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#3559 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 -
Editor: Gloria Lee
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“I woke up
and suddenly got it,” Carrey says. “I understood
suddenly how my thoughts were just an illusory thing. And how
'thought' is responsible for most of the suffering we experience
... and suddenly I had this amazing feeling of freedom –
from myself, from my problems. I saw that I was bigger than what
I do. I was bigger than my body. I was no longer a fragment of
the universe – I was the universe.”
- Actor Jim Carrey posted
to Living_Only_Love by Mark C. and
sent by Pelkyong
M: When you are bound by the illusion: 'I am this body', you are
merely a point in space and a moment in time. When the
self-identification with the body is no more, all space and time
are in your mind, which is a mere ripple in consciousness, which
is awareness reflected in nature. Awareness and matter are the
active and the passive aspects of pure being, which is in both
and beyond both. Space and time are the body and the mind of the
universal existence. My feeling is that all that happens in space
and time happens to me, that every experience is my experience
every form is my form. What I take myself to be, becomes my body
and all that happens to that body becomes my mind. But at the
root of the universe there is pure awareness, beyond space and
time, here and now. Know it to be your real being and act
accordingly.
I Am That
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Chapter 93
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
You live in consciousness;
your body merely moves about; but few persons will pause long
enough to perceive who they really are and what they are really
doing.
— Notebooks of Paul Brunton posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
The mind turned inwards is
the Self; turned
outwards, it becomes the ego and all the
world. Cotton made into various clothes we
call by various names. Gold made into various
ornaments, we call by various names. But all
the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments
gold. The one is real, the many are mere names
and forms.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
"Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
edited by David Godman
posted to Along The Way
'I AM' itself is God. The
seeking itself is God.
In seeking you discover that you are neither
body nor mind, but the love of the self in you
for the self in all. The two are one. The
consciousness in you and the consciousness
in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity,
and that is love.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
posted to Along The Way
What is the Mind?
You should not consider the mind to be that which reflects upon visual forms, sounds, tastes, and tactile sensations. Many people think that the mind is simply that which reflects upon what is seen and heard and is able to distinguish between good, bad, and so forth. Thus they regard the sixth sense, the intellect, to be the mind. But such views are just delusive thinking. Before seeing, before feeling, and before thinking: what is the mind? This alone is what you have to search for and awaken to.
–Kusan Sunim, translated by Martine Batchelor, from The Way of Korean Zen (Weatherhill)
I much agree with Candice
O'Denver on this one, when she says:
"Strip away all your ideas about everything and trust your
own experience that will take you all the way!". On this she
is quite correct ... but this appears to be the nub of the
problem .... the inability of human beings to just strip away the
ideas and rely on their own experience.
My feeling as to why this is so is that it is not just a case of
the mind deciding to strip away the ideas. The ideas don't just
exist in the mind, because they are also embedded into the very
fabric of every cell (even the DNA)in the body. They are etched
into each and every emotion that has been felt since the adult
human being was a small child (and no doubt this goes back even
before actual birth, as suggested by people such as Frederic
Leboyer ... and the teachings about reincarnation). There is, for
most people, a lot of undoing, a lot of unwinding, un-etching,
before they can possibly even be ready for this. I say this as
someone who naturally eased into this without any sense of
suffering or struggle. I know, from seeing friends around me,
that they do not have this ... they have inner obstacles in the
way, and they cannot see what you/Candice are suggesting.
Whatever I say doesn't help. They may even feel they are being
patronised when someone tells them it is simple and effortless.
For once I will speak personally, and it is this: For me, I feel
that all obstacles lifted when I witnessed myself in extreme
anger (for a few hours ... something the mind wouldn't let go of)
(and anger was never a natural trait of mine ... but it arose
from somewhere ... God knows where? ... with some intensity). In
that anger I perceived the whole suffering of humanity, and I
could from then onwards see that suffering in almost everyone I
meet. It is not ours ... it is like a collective karma that we
are all conditioned into, and it is then embedded deeper and
deeper into us, through repetition. It is not what we are, but it
informs, all the time, how we are as human beings ... until the
point when we are given a glimpse beyond the prison of
mind-emotion-collective karma. For me, it brought about a welling
up of compassion (for myself ... which includes everyone), which
has not left me in 15 years or more. Until that glimpse (The
View/Rigpa), do what one will, the unravelling will go on, and
people will not see the blindingly obvious. Ever has it been
thus. Candice is merely carrying on a traditional teaching about
the blatently obvious ... This teaching has been available for
thousands of years, I am sure ... but still humanity doesn't get
it.
On realising this, the songbird can only sing his song ... offer
his beauty to the world. If the world doesn't receive it (because
it can't), then it is not his job to get involved. This is one
thing I learned clearly from Jean Klein (and Krishnamurti) ...
the teaching is offered only .... no expectation that it will
change the world. The songbird sings .... Sometimes the world
crushes songbirds ... but they still sing. This is the nature of
songbirds. They don't get involved or demand that they are
listened to. They just sing.
with warm regards
Roy
Roy Whenary is the author of The Texture of Being book excerpts were presented in http://nonduality.com/hl3079.htm
Roy's website www.lotusharmony.com