Guest guest Posted September 27, 2002 Report Share Posted September 27, 2002 The source of Consciousness is Consciousness. Consciousness is all there is. The final truth is simple: all things exist in Consciousness, all things flow from Consciousness, all things ARE Consciousness because Consciousness is all there is. Consciousness has produced this play. Consciousness has written the script. Consciousness is playing all the characters. And Consciousness is witnessing the play. It's a one man show. We speak of diversity in the manifest world as of water in a mirage. Time, space and duality itself are all notions or concepts--mere thoughts. All is nothing but Consciousness appearing as mind, whether mountains, oceans, rivers, animals or human beings. Consciousness must first be there before anything else can BE. All inquiry of the seeker of truth must therefore relate to this consciousness, this sense of conscious presence which as such has no personal reference to any individual. Once the body dies, manifested consciousness is released and merges with the impersonal Consciousness like a drop of water merges with the ocean. No individual identity survives death. While the nature of sleep, trance, fainting and death may differ somewhat, in each case the surrender of consciousness and individual identity is essentially the same and accompanied by a loss of awareness while enlightenment is the surrender of consciousness and individual identity in a state of total Awareness. If you remain as you are now, you are in the wakeful state. This is abolished in the dream state. The dream state disappears when you are in deep sleep. The three states come and go, but you are always there. Your real state, that of Consciousness itself, continues to exist always and forever, and it is the only Reality. The only true meditation is the constant impersonal witnessing of all that takes place in one's life as mere movements in the universal Consciousness. The universe is not the universal Consciousness, but Consciousness IS the universe, just as the bracelet is made of gold, but the gold is not made of the bracelet. A mirror can only reflect all things by virtue of the fact that in itself it contains nothing and retains nothing. Thus, neither can Consciousness ever be anything objective, for it is the mirror on which all objective phenomenality is projected and without which there is nothing. Between pure Awareness and Awareness reflected as consciousness there is a gap which the mind cannot cross. The reflection of the sun in a drop of dew is not the sun itself. Only that which was prior to the appearance of this body-consciousness is your true identity. That is Reality. It is here and now, and there is no question of anyone being able to reach for it or grasp it. For the human being which considers itself an entity to remain puzzled. Consciousness must produce new puzzles. All that is happening is that Consciousness is amusing itself. Only those who are able to see their own face without a mirror will be able to see their true nature. What kind of seeing is this? To see without the mirror is to see not with eyes seeing objects but as THAT which sees. It is the in-seeing or insight by Consciousness itself in which there is no one who is seeing. Human beings actually have no more independence or autonomy in living their lives than do the characters in a dream. Neither do they have anything to do with the creation of the dream or anything in it. They are simply being lived along with everything else in this living dream of the manifested universe. The entire dream is unreal. Only the dreamer is real, and that is Consciousness itself. What does one want to protect? That without which nothing else has any meaning or value: the animating presence of Consciousness, without which you cannot know or enjoy anything. And the best way to protect anything is not to be away from it at all. This is the purpose of spiritual practice - to remain continuously one with Consciousness all the time. It goes without saying that witnessing can take place only so long as the show goes on, and the show can go on only so long as there is consciousness. So who is to understand all this? Consciousness, of course, understanding itself! There is nothing but Consciousness. The truth is that you are neither what you appear to be nor what you think you are. These are mere mental imagery. You are as yourself just nothing, and that nothingness which you are is the Consciousness of which the whole universe is the objective body. When you stop searching and let the impersonal consciousness take over, then it lets you in on the mystery of its own source, and you will know that things have no substance. There is a single, immanent Reality which is at once the source, the substratum and the true nature of everything that is manifested as the universe. This indivisible Reality is directly experienced by every sentient being as the subjective awareness of self, the consciousness of existing and being present. The sense of LOVE which is the essence of Consciousness gets turned into love for material objects when Consciousness identifies with the things it manifests. This attachment toward things of the world falls off only when there is clear understanding of our True Nature. Just as one's dream in sleep exists nowhere but