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> Avoid excuses and using consciously your intelligence to defensive > purposes. Inner growth and evolution is that simple. Sudden leaps to a > higher level of awareness will appear on its own, when you are ready. > Belief in God is not a necessity and in some phases can become an > obstacle too. > > Irmeli ******** This is probably the clearest, most concentrated bit of good advice that has ever been posted in this forum. Thanks. L B S ---I liked it but it doesn't fit my mind. I felt that what Jim said about losing all fronts was what I had gone through. In fact, I once did a paper on Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn in terms of his concept of "negative capacity" or ability to live in the midst of paradox without the necessity of reconciling opposites. My awakening to myself as separate from change occurred, as I have said before, during a really hellish bad acid trip. I think others have stated how deep trauma creates the
sense of witnessing. There's really no difference between that witnessing
and the witnessing of cosmic consciousness. Hopefully though one can experience
the witness state through meditation without the trauma and so head off the
shockwave that reverberates for a long time after.
I believe it's the person's intellectual agility or
feebleness which then does or doesn't reiterate some concept instead of
accepting the reality of empty, lucid, unchanging self. If one accepts the
steady state of being outside of opposites then they can continue on in the
state of witnessing thoughts arise. If they cannot then they choose God, or
Devils, or No-God, or Science, ie., some conceptual framework as a substitute
for direct perception, and then proceed to go back to sleep.
Later, after gaining confidence in the state of
witnessing, through years of TM, my mind got progressively more ground down
until to even consider myself the source of my thoughts seemed ludicrous. I am
merely one with the source of thoughts. The
thoughts are just some web of lines of objects in a net of which I am a node
watching and waiting. Sometimes I act and sometimes I don't. If I don't
then the thoughts are freed. If I do then circumstances change.
But nothing ever changes. I am still the same. Empty,
lucid, unchanging. Base.
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