the Identity

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.......While setting aside some time for self-enquiry one must guard

against two possible problems in attitude. First, that since one has

given some time to it, one can forget about self-enquiry for the rest

of the day. This would be defeating the very meaning of the pursuit.

For self-enquiry is an attitude of doubt about ones nature. Would it

not be absurd to doubt ourselves, question the validity of identity

for five minutes or half-an-hour and then work the rest of the day as

if that very identity is perfectly valid? Indeed it would. The

purpose of few minutes of specific enquiry is not that it is an end

in itself, but that it should serve as a pace-setter for the rest of

the day. The other possible problem while setting aside time for

enquiry is that one believes the identity will be intact at the end

of the time. That is, one is seeking to do the enquiry itself with

the identity remaining intact. This is again a fallacy. How is it

possible? Hence, though one may set aside five or fifty minutes,

thought about that time, thoughts of the practice and one who

practices should certainly be questioned when they occur.

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Practicing self enquiry for even a little while, sets up a pattern or current that begins to take hold. The Self is the source of all the energy consciousness of the universe. It is the "I" of our notional "i." If one begins to attune to That, It will begin to attune the entire body and mind and sould to Itself. So, that even though one starts with a little practice and seems to forget the rest of the day, unconsciously the effect takes hold. Eventually, you begin to notice that the self enquiry made in given times of the day, seems to crop up and emergy into different parts of our dayly life until it eventually becomes an automatic backdrop to all activities. We even begin to notice that as we fall asleep that there are moments of wakeful sleep in which the current of Truth continues. Reading the experience of the Yogis and Saints, ventually, there is a complete relinquishing of attention to the mind, and abiding as Self, in the Turya state, in which waking dreaming and deep sleep pass without los of the abidance in the True Being of one's self.

- "jim rich" <jc2rich

 

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:09 PM

the Identity

http://members.tripod.com/~rmclb/jan99.htm......While setting aside some time for self-enquiry one must guard against two possible problems in attitude. First, that since one has given some time to it, one can forget about self-enquiry for the rest of the day. This would be defeating the very meaning of the pursuit. For self-enquiry is an attitude of doubt about ones nature. Would it not be absurd to doubt ourselves, question the validity of identity for five minutes or half-an-hour and then work the rest of the day as if that very identity is perfectly valid? Indeed it would. The purpose of few minutes of specific enquiry is not that it is an end in itself, but that it should serve as a pace-setter for the rest of the day. The other possible problem while setting aside time for enquiry is that one believes the identity will be intact at the end of the time. That is, one is seeking to do the enquiry itself with the identity remaining intact. This is again a fallacy. How is it possible? Hence, though one may set aside five or fifty minutes, thought about that time, thoughts of the practice and one who practices should certainly be questioned when they occur.