"I Am That and You're a Wannabe" -- Ch. Googleplex

[Guest guest]

"I Am That and You're a Wannabe"

-- Talks with Sri Nasalgarden Mahjong

Ch. Googleplex

Questioner: What benefit do I derive from listening

to you?

Mahjong: The benefit of a state of rapt absorption

in someone who embodies truth? Just

a guess...

Questioner: To what purpose?

Mahjong: To the purpose of making you feel like you're

getting somewhere.

Questioner: When I look into myself, all I find is someone

trying to look at the trying to look

at the trying to look ...

Mahjong: Well, at that rate, you could listen to me

speak for a hundred years, no?

See you tomorrow

....

Questioner: But, what about consciousness? What about

truth, life, and being. Wait, I didn't

get to ask about the light beyond the

consciousness. And what about my mother-in-law?

Mahjong: Ah, now you're getting to the tough ones.

I can see we'll be meeting for a long, long, time...

Love,

Dan

"I Am That" -- Talks with

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Ch. 42 Excerpt

Questioner: What benefit do I derive from listening to you?

Maharaj: I am calling you back to yourself. All I ask you is to

look

at yourself, toward yourself, into yourself.

Q: To what purpose?

M: You live, you feel, you think. By giving attention to your

living,

feeling and thinking, you free yourself from them and go beyond

them. Your personality dissolves and only the witness

remains. Then

you go beyond the witness. Do not ask how it happens. Just

search

within yourself.

Q: What makes the difference between the person and the witness?

M: 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.

Q: How does one get established in the higher state, the state of

pure

witnessing?

M: Consciousness does not shine by itself. It shines by a light

beyond it. Having seen the dreamlike quality of consciousness, look

for the light in which it appears, which gives it being. There is

the content of consciousness as well as the awareness of it.

[Guest guest]

, Daniel Berkow <berkowd@u...> wrote:

> "I Am That and You're a Wannabe"

> -- Talks with Sri Nasalgarden Mahjong

>

> Ch. Googleplex

 

 

Sri Mahjong must be one long-lived fellow, to speak with so many as

to fill up a Googolplex book chapters (assuming that's what you

meant, and the above is a misspelling :-).

> Questioner: What benefit do I derive from listening

> to you?

>

> Mahjong: The benefit of a state of rapt absorption

> in someone who embodies truth? Just

> a guess...

 

Heheheh...

> Questioner: To what purpose?

>

> Mahjong: To the purpose of making you feel like you're

> getting somewhere.

 

Does the listener not seek such a feeling?

> Questioner: When I look into myself, all I find is someone

> trying to look at the trying to look

> at the trying to look ...

>

> Mahjong: Well, at that rate, you could listen to me

> speak for a hundred years, no?

> See you tomorrow ...

 

Sounds more like "Sri Danjagatta Berkojong... you've got the wrong

Guru! ;-)

 

Joy & Humor,

 

Tim