The Gita's no doer -- don't think, dream.

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fuzzie_wuz

Nisargadatta

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:38 AM

Re: The Gita's no doer -- don't think, dream.

 

 

Nisargadatta , " Gene Polotas " <semmin@e...> wrote:

> Life, maya, is exactly like a movie. That is the message of the

> Gita's " no doer. " Is this a coincidence? No, they are

> both pure unmitigated fiction.

> Compared to the Reality of Dreamless-sleep, Samadhi, life or maya is

> pure unmitigated fiction. Any word other than " fiction " for life,

> maya, makes the word Reality, Samadhi, even less meaningful than it

> has to be.

>

> The Reality or Samadhi of Dreamless-sleep is like an ocean of such

> unfathomable JOY that it makes the universe into not even an

> imaginary drop.

>

> Unlike thousands of years ago, we today have physics, and movies,

> that tells us the exact same story as does the Gita and Vedas.

> If " you " understand how dreams ( and movies) work then you know

> everything there is to know about Advaita. It is that simple.

>

> As far as questions and answers: it is all just a play of words.

> =-=

> The answers to questions are so simple that anyone can not only

> answer their own questions but laugh at the same time.

> Pretend you are in a dream and then you ask these questions, in your

> dream.

> In a dream you are the dreamer, the dreaming and everything in the

> dream. (Advaita 101)

> You ask the questions and so you want someone in your dream to answer

> them. But in a dream you are that someone - so go ahead and

> answer the questions as this someone.

> If you can understand how a dream works then for the first time in

> your life you can understand how absurd it is to ask questions so

> that you can then look for answers.

>

> It is so absurd that it is the Supreme Comedy called maya, life,

> living. It is absurd because the answer can make no difference. The

> answer can literally be anything because it can make no difference

> because the mind is what it thinks. The mind is what it thinks

> regardless of its questions and answers. (The mind is just thoughts

> over which there is no control -- just like the movie-characters on

> the movie screen have no control over their thoughts/actions. There

> can be no control of thoughts because " control " is just a

> thought. )

> When it comes to asking questions, think of the child that responds

> to each answer it gets with always the same question: WHY?

>

> We, imaginary-doers, keep doing the same: How can we have particles

> in physics, for example, when there are no anti-particles? How can

> we have time and space when physics keep telling us there is no

> time? .... etc. Why does the universe expand as fast as the

> thoughts that keep creating, expanding, it? Does the mind make up

> the universe as it keeps thinking?

> -=-

> This JOKE of questions and answers is not new. Sages around the Indus

> River in India woke up to the futility of questions needing answers

> over five-thousand years about.

> These sages used meditation to study their thoughts. In this study

> some of them woke up to the way the mind worked: The mind is

> everything it thinks. These sages realized that the mind is always

> dreaming that it is awake.

> They could not explain this to egos, however, and so for egos, who

> could not understand the way their mind worked, these sages came up

> with the notion of a guru.

> Egos however could not understand this guru and so these sages came

> up with two different gurus. The inside guru and the outside guru.

> The ego, however, cannot understand the inner guru so it, the ego,

> has to project this inner-guru to the outside so that it, the mind,

> can then hopefully understand it, the outside-guru, and its

> answers. But in Reality all these gurus and intellects and experts

> are just the mind asking questions so that it can keep maya

> entertaining with the answers that can make no difference because the

> mind is what it thinks... regardless of gurus be they inner or

> outer, and their answers and questions.

>

> Questions and answers are just a play of words the movie called maya

> needs to be entertaining.

> Take the words " you " ask and answer seriously - in the

> fiction called maya -- and you turn life into the karma that maya

> needs to be entertaining, JOY.

>

> Take life to be a dream and it turns into the JOY called maya. When

> you take life to be a dream you are totally free and untouchable,

> just like Krishna, Buddha and Jesus; and then there are no more

> questions, only the JOY called maya.

>

> This JOY is the Self enjoying its entertainment - just like if it

> were a movie.

>

> the Supreme Joke, gp

 

 

Dear Gene:

 

Keep them cards and letters coming. I like your style.

 

fuzzie

 

P.S. You're not related to " Gene Poole " are you? He's a guy I've seen

over on Sarlo's list.

 

 

 

Dear Fuzzie:

 

Ok, let me hear some of that Joy of " fuzzie " . Lots and lot's of neti neti....

 

Hey, once in while " fuzzie " comes out to play. Can " fuzzie " come out to

play?

 

Come on, rolling, rolling

flying flying...

 

Strawberry Canyon. Right here and now. A Beautiful Baloon awaits. Or we can

just Be and ...........

 

 

anna and the 4th dimension....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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