According to the Indian yogic traditions, which broadly construed include Buddhism, we can distinguish three aspects of consciousness.1 The first aspect is awareness, which is often likened to a light that reveals whatever it shines upon. The second aspect is whatever the light illuminates, that is, whatever we happen to be aware of from moment to moment. The third aspect is how we experience some of these contents of awareness as “I” or “Me” or “Mine.” To understand how we enact a self, therefore, we need to understand three things—the nature of awareness as distinct from its sensory and mental contents, the mind-body processes that produce these contents, and how some of these contents come to be experienced as the self.
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JOYRAMBATI 1977
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The observer is the past. The observed is the present. If you can actually see this, not just the words, not an idea of it, but actually see this, the perception of this is intelligence, not the cunning intelligence of thought, but a different kind of intelligence, with roots from love, the type of love which is not of attachment.
The observer meets the present with the eyes and the understanding of the past, hence there is no meeting of the present. This is how the observer maintains the separation. But if there is no “you” the observer, then there is only the present. If you have the question “Who am I” this can so easily be seen now if you realize this, “you” are thought. Thought is limited, thought is an activity of knowledge, which is the past.
Thought puts together a thinker, but its so easy to see this illusion, how can there be a thinker without thought? Can you see that there is no difference between the thinker and the thought? Now do not use thought to analyze that… just observe the question, deeply. In essence, there is no “observer”, there is just the act of observing. This ends all questions, all separation, all conflict if you can see this.
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Everything happens the way it is for enlightened or non-enlightened being the same. Life unfolds for both the same.
Even the strongest resistence (how non-enlightened calls it) or simple not wanting something (how simply enlightened calls it) happens in the unconditional presence, in the unbounded welcoming. Enlightened one realizes it while the one living in the ignorance not.
There is simply no differnce for anyone. Life hurts sometimes, sometimes it is a joy. Enlightened one accepts all that comes in the same way.
Resistence is just artifficialy created drama. Something that is really meaningless.
Life does not care if you resist or not. The only question is if such an action brings you any joy. I doubt it.
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DTH IS THE ONLY CURE TO ME
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A “Your mind, emotions, and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.” ~Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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