TorquoiseB: snipped Bingo. You're on a roll today. Some are convinced that their subjective experience of Brahman *is* Brahman, or that "they" are Brahman while that experience is going on. My view is that there is a state of attention from which one can experience Brahman, but it's still Just Another State Of Attention. All states of attention are open to interpretation.
Tom T: It is my experience, not my view, that Brahman is the point where one begins to know that any state of Consciousness is available at any time just through attention. Until that point one doesn't know intimately this as a continuum of awareness. One can be at any point value of consciousness at any time. Kind of neat actually. One then gets to go back and integrate all the parts of ourselves that had been isolated. There is also a 180 degree shift in reference point. It feels like instead of being in the penthouse looking out one is now established in the heart and looking in. Poor analogy but a real change in how things are seen and processed. Initially feels like there is no center anymore. In computer terms one looses the central processor and it all shifts to distributed processing. In other words no processing occurs internally it all occurs out there where ever the attention falls. Ultimately one kind of gets that the inside is now the outside and the outside has moved inside. ANother poor analogy but the best that can be done today. Tom T ------------------------ 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/
