Basic Graund____Bill's eye.

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Nisargadatta , " billrishel " <plexus@a...> wrote:

>

> > It's true that castle building need not end,

> > and doesn't, anyway. What ends is the taking

> > of castles made of mental cards for ourselves.

> > What ends is the feeling of being solid, like a

> > chunk of lead sinking in an ocean of otherness.

> > That feeling is replaced by the feeling of being

> > ice floating in an ocean of selfhood. That sense

> > that there is no where to sink or vanish that it

> > wouldn't be self, that even death is Self.

>

> Yes... well said indeed. And the ice is ever-melting!

>

> re: What ends is the taking of castles made of

> mental cards for ourselves.

>

> There can be a lot of flotsam in the " sea of self " ...

> but it doesn't matter... it is no longer a " fly in

> the ointment " because it is *seen through*... as if

> somehow transparent.

>

> That sea you mention is awareness itself, and as such

> " sees through " because whatever is in it is *of* it...

> it is not that " we " see through, but that awareness

> does... and the distinction, awareness/we gets lost

> because whatever silly notions were deemed " us " have

> been " seen through " , are seen as merely flotsam...

>

> it is as if the entire " sea " is both the eye that sees

> and what is seen...

>

> It is really quite fun!

>

> Bill

>

> i can see why you think it's fun ,

have you visited with Nova recently?

 

Those words of love might not fit this list,

more like stuff for the sufeeists

 

In the art world i was known as the man with the eye, what an eye!

monet.

 

But that was then, now it's the mind with an eye.

 

and not castles in the sky, or pie in the sky,

 

but cake by the lake

 

Would you like a date?

 

i'll let you handle the bill.

 

Campbell's soup, makes you poop down your leg and in your boot.

 

what a hoot that ole boot

 

i like your colors

 

blue bill.

 

whitehorserides might be an appropriate mystical subject, figure?