I-I / :) asses to asses...

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, " Jeff Belyea " <jeff wrote:

>

> Growing up in a Christian

> family and later discovering

> other traditions, I found

> a particular affinity with

> Ramana Maharshi - on two

> points particularly:

>

> One, we share the surrender

> to the 'death' experience that

> elicited an awakening, and

> secondly, his model of the

> I and I-I.

>

> My brief take on this

> second point is that the

> 'part' of us that feels

> distinctly separate - the

> I, as I am (insert name

> here) is a function of

> our rational process and

> social coersion into

> identifying with our 'ego'

> and the linear perspectiv

> of our internal chatter.

>

> The I-I (or the I am That

> I am) is the awakened Self

> that now recognizes the

> I as a secondary form of

> identity and realization

> in a relative world, and

> recognizes the I-I as the

> primary and absolute reality

> that has been 'hidden'

> behind the assumed I.

>

> Any more would negate

> my 'brief' attempt.

>

> Love,

>

> Jeff

>

 

 

I am,

Self identity

Is a donkey.

Mind, name, form, feelings

Emotions, cravings, hopes and fears

All included… merely an ass.

We all are donkeys, whether considered most intelligent

And revered as such

Or regarded as the dumbest of the dumb…

No different from plain asses –

Likewise subject to birth, decay and death.

But the remember, friend,

Lucky seeker after truth,

That the master, all pervading nameless self

Is boundless and beyond time.

Peerless ghost rider

Directing and guiding all donkeys,

The herd owner and sustainer

Is the same resplendent one and only,

Birth-less and deathless reality.

There is no other. So

Wake up from dreams of selfhood, oh fortunate!

Friend of bright prospects,

Enjoy the frolics

Of the dead donkey –

While there is time.

 

 

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yosy