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toombaru
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 Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: 'You' |
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You are not the wholeness.
You are not the bliss.
You are not all things.
You are not This.
You are not consciousness.
You are not Awareness.
You are not asleep
You are not awakened.
You are not the eyes of God.
You are not the I-s of God.
Quite simply...............................
You are not. |
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wizdumb
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: you too |
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" I am" not what I do, therefore, "I AM"
Attachments to fragmentation. |
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sara
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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i am (gulp) not 
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heron
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: 'You' |
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| toombaru wrote: | You are not the wholeness.
You are not the bliss.
You are not all things.
You are not This.
You are not consciousness.
You are not Awareness.
You are not asleep
You are not awakened.
You are not the eyes of God.
You are not the I-s of God.
Quite simply...............................
You are not. |
Nothing manifests as the illusion of 'every-something-someone'.
In that illusion 'you' are 'every-something-someone'.
Lets hear it for the good'ol illusion......otherwise 'we' would'nt appear to be doing this illusory living thing.
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sara
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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whew!
i was about to 'diss'-appearance!
i"m baaaaack!
Whee!!!
love,
sara 
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sara
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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just kidding 
i'm not back
there is no turning back
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michael
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:02 am Post subject: |
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Ain't it wonderful... the marks 'you are not' appears and meaning arises.
The meaning related to these marks (or any other marks, eg 'consciousness') is not 'who' sees the marks and knows the associated meaning.
That which is, is not the meaning that arises. It sees the marks and knows the meaning.
It does not disappear... it never appears.
It neither comes nor goes.
Here it is!
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michael
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:28 am Post subject: |
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"Here it is"
Not in the marks on the apparent screen
Not in the meaning ascribed to them.
Not in the imagined mind of some imagined poster (michael  )
But right here right now seeing these very marks and knowing the meaning ascribed to them.
Can you describe who it is who sees and knows?
You cannot?
Welcome home
Love
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heron
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| michael wrote: | "Here it is"
Not in the marks on the apparent screen
Not in the meaning ascribed to them.
Not in the imagined mind of some imagined poster (michael )
But right here right now seeing these very marks and knowing the meaning ascribed to them.
Can you describe who it is who sees and knows?
You cannot?
Welcome home
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Hello Micheal
What description can there be of that which cannot be described ?
Being away from home and the welcome back are part of the illusion............'we' have never been away from home..........it is impossible to be away from home. |
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heron
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:30 am Post subject: |
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[quote="michael"]Ain't it wonderful... the marks 'you are not' appears and meaning arises.
The meaning related to these marks (or any other marks, eg 'consciousness') is not 'who' sees the marks and knows the associated meaning.
That which is, is not the meaning that arises. It sees the marks and knows the meaning.
It does not disappear... it never appears.
It neither comes nor goes.
Here it is!
'It' appears as the very convincing illusion of solidity which we, as part of that illusion, see all around us. Dont you see it as well Micheal ?
What a wonderful, fantastic illusion it is. Imagine being in an illusory non-physical state on some other equally illusory non-physical dimention and someone says "hey, there is this other illusory dimention where there is stuff you can see, hear, touch, smell, and taste. Would'nt you want to give it a go ? |
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michael
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, 'It' appears 'as' the illusion (which is not separate from it), yet the illusion is not 'It'.
The illusion changes, what 'is' does not.
Seeing is constant, even as 'the seen' changes.
How to describe seeing (the faculty to see) as opposed to the 'objects seen'? It cannot be done. Seeing cannot see 'seeing'.
Seeing is simply 'self evident'.
In combination with the other facutlties and the knowing, they are together called 'consciousness'... the undivided reality (by whatever name it is called).
Of course, there is no 'going out' nor 'coming in'.
Let's say that 'Welcome Home' is just a playful greeting to the Self... in need of no greeting to know that it is...
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling and knowing.
As for 'giving it a go'... no choice in the matter.
Here it is! 
Love
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heron
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| michael wrote: | Yes, 'It' appears 'as' the illusion (which is not separate from it), yet the illusion is not 'It'.
The illusion changes, what 'is' does not.
Seeing is constant, even as 'the seen' changes.
How to describe seeing (the faculty to see) as opposed to the 'objects seen'? It cannot be done. Seeing cannot see 'seeing'.
Seeing is simply 'self evident'.