in the mind (both as cause and effect) so does the universe exist only in the mind of infinite Consciousness. It must be constantly borne in mind while trying to understand the mechanics of the apparent process of manifestation that nothing has actually been created. All that appears is mind-stuff, that of which all dreams are made, and apart from Consciousness itself, nothing exists, neither the mind nor the senses nor their objects. Just as the difference between the space in a pot and the space outside it disappears when the pot is demolished, so also does duality disappear when it is realized that the difference between the individual consciousness and the Universal Consciousness does not in fact exist. Life has to be lived as if it is real, while deep down one must know that life is merely being lived as an impersonal, phenomenal functioning of universal Consciousness. Just as a forest conflagration (itself a single body of flame) assumes innumerable forms, so does the formless, nondual Consciousness assume all forms that compose the universe. There is only one state. When corrupted and tainted by self-identification, it is known as an individual. When merely tinted by the sense of presence, of animated consciousness, it is the impersonal witnessing. When it remains in its pristine purity, untainted and untinted in primal repose, it is the Absolute. The nature of Consciousness is such that it simultaneously pervades the past, present and future and can experience infinite varieties of universes. But all is merely the play of Consciousness itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2002 Report Share Posted September 27, 2002 " The source of Consciousness is Consciousness. " Ramesh. ---------------------- The source of " sense of being " alive here now is..........??????? (No word answers please.) .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2002 Report Share Posted September 27, 2002 And the source of words are more words and the result of words is more words and words only point to words and the only thing we understand is words. I feel wordy, o so wordy, there is no telling how wordy I feeeel. Love ya, Pete --- Elizabeth G Wells <elwells8 wrote: > > > > " The source of Consciousness is Consciousness. " > Ramesh. > > > ---------------------- > > > The source of " sense of being " alive here now > is..........??????? > > (No word answers please.) > > . > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2002 Report Share Posted September 27, 2002 a little play of words: The source of Consciousness is Existence. Existence is all there is. Consciousness is the duality through which the individual body/mind experiences Existence. The final truth is simple: all things and Consciousness exist in Existence, all things flow from Existence, all things ARE Existence because Existence is all there is. Existence has produced this play of Consciousness. Existence has written the script. Existence is playing all the characters. And Consciousness is witnessing the play. Nisargadatta, Jan Sultan <swork@m...> wrote: > The source of Consciousness is Consciousness. Consciousness is all there > is. > > The final truth is simple: all things exist in Consciousness, all things > flow from Consciousness, all things ARE Consciousness because Consciousness > is all there is. > > Consciousness has produced this play. Consciousness has written the script. > Consciousness is playing all the characters. And Consciousness is > witnessing the play. It's a one man show. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2002 Report Share Posted September 27, 2002 I like those words better. I propose we forget Ramesh and instead quote from you. Pete --- Hur Guler <hurg wrote: > a little play of words: > > The source of Consciousness is Existence. Existence > is all there > is. Consciousness is the duality through which the > individual > body/mind experiences Existence. > > The final truth is simple: all things and > Consciousness exist in > Existence, all things flow from Existence, all > things ARE Existence > because Existence is all there is. > > Existence has produced this play of Consciousness. > Existence has > written the script. Existence is playing all the > characters. And > Consciousness is witnessing the play. > > > Nisargadatta, Jan Sultan <swork@m...> > wrote: > > The source of Consciousness is Consciousness. > Consciousness is all > there > > is. > > > > The final truth is simple: all things exist in > Consciousness, all > things > > flow from Consciousness, all things ARE > Consciousness because > Consciousness > > is all there is. > > > > Consciousness has produced this play. > Consciousness has written > the script. > > Consciousness is playing all the characters. And > Consciousness is > > witnessing the play. It's a one man show. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2002 Report Share Posted September 27, 2002 Nisargadatta, " Elizabeth G Wells " <elwells8@e...> wrote: > " The source of Consciousness is Consciousness. " > Ramesh. > ---------------------- > The source of " sense of being " alive here now is..........??????? > > (No word answers please.) > > . 888888-----8888888 ~~~~@~~~~~~~@~~~~~~~ -------( )---- *****!!!!!!!!******* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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