11-09-2007, 12:00 AM
You bring up, again some very interesting ideas and I think you may be right on the money about the freedom that we seek reflecting the barriers that we have experienced,..the assemblage point within the lines, etc.
But there is a "perception" or "awareness" that is beyond these examples. Pure existence, I Am, or whatever other term might be best used, I don't know. But I do know that it exists, I have been there, experienced it, or perceived it. There, the Ego is left behind, as also is what I term the "soul", or (everything that you know feel or have learned).
I guess this change is one of spirit rather than soul or mind. It is characterized by becoming one with what you are aware of. Being inside of it and at the same time being It.
The key to experiencing this in my opinion is to suspend the faculty of judgement, or assessment, preconceived notions, and stop all internal dialog.
I think we all too often are searching for something of which we already have some, at least vague, idea or preconceived notion about. And that is why we do not find it.
Only by the practice of stopping the internal dialog we are able to suspend the faculties of assessment, judgement and preconceived notions. (And we actually cannot even recognise that we are doing this without stopping the internal dialog.) Only in this way will we breakout of our "cage" to witness pure existence.
I have witnessed it, and I think that the memory of that experience can actually become part of my Tonal or cage. To supend those faculties is the way to break free from my "larger" cage to experience what will be next.
To become "one with" what will be next.
But there is a "perception" or "awareness" that is beyond these examples. Pure existence, I Am, or whatever other term might be best used, I don't know. But I do know that it exists, I have been there, experienced it, or perceived it. There, the Ego is left behind, as also is what I term the "soul", or (everything that you know feel or have learned).
I guess this change is one of spirit rather than soul or mind. It is characterized by becoming one with what you are aware of. Being inside of it and at the same time being It.
The key to experiencing this in my opinion is to suspend the faculty of judgement, or assessment, preconceived notions, and stop all internal dialog.
I think we all too often are searching for something of which we already have some, at least vague, idea or preconceived notion about. And that is why we do not find it.
Only by the practice of stopping the internal dialog we are able to suspend the faculties of assessment, judgement and preconceived notions. (And we actually cannot even recognise that we are doing this without stopping the internal dialog.) Only in this way will we breakout of our "cage" to witness pure existence.
I have witnessed it, and I think that the memory of that experience can actually become part of my Tonal or cage. To supend those faculties is the way to break free from my "larger" cage to experience what will be next.
To become "one with" what will be next.