In combination with the other facutlties and the knowing, they are together called 'consciousness'... the undivided reality (by whatever name it is called).
Of course, there is no 'going out' nor 'coming in'.
Let's say that 'Welcome Home' is just a playful greeting to the Self... in need of no greeting to know that it is...
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling and knowing.
As for 'giving it a go'... no choice in the matter.
Here it is!
Love |
The illusion is 'it' illusioning. So how could the illusion not be 'it'? What else could the illusion be ? |
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toombaru
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| heron wrote: | | michael wrote: | Yes, 'It' appears 'as' the illusion (which is not separate from it), yet the illusion is not 'It'.
The illusion changes, what 'is' does not.
Seeing is constant, even as 'the seen' changes.
How to describe seeing (the faculty to see) as opposed to the 'objects seen'? It cannot be done. Seeing cannot see 'seeing'.
Seeing is simply 'self evident'.
In combination with the other facutlties and the knowing, they are together called 'consciousness'... the undivided reality (by whatever name it is called).
Of course, there is no 'going out' nor 'coming in'.
Let's say that 'Welcome Home' is just a playful greeting to the Self... in need of no greeting to know that it is...
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling and knowing.
As for 'giving it a go'... no choice in the matter. 8)
Here it is! :o :D
Love |
The illusion is 'it' illusioning. So how could the illusion not be 'it'? What else could the illusion be ? |
The illusion of a mirage is a misinterpretation.....as is the illusion of a separate self.
Any illusion evaporates when its underpinnings are removed.
toombaru |
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michael
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| toombaru slightly amended wrote: | | heron wrote: | | michael wrote: | Yes, 'It' appears 'as' the illusion (which is not separate from it), yet the illusion is not 'It'.
The illusion changes, what 'is' does not.
Seeing is constant, even as 'the seen' changes.
How to describe seeing (the faculty to see) as opposed to the 'objects seen'? It cannot be done. Seeing cannot see 'seeing'.
Seeing is simply 'self evident'.
In combination with the other facutlties and the knowing, they are together called 'consciousness'... the undivided reality (by whatever name it is called).
Of course, there is no 'going out' nor 'coming in'.
Let's say that 'Welcome Home' is just a playful greeting to the Self... in need of no greeting to know that it is...
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling and knowing.
As for 'giving it a go'... no choice in the matter.
Here it is!
Love |
The illusion is 'it' illusioning. So how could the illusion not be 'it'? What else could the illusion be ? |
The illusion of a mirage is a (mis)interpretation.....as is the illusion of a separate self.
Any illusion evaporates when its underpinnings are removed.
toombaru |
It depends what you mean by the illusion being it.
From the human perspective when you dream a 'nightly dream'. It seems that 'you' are doing things, meeting people 'in the dream'.
Yet the whole dream (every person and thing, including your own 'dream body' and 'dream thoughts' and 'dream feelings' and the 'dream sounds' you hear as other 'dream characters' speak, etc.) are all 'in the dream'.
It could be said from this perspective: "I am the dream and the dream is me".
It is true that the dream is 'me'... who 'I' seem to be.
That is to say, the 'dream me' is not just the 'dream body', it is the whole 'dream experience'... it includes the feeling of the warm sun and the look and feel and sounds as 'I' catch a smooth wave off the tip of some idyllic island. My strong bronzed arms digging into the translucent water.
This 'me' is very different to the 'me' that seems to be imprisoned in a fetid hole in some ghastly nightmare: sallow skin and decaying body, with strange thoughts and terrifying feelings.
It is impossible to separate 'me' from the dream experience.
If 'I' identify with the content, as the content constantly changes, then 'I' too am constantly changing... constantly becoming 'new things'.
On this view, I am not any single 'thing'... I am everything. Yet as these 'dream things' are all 'illusory', so the 'Universal Self who is all things' is an illusion.
On 'waking' both the 'dream things' and the 'dream self' that appears to be 'all things' is no more... as they/it never really is.
But, "Am 'I' the dream"?
What of the 'underlying' reality that remains the same even as the content changes? This is not a question for the intellect. It is 'self evident'.
Where the dream is located, and of what it is composed, are unknowns... it just appears. It is 'one with the dreamer', yet it is not 'the dreamer'.
'The dreamer' wakes, and the dream is no more.
'Dreamer'? Such 'dreamer' cannot be located any more than the dream itself, yet...
