Can the absolute subject know or see itself?

Question

I'm supposed to reflect on these and give an answer for my yoga class. I don't know if there's a right or wrong answer, but I was just wondering what others thought.

1. Can a subject (someone who is the experiencer or the observer of experience) ever be an object (someone/something) that is being experienced or seen?

2. Can the absolute subject (purusha, seer, drastra) know or see itself? Why or why not?

Answer 1

1. Yes, you are empty of inherent existence, you're not some independenly existing creature, so when others look at you, you are the object being perceived, and their perceptions are based on their own causes and conditions (i.e. emptiness), unless they're a Buddha.

2. If you train yourself well through meditation you can see the clear light of mind, or emptiness. The mind, as it is now, is full of "static" (we'll call it) a jumble of thoughts and emotions that race across like clouds across the sky. Your mind is like the sky... when you learn to calm your mind and let the thoughts pass without attachments, aversions, indifferences, etc. with enough training, you can see your true self.

Just a Buddhist opinion based on meditation study and personal meditation.

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Answer 2

i had one dream once were i was every person ,and the observer,lately all most every dream i am the observer and the actor , not at the same time, i am the actor , then i see my dream self, doing some things , then i switch back to being the actor again,

as for [being a black spot in the infinite void] i was [the spot] not the void. i never lost my ego.supposedly i read matter is a reflection of inner being . i spent many hours drawing stick figures and mirrors, trying to finger it out.

if life force is this [massive being],why would it need to see it self??i try ed many time to see my own vision.i have some sort of vortex that i see in bright light like a kaleidoscope tunnel , and i have looked at the never ending waves of vision, collapsing on each other,to no avail.

life is it self, so i assume it knows it self??who else would it know??if you existed for zillions of years ,I'm shur it knows it self pretty well by now .ha ha ha .

the void is byond the mind

Answer 3

#1 happens every time you see another person. That is so obvious.

#2 is more abstract. I'm not into abstract philosophy so I can't help you on this one.

Answer 4

1. Uh......yes. My wife sees me all the time.
2. I just did when I saw my hands typing so yes.

Answer 5

well anytime you look at somebody you are seeing the way they live and are seeing them through their experiences and yes the person can see themselves when they look in the mirror