Guest guest Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 Questioner: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same? Nisargadatta Maharaj: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience. -- from " I Am That " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 Nisargadatta , " Tim G. " <fewtch wrote: > > Questioner: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same? > > Nisargadatta Maharaj: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience. > > -- from " I Am That " > knew somebody who sit in the cinema... so much and deeply into the content of the movie.... felt emotions flowing through whole body.... and then!suddenly! he run to the screen... and tried to catch the bad actor.... means the one in the movie.... ..... he had absolutly no more awareness... ..... Same with life... .... Some are running around.... talking, fighting, learning, teaching, saving worlds, crying, shouting.......etc trapped like the fool in the cinema... ..... Some are maybe also running around.... with a certain smiling face.... because of awareness ..... some are dead actors... some are living actors... Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 Nisargadatta , " Tim G. " <fewtch wrote: > > > > Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033@> wrote: > > > > Yes, " I am " is of time. > > > > There is no time. > > > > No time, no " I " - just this great aloneness of being. > > > > Without comment or description. > > > > > > - D - > > Indeed... no comment, no description. > > Timeless, effortless flow of emptiness. > > Nothing ever entering or leaving. > > Nothing remembered, so no content. > > Indescribable freedom. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033 wrote: > > > > Nisargadatta , " Tim G. " <fewtch@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033@> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, " I am " is of time. > > > > > > There is no time. > > > > > > No time, no " I " - just this great aloneness of being. > > > > > > Without comment or description. > > > > > > > > > - D - > > > > Indeed... no comment, no description. > > > > Timeless, effortless flow of emptiness. > > > > Nothing ever entering or leaving. > > > > Nothing remembered, so no content. > > > > Indescribable freedom. > > > :-) indeed?? what deed? there is and never has been any deed ever done by anyone. but then you are trying to remember and recapitulate. a very common mistake. don't worry. ..b b.b. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Nisargadatta , " dennis_travis33 " <dennis_travis33 wrote: > > > > Nisargadatta , " Tim G. " <fewtch@> wrote: > > > > Questioner: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same? > > > > Nisargadatta Maharaj: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience. > > > > -- from " I Am That " > > > knew somebody who sit in the cinema... > so much and deeply into the content of the movie.... > felt emotions flowing through whole body.... > > and then!suddenly! > he run to the screen... > and tried to catch the bad actor.... > means the one in the movie.... > > .... > > he had absolutly no more awareness... > > .... > > Same with life... > > ... > > Some are running around.... > > talking, fighting, learning, teaching, saving worlds, crying, shouting.......etc > > trapped like the fool in the cinema... > > .... > > Some are maybe also running around.... > > with a certain smiling face.... > > because of awareness > > .... > > some are dead actors... > > some are living actors... > > > > > Marc > what is the Marathi for awareness? it seems to be important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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