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In a message dated 11/24/00 11:10:03 AM Mexico Standard Time,

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Dear Colette,

 

Who the 'heaven' is Pieter?

 

Regards/Andy (one of the lurkers at )

 

Hello lurker Andy, Pieter is someone who posts quite deep profound

posts from time to time around & about. Most here would have spotted

him around. Harsha shared his stuff here some time ago.

 

I will share a bit of Pieter's writings

 

"Maya mirrored (or reflecting on itself) = ayam or "I AM"

 

"Who is in my temple?

Who is in my temple?

All the doors open themselves.

All the lights light themselves.

Darkness like a dark bird Flies away, Oh

flies away."

 

 

The Self, Maya, and the Heart:

The Fundamentals of Non-Dualism

 

Summary:

The concepts of the Self, Maya, and the Heart are the central themes or

tenets of the Katha Upanishad and the Bhagavad Gita. Out of these and

similar books (or scriptures) comes the philosophy of non-dualism or

Vedanta.

 

Part I: Considering the concepts of Self, Maya, and Heart, as viewed

from

the sages

 

The Self:

According to the ancient sages of India, the Self is neither the body,

thoughts,

feelings, nor intellect, but rather all pervasive Being/Consciousness

manifesting

as the Heart in all beings, from which emanates the awareness of "I" and

 

Knowledge of the Self, which includes the realization that all knowledge

is in

and from the subject-"I", the seer, not the object.

 

"The individual self, which is Brahman mistakenly identified with Maya,

experiences the gunas* which proceed from Maya. He, who has experienced

 

Brahman directly and known it to be other than Maya and the gunas, will

not be

reborn, no matter how he has lived his life." Bhagavad Gita, p. 103

 

"That in which the sun rises and in which it sets, that which is the

source of all

the powers of nature and of the senses, that which nothing can transcend

- that

is the immortal Self" Katha Upanishad, p. 21

 

"The Self-Existent made the senses turn outward. Accordingly, man looks

toward what is without, and sees not what is within. Rare is he, longing

for

immortality, shuts his eyes to what is without and beholds the Self."

Katha

Upanishad, p. 20

 

Maya is the self-existent beginningless power of Brahman, the Self,

which

makes us imagine that the sense of "I" felt in the body and the related

thoughts

and feelings are the Self. In the Bhagavad Gita (P. 59), this imagining

or

delusion is stated like a dream:

 

"You dream you are the doer You dream the action bears fruit It is your

ignorance It is the world's delusion That gives you those dreams."

 

More here ~ http://www.nondualitysalon.com/

 

Just type Pieter Schoonheim Samara in the Search Engine.

 

regards,

 

Colette

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