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Originally posted by Itisnowagain
When the presence is felt the self ceases to exist. All there is is this. Separation, duality is where the situation and you appear to be separate. There is no separation until you think it.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
I maybe should have said that, when the presence is experienced, thought ceases. As Descartes said i exist when i think. When i don`t think i do not exist. I am a mere imagination, a made up thing. However, really there are no things. All there is is this. Experience/sensation is what i am, we call it life. Life does not have an opposite. Being is seeing from a non dual space.
"Because the thoughts you think you think appear as images before your eyes: you refuse to accept them as nothing."
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
The real you, which some call the Self, does not think. It is beyond and prior to thinking, it is what drives the entire universe. From the smallest particle to each wave in the ocean. The universal intelligence, you and it is all one. You are not in charge any more than the clouds or waves in the ocean are.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
Descartes, did he have psychosis? Did he go the whole way? Or did he turn back in fear?
This is the crux, if you or he were willing to risk it. What then?
Originally posted by Michael Cecil
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
The real you, which some call the Self, does not think. It is beyond and prior to thinking, it is what drives the entire universe. From the smallest particle to each wave in the ocean. The universal intelligence, you and it is all one. You are not in charge any more than the clouds or waves in the ocean are.
All of these words taken together do not really make any sense.
I am not you.
My 'mind' is over here and your 'mind' is over there.
Which is why, when I say "I have not yet made up my 'mind'", I don't have to ask for your opinion.
There is a third dimension of consciousness which is both non-temporal and non-spatial. But that is not any "self" or "Self". It is an "observing consciousness" prior to and beyond any "self".
Mi cha el
Originally posted by KrypticCriminal
Originally posted by Michael Cecil
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
The real you, which some call the Self, does not think. It is beyond and prior to thinking, it is what drives the entire universe. From the smallest particle to each wave in the ocean. The universal intelligence, you and it is all one. You are not in charge any more than the clouds or waves in the ocean are.
All of these words taken together do not really make any sense.
I am not you.
My 'mind' is over here and your 'mind' is over there.
Which is why, when I say "I have not yet made up my 'mind'", I don't have to ask for your opinion.
There is a third dimension of consciousness which is both non-temporal and non-spatial. But that is not any "self" or "Self". It is an "observing consciousness" prior to and beyond any "self".
Mi cha el
The bit ive underlined is interesting, are you reffering to different levels of conciousness or different kinds of conciousness as in seperate from the conciosness that you always have.edit on 8/11/10 by KrypticCriminal because: (no reason given)