Guest guest Posted April 7, 2004 Report Share Posted April 7, 2004 - " seesaw1us " <seesaw1us <Nisargadatta > Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:36 AM Re: the master's lessons (day2) Nisargadatta , " dabo " <dscasta> wrote: > > > Who Am I? > > " Who am I? " has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. Your mind will supply many > answers. Your mind will say, " You are the essence of life. You are the eternal soul. > You are divine, " and so on and so forth. All those answers have to be rejected: NETI > NETI - one has to go on saying, " Neither this nor that. " > > When you have denied all the possible answers that the mind can supply and devise, > when the question remains absolutely unanswerable, a miracle happens: suddenly the > question also disappears. When all the answers have been rejected, the question has > no props, no supports inside to stand on any more. It simply flops, it collapses, it > disappears. > > When the question also has disappeared, then you know. But that knowing is not an > answer: it is an existential experience. > > > (the buddhafriend of dabo) What is an existential experience? ---------------- when you experience, you will know. this is why it is called 'existential experience'. you don't EXIST right now. you are not 'yourself'. all that exists right now is a mind. this mind is NOT. the Buddha said it, you should know it better than me. dabo younger than Pete p.s. you avoiding my questions, oldman? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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