Guest guest Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 On May 4, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Durga wrote: > NonDualPhil , Pete S <pedsie5 wrote: > >> >> P: I like what you wrote here. When that is appercevided, >> when that intimation downs, then the final stretch is >> underfoot, and the weary runner turns very pale, looses >> air, and become ghostly, and transparent. Only the >> momentum of the race keeps on moving. >> >> Few get to the point, where the urge for constant >> eternal awareness is seem as a curse. Awareness >> to be a blessing needs to be intermittent, although >> eternally recurrent in a completely impersonal >> way. A way, which always starts anew, fresh, and >> unencumbered by memories. >> >> Pete > > Hi Pete, > > D:Actually that is not my writing. It is something > which someone else once observed. P: If he observed it and told you, but you wrote his observations, then it's still your writing. If he wrote and you copied it, then it's not yours. > > D;Are you saying that when one wakes up from deep sleep > one is unemcumbered by memories? P: No, I didn't say that, I was referring to death and to the rebirth of awareness in a baby. It's awareness who reincarnates unencumbered by memories. > > D: The point of what I posted is that Awareness is > actually constant. P: Not so. It only seems so, because it's absence can't be detected, only inferred. > > D: But that depends on what one means by the word > 'Awareness.' If by 'Awareness' one means thoughts, > then, yes, thoughts are gone. And that is a relief. P: By awareness, I mean consciousness. > > D: But 'I' (as in Being/Awareness/Fullness) still am, > and it is the lack of the mind's interference with > that which is so refreshing. > > The deep sleep state is often used to show that > Being/Awareness/Fullness exists in all three > states, waking, dream and deep sleep. > > This is a teaching the import of which I have not > yet fully grasped. P: It's just a teaching tool. Once the intimation of what deep sleep really is, dawns, the teaching is seen as a golden fig leaf. Many interpret that teaching to mean: there is consciousness even in deep sleep. Its true import is: Deep sleep is the only existent. Consciousness is a mirage. > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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