Post by dwbh1953 on Jan 16, 2009 15:30:17 GMT -5
When you have Awareness plus the added I thought you have the mistaken you of who you really are. IOW what is this I thought and where does it come from?
Here is a good description below , when read carefully and slowly you begin to see what reality is and how it came to be.
Cheers
Randyji
What Is "The I"?
"The problem arises only when the memory of past pains and pleasures, which are essential to all organic life, remains as a reflex, dominating behaviour. This reflex takes the shape of "I" and uses the body and the mind for its purposes, which are invariably in search for pleasure or flight from pain. When you recognize the "I" as it is, a bundle of desires and fears, and the sense of "mine" as embracing all things and people needed for the purpose of avoiding pain and securing pleasure, you will see that the "I" and the "mine" are false ideas, having no foundation in reality. Created by the mind, they rule their creator as long as it takes them to be true; when questioned, they dissolve. The "I" and "mine", having no existence in themselves, need a support which they find in the body. The body becomes their point of reference. When you talk of "my" husband and "my children", you mean the body's husband and the body's children.
Charles Hayes