Guest guest Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Advaita Nonduality Yoga Nisargadatta Suppose you're in a theater watching a scary movie and are so caught up in it that you're feeling afraid, nervous, jittery. Suddenly you realize that it's " just a movie " and notice that the fright, etc you were feeling vanishe. You further notice that nothing has changed. The scenes of the movie continue to play out, its still the same theater, you're in the same seat, the same people are in the theater with you, etc. Nothing changed, that is, except your perspective...which transforms everything by creating a different " relationship " with and to what is transpiring. Then another shift takes place and you see the theater itself, the people in it, your body, your experiences, etc just as you previously had been seeing the " movie " . In other words, you relate to " your body, life, etc " as you once did the " movie " which you were once were caught up in and taking seriously. And this shift is so " total " that it includes (via radical recognition) that the sense of there being a " separate me " who is seeing life, etc, experiencing these successive shifts in perspective is also a part/aspect of the movie/dream as an arising within the dream. That there is the dream only...and no dreamer! Michael Adamson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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