comments below please --- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question though is, if in enlightenment the Knower is > the "infinite" Self, no longer the "point" ego, which effectively > gets overridden (apart from its organizing functions), then you are > left with a Self and a perceiving body. There might well be an > experience of "Self in all beings/ all beings in Self" but how true > can that be if it remains exclusively linked to the original "point" > body and its perceptions?
It isn't exclusively linked to anything. The Self is distinctly free from any sense of personal identification. It is perceived by the original 'point' body, but is not actually connected to it. It, the Self, exists by its Self. This has been my experience when I still my mind. All thoughts go away, and yet I can still perceive something else, pure consciousness, the Self. It is odd because it feels like me, but try as I might I can't locate the attachment point, through thought or the senses. Sometimes I will even imagine being attached to It just to satisfy some remnant of ego or habit, though when I focus on it, there is truly no attachment. It is like pressing on foam to leave an impression, and no matter how hard I press, there is no impression left. <snip> It would only be a true > cosmic Self if, moving from infinity to "point", it no longer is > exclusively linked to the original "point" body, since Self is > omnipresent, at every point. That would make it less "relative" than > before, since it would now be linked with an infinity of "points" of > perception. Exactly. Though I am unsure about the next step- how the perception of the Self begins to extend to everything else 'out there'. Conceptually, yes, but experientially, not yet constant. 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/
