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Is there something 'wrong' with blobs of light? ;-)

 

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

> It's not at all a blob of light.

> All this " diversity " is " it " .

>

> It's not a tricky way to think.

> Who's being tricked?

> Only the thinker that appears

> with the thought, and thinks

> that thought is made by

> him.

>

> Namaste,

> Dan

>

>

> >Hi

> >

> >.. 'being caught in intrigueing thought and verbiage.

> >.. it seems to me, that some of us, become terribly proficient at

> >fabricating koan-like cryptic thinking/'wisdom', that we smack the

> >other with, in the name of 'killing the ego'...

> >and supreme wisdom, and simplicity.

> >The Advaita-mind-full person, can be excellent at riding on and

> >changing between 2 different ('non-dual') sets of trails..

> >like (1) " there is Only That,.. Only Consciousness, all the rest is

> >also that, so why do you bother to make a problem out of it ?..

when

> >it (the rest) really does not exist.. your pain, Hitler, your

> >thoughts of a chockolate cake, your cancer or your boss'..

> >which are also That " ,..

> >.. a kind of mashing all the ingredients/vegetables into a blob of

a

> >Soup-Only..:

> > " thinking is out,silly! " .. the undeferientiated Soup is the real

> >thing,..

> >.. a powerfull tool, to deliver an effective 'you're an idiot'-

> >classification...

> >and if your mind is not as subtle/clever with words as the

> >deliverer's, then you might tend to succumb into your new status

as a

> >hopeless and dualistic idiot.(to which they would say: 'that's

> >fine !,.. that's also That'.

> >

> >..but, (2) according to their (the experts') convenience, they

> >quickly can indulge in the 'vegges' and thinking..just to confound

> >the listener.. and perhaps impress... ( " it's all Consciousness, so

> >why not ? " ,.. But If -you- do it, then you don't do it right (non-

> >dualistically)...!)

> >And most likely, they _do_ sincerely feel/think, that

> >they 'understand/know'.

> >

> >And to these 2 thinking-trails, one can always say: 'so what, these

> >are also That, .. very simple, you dummy !'..

> >and that's that.

> >.. but I doubt, a tricky self-deluding mind, is 'simple'..

> >.. it seems to me to be, just another case of an 'efficient'

Paradigm.

> >

> >I do not criticize anyone, and I do not say that some do

not 'know'..

> >but often, it smells to me more and more of a rather

mean/tortureous-

> >ego-game going on, in the name of non-dualism...

> >(Politicians, are experts at that)

> >which to a 'normal' human, would sound like a non-sane mad-house ..

> >.. which might very well, actually be.

> >

> >jb.