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Post by japhy on Mar 16, 2014 12:13:46 GMT -5
Hey,
when using the search I found some posts containing his name but no thread about him. I just felt like opening one.
I have read the book "The ease of being" containing some of his talks. By the time I read it I found him very clear and was deeply impressed.
His life story also seems intersting (maybe not so much for the real non-dualist :-D).
I am curious who has read something by him or maybe met him in person and what your opinion about his teaching is.
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Post by japhy on Mar 21, 2014 10:40:27 GMT -5
The Ease of Being
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Post by japhy on Mar 22, 2014 3:37:14 GMT -5
Q: What is it that makes me choose certain things opposed to other things?
A:What is the motive which brings you to a certain choice? Yes, see this very clearly. If the desired change is only superficial, then we go from one compensation to another, through all the various ideas and techniques offered by society. In looking deeply at the motive behind a certain choice, you my discover a feeling of something missing in yourself. To see what this deficiency is requires stillness, an openness free of past. Don't let ideas, memory tell you what you need. Be still and you will know the answer to your question.
Looking for something, expecting something, hoping to achieve something, are all movements away from your axis to the perphery, from global consciousness to a point of view.
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Post by japhy on Mar 22, 2014 3:52:18 GMT -5
Q: What is a concept?
A: A concept is a thought, and a thought is a word; a word is a sound, and a sound is a pulsation. What comes before the pulsation? Stillness. Therefore a concept is nothing but an objectifying of stillness. In reality all that appears is an expression of stillness. So in the moment of unity with expression, there is only stillness.
you must accept the possibility of what is said here. In other words, you have to take a scientific attitude, If a scientist is told a particular formula yields a certain result he may inquire into the steps his fellow-scietist has taken. At this point knowledge is secondary hand, so he repeats the experiment, following the process, to see if he obtains the same result.
Like the scientist, one gathers information from someone who lives in the non-state. You inquire how he has come to tjis, and you accept on hearsay the possiblity of its existence. Then you live the perspective this person teaches and it becomes firsthand experience.
The Ease of being, p.4
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Post by japhy on Mar 22, 2014 3:58:01 GMT -5
Q: What is it that prevents us from passing the threshold?
A: If you look deeply into yourslef, you will see you refuse to be taken across. The image of being somebody is very deeply rooted. It stimulates insecurity, but evem this insecurity provides hold for the ego. Let it go.
The Ease of being, p. 7-8
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