Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Experience of a Conscious Self

[Vaj]

On Oct 31, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Peter wrote: MMY talks about pure consciousness as unbounded.  For years my mind thought of unboundedness as spatially big. In enlightenment one would "fill the cosmos". It's natural to think this because in our waking state experience boundaries cut space up into sections. Remove the boundaries and you have a really big space. I even had experiences of filling up the cosmos to varying degrees. But once the foundational shift occured from a self to a no-self, it became rather obvious what MMY was talking about when he says, "unbounded", and it has nothing to do with space or time. Lamas will often propose the paradoxical proposition "not seeing is perfect seeing" as a dualistic way of getting people to jump into unboundedness. Paradoxical if it has not been experienced, but simply "unbounded" and unencumbered if you do. No big deal. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.