On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Mark Ty-Wharton <[email protected]>wrote:
> Nisargadatta's ultimate message is not to reside in the "I am" but to > ultimately forget everything in the end and reside in the absolute. > > By taking you to the "I am" he gets you to reach it, stabilise it without > words and ultimately see it as illusory. > *you have to stabilize in the "I am" until it burns away. You dont just see it as illusory. There is a shift in consciousness when you stabilize in the "I am" for a long time. I had some physical sensations like rapid heartbeat, kundalini-like vibration of the spine etc, dreams of snakes etc. The I am is made of food. So it is not just seeing as unreal. You have to work on it and find its source. There is a portal at the source. It lies in your heart cave (also described by Ramana)**. Nisargadatta also calls it as the Brahma aperture. That source is the Self. Its not really a physical location but it is the resonating universal consciousness which can be felt in the right side of the chest. Dont mistake this as mystical bullshit. There is a precise method to this madness. Its not just blind dismissal that "I am" is illusion. When you find this aperture, your "I am" will collapse like a pack of cards in a split second. It is a change in your whole body and DNA structure as what I read about the symptoms. Pure consciousness feels like a totally pure state of love. It is eternal and will be with you forever once you find it. * > > Then it can be seen you are the absolute. > > That which is real cannot be put into words. > > The stand you take on the experience and the terminology you use is why we > are debating this. > > Ideally we agree, yet we turn discussion into argument and eventually call > names, fight, start wars. > > So much for ideals ;) >
