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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 21:38:34 GMT -5
one cannot see themselves in action; one is, thus when mistakes occur we get to see where we is at.
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Post by laughter on Aug 28, 2014 5:23:40 GMT -5
That depends. What sees? What lets go? Meditation happens. When meditation is not absent, meditation is no longer meditation. Said another way, meditation only exists as a defined experience for someone who SOMETIMES meditates. yes. ... said another way, if it takes effort, it's not a practice! The lack of something defines it's presence. Lack yes, but lack isn't absence and whether an absence defines a presence depends on how the word is being used. Meditation happens because it is absent for periods of experience in that localized bundle of perspective and perception that partially defines YOU. because?? (** muttley snicker **)
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Post by justlikeyou on Aug 28, 2014 19:02:47 GMT -5
"The life force and the consciousness are only two as a concept, really they are one. As soon as form is created, the life force is infused in that form and sentience is automatically present. Physical form and the life force in the absence of the consciousness would only be a technically alive body. Merely the life force within the body is of no use unless consciousness is present, and would be merely air, the potency to create a sentient being. Without the vital breath, Ishvara or God has no soul, no expression. Without God, the vital breath has no existence. It is the vital breath, the life force, which is worshipping God. When the vital breath seeks the consciousness as God itself, then dawns the light of consciousness with which the life force works and achieves what it wants to achieve...oneness with God. Even if the life force is considered as God itself, the result will be the same. The consciousness is merely the witnessing process. If the life force is regarded as God itself, there cannot be consciousness without life force, so consciousness and life force are two components, inextricably woven together, of one principle."
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Post by justlikeyou on Aug 29, 2014 11:40:50 GMT -5
"The awareness of conditions brings one to the unconditioned. To know the conditioned as conditioned is all that can be said about the unconditioned. We can only talk of the unreal, the illusory, the transient, the conditioned. To go beyond, we must pass through total negation of everything as having independent existence. All things depend. All things depend on consciousness, and consciousness depends on the witness. The witness is the reflection of the real in all its purity."
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 4, 2014 19:55:54 GMT -5
"The person and the witness both are modes of consciousness. In one, you desire and fear; in the other, you are unaffected by pleasure and pain, and are not ruffled by events. You let them come and go."
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Post by laughter on Sept 5, 2014 5:08:30 GMT -5
"The person and the witness both are modes of consciousness. In one, you desire and fear; in the other, you are unaffected by pleasure and pain, and are not ruffled by events. You let them come and go." Niz's construct of the witness is soooooo clear. The witness is as pure as duality can possibly ever get. From the perspective of the witness, the pointer of nonduality can be very very obvious.
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 5, 2014 11:57:05 GMT -5
"Reflected awareness, the sense: 'I am aware' is the witness, while pure awareness is the essence of reality. Reflection of the sun in a drop of water is a reflection of the sun, no doubt, but not the sun itself. Between awareness reflected in consciousness as the witness and pure awareness there is a gap, which the mind cannot cross."
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Post by laughter on Sept 5, 2014 12:18:38 GMT -5
"Reflected awareness, the sense: 'I am aware' is the witness, while pure awareness is the essence of reality. Reflection of the sun in a drop of water is a reflection of the sun, no doubt, but not the sun itself. Between awareness reflected in consciousness as the witness and pure awareness there is a gap, which the mind cannot cross." Ha! ha! Didn't keep the old chain-smokin' curmudgeon from talkin' 'bout it though!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 12:24:05 GMT -5
"Reflected awareness, the sense: 'I am aware' is the witness, while pure awareness is the essence of reality. Reflection of the sun in a drop of water is a reflection of the sun, no doubt, but not the sun itself. Between awareness reflected in consciousness as the witness and pure awareness there is a gap, which the mind cannot cross." Ha! ha! Didn't keep the old chain-smokin' curmudgeon from talkin' 'bout it though! Yea what a prankster. Might as well serve up something for the mind to yammer on and on about. It's gonna happen anyway.
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 5, 2014 12:38:22 GMT -5
"Reflected awareness, the sense: 'I am aware' is the witness, while pure awareness is the essence of reality. Reflection of the sun in a drop of water is a reflection of the sun, no doubt, but not the sun itself. Between awareness reflected in consciousness as the witness and pure awareness there is a gap, which the mind cannot cross." Ha! ha! Didn't keep the old chain-smokin' curmudgeon from talkin' 'bout it though! In the old days I use to talk about how "knowledge" is where you went to school to learn how to build a bridge, and "understanding" is what takes knowledge's place after you actually build one. In this same way, yeah, talkin' 'bout it, is only a pointer. But once that gap is bridged (pardon the pun)...
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 5, 2014 12:41:59 GMT -5
It's gonna happen anyway. Only until it doesn't
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 7, 2014 18:51:21 GMT -5
"To realize the Eternal is to become the Eternal, the whole, the universe, with all it contains. Every event is the effect and the expression of the whole, and is in fundamental harmony with the whole. All response from the whole must be right, effortless, and instantaneous. It cannot be otherwise if it is right. Thought, feeling and action must be one and simultaneous with the situation that calls for them. It comes from him who was present at your birth and will witness your death."
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 8, 2014 8:56:35 GMT -5
"Neither consciousness, nor the ‘I Am’ at the centre of it, are you. Your true being is entirely unselfconscious, completely free from all self-identification with what it may be, gross, subtle, or transcendental."
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 10, 2014 15:42:29 GMT -5
"The Supreme is the sun. It is neither conscious or unconscious. Do not think of it in terms of consciousness or unconsciousness. It is the life, which contains both and is beyond both."
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Post by justlikeyou on Sept 15, 2014 11:21:03 GMT -5
"Wrong desires and fears, false ideas, social inhibitions are blocking and preventing its free interplay with the conscious. Once free to mingle, the two become one and the one becomes all. The person merges into the witness, the witness into awareness, awareness into pure being, yet identity is not lost. It is transfigured, and becomes the real Self, the eternal friend and guide."
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