We are Awareness, the Non-Dualistic Model
Our experience of the world/reality is made of:
- perceptions: how we experience the world through our 5 senses.
- sensations: how we experience ourselves, our feelings and thoughts.
All of these experience are discontinuous. However the "I" is continuous. While experiences come and go, we persist. There is a continuous knower of these these discontinuous experience. The only continuous experience is that of being aware. It is the irreducible, indestructible element of our existence.
This is what is called the Non-Dualistic model, going against the dual mind/body conventional way of thinking.
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