor, the floor was part of my body, coming right out of my eyes. Or I would be eating and too confused to eat a mushroom on my fork as I thought it was part of me, and would be biting myself. But this has diminished.)
so here is what I understand by these terms:
Being-As-Awareness - the basic nature of what everything is including my 'true' self, a sort of infinite "aware capacity" which fluxes around and reflects objects, or shows itself as objects, but itself is timeless and unstained.
But I can't get what is meant by luminosity - e.g. in mahamudra, it is said the mind is empty and luminous, is that the same as what people on DhO refer to?
If people talk about perceiving luminosity, what do they mean, phenomenologically?
also, what is Shinzen Young referring to as The Source? e.g. in this pdf? http://www.shinzen.org/Retreat%20Reading/Return%20to%20the%20Source.pdf
thanks for any help anthony |