I Am That: Quote from Chapter 67

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Chapter 67

 

It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be

deceived. All the endless arguments about the minds are produced by

the mind itself, for the protection, continuation and expansion. It

is the bland refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of

the mind that can take you beyond it.

 

 

I AM THAT

The Acorn Press

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At 12:39 PM 6/30/01 +0000, you wrote:

Chapter 67

 

It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be

deceived. All the endless arguments about the minds are produced by

the mind itself, for the protection, continuation and expansion. It

is the bland refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of

 

the mind that can take you beyond it.

 

 

I AM THAT

The Acorn Press

 

Yes.

And is understood that

even the attempt to notice

the mind dispassionately, is

an activity of mind.

The mind thus learns, through

honest self-confrontation,

that " it " is the circular attempt of

an entity to escape a body

which it views as a prison

of birth and death.

 

Seeing that it is not apart from

the body, nor from birth and death,

it relinquishes its escape attempt. It

learns now that the body from which it

tries to escape is its own

construct and concept, which was

conceptualized as an aspect of

the " escape activity " (protection,

continuation, expansion), and that " it "

is only this activity.

 

To protect, an I is conceptualized --

to continue and expand, an I

is situated in a mind,

" provided " a body to control,

and to control other bodies

and minds ...

 

Dying to the hold of mind and body concept,

what is left isn't something that can

be pointed to ... but might be said,

" there is no attempt to avoid,

escape, control, not control, be, or not be " ...

might also be said, it has nothing whatsoever

to do with social or individual thought-constructs

about what is real, or who I am ...

 

-- Dan