--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> --- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > One apparently cannot determine the state of
> > consciousness of
> > > another from their actions; probably given the
> > observer/observed
> > > uncertainty one can never adequately determine the
> > state of
> > > consciousness of another, if one is not
> > functioning at least from
> > > Brahman and willing to completely "be" the other,
> > or know the
> > other
> > > as oneself. Even in Unity there is room for
> > inaccuracy, as one is
> > in
> > > U.C. still potentially perceiving from the POV of
> > an unchallenged
> > > or "unslain" small-self.
> > >
> > > Only in Brahman is one aware of the
> > spatio-temporal
> > ("impermanent")
> > > and egoic nature of all the standard seven SoC
> > (and thus sees that
> > > there is no real difference between "ignorance"
> > > and "enlightenment"), and even in Brahman one is
> > or may be
> > > functioning through a "resurrected" small-self,
> > which itself still
> > > may be quite capable of inaccurate
> > perception-filters and so
> > on. :-)
> >
> > So I have apparently confused myself on this
> > distinction. It appears
> > that in Unity we see everything in terms of
> > ourselves, and in
> > Brahman, there is fundamentally no 'our self'. Or
> > alternatively,
> > there is one Self: Brahman. Period. The creation has
> > the
> > overwhelming characteristic of Wholeness and
> > perfection.
> >
> > So what is Unity? Paradoxically, there appears to be
> > a duality in
> > Unity because of *the sense of perception of
> > Oneness*, the
> > perception of Unity.
> >
> > Whereas in Brahman, there is no perception of Unity,
> > there is just
> > *being* Brahman.
> >
> > Is that correct? Although I have experienced Unity
> > several times, I
> > am not 100% clear about the distinction of Unity and
> > Brahman.
>
> On my TTC in LaAntilla MMY started talking alot about
> BC. A distinction he made between UC and BC was that
> UC was a state of consciousness and BC was not a
> state, but the "wholeness" of consciousness.
Precisely!
How this
> translates experientially, I do not know!
"I" may not know indeed :-)
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