Guest guest Posted October 28, 2004 Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 advaitajnana , " Gary Schouborg " <gary@s...> wrote: > A member of advaitajnana, whose name I apologize for not being able to > find, recommends that we " accept the situation " . > > Tony O'Clery says that we lose Ego (duality) by expanding into Universality > (non-duality). > > " the noise I am " says that " Reality is Silence, the universe its noise. " > > I find these comments either unnecessarily paradoxical, ambiguous, or even > mistaken. We can heal these deficiencies by awakening to the experiential > moment, which is samsara, our constantly changing conscious experience. In > the experiential moment we find somatic feeling, which gives the > experiential moment its positive affective tone (makes it enjoyable, > satisfying). We also find thoughts about individual things, which include a > self, and we locate those objects of thought in the immediate or more remote > past and in the impending or more remote future (our thoughts never refer to > the immediate present, strictly speaking). Elements of samsara are distinct > individual things, including selves. They and their relationship to one > another are constantly changing. To distinguish among them is not to fall > into any sort of duality that causes suffering or noise. The Duality to be > Namaste, where were you when in deep sleep?........ONS..Tony. Namaste, Walnut Creek, California, USA — though I’m usually a light sleeper. It’s a small eddy in the larger Bay Area eddy in the Ocean of Being. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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