Mark Ty-Wharton wrote: > Did you watch it all and get the message? "I'm not that" neti-neti, not this, not that, I'm what remains unadorned
this is the message I get from him > As for great sages, have YOU really HEARD what they are saying? > > Underneath all of it, right at the core? > > The message with Paul is quite clearly the same as the message with > Nisargadatta. from I AM That; "When I met my Guru, he told me: 'You are not what you take yourself to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense 'I am', find your real self'. I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence. And what a difference it made, and how soon! It took me only three years to realise my true nature..... .....I am prior to the world, body and mind. I am the sphere in which they appear and disappear. I am the source of them all, the universal power by which the world with its bewildering diversity becomes manifest..... .....To be able to say truly: I am the world., the world is me, I am at home in the world, the world is my own. Every existence is my existence, every consciousness is my consciousness, every sorrow is my sorrow and every joy is my joy -- this is universal life. Yet, my real being, and yours too, is beyond the universe and, therefore, beyond the categories of the particular and the universal. It is what it is, totally self-contained and independent..... .....Q: Where do you live, then? M: In the void beyond being and non-being, beyond consciousness...... In my opinion Paul seemed to stop short of Nis's teachings Paul seems to be content with non-conceptual beingness, but this is just the practice that Nis. recommends, I would add spending time in the presence (energetic-universal-consciousness) of a satguru to help things along
