Guest guest Report post Posted May 25, 2007 Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033 wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " Silver " <silver@> wrote: > > > > > > ************************* > > Awareness of awareness may be blocked by beliefs, opinions, concepts, > > ideas...but awareness as is remains undistorted. I don't know if I'm > > making myself clear? > > > > Silver > > This no-thing has never been distorted. > > Awareness, though, can be distorted by investment. > > Investment forms object relations, emotional tendencies such as > attraction and repulsion -- which always assume the self existing, a > central objectification. > > With no investment, awareness is not gripped by any object. > > With no object relations, sense of a self in existence dissolves. > Even the very subtle object called " awareness " dissolves. > > Now, no-thing is. > > And no object has ever appeared, and awareness, as nothing to be aware of. > > Everything previously misunderstood as objects, awareness, experiences > ... is clearly this very no-thing. > > -- Dan > Stage One: Center stage: I Am Stage Two: Peripheral Stage: I Am Not Stage Three: Staging ends. The play goes on. Stage Four: First three stages, reappear, disappear and rearrange their 'order'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted May 26, 2007 Nisargadatta , " anabebe57 " <kailashana wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033@> wrote: > > > > Nisargadatta , " Silver " <silver@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > ************************* > > > Awareness of awareness may be blocked by beliefs, opinions, concepts, > > > ideas...but awareness as is remains undistorted. I don't know if I'm > > > making myself clear? > > > > > > Silver > > > > This no-thing has never been distorted. > > > > Awareness, though, can be distorted by investment. > > > > Investment forms object relations, emotional tendencies such as > > attraction and repulsion -- which always assume the self existing, a > > central objectification. > > > > With no investment, awareness is not gripped by any object. > > > > With no object relations, sense of a self in existence dissolves. > > Even the very subtle object called " awareness " dissolves. > > > > Now, no-thing is. > > > > And no object has ever appeared, and awareness, as nothing to be > aware of. > > > > Everything previously misunderstood as objects, awareness, experiences > > ... is clearly this very no-thing. > > > > -- Dan > > > > > Stage One: Center stage: I Am > > Stage Two: Peripheral Stage: I Am Not > > Stage Three: Staging ends. The play goes on. > > Stage Four: First three stages, reappear, disappear and rearrange > their 'order'. > That, I believe, is the most intelligent observation I have ever considered. Thank you! Silver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
