Effects of Expanding Awareness

[alexa]

Originally Posted by pseudonymous

i have read less than a dozen books in my 9 year calling, and mr. brunton's was not one of them.

Pseudonymous,

Try to find it at the library. I strongly recommend this book. You'll find it very interesting regarding your essay.

You said you were looking for somebody who was guided.

alexa

[pseudonymous]

Originally Posted by alexa

Pseudonymous,

Try to find it at the library. I strongly recommend this book. You'll find it very interesting regarding your essay.

You said you were looking for somebody who was guided.

alexa

those books i read were about 7 years ago...a whole string of them. i am guessing that which guides me directed me to them to get to know some of the language used, so i wouldn't say "orange" when i meant "meditation" (i had no spiritual interests prior to my calling). i do not remember anything in those books this day. i have been unable to read anything longer than an essay since (and sometimes not even those). my mind goes blank, or my eyes get funky so that i can not see the text. i am obedient to my calling and its dictate that i will arrive experiencially, and thus far have found a fair degree of lucidity without reading, so go with the flow is my thing.

mr burton's book sounds perfect though for the discussion, and perhaps someone will pick up a copy on your recommendation.

dcv-

[alexa]

Originally Posted by pseudonymous

(...)my mind goes blank, or my eyes get funky so that i can not see the text. i am obedient to my calling and its dictate that i will arrive experiencially, and thus far have found a fair degree of lucidity without reading, so go with the flow is my thing.

For someone who's mind goes blank in front of a book, your essay was not bad at all. So keep the road as you wish.

'The eye is the light of the body. If your eye is healty, all your body is full of life' (Mathieu 6.22)

I'm not sure about the translation, but I hope you understand what I mean.

alexa

[alexa]

Originally Posted by pseudonymous

i am obedient to my calling and its dictate that i will arrive experiencially, and thus far have found a fair degree of lucidity without reading, so go with the flow is my thing.

Pseudonymous,

Here I have a link for you : www.spiritualteachers.org/paul_brunton.htm

"Because something deep down in the subconscious knows that the ego is destructible...a longing arises for that which is indestructible...This is the beginning of the Quest, and may take a religious, a mystical, or a philosophical form, according to one's maturity." --Notebooks, Vol. 2.

[Ciel]

Pseudonymous,
Thank you, may there be understanding in the heart of man beyond definition.

Many years were spent working through the different pathways of the mind, for each connection has it's own translation. Evolution was as witness, yet I cannot say the mind was witness, for another channel had opened that was witness to the mind, and all exterior consciousness. Along side this change in mentality were many physical processes to draw all things into alignment. Yes there is a point when we know we are in an unconditional domain. There is only forward movement, and the being that we were is no longer. The ultimate destiny to know the self that now resides, and it's true interaction in the life of this world.

[Ciel]

Evolution is a happening process.
From entering through the back door of life, we arrive whole and complete, standing at the front door of entrance into new expanded capability. There is no longer need for long hours of meditation or contemplation. Instead incredible simplicity in new openness and acceptance, like a gentle smile to an unknown stranger.Life flows in new sensuality, and this world becomes friend beyond boundaries, with open communication on all levels.
God, it's just so nice to be here.............................................. .

[christmasp]

Hi people
I do not know what to give for Christmas of the to friends, advise something ....

[Ciel]

Originally Posted by christmasp

Hi people
I do not know what to give for Christmas of the to friends, advise something ....

A little strange, but........
Happy Christmas Pseudonymous, where ever you are.......

Joseph, a few answers from an old updated thread.

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[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by samabudhi

Most people find me wierd, but wise. This has made it all the more difficult to find like minds.

What Buddhism stresses is that this is a solitary path. It's getting easier to realise. Slowly but surely.

Hi samabudhi,

Most people find me just weird. (I'm not expecting too many people at my funeral and if any do turn up they may be repelled by my choice of music!). The only 100% "like mind" is one's own (Although forums on the net allow a wider, ahem, net to be cast for similar ones).

It is an absolute truth that all is inter-connected but it is a relative truth (as a zen teacher who's name escapes me so profoundly said...) that we cannot even share a fart.

s.

[Blizzardry]

I think this is what Metamorphosis by Kafka is about. The idea of this big thing you are now that nobody understands and sometimes really even "bugs" them in a big way...

Yeah it's lonely. You know, I like listening to people like Leonard Cohen and John Martyn because they make me happy. I hear people say "how can you like that, it's depressing." I think they're being reminded how lonely existence really is, whereas people like me who already know can think "Thank God there's someone who knows what I'm going through". I get the same off the Bible and the poetry of Rumi and all the spiritual texts.

When you get connected with somebody who has the same lucid spark, it's just magic. I sometimes see a whole crowd of people who look like cardboard cutouts, with maybe one or two really shiny pairs of eyes that you can read clear as day.