"That state which transcends speech and thought is mouna. That which is, is mouna. How can mouna be explained in words? Sages say that the state in which the thought"I"(the ego) does not rise even in the least, alone is Self (swarupa) which is silence (mouna). That silent Self alone is God; Self alone is the jiva (individual soul). Self alone is this ancient world. All other kinds of knowledge are only petty and trivial knowledge; the experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. Know that the many objective differences are not real but are mere superimpositions on Self, which is the form of true knowledge."- Sri Ramana Maharshi - See more at: EDITOR'S CHOICE: Self-Atma: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Part One http://www.adishakti.org/_/self-atma_the_teachings_of_sri_ramana_maharshi_part_one.htm#sthash.WdUTt0r4.dpuf http://www.adishakti.org/_/self-atma_the_teachings_of_sri_ramana_maharshi_part_one.htm#sthash.WdUTt0r4.dpuf EDITOR'S CHOICE: Self-Atma: The Teachings of Sr... http://www.adishakti.org/_/self-atma_the_teachings_of_sri_ramana_maharshi_part_one.htm#sthash.WdUTt0r4.dpuf (EC links to Homepage) Self-Atma: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Part One & Two "That state which transcends speech and thought is mouna. That whi... View on www.adishakti.org http://www.adishakti.org/_/self-atma_the_teachings_of_sri_ramana_maharshi_part_one.htm#sthash.WdUTt0r4.dpuf Preview by Yahoo
Yep and even before Descartes in the West, “Know thy Self” is the old dictum and spiritual saying from way back looking to the Unified Field. That truth is again brought forward in a transcendentalism of “a life well lived” at Walden Pond, versus this un-quieted desperation of the materialism of these anti-meditation neganauts displayed here. One can feel a grave concern for the sanity of our neganauts here based on what evidently is a growing body of clinical evidence to their negative obsessions with and their outbursts over transcending meditation and what clearly is the manifest transcendent experience of the Unified Field in others so attested to by so many adept in spirituality and human potential. May the great over-soul of the Unified Field have mercy on the small souls of our neganauts here in the unfoldment of their own awakening experience, -Buck sharelong60 writes: Thanks, Richard, I'm sure Descartes was a lovely fellow, but I'm sticking with the Buddhists and Hindus (-: punditster writes: On 5/20/2014 9:53 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I go with: consciousness exists. Which leads me to think that whatever seems to exist, I assume it too is consciousness. Addressing the important issues! The philosopher Rene Descartes put forth a famous theory - "I think, therefore I am." Descartes was a dualist who believed that the mind was separate from the body. However, long before Rene Descarte the ancient Buddhists and Hindus had already formulated the notion of non-duality mentioned in the Upanishads - the notion that consciousness itself was the ultimate reality and that it was one, not two. In India they call this the "Consciousness Only School", ascribed to by the Adi Shankara and Arya Asanga. According to the Mahayana Sutra Lankara: "Pure consciousness is the only Reality. By its nature, it is Self-luminous." (XIII, 13). "Thus shaking off duality, he directly perceives the Absolute which is the unity underlying phenomena (dharmadatu)." (VI, 7) Sharma, p. 112-113 .
