Yes André, I agree with most of what u said, just 3 points:
1. Primordial
state, original face.
What does it mean to to be without the imagined and
imputed? It is simply one's primordial
state, always and already so despite non-recognition.
So the path can be directly pointing to one's original
face or to rid from all imputed imagined artificialities.
But the direct leap out of the imputed layer is often not
exhaustive and thorough, many blindspots and hindrances. Therefore a short cut can often turns out to
be a longer cut.
2. Unmade, natural
and spontaneous
I agree that without imputations, there is no
boundaries. Therefore all experiences is
open and spacious and without the layer of imagined, whatever appears is
pristine and pellucid, transparent and crystal.
In addition to that, purge of all imputed
artificialities, whatever appears is also unmade and unconditioned, natural and
spontaneous.
3. Seeing through
duality and seeing from inherency, to me is not the same and has different
experiential taste.
When we say "the lightning is flashing", there
r no two parts - "lightning" and "flashing", the flashing
is the lightning.
When we say "the mover and the movement", there
r no two parts - "mover" and "movement", the mover is the
movement.
Same for the anatta insight, hearer hearing sound. There is no 3 parts, no hearer hearing sound,
the hearer is the hearing is the sound.
That is seeing through thingness, agency and action.
But seeing through duality like inner/outer, left/right,
entry/exit, object/subject is different.
When the line of demarcation that divides dissolves, experience turns non-dual
but sense of "thingness" can still remain imo.
So this teaching of exhausting "thingness" is
quite unique, it is not just doing away with duality or conceptualities in
naked awareness or raw attention.
Last question:
What if one does not go through the path of seeing
through mental imputation and reification?
Any other ways to free oneself from the sense of
agency-action, duality and boundaries?
Got to go, late for work.
Thks for sharing!
- John Tan, 2020