Trajectory
Immediate experience is of composite happenings
mostly seeing, hearing, sensation, taste, and smelling
but also feeling, thinking, and perceiving.
"I" appear to others, and they to me, as objects outside
that mildly influence first subjective, immediate experience
then, with communications, my feelings and state of mind.
The brain edits our sensory esperiences, and interprets them,
searching for meaning and importance, or art and aesthetics,
selectively integrating thoughts, feelings, and perceptions
resulting in felt, perceived, and egocentric understandings.
But am I my ego's interpretations and explanations
or my sensory experiences, feelings, perceptions, and reactions
or something beyond interpretations and objectified reality
such as the physical atoms, and energy, that constitutes my body and mind?
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Basic Buddhist guidelines are listed in my Buddhism in a Nutshell
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