Guest guest Posted July 25, 2000 Report Share Posted July 25, 2000 Thank you, Harsha! A sharing of awareness is called for by your simple and profound pointing. Even in total disintegration, "I am," for who else could be knowing this experience as disintegration? This "I am" is the knowing of "affirmation," the knowing of "negation", hence is beyond "yes" or "no", beyond "being" or "nonbeing". My knowing is "I am" with no "I am not." The valid statement of "I am not" is: "I am ... not this, I am ... not that." That which can be made not to exist, cannot be who I am. When I first knew something as existing, and could conceive of it as not existing, there arose the possibility of misidentification. Misidentification with concept, with that which is born and dies, gave me an outside and provided a conditionality to "I am." As "I am" releases Self from misidentification, has seen through the conceptual contradictions of name, time, and location ... There is only the identity of no particular identity; With no opposite state, there is only the state of all states; Being in no particular state as opposed to any other state, no particular form as opposed to any other form, "I am" is emancipated from the imagined need for emancipation, free from conditions and concepts. Transcending any "anchoring" feeling or perception of "I" and "am", there is no where I am not. Being no one, "I am" free to be anyone and everyone, and there is nothing and no place I refuse to be. You may find me in a holy book, or you may find me in a bird dropping on your windshield. I am not saying this for any other reason than "there is literally no where I am not!" Blessed be, Dan >Harsha: > [snip] >When our sages tell us to "Be Still", they are indicating this simple, >beautiful, and natural path. This self-evident feeling/awareness of "I am", >when held to, with a satisfied, relaxed, contented, and an aware mind, is >the gateway to Self-Realization. This is the simplest and yet perhaps a >difficult practice as it lacks any structure or an anchor. So it seems to me >that we should consider seriously whether our deepest truth is the >feeling/awareness that "I exist." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2000 Report Share Posted July 25, 2000 Thank you Dan and Harsha, and hello at the same time " Rabbis have communicated unknown manuscripts to me; alchemists have admitted me to their laboratories; Sufis, Buddhist and Taoist have lead me, during long late-night sessions, to the abodes of their gods; a brahmin let me copy his tables of mantrams; a yogi gave the secrets of contemplation. But, one evening, after a certain meeting, all that these admirable men had taught me became for me like the soft haze which rises at dusk after an over-warm day." (from Le maitre Philippe de Lyon by Dr. Philippe Encausse). To Be or not to Be, is it not the bag that The Fool leaves behind? http://pages.infinit.net/carrea/tree/osho/fool.jpg The Fool, sometimes Antoine > Thank you, Harsha! > > A sharing of awareness is > called for by your > simple and profound > pointing. > > Even in total disintegration, > "I am," for who else could > be knowing this experience > as disintegration? > > This "I am" is the knowing of > "affirmation," the knowing of "negation", > hence is beyond "yes" or "no", > beyond "being" or "nonbeing". > > My knowing is "I am" with no > "I am not." > The valid statement > of "I am not" is: "I am ... > not this, I am ... not that." > > That which can be made > not to exist, cannot > be who I am. > > When I first knew something > as existing, and could > conceive of it as not existing, > there arose the possibility > of misidentification. > > Misidentification with concept, > with that which is born > and dies, gave me > an outside and provided > a conditionality > to "I am." > > As "I am" releases Self > from misidentification, > has seen through the > conceptual contradictions of > name, time, and location ... > > There is only the identity of > no particular identity; > With no opposite state, > there is only the state of all > states; Being in no particular > state as opposed to > any other state, no particular > form as opposed to any other > form, "I am" is emancipated from > the imagined need for emancipation, > free from conditions and concepts. > > Transcending any "anchoring" > feeling or perception of "I" > and "am", there is > no where I am not. Being > no one, "I am" free to be > anyone and everyone, > and there is nothing > and no place I refuse to be. > > You may find me in a holy book, > or you may find me in a bird > dropping on your windshield. > > I am not saying this for any other > reason than "there is literally > no where I am not!" > > Blessed be, > Dan > > > > > >Harsha: > > [snip] > >When our sages tell us to "Be Still", they are indicating this simple, > >beautiful, and natural path. This self-evident feeling/awareness of "I am", > >when held to, with a satisfied, relaxed, contented, and an aware mind, is > >the gateway to Self-Realization. This is the simplest and yet perhaps a > >difficult practice as it lacks any structure or an anchor. So it seems to me > >that we should consider seriously whether our deepest truth is the > >feeling/awareness that "I exist." > > > > ------- ------- > > > > ------- ------- > // > > 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. > > To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at > www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar > on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription > between digest and normal mode. