Guest guest Posted August 25, 2003 Report Share Posted August 25, 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > RETIRING ABODE IN THE BODY > (Cont'd) > > SRI BHAGAVAN: Then this "I" is a radical thought, an intimate feeling, a > self-evident experience, an awareness that persists even in deep sleep when > the mind is not active as in the waking state. According to yourself then, > "I," the radical part, must have a locus in the body. > > QUESTIONER: Where is it? > > SRI BHAGAVAN: You have to find it out yourself. But you can't find it by > dissection of the body. > > QUESTIONER: How then? By dissection of the mind? > > SRI BHAGAVAN: Yes, as you are the mind, you have to dissect yourself and > find out where you (the "I") are. That is why I say, "know thyself." ______________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Messenger http://uk.messenger./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 RamanaMaharshi, Alan Jacobs <alanadamsjacobs> wrote: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > RETIRING ABODE IN THE BODY > > (Cont'd) > > > > SRI BHAGAVAN: Then this "I" is a radical thought, an intimate feeling, a > > self-evident experience, an awareness that persists even in deep sleep when > > the mind is not active as in the waking state. According to yourself then, > > "I," the radical part, must have a locus in the body. > > > > QUESTIONER: Where is it? > > > > SRI BHAGAVAN: You have to find it out yourself. But you can't find it by > > dissection of the body. > > > > QUESTIONER: How then? By dissection of the mind? > > > > SRI BHAGAVAN: Yes, as you are the mind, you have to dissect yourself and > > find out where you (the "I") are. That is why I say, "know thyself." > ramana is one of the most consistent teachers of nonduality to the extent that his teachings keep one focused on "self-inquiry" (or whatever you call that points to that)...that won't let one's mind wander to a mind-stuff i'd like to make, which is exactly the type of mind-stuff that perhaps you're not supposed to imagine during self- inquiry...yet it may be helpful in other ways: when i was a kid, i saw a book cover in turkish that said "madde ve mana." roughly translated it means "matter and meaning." back then i was not sure what it meant but that title left its imprint. years later i realized that the mind was like a computer. the brain matter is the hardware and the software is the mind. without getting into the (un)thorny subject of consciousness, i am beginning to think that there is not only a world of ideas in the mine but they have meanings. the triumph of the human mind is not how this super computer advanced in evolution with the efficient way it crunches information but how "meaning" emerged in the world of abstract ideas. hur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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