Guest guest Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Nisargadatta: The person is never the subject. You can see a person, but you are not the person. You are always which appears at a given point of time and space as the witness, a bridge between the pure awareness of the Supreme and the mindfold consciousness of the person. Q: When I look at myself, I find I am several persons fighting amongst themselves for the use of the body. N: They correspond to the various tendencies (samskaras) of the mind. Q: Can I make peace between them? N: How can you? They are so contradictory! See them as they are - mere habits of thought and feelings, bundles of memories and urges. Q: Yet they all say 'I am'. N: It is only because you identify yourself with them. Once you realize that whatever appears before you cannot be yourself, and cannot say 'I am', you are free of all your 'persons' and their demands. The sense 'I am' is your own. You cannot part with it, but you can impart it to anything, as in saying " I am young, I am rich, and so on. But such self-identifications are patently false and the cause of bondage. ..... N: The source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source. When you realize that you are not person, but the pure and calm witness, and that fearless awareness is your very being, you are the being. It is the source, the Inexhaustible Possibility. ----- Era Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Nisargadatta , " Era Molnar " <n0ndual wrote: > > Nisargadatta: The person is never the subject. You can see a person, but you > are not the person. You are always which appears > at a given point of time and space as the witness, a bridge between > the pure awareness of the Supreme and the mindfold > consciousness of the person. > > Q: When I look at myself, I find I am several persons fighting > amongst themselves for the use of the body. > > N: They correspond to the various tendencies (samskaras) of the mind. > > Q: Can I make peace between them? > > N: How can you? They are so contradictory! See them as they > are - mere habits of thought and feelings, bundles of memories and urges. > > Q: Yet they all say 'I am'. > > N: It is only because you identify yourself with them. Once you realize that whatever appears before you cannot be yourself, and > cannot say 'I am', you are free of all your 'persons' and their > demands. The sense 'I am' is your own. You cannot part with it, > but you can impart it to anything, as in saying " I am young, I am > rich, and so on. But such self-identifications are patently false > and the cause of bondage. > > .... > > N: The source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. > To know the source is to be the source. When you realize > that you are not person, but the pure and calm witness, and > that fearless awareness is your very being, you are the being. It is > the source, the Inexhaustible Possibility. > > > > ----- > Era > creation vs. the created Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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