[NondualitySalon] Meditative Dialog: I AM-Not this

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Ed Arrons [eea]

Friday, January 29, 1999 2:17 PM

NondualitySalon

[NondualitySalon] Meditative Dialog: I AM-Not this

 

"Ed Arrons" <eea

 

Wondering where my thoughts fit into this discussion, and whether

I need to screw my head on a little tighter. :-) Is it even possible

to put this totality into words? Mine seem woefully inadequate.

 

Anyway, I see I AM' and 'Not This' as polar opposites in a range

of consciousness from spiritual to material; the range embraces

the yin/yang, magnetic polarity of Supreme Awareness and

material consciousness. The distinction between awareness and

sensory perception seems to clarify the function of both modalities

in resolving their duality.

 

I AM is the manifest Allness indwelling Supreme Awareness, G-d

consciousness.

 

'Not This' corresponds to sensory perception and perceptual memory.

'Not This' refers to things which exist in separation and is offered

in the sensory mode, ineveryday consciousness as one encounters and

dis-identifies with things. Offering 'Not This' seems to perpetuate

and reinforce sensory consciousness.

 

In The meditative state one may transcend the perceptual mode and

experience/affirm the I AM and Supreme Awareness. There seems

to be no point in offering 'Not This' when in unitive awareness.

 

Harsha: I like very much how you expressed it all. The whole process is

very eloquently described. In the Absolute Unitive Awareness, there is no

one at all to offer or say "Not This."

 

Ed: With the return of everyday and survival consciousness one tends to

accommodate separateness.

 

In Meditative Dialog one brings the 'separate' into a unitive flow of

interacting resonances. It is the "middle road" where things are in

resonance with each other and the All, where the line between spirit

and matter, duality and nonduality, time and timelessness is bridged

by a meditative awarenes, incorporating both the I AM and

'thingness'.

 

 

Feedback eagerly sought.

 

Ed,

Fondly

 

Harsha: What you say makes sense Ed; especially if it feels right and

comfortable for you. It is nice to find a method and/or a path that is

yours; that you own in a sense because you took it all the way to the end.

Any path you travel, if you want to know where it goes, you should take it

to the end. Take it to the very end and then you will own it. You will

totally own it. If you own something, it is easy to give it up. If you give

up what you own, You are left Alone. In that being Alone is All Oneness

which is Pure, Unstained, and Completely at Rest in Its Own Nature.