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**SerycegeBunny** · 08-02-2010, 01:37 AM

Would it make sense to call it that which experiences (life)? Or is the question of what it is that experiences life one of the "classical unanswered (unaskable?) questions"?

When we look for "that which experiences", do we ever find anything apart from the consciousness that arises from sense contacts? We sense something (a visible object, a sound, an odour, a taste, a touch, a mental object) and awareness associated with that sense contact arises, but that which senses (i.e., experiences) is never found. I think this is why we can say that the consciousness (the experiencing) is bound up with each sense contact and not separate from it. This is also, I think, why we can say that the "self" arises with each of these sense contacts and dies when the sense contact ceases. What other self do we find? The idea that there is a single "self" that experiences all of our sense contacts seems to be in error, because we never find that self.

That is the current state of my thinking, which still needs development in this area.

08-02-2010, 01:37 AM	#7
SerycegeBunny Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 590 Senior Member	Would it make sense to call it that which experiences (life)? Or is the question of what it is that experiences life one of the "classical unanswered (unaskable?) questions"? When we look for "that which experiences", do we ever find anything apart from the consciousness that arises from sense contacts? We sense something (a visible object, a sound, an odour, a taste, a touch, a mental object) and awareness associated with that sense contact arises, but that which senses (i.e., experiences) is never found. I think this is why we can say that the consciousness (the experiencing) is bound up with each sense contact and not separate from it. This is also, I think, why we can say that the "self" arises with each of these sense contacts and dies when the sense contact ceases. What other self do we find? The idea that there is a single "self" that experiences all of our sense contacts seems to be in error, because we never find that self. That is the current state of my thinking, which still needs development in this area.
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