awareness vs. being life.

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Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033 wrote:

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

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> > Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033@> wrote:

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> > > Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@>

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

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> > > > > Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain@>

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

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> > > > > > > Nisargadatta , " tom " <jeusisbuen@>

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> > > > > > > > I came across something from Tony Parsons: Awareness

of life

> > > > > > happening

> > > > > > > > is not the same as " being life " . He is saying that

watching

> > > > > thoughts,

> > > > > > > > etc happening--and being aware that they are not you--is

> > not the

> > > > > same

> > > > > > > > as , well, as being life.There seems to be something

> important

> > > > > being

> > > > > > > > said here but I am not getting it.

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> > > > > > > It can be freeing to just witness... it can be a good

> > > > > > > " practice " ... but to witness is still duality.

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> > > > > > > The power of witnessing comes from *not feeding the fire*.

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> > > > > > > Eventually when futility of effort is seen there is

> > > > > > > surrender/collapse of the edifice of effort...

> > > > > > >

> > > > > > > And then something else comes...

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> > > > > > Nothing comes.......It is already always present.

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> > > > > > toombaru

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> > > > > it is only " already always present " when realized

> > > > > as such. Prior it is as if not there at all.

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> > > > > By " something else comes " is meant that there is

> > > > > an emergence into awareness that occurs with the

> > > > > dropping of effort... eventually...

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> > > > > From alpha to omega there is just one " event " ...

> > > > > the *realization* of what has always been the case,

> > > > > and which is independent of appearance/disappearance

> > > > > within the phenomenal field.

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> > > > > There is a *before* such realization. What " comes "

> > > > > is the realization.

> > > > >

> > > > > Bill

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> > > >

> > > > you have got to be kidding!

> > > >

> > > > .b b.b.

> > >

> > > There is no before or after.

> > >

> > > But there is when you are conceptualizing driving a car to get to

> work.

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> > > Before and after are Escher's relative playground.

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> > > Good for linear thinking, but not the actuality of what is.

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> > > Does actuality happen?

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> > > Yes/no, before/after, here/there.

> > >

> > > Nonlinearly happening,

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> > > Not-Dan

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> > There is no before or after.

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> > There is Before and After.

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> > Bill

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> Before is after.

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> After is before.

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> There is no before.

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> There is no after.

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> There isn't something else other than before and after.

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> -- D.

>

 

Saying, " There is no before or after, " is After.

Saying, " There is before and afer, " is Before.

 

Nisargadatta did not find interest in talking

about his own history except with respect to

one point, which he never tired of repeating:

He said over and over that he listened to his

guru, and then after very few years.... (something).

 

In talking about that he was referring to Before

and After.

 

And After there was for him no " before or after. "

 

It is neo-advaitaism, in my view, that makes terse

assertions and wants to discount that there is

any " transition " . But if there were no Transition

we would not be here talking about this.

 

The Transition is between Before and After.

 

The One Moment in history.

 

 

Bill

 

 

 

Bill