David, like Marcia, finds the specifics of embodiment to be a good gateway into “the point where reality is conducted into being.” I have been teaching a meditation class lately in which something similar has come up. Embodiment has a kind of innocence or purity that thoughts, etc. do not. It is based on a conceptual understanding, true, but the body does not itself insist that it is mine, or that sense experience needs to be understood the way ‘I’ want to understand it.
The mind does make sense of things so quickly that we not have sense experience at all. For instance, if I hear a car going by, is that really a sense experience, or is it just a registering that a sense impression happened without my being aware of it? But I like what David does with this: turning the discriminating and categorizing into another experience. That is what I suggested in my previous post: that we can ’embody’ (in a very different way) a disembodied experience like ‘making sense of’ (what David calls ‘filling in’).
By the way, there seem to be two ways to look into all this: in the moment, and in immediate retrospect. Do you think the give the same knowledge?
Jack