Guest guest Posted January 22, 2000 Report Share Posted January 22, 2000 Xan: You have shared here a perspective concerning subtle and gross bodies in response to the question raised concerning incarnation as *appearance* only. Your perspective indicates that you perceive bodies, yet such bodies are *appearance* in, of, and through Self. The question becomes, as seen from here, what does it mean to say a body *appears* and such body meanwhile comes from and is within "Self"? What has appeared that is other than Self? If nothing other than Self has ever appeared to appear - how can we meaningfully discuss any "one" who ever incarnates, and how can there be said to be anything other than an imaginary beginning or end to something called "incarnation"? Love, Dan At 06:14 PM 1/21/00 -0500, you wrote: >Xanma > ><Dan: What isn't clear here when reading such >statements is "who" incarnates. If there is only Self, how can >incarnation be described as beginning or ending? > >Any other comments that might shed light here would be appreciated. > > > > >~ This is as seen from here, Dan: >Just as there is the apparency of a physical body which we perceive through >the senses of that body (and we sanely act-as-if is real) there are more >subtle bodies. The mental and emotional functions are less dense >configurations of energy than the physical and could be thought of as mental >and emotional "bodies" because they are unitary - unique to each apparent >individual within common structures. Other bodies have temporary existence >also, of longer duration than the physical, made of consciousness and finer >expressions of energy, bonded with and yet able to function without the >physical form. They are what incarnate. All forms appear within and as >expressions of Self. > >The physical brain and DNA are structures which hold memory >in the carnal form. More subtle bodies also have structures of memory which >account for continuity of themes through serial incarnations. > >What is surprising to me is not that these more subtle energy forms exist, >but that the veils of mind in "this world" most often serve to block human >awareness of a greater subtlety of life forms and memory beyond the material >dimension. Not to mention, of course, the rarity of awareness of the eternal >silent foundation from which all these appearances arise. > >with love >xan > > > > >--------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > GRAB THE GATOR! FREE SOFTWARE DOES ALL THE TYPING FOR YOU! >Tired of filling out forms and remembering passwords? Gator fills in >forms and passwords with just one click! Comes with $50 in free coupons! > <a href=" http://clickme./ad/gator4 ">Click Here</a> > >------ > >All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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