To Tim--Elizabeth/FEAR OF INSANITY--IT COULD BE WORSE

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Hi Tim:

 

 

El

 

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Nisargadatta, " Omkara " <coresite@h...> wrote:

>

> Hi Elizabeth,

>

> " The mind " is yet another " entity-idea " if you see what I'm

saying.

> Seen from here there's no essential difference between " the

mind "

> and " the me " -- one and the same " entity, " different terminology.

>

> All these assumed separations.. " the mind " being separate

from

> what? " The I " being separate from what?

>

> It's easy to say 'these things don't exist,' and project what it

> would 'feel like' without the sense of " I " and all that... but is

> seeming existence 'the problem' or is assumed separation

'the

> problem'?

>

> Assumed separation causes fear, and 'insanity' is an

assumed

> separation. What is the fear of of " insanity " but the fear

> of 'losing touch' with social norms, conditionings and such?

>

> " Insanity " and " sanity, " what are these? Speaking from a

psychiatric

> viewpoint, schizophrenia is an inherited illness and doesn't

just

> happen (and if it does it fear isn't normally involved) so what's

the

> real issue?

>

> As seen from here, fear of 'being out of touch'. The belief that

one

> was ever 'in touch' or 'needs to be in touch', or that there was

an

> entity called a mind that 'was in touch' contributes to this.

>

> Love,

>

> Tim

>

> Nisargadatta, elizabethwells2001 wrote:

> >

> >

> > 'the mind' drops

> >

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> >

> > Nisargadatta, " Omkara " <coresite@h...> wrote:

> > >

> > > Or until 'the mind' drops, since it is nothing but an idea. In

> what

> > > does 'the mind' appear, or the idea 'there is a mind'?

> > >