Open Awareness is Still Dualistic Consciousness

 Wrote before to someone:

Regarding “open awareness”, kyle dixon/krodha wrote something well in reddit yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/s/nnqdAzn7qM

“Open awareness” is technically the vijñāna skandha, dualistic consciousness, mainly because there is still an internal subjective reference point that is present. It feels like there is an observer witnessing thoughts passing by and so on. That visceral feeling of being an observer is the “self.”

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No matter how open it feels, it still seems like thoughts arise and pass, and it still seems like things are “over there” residing at a distance. Regardless of whether this feels like a self or not, this indicates that the ignorance that the self is inextricable from is still present and healthy.

Honestly I wouldn’t worry about whether it is a self or whatever you may think it is, it is important to just keep practicing. The self, vijñāna, or the citta i.e., the relative mind, are all in effect until the first instance of real awakening occurs. Every aspect of experience below the threshold of awakening, meaning stream entry or the first bhūmi, is mediated by ignorance in the form of the self, or vijñāna, etc.

All that really matters is keeping up diligence in practice."

Also see:

• "Thusness/PasserBy's Seven Stages of Enlightenment" (Available in multiple languages: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NE, PL, PT-BR, PT-PT, RU, TA, TH, VI, ZH) - Exploring a series of experiential awakenings and insights into the nature of pristine consciousness.
• "On Anatta (No-Self), Emptiness, Maha and Ordinariness, and Spontaneous Perfection" (Available in multiple languages: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NE, PL, PT-BR, PT-PT, RU, TA, TH, VI, ZH) - Delving into the subject in more detail.