> One of the characteristics of resting the mind in the Natural, non- > dual State is that thoughts will not repeat themselves in samsaric > chains--they self-liberate of and by themselves, "like a snake > untying itself from a knot". The nice thing is, if we can experience > thought from the perspective of this unified state, the pattern that > causes them to arise repeatedly is immediately cut...for > good...unless we recreate the same conditions that put them there in > the first place...
Use of the term the "non-dual state", in this context, appears odd to me. Maintaining pure awareness while holding a thought, consciousness glowing within itself -- akin to a developing yet not complete TMO CC state -- appears to be what you are referring to. The PC along with the thought is enough to disolve the vasana at the root of the repeated thought pattern. Yet CC, or CC type of states, are the essence of duality. It is the realization of Atman. Atman being seperate from all of "this" -- the world of change. And yet this so-called but erroneously termed "non-dual state" seems to be the foucs of some neo-advaitans and satsangians -- that this dual state is the "end of the veda", a uphanishadic realization of the ultimate reality. The advaita of the shankaracharian traditions is true non-duality: the realization -- more than "understanding" -- the total groking that Atman is Brahman. That this inner consciousness glowing within itself, Atman, is also all of that -- all of (what appears to be) the changing phenomenal world. That is the non-dual state. Not a CC type experience. It is the realization that Atman is Brahman ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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 <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
