At 11:47 AM 5/10/2005 -0400, you wrote: > > 6) Stay present, and continue to observe what is happening inside you. > Become > > aware of not only the emotional pain but also of "the one who > observes," the > > silent watcher. > >I always wonder at this idea a bit. What watcher? What observer? I'd >suggest that he's "silent" because "he" isn't there, lol. There's just >*watching*, without something being watched, or someone doing the >watching. Just a process, an unfolding that FEELS like someone watching >something to the unenlightened primitives like myself ;)
from the Bahiya Sutta http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/khuddaka/udana/ud1-10.html "Then, Bahiya, you should train yourself thus: In reference to the seen, there will be only the seen. In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. That is how you should train yourself. When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the sensed, only the cognized in reference to the cognized, then, Bahiya, there is no you in terms of that. When there is no you in terms of that, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor yonder nor between the two. This, just this, is the end of stress." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/hjtSRD/3MnJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> 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/
