> Posted by: authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[big snip of layers of previous conversation on this topic]
> Could be. At any rate, I just remembered it's I-ness,
> Am-ness, and Is-ness. No "me-ness"!
>
> You may well be right that Being follows Is-ness.
Please refer to:
Weekly Meeting Audio Tapes
Volume 1, Tape 3, Side 1
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Thinking, Feeling, Myness, Amness, Isness"
22 minutes
I just made the following notes while re-listening to the tape;
the words are Maharishi's exact words [unless they are in brackets
like this]. These are notes - not a word-for-word transcript.
Maharishi: ...Again I'm reminded of some vedic hymns, which describe
that the (it's a very beautiful thing) describes...all this teaching
we verify on the basis of our everyday life. It's so simple, and yet
so beautiful and elevating, because it's the Truth of existence.
Each is based on the previous level.
[previous = further down the page]:
OBJECTS OF PERCEPTION
All that the senses perceive are based on the senses.
SENSES
Senses are based on the mind.
THINKING
Mind, thinking
a. 1st level of conscious mind
FEELING
Emotions, feeling, heart (hridi)
a. 2nd level of conscious mind (more refined, less active)
MYNESS
Mine (e.g. my body, my house), individual existence, myness, my security
a. 3rd level of conscious mind (even more refined, even less active)
AMNESS ('I')
Amritam (immortality), Amness
Individual existence
I AM
Individuality, continuity of I
a. Even more refined, even less active
b. Closer to 'me' - cause it's my own
e. My life
f. Immortality, immortal level of life
ISNESS
Brahmani, Brahman, Isness
Universal existence
The universe IS
The Absolute, universality, ultimate reality, transcendental reality,
the totality
a. Most silent
b. Beyond 'me'
c. My Self is that Isness - is an experience in unity
d. That alone is - omnipresent
When that 'I' has cognized that 'I am that isness', 'amness is that
isness', the ultimate reality becomes the living reality of day-to-day
life.
e. On the basis of universal existence, all life in the cosmos
f. Also immortality, immortal level of life
Unboundedness, infinity
At this level, all the levels of the mind have been comprehended by
the conscious mind.
All these different levels exist within the conscious mind, but all
must open to the obvious level of the conscious mind.
Namaste,
Michael
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