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AN EXPERIENCE OF HIDDEN SELF
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| Have you ever felt the confinement within the flesh-cage?
This feeling, when sensed in a profound awareness, makes
one restless in an extraordinary way. That is, you are in a
prison of I-ness.Every morning you get up in this prison
and then at night you go to sleep again in this prison.In
fact the other way around was also possible;you could have
spent a day being some body else.But this never happens.The
consciousness of I-ness always shines as being yourselve.
If you have sensed this feeling,it means you are longing
for freedom.Here freedom indicates the way out of
consciousness.In other words,freedom is togetherness with
everything.From now on,the walls of personal consciousness
are broken down and the consciousness is not a personal,but
it becomes a universal one.
Now this universal consciousness gives the possibility of
knowing, to that person about his/her real identity.Now you
are me,I am you.There is only one I-ness,that is HIDDEN-
SELF.Hidden-Self covers everything.
There are many names of the awareness of Hidden-
Self;ENLIGHTENMENT,TO KNOW YOURSELF,SELF REALIZATION,COSMIC
CONSCIOUSNESS,NIRVANA,SATORI,FENAFILLAH,SAMADHI,TRENCENDENCE
,etc.So this means that there are many ways,many different
ways carrying us to the HIDDEN SELF.
With compassion,
Puma (Bothi)
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| lilashi 2006-02-25, 9:31 pm |
| You are still awake ?
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| howdydave 2006-02-25, 9:31 pm |
| Howdy Puma!
Sounds like you have reached a state of profound awareness OF OBJECTS
(including your body, mind and thought process.)
Next step is to separate the consciousness from the objects that it
focuses on. Once you do that, the prison should all fall away.
Next time you are in that state, see if you can turn off your thought
process by withdrawing deeper and deeper into your "I."
See if you can find your "silent witness" -- that Self that does
nothing but watch the show called "your life."
It's beyond the cognizant/analytical thought process,
It's beyond the conscience/decision making process.
This is what I was talking about a while ago on the:
"SUBJECTIVE meditation" thread.
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| howdydave 2006-02-25, 9:31 pm |
| The previous post (obviously) focused primarily on your first
paragraph.
re: "Many different ways" -- That's what all the different yoga
disciplines are all about, isn't it?
You left out my favorate names:
Self - "ATMAN"
Universal one - "BRAHMAN"
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