Samadhi as reflexive unification

[pj]

I am curious as to other's opinion on Maha Boowa's idea of liberation of mind.  That is, that liberation is the turning of the mind away from the khandas towards a reflexive awareness in which there is no discrimination (of time, space.. etc.).   He seems to suggest that samadhi itself is a gradual turning away of the mind away form that which is not-self (ie the khandas) culminating in awakening.  However, I find the buddho meditation that he reccomends to be a bit vexing.  (But, of course, each person has their own most effective method of meditation)

In this sense the citta is almost like a higher self, which is why this slightly bothers me.  However, I have searched the suttas, and I cannot seem to find any explicit refusal of such a self; That is only the khandas are said to be not-self.

[Jhanananda]

I suppose, PJ, my biggest problem with the above definition of samadhi is the suttas describe it in ecstatic terms; whereas, Samadhi, as reflexive unification, simply has none of that. 

At the heart of what I see happening in all religions is they all try to confuse us into thinking that the progenitor of one religion is better than another, which is more about competition for donation dollars, than it is about providing a path to liberation from our addictions/sins/fetters through cultivating the bliss, joy an ecstasy of the religious experience, which is cultivated through leading a disciplined, self-aware contemplative life.

khandha: the '5 aggregates of cognition' or 'groups (of existence)' or 'aggregates of clinging' (upádánakkhandha); alternative renderings: aggregates, categories of objects of clinging. These are the 5 aspects in which the Buddha has summed up all the physical and mental phenomena of existence, and which appear to the ignorant man as his ego, or personality, to wit:

    (1) the somatic or corporeality group (rúpa-kkhandha),
    (2) the sensorial or feeling group (vedaná-kkhandha),
    (3) the perception group (saññá-kkhandha),
    (4) the mental structure or mental-formation group (sankhára-kkhandha),
    (5) the cognitive-group (viññána-kkhandha).
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