Guest guest Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. L.E: It seems to me, that mind is an intrinsic part of being alive. You can free yourself from thinking, but not from mind. Mind is your inner internal nature. When thinking stops, mind vanishes and Present Being asserts itself. Mind is the vehicle for thinking and appears when thought occurs. This all seems so simple and direct. I wonder why there is all this confusion. We are all going through moments of mind/thinking, and Present Being. It cycles on and off, on and off. It's a gestalt thing. Attention focuses on the object and doesn't see the background. When thinking stops, the background asserts itself as Present Awareness. Thinking with mind is just focused attention. Unfocused attention is Being or Presence. So we are all in Being and Presence all the time but just don't usually notice it because attention is focused on objects and thoughts. It's really quite simple. Just notice how it is as it is. Just sense how it goes, on and off, on and off. Larry Epston www.epston.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Nisargadatta , epston@a... wrote: > > The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. > > L.E: It seems to me, that mind is an intrinsic part of being alive. You can free yourself from thinking, but not from mind. Mind is your inner internal nature. When thinking stops, mind vanishes and Present Being asserts itself. Mind is the vehicle for thinking and appears when thought occurs. > This all seems so simple and direct. I wonder why there is all this confusion. > We are all going through moments of mind/thinking, and Present Being. It cycles on and off, on and off. It's a gestalt thing. Attention focuses on the object and doesn't see the background. When thinking stops, the background asserts itself as Present Awareness. Thinking with mind is just focused attention. Unfocused attention is Being or Presence. So we are all in Being and Presence all the time but just don't usually notice it because attention is focused on objects and thoughts. > It's really quite simple. Just notice how it is as it is. Just sense how it goes, on and off, on and off. > > Larry Epston > www.epston.com Yes. I agree with what you say above Larry! I think Tolle might agree with it too. He just uses the word 'mind' little differently than folks like Ramana and Huang Po! regards, ac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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