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Post by Figgles on Apr 24, 2017 20:33:40 GMT
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Post by ishimaru on Apr 26, 2017 12:54:45 GMT
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Post by Figgles on Apr 26, 2017 21:01:39 GMT
Thanks Ishimaru, and welcome! I really enjoyed this article. Love this bit I quoted below....so very well said. I think some do in fact misunderstand the offer to inquire into 'who am I,' and as a result, they ask that question and look, with the idea that a pat, fixed, tangible answer (a specific who or what) can actually be found. I think therefore, the part about 'then to let go into the no-thing-ness' is of particular importance to add. "To practice this same sort of self-inquiry inspired by the Buddha, we can quiet the mind and ask “Who am I?” or “Who is aware right now?” or “Who is listening?” Then we can look gently back into awareness to see what is true. Ultimately, we find that there is no way for the mind to answer the question—there is no “thing” to actually see or feel. The point is simply to look, then to let go into the no-thing-ness that is here. The question “Who am I?” is meant to dissolve the sense of a searcher. Yet, as you might discover, this isn’t what happens right away. First, we find all sorts of things we think we are, all our patterns of emotions and thoughts, our memories, the stories about who we take ourselves to be. Our attention keeps fixating on elements of the foreground." Tara brach |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 14:44:11 GMT
Thanks Ishimaru, and welcome! I really enjoyed this article. Love this bit I quoted below....so very well said. I think some do in fact misunderstand the offer to inquire into 'who am I,' and as a result, they ask that question and look, with the idea that a pat, fixed, tangible answer (a specific who or what) can actually be found. I think therefore, the part about 'then to let go into the no-thing-ness' is of particular importance to add. "To practice this same sort of self-inquiry inspired by the Buddha, we can quiet the mind and ask “Who am I?” or “Who is aware right now?” or “Who is listening?” Then we can look gently back into awareness to see what is true. Ultimately, we find that there is no way for the mind to answer the question—there is no “thing” to actually see or feel. The point is simply to look, then to let go into the no-thing-ness that is here. The question “Who am I?” is meant to dissolve the sense of a searcher. Yet, as you might discover, this isn’t what happens right away. First, we find all sorts of things we think we are, all our patterns of emotions and thoughts, our memories, the stories about who we take ourselves to be. Our attention keeps fixating on elements of the foreground." Tara brach Hi I read the article again every so often. This quote began resonating over the course of the past year... "Yet, our investigation also reveals that while empty of “thingness,” awareness is alive with wakefulness—a luminosity of continual knowing. Rumi puts it this way: “You are gazing at the light with its own ageless eyes.” Sounds, shapes, colors, and sensations are spontaneously recognized. The entire river of experience is received and known by awareness. This is the second basic quality of awareness: awakeness or cognizance." As the Bhagavad Gita mentions- I am the Field and the Knower of the Field. Kinda cool the way it bubbled up...  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 16:08:19 GMT
Thanks Ishimaru, and welcome! I really enjoyed this article. Love this bit I quoted below....so very well said. I think some do in fact misunderstand the offer to inquire into 'who am I,' and as a result, they ask that question and look, with the idea that a pat, fixed, tangible answer (a specific who or what) can actually be found. I think therefore, the part about 'then to let go into the no-thing-ness' is of particular importance to add. "To practice this same sort of self-inquiry inspired by the Buddha, we can quiet the mind and ask “Who am I?” or “Who is aware right now?” or “Who is listening?” Then we can look gently back into awareness to see what is true. Ultimately, we find that there is no way for the mind to answer the question—there is no “thing” to actually see or feel. The point is simply to look, then to let go into the no-thing-ness that is here. The question “Who am I?” is meant to dissolve the sense of a searcher. Yet, as you might discover, this isn’t what happens right away. First, we find all sorts of things we think we are, all our patterns of emotions and thoughts, our memories, the stories about who we take ourselves to be. Our attention keeps fixating on elements of the foreground." Tara brach Hi I read the article again every so often. This quote began resonating over the course of the past year... "Yet, our investigation also reveals that while empty of “thingness,” awareness is alive with wakefulness—a luminosity of continual knowing. Rumi puts it this way: “You are gazing at the light with its own ageless eyes.” Sounds, shapes, colors, and sensations are spontaneously recognized. The entire river of experience is received and known by awareness. This is the second basic quality of awareness: awakeness or cognizance." As the Bhagavad Gita mentions- I am the Field and the Knower of the Field. Kinda cool the way it bubbled up... Received? Where from? Awareness is receiving the experience? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 16:40:59 GMT
Hi I read the article again every so often. This quote began resonating over the course of the past year... "Yet, our investigation also reveals that while empty of “thingness,” awareness is alive with wakefulness—a luminosity of continual knowing. Rumi puts it this way: “You are gazing at the light with its own ageless eyes.” Sounds, shapes, colors, and sensations are spontaneously recognized. The entire river of experience is received and known by awareness. This is the second basic quality of awareness: awakeness or cognizance." As the Bhagavad Gita mentions- I am the Field and the Knower of the Field. Kinda cool the way it bubbled up... Received? Where from? Awareness is receiving the experience? Hi Gopal! Nice to see you again That's a really good question!  My answer would be- the reality of the supposed duality. |
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Received? Where from? Awareness is receiving the experience? Hi Gopal! Nice to see you again That's a really good question! My answer would be- the reality of the supposed duality. Who are you? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 17:03:55 GMT
Hi Gopal! Nice to see you again That's a really good question! My answer would be- the reality of the supposed duality. Who are you? Who is asking? |
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