--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > --- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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. How this > > translates experientially, I do not know! > > > OK, that jibes with what I thought, and my experience. There *does* > appear to be a subtle duality present in UC (despite the name) > becuase it is experienced as a distinct SoC. Whereas in Brahman, > there is nothing else, and it never changes to something else. > > So in my experience, all the other relatively higher states of > consciousness come and go, where Brahman is constant. Brahman is the > starting point.
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