This is the crux of what enlightenment is about. Those who are experiencing it don't experience localized awareness unless it is demanded (like a bill or tax collector comes knocking). The experience is like "you don't exist."
On 07/16/2013 10:17 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In [email protected], Emily Reyn wrote: >> So, *you* don't exist? I have the hardest time with this concept. >> *Who* posted what you posted? > >> ________________________________ >> From: "doctordumbass@..." doctordumbass@... >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:01 AM >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: "I create my reality" Yeah, right... >> >> Her: >> Beliefs (b) + Thoughts (t) + feelings (f) = Internal Reality (IR) >> >> Circumstances (c) + people (p) = External Reality (ER) >> >> Me: >> Silence = (Internal) Reality >> >> All the stuff moving around in the silence = (External) Reality >> >> That's the difference. She is still operating on the assumption that >> *she* primarily exists. >> >> --- In [email protected], Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: >>> Doc, I think she addresses both of these issues when she writes > about noticing thoughts and feelings rather than trying to change them, > get rid of them, etc. I think in the Buddhist tradition noticing is a > way of quieting the mind. And she doesn't say to only notice one kind of > thought or feeling. I don't see how you and she disagree. >>> ________________________________ >>> From: "doctordumbass@" doctordumbass@ >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 4:03 AM >>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: "I create my reality" Yeah, right... >>> >>> I personally think she is full of it. *Of course* our thoughts > create our reality. Not just the positive, affirmative ones, but all of > the thoughts. >>> Most people have a non-stop mind, like yours. It is the spinning and > looping of energy that creates most of the resonance in a non-stop mind. > This then leads to their reality, WHETHER THAT IS THEIR INTENTION, OR > NOT. >>> The issue she is talking about is owning certain thoughts and > intentions, and subconsciously disavowing others. But she is clueless > enough about her inner state of mind, resulting in this ego-based > drivel. >>> More excellent evidence that you don't know yourself very well, if > you agreed with this half-baked article. >>> --- In [email protected], turquoiseb wrote: >>>> A friend posted this to another forum. I do not know >>>> the author or even of her, but I thought much of it >>>> was a breath of fresh air in the often stale cyber- >>>> chatrooms of New Age thought. >>>> >>>> Let's see what people here think of it: >>>> >>>> > http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/07/your-thoughts-do-not-create-your-\ > reality-stupid/ >
