thesoundofmotion
Bluelighter
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- May 1, 2007
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That is because our eyes look out and not in.
They don't.That is because our eyes look out and not in.
This just a little antidote based on the that last few 'self' posts: I'm 25, living in an apt. with my little brother (23) at university. I've lived with my brother for probably 23 years of my life, so we are especially close. Sometimes during a conversation with him I find myself feeling as if we are really one human being. Or that, my 23 year perception of him is as much myself, as himself.
As somebody that 'practices' Buddhism and meditation, I guess this isn't that strange. It must be like this for all people, if you look long and hard enough.
From here, the ego isn't actually 'self', but "self and other".
It seems to me that talk of transcending self often ignores something both equal and concommittent -- transcending other.
Self/other co-arise, and one can't exist without the other -- thus feelings of e.g. loneliness when self is deprived of other.
The dissolution of self (one's own ego) is the dissolution of everyone's ego.
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There is a base of Being (awareness), in which both self and other arise.
I see both my own body, and other bodies.
I hear both myself speaking and others speaking, when I'm talking to them.
That which sees, that which hears -- is always already transcendent of self/other.
Is this transcendent Being identifying with a single body, a single speaker -- or is it open to "being" both?
When I'm talking to someone online or in person -- can I move from "me", into the audience, and watch both "me" and "you" interacting as characters?
Peace...
You seem to be desperately trying to understand the world so as to become free from its entanglements.
I don't know if me reminding you that to seek mind with the intellectual mind is considered the greatest of all mistakes will help or not
They don't.
Note the direction light travels to enter the pupils of your eyes.
Light isn't beamed out, it enters in.
The light one sees is not 'out there'.
Lots of people seem to feel that way -- especially many of the people who hang around Advaita forums on the Net, which is a bit strange IMO. I can't remember how many times I've posted a "purely advaitic" something or other, and someone complained how boring, dull and lifeless it was.Advaita talk is boring, dull, banal, commonplace, plodding old
Am I the same mind reading this message right now that you are?