Meditate on I AM or free yourself from the illusion of self?

[Guest guest]

Meditate on " I AM " according to Nisargadatta or free yourself from the

illusion of self according to Buddhism. Sometimes this can confuse

me. My two biggest spiritual influences are Buddhism and

Nisargadatta. I don't think there is any real conflict, but there

certainly is a seeming conflict if I think about it too much.

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " tomcarr1 " <tomcarr1 wrote:

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> Meditate on " I AM " according to Nisargadatta or free yourself from the

> illusion of self according to Buddhism. Sometimes this can confuse

> me. My two biggest spiritual influences are Buddhism and

> Nisargadatta. I don't think there is any real conflict, but there

> certainly is a seeming conflict if I think about it too much.

 

 

 

 

Wittgenstein remarks that in a bullfight, the hero of the tragedy is

the bull.

 

Driven mad first by suffering, he then dies a slow and terrible death.

 

So with students. Thrown into the ring of the academy, the false

teaching, the inane cultural proprieties will drive the student mad.

 

Teachers will sweep before them the clever capes that seduce and

irritate you simultaneously.

 

As if by slight of hand, they say, " No, truth lies here. "

 

But then as you grab the truth, there is no body beneath the cape, no

reality behind the appearances.

 

So emerges the suffering. Then like picadors, the matadors of the mind

will impale you with penetrating insights - their own.

 

And then the slow terrible death begins.

 

The mind begins to bleed to death in the hot sand of the arena.

 

You become a hero by the way in which you courageously endure such a

death.

 

You must finally kill the teacher, before he kills you.

 

" A hero looks death in the face....... real death.......not just the

image of death.

 

 

Beware the cunning capes. "

 

 

 

 

toombaru