Guest guest Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5 wrote: > > > 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. " Consciousness is a mirage " is a way of saying that consciousness is not the content. But consciousness is not a throw-away thing, an evolutionary error. Consciousness brings light to that profound mystery you call Deep Sleep. When consciousness focuses on itself (ego or self- consciousness) the whole point is missed. When consciousness settles for its little role of being a light (aka " surrender " ) ... that whole vastness comes into view. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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