I agree this is an important point. Granted that there are many ways to
construe any situation, is there such a thing as an unconstruing state of
consciousness, an unconstrued experience of the world? I love how you say,
"I don't know, but I keep on meditating to try it for myself"! I love your
experimenting, empirical, open-minded, non-dogmatic stance!
I think that the more one really feels the indeterminacy, the
non-absoluteness of all possible construals of a situation, the more one
can construe with a sense of perspective and freedom. Then I think there
is such a thing as realizing one's freedom to either make a distinction or
not make a distinction in any given situation; also, once one has made a
distinction and decided for one side of a distinction, to balance it out by
seeing that the other side of the distinction is equally relevant and
"true" from a different angle.
What would it be like to be in a non-construing state? Would there be
perception of any kind without at least implicit distinctions? I'm not
sure either! But I know there is such a thing as at least relative mental
silence.
Bob Feldhaus
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