Ramana and Niz

[Guest guest]

....After Mario's beautifully honest confussion over just exactlt

" what is the practce, " I have a couple of thoughts to share.

 

1) The desire to get it precisely down a s a matter of simple

practice is not a simple thing to do, and the very desire to " get it

in stone, " is something the ego, as you, as a sufferring

differentiated being, one who assumes seperation, is always up

to. It is itself a symptom, even an archtype for our suffering.

Ramana would say, " Who wants to know?! " Find out who it is

that wants clarification...are you the same one that was as a five

year old...obviously not, but something about you IS the same.

 

2) Sri Niz (as I affectionately reffer to him) tells us to hold onto the

feeling of being, of I-amness, but if we are confused as to what

exactly this means, I think one must go to Sri Ramana's teaching

of , " find out who you are. " or if you feel uncomfortable going to

another source, see where Sri Niz talks about this: about the

young you, the child consciousness. The thought of seeing loved

ones after death is interesting only as a way of examining who

you might imagine " you " to be or for that matter; who do you

imagine your dead father to be, ...will he be a nineteen year old

as in the movie , Field of Dreams?

 

The thing about these Men, these particular sages is that really

they are not consoling. They are tigers. The truth will rip " you " to

shreads and leave you altogether naked.

 

Ahhhhhh! You're right Pete, geez (strangly it's not cold, but then

again I am in hawaii and it isn't cold)

 

))))))))Shawn

 

I always look at these two sages as very complimentary and

essentially saying the same thing.

[Guest guest]

Yes, they say the same thing in very much the same way.

 

Brandon