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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3464, Saturday, March 7, 2009, Editor: Mark
To be aware is to be awake. Unaware means asleep. You are aware
anyhow, you need not try to be. What you need is to be aware of
being aware. Be aware deliberately and consciously, broaden and
deepen the field of awareness. You are always conscious of the
mind, but you are not aware of yourself as being conscious.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing
you are more than your drama.
- Ram Dass
At the intellectual level there can be no end to questions.
Instead, hang on to the one who is asking. That is all you need
do. Indeed, there is nothing else really that you could do. If
you can do this, never allowing the self to escape your
attention, you will ultimately find that the seeker is none other
than consciousness seeking its own source and that the seeker
himself is both the seeking and the sought - and THAT IS YOU.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
Many who seek to awaken, seek the Real in the Unreal, in the
world, in philosophy, religion or a legion of teachers and gurus.
The source of consciousness, often called 'Self' in the East,
will never be found by looking without; that which appears to
look without must learn to accurately look within. This is
obvious. The witness cannot be found in the witnessed.
There are many ways of looking within to find the originating
place of consciousness and understand what consciousness is.
We must understand first, even if you assume it for the sake of
argument, that the world itself arises from the mind as an
appearance within consciousness.
The world is mind, mind is the world. Without mind, the world is
not. The world is created by thoughts, and the mind is nothing
more than thoughts; it is not an entity with autonomous existence
separate from consciousness. The 'real' world exists only in the
mind and you are neither mind nor the world.
The mind and thoughts are not you. They ae like ghost-clouds that
float on top of you. You are that which is beyond, the stateless
state, untouched by the waking world, the sleep world or deep
sleep darkness. All these are added onto you. You are beyond all
phenomena. This you must see clearly.
In fact, there is no looking within. Within and without only
arise with thoughts which are the world which create the
conceptual duality of within and without. There is no beyond
either, as the concept implies the opposite of not-beyond, or
here. You are neither beyond, nor not-beyond. You are not real or
unreal. You are not mortal or immortal, because immortal implies
eternal presence or existence. You have nothing to do with
either. You are beyond all measures, beyond all dualities and
opposites, beyond even the concept of beyond, beyond freedom and
enlightenment. This you must grasp at some point.
- Robert Adams
People are aware of it. Awareness is going to make people slow
down and not run lights. That's a good thing.
- Pamela Wilson