Guest guest Posted April 7, 2004 Report Share Posted April 7, 2004 Nisargadatta , dabo <dscasta> wrote: > > - > " 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? > > ---------------- > > >D: when you experience, you will know. > this is why it is called 'existential experience'. P: And that is called ducking the issue. You promise that there will be a you to know? Ok, I'll pull a chair an wait. ) > > D:you don't EXIST right now. > you are not 'yourself'. P:So you mean I don't exist now, but will exist later? See the problem is not that you don't exist, which, of course, you don't. The problem is, the brain believes there is a self inside it, the brain has this sense of a separate existence that divides the unlimeted into a 'me sense' and a 'not me sense'. > > > p.s. > D:you avoiding my questions, oldman? P:What questions? I answered you about Osho at AdvaitatoZen. mail service is having some difficulty. It's very slow. Catch you later, The oldman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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