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2000 Report Share Posted July 26, 2000 Dan Berkow [berkowd] Thank you, Harsha! A sharing of awareness is called for by your simple and profound pointing. Even in total disintegration, "I am," for who else could be knowing this experience as disintegration? _________________________ Thank you Sri Dan-Ji! Often I cannot tell whether it is you speaking or I speaking. Honestly. Love Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2000 Report Share Posted July 26, 2000 Antoine Carre [carrea] Tuesday, July 25, 2000 9:46 PM Re: Re: "I am" Thank you Dan and Harsha, and hello at the same time ________________ Thank you Antoine and Dan, and hello! Yesterday, I saw an old two line post of yours Antoine and wanted to repost it. It is on my office computer and will try to find it and do it in the next few days. Always nice to hear from you Antoine. Any wedding plans? Let us know. Lots of love Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2000 Report Share Posted July 26, 2000 Hey Harsha-ji, I was just going to say the same thing! So now I *really* don't know who's saying it! At 01:55 PM 7/26/00 -0400, Harsha wrote: >Thank you Sri Dan-Ji! Often I cannot tell whether it is you speaking or I >speaking. Honestly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2000 Report Share Posted July 26, 2000 > >Thank you Sri Dan-Ji! Often I cannot tell whether it is you speaking or I >speaking. Honestly. > >Love >Harsha Well, let me clear that up, Sri Harsha-ji. Speaking occurred. The one who spoke was there and the one who heard was here. Unless it was the other way around. I know you're being honest. And the feeling of resonation occurs here as well. Teaching received. Pranams & love, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2000 Report Share Posted July 27, 2000 Gregory Goode [goode] Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:16 PM ; RE: Re: "I am" Hey Harsha-ji, I was just going to say the same thing! So now I *really* don't know who's saying it! ______________ Dearest Greg-Ji, If none of us know who is saying what, could it Ginkoba time for us?! :-). Love Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2000 Report Share Posted July 27, 2000 > >Thank you Sri Dan-Ji! Often I cannot tell whether it is you speaking or I > >speaking. Honestly. > > > >Love > >Harsha > Dan: > Well, let me clear that up, > Sri Harsha-ji. > Speaking occurred. > The one who spoke was > there and the one > who heard was here. > Unless it was the > other way around. Some say: ``If I am here, I am there. If I am not here, I am nowhere`` Antoine Greg: Hey Harsha-ji, I was just going to say the same thing! So now I *really* don't know who's saying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 28, 2000 Report Share Posted July 28, 2000 > Thank you Antoine and Dan, and hello! Yesterday, I saw an old two line post > of yours Antoine and wanted to repost it. It is on my office computer and > will try to find it and do it in the next few days. Always nice to hear from > you Antoine. Any wedding plans? Let us know. > > Lots of love > Harsha Lots of love to you Harsha, and to each eye following the lines making the characters of these words. Plans... plans... I think I have none, but they seem to appear like a rolled carpet that we unroll as one steps on the path of its own life forming the arrow of time. This time is so beautiful in every fine details for me that a sharp awareness is growing like walking in a store full of fragile crystal. One wonders... ``Can the world be really so beautiful!!!`` that the slightest whisper of this felt amazement may brake this wonderful pattern that ones feels as beauty?. Its always amazing to fell the sensation of fear beating its last pulse in the form of beauty, this last fractal mirror coming to burn in a subtle quantic fire of love. Everything is going so well, like magic, one can only pray that it was not evoked, but that it is really from ``Divine Will``. But even then, there is a point where Divine Will and evoked will come to be seen from the same eye. Plans... Plans... I do not know... they are all burning in love. Thank you for asking, and having you over to diner, like so many others of you, would be for my wife to be and me a wedding in itself. Antoine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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