imagination suresh... merle Suresh,
I would describe your and the female you mentioned experience of "seeing one's own body separate from the body" as an hallucination, and certainly nothing important vis-a-vis zen - other than it may have created just another attachment you're going to have to let go of some day. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], SURESH JAGADEESAN <varamtha@...> wrote: > > Dear Joe and all, > > I saw discussion on 'soul' in the forum since I have mentioned it. > > I want to know how you describe that my experience or that female in > the New science article, that seeing one's own body separate from the > body? > > A formless "I", the awareness seeing or aware of the body separately, > what you call this? > > Soul is just a word to indicate "awareness" or Consciousness. Our main > problem is that we don't know how to integrate knowledge. We got > distracted by different sounded words. Since I mention "soul" you > identify with Hinduism and separate it. > > Over words humans are separated, is it not some great mistake we do? > > Why we could not integrate knowledge? > > What Buddha spoke may be similar of Upanishad / shrutis, Advaita > Vedanta. But he did not refer to it, since his knowledge of his own, > born of his own experience, and found mistakes in following old Hindu > scriptures, he developed new way, but essentially what he found was > same as any Hindu rishis found and made it in Upanishad. > > Like wise every religious founders and many who has not founded any > religion, but found the ultimate truth has taught as pure philosophy > such as Socrates, Gurdjieff, JK, OSHO etc., > > Can we able to stop fighting over words? > > What is this word? > > A sound? > > Am I sound? > > From where this sound arises? > > I am also seeing, even eyes closed, there is seeing > > If seeing, am I light? > > Yes I am light > > From light sound arises > > From then whole cinema goes on. > > > > -- > best regards > Suresh > > > > Thanks and best regards > J.Suresh > New No.3, Old No.7, > Chamiers road - 1st Lane, > Alwarpet, > Chennai - 600018 > Ph: 044 42030947 > Mobile: 91 9884071738 >
