On Apr 8, 2006, at 4:29 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 8, 2006, at 2:19 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: > > > > > Yep- that all makes sense. The one thing we should establish in > this > > > life is groundedness, centeredness, identification with the Self, > > > the cosmos, Brahman. Just makes the rest of it manageable, and > much > > > more interesting. Otherwise we just as you say, tumble around > with > > > our minds closed, even to our selves! Life or death, get > centered. > > > > That's exactly one of the points of my post, there is no center. > You > > are truly beyond space and time. There are no reference points, > no > > "referentiality". Part of the terror of doing a retreat in total > > darkness--and in some parts of the Shank. trad. they do an 11 > month > > dark retreat--is when you do come back to the "body" there's still > no > > reference points. No inside or outside, the vase has shattered. > > > There is a perfect crystalline structure manifested of consciousness > once the intellect is perfected. It is this structure, independent > of any external reference points, including a body, which centers > the Self. It is the singularity found at the intersection of past, > future, and infinity. > > The terror you speak of above comes from not being established in > this singularity, and being at the effect of an unstable mind.
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