Where is this within ((((Is There an Inside, an Outside?

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Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain wrote:

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> Nisargadatta , " billrishel " <illusyn@> wrote:

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> > toombaru

> > > writes:

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> > > > The whole world is within.

> > > >

> > > > L.E: Where is this ' " within' " you write about? When there is an

> > inside, is

> > > > there also an outside? Where is this outside that is not " the

> > whole world? "

> > > > Where reside those who do not agree, are they inside or outside?

> > > > Word games. Just sounds in the air. Hoots, hollars and whistles.

> > > >

> > > > Larry Epston

> >

> > Very good question Larry.

> >

> > Did you ever get an answer?

> >

> > Bill

> >

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> This concept cannot be approached directly.

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> Any intellectualization occurs from within ....and arises

from....the milieu of the identified

> entity....the illusion of self.....the occlusion,

>

> The self looks out and sees what appears to be a world.....when in

fact the perceived

> 'world' is merely the content of consciousness.

>

> The 'self' is also merely the content of consciousness.......looking

for consciousness itself.

>

> If one thinks of his dream last night......all of those

people......mountains....and animals

> appeared to be 'outside' of the dream hero.......and in a

way.....they were.

>

>

> .........but the whole drama swirls within the thought

stream.........it is all electro-chemical

> mnemonics...........nothing is really happening.

>

> 'You' can never find your self within your own dream.....and

yet........everything in your

> dream is you.

>

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> Concepts cannot capture this............Understanding can.

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>

>

> toombaru

>

 

I'm afraid that I stop rather early on with:

 

" Any intellectualization occurs from within ....and arises

from....the milieu of the identified entity....the illusion of

self.....the occlusion... "

 

What " within " ?

 

When inner/outer are indistinct there is no sense of

" within " .

 

When there was once a " sense of within " and later no

such " sense " indicates that the former " sense of within "

was in reality a misapprehension.

 

 

Bill