Here it is!
As the content of the dream changes, the seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling and knowing of it does not.
The dream (the content) is not separate from awareness of it, but the content is not the awareness (seeing, hearing etc.).
The content is the illusion. It is not misinterpreted, it is simply 'known'. As it is known, so it appears to be: the senses giving apparent form and substance (colour/shape, odour, flavour, feel and sound) to what is known, constantly changing 'moment to moment'.
All the 'while', awareness/knowing (consciousness) remains ever unchanging... in itself entirely one...
Love
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| michael wrote: | | toombaru slightly amended wrote: | | heron wrote: | | michael wrote: | Yes, 'It' appears 'as' the illusion (which is not separate from it), yet the illusion is not 'It'.
The illusion changes, what 'is' does not.
Seeing is constant, even as 'the seen' changes.
How to describe seeing (the faculty to see) as opposed to the 'objects seen'? It cannot be done. Seeing cannot see 'seeing'.
Seeing is simply 'self evident'.
In combination with the other facutlties and the knowing, they are together called 'consciousness'... the undivided reality (by whatever name it is called).
Of course, there is no 'going out' nor 'coming in'.
Let's say that 'Welcome Home' is just a playful greeting to the Self... in need of no greeting to know that it is...
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling and knowing.
As for 'giving it a go'... no choice in the matter.
Here it is!
Love |
The illusion is 'it' illusioning. So how could the illusion not be 'it'? What else could the illusion be ? |
The illusion of a mirage is a (mis)interpretation.....as is the illusion of a separate self.
Any illusion evaporates when its underpinnings are removed.
toombaru |
It depends what you mean by the illusion being it.
From the human perspective when you dream a 'nightly dream'. It seems that 'you' are doing things, meeting people 'in the dream'.
Yet the whole dream (every person and thing, including your own 'dream body' and 'dream thoughts' and 'dream feelings' and the 'dream sounds' you hear as other 'dream characters' speak, etc.) are all 'in the dream'.
It could be said from this perspective: "I am the dream and the dream is me".
It is true that the dream is 'me'... who 'I' seem to be.
That is to say, the 'dream me' is not just the 'dream body', it is the whole 'dream experience'... it includes the feeling of the warm sun and the look and feel and sounds as 'I' catch a smooth wave off the tip of some idyllic island. My strong bronzed arms digging into the translucent water.
This 'me' is very different to the 'me' that seems to be imprisoned in a fetid hole in some ghastly nightmare: sallow skin and decaying body, with strange thoughts and terrifying feelings.
It is impossible to separate 'me' from the dream experience.
If 'I' identify with the content, as the content constantly changes, then 'I' too am constantly changing... constantly becoming 'new things'.
On this view, I am not any single 'thing'... I am everything. Yet as these 'dream things' are all 'illusory', so the 'Universal Self who is all things' is an illusion.
On 'waking' both the 'dream things' and the 'dream self' that appears to be 'all things' is no more... as they/it never really is.
But, "Am 'I' the dream"?
What of the 'underlying' reality that remains the same even as the content changes? This is not a question for the intellect. It is 'self evident'.
Where the dream is located, and of what it is composed, are unknowns... it just appears. It is 'one with the dreamer', yet it is not 'the dreamer'.
'The dreamer' wakes, and the dream is no more.
'Dreamer'? Such 'dreamer' cannot be located any more than the dream itself, yet...
Here it is!
As the content of the dream changes, the seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling and knowing of it does not.
The dream (the content) is not separate from awareness of it, but the content is not the awareness (seeing, hearing etc.).
The content is the illusion. It is not misinterpreted, it is simply 'known'. As it is known, so it appears to be: the senses giving apparent form and substance (colour/shape, odour, flavour, feel and sound) to what is known, constantly changing 'moment to moment'.
All the 'while', awareness/knowing (consciousness) remains ever unchanging... in itself entirely one...
Love |
Ah........so that which is unchanging awareness/consciousness is the NOT the dream you were talking about earlier..........it was'nt that much of a secret afterall. It was simply another name like Oneness, nothing, or the source, that we use in a dream story about an assumed 'that' which cannot be described.
In this dream story there is absolutely no separation or difference. No line can be drawn between the dream and the unchanging Oneness from which the dream arises. The One is the apparant other. The One and the other are One.
All is dream.......the dream of Oneness |
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