--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not the hall monitor. You have cast me in that > role. It is a reflection of a need you have to relate > to me this way. But you'll never acknowledge that in > the slightest. > -Peter
Yeah, this is interesting (to me at least); I'd like to look at this a little closer. It seems there are two components to the nonexistent ego that make it think it is existent: Belief in time, and belief in space. Belief in time arises when the ego engages in memory (past) and desire (future). Looking a little closer at our thoughts shows us that both these things arise and subside in the NOW; there is in fact only NOW. Belief in space arises when the ego engages in inside vs. outside, self vs. other, me vs. not-me, right vs. wrong, good vs. bad. Looking a little closer at our thoughts shows us that all these things arise and subside in the HERE; there is in fact only HERE. Simply watching, in a non-judgemental way, the various antics of the ego in thinking thoughts that project other-than-here-now, is really all that's required. I realize this appears to fly in the face of MMY's teaching to avoid this practice, lest it lead to a divided mind. But in fact the mind is already divided, and it is the quiet, practiced, conscious awareness of this process that exposes it, causing ego to realize its non-existent nature and surrender into the larger Whole. You can't get here/now by trying to figure out "who's right, me or Peter;" only by watching ego trying to figure out "who's right." So there we have it, Akasha -- using the intellect to discover the intellect. Discriminate not on who is right or who is wrong, but on who is trying to figure out who is right and who is wrong. The ego projects the whole movie, and all the actors in it are just projections of ourself. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
