Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity with all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded by a seamless fabric of invisible dynamism, of tangible pregnancy, potential and love, like being able to easily breathe underwater again. After so many lifetimes I forgot what the ocean feels like, always there, a liquid fabric of infinite connections to play in, and interact with.
Everything I do is so intrinsically a part of that which surrounds me, so that the bodily entity of me reduces down to virtually nothing, except the same pure expression as that which surrounds me. Nothing becomes everything, not by virtue of expanding nothing, but rather, by bringing it into sync with everything else; the self does nothing, and the Self accomplishes everything. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > > > > > > I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and > > > everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking > > > state it makes no sense at all. > > > > FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by > > it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened > > person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the > > self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. > > * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- > when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears > that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the > other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the > I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does > anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get > done) anyhow. > > Who "does" a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it > unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so > they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with > one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something! >
