Date: Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:03 pm Subject: Dr. Nitin Trasi : 'I' as a 'where' and not a 'who' I highly recommend this article on the nature of 'I' ego and ...
Hi again, ... awareness ... No, 'awareness' cannot be counted, subjectified, or focused. ... What about if there is no clarity of perception, there is fear,...
Hi, Thanks for this link. It contains some good material. Same author as noted on the page wrote a book called 'The Science of Enlightenment' which has been...
... That post was about stopping dialoges as they pop up. I thought in this post you meant to stop all dialoges so that no dialoges would ever pop up for one...
Ooooh, Anders, I do trust in your talents - but not that much to offer you a task which is impossible to solve. But that one to stop any inner dialog as soon...
... When we are thinking, awarenss is focused on inner thoughts, and when we look at something, then awareness is focused on what is seen. ... there ... Yes,...
... a ... Outer ... Then I understand. Yes, an inner dialog is happening now as I write this post, and *also* when I make a phone call, unless when the words ...
I feel like Pure Space that is vibrantly buzzing/vibrating with some very high frequency energy! I feel like vibrantly buzzing space that is still, ...STILL...
Each new instant everything arises and disappears. Nothing remains, everything changes. Only those who goes beyond the doors of reality can learn this. ...
Anders, I haven't asked you to understand, I have asked you to do that experiment for one day. You cannot know beforehand what will be the result. Are you only...
Like an animal, a beast, a bird, a lizard perched on a rock, just seeing, hearing, sensing, just being there without a notion in the brain, apperceiving what...
Thanks Pete, This whole enlightenment thing has to get demystified, stripped of any culture's influences in the sense of freedom from cultivation. Our...
... an ... Exactly. It's not that thinking is incompatible with realization. It's that for most people thinking has become endemic, thinking has become the...
... Ok, I'll try this experiment tomorrow. /AL ... example ... post ... write ... and ... plot ... thought ... in ... and ... Nisargadatta@yahoogroups.com,...
I couldn't disagree more. Enlightened beings like Jesus, Buddha, Paul or Ramana Maharshi are never described as animal like. Quite the reverse. They are known...
Hi Eric, Disagreement brings more life into a discussion, thanks for joining. Why was Jesus called "The lamb of God" ?. Why was Ramanas cow Lakshmi his...
... Lakshmi ... Jesus was called "The lamb of God" because he was the blood sacrfice for the sins of men. It was a metaphor. Ramana obviously liked the cow,...
... Paul ... them ... They ... nothing ... I think it is an evolutionary ladder going on like this: (1) Animal [no thinking] -> (2) Egoic human [thinking] ->...
... joining. ... you ... sacrfice ... humans, ... P: That's what I was referring to, too. I also used a meta4, but you seem to have a literal mind, which is...
Reedited. ... Dear Eric, You see "lamb" as a metaphor and and I see "animal" as a metaphor. That the word animal triggers your theosophical influences is no ...
That isn't at all what you said which was "Most people have this notion that the spiritual way is akin to progress, an evolution into a superior being, or...
... consciousness ... Yes, you are right. those two paragraphs are not metaphorical, they are facts. You are an animal,( unless you view yourself as a machine)...
Hi again, ... <When we are thinking, awarenss is focused on inner thoughts, and when we look at something, then awareness is focused on what is seen.> When we...
Hi again, ... being? ... Who or what then discriminates between these different levels of being? What observer? ... What observer and what observed? Are these...
Hi, Well, your thoughts below have provoked a bit of a response, which is great! I don't agree with your use of an animal to explain this, and saying that the...
... machine) ... might ... LOL. You're eating the skin, and throwing the banana away. The Gita and the Bible are the skin. Be still, be silent, be attentive!...
Pete, that's a good one ! "LOL. You're eating the skin, and throwing the banana away. The Gita and the Bible are the skin. Be still, be silent, be attentive!" ...