Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Where are you?

Seeing a "sunrise"...
Hearing "birds singing"...

Tasting "chocolate cake"...
Smelling "fresh-baked bread"...

Touching a "velvet robe"...
Feeling "at peace"...

Where are YOU in all this?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

dear friend,if i am not a person inna body-mind then who can the world be a dream of my own creation?

respect, paco

Randall Friend said...

Dear paco,

Yes - it seems like a paradox when the mind is utilized to try to understand.

The thought - I AM - is the most basic thought. You know this thought... it points to that which you cannot deny - that you exist and are aware.

Through habitual identification, it goes in the direction of the appearance of Consciousness - the world. I AM happy, I AM angry, I AM not understanding...

Things don't go the way we think they should, so suffering is added to this I AM - I AM sad, I AM depressed...

When, through investigation, we see there is no PERSON in that body, no separate self, we turn around and come to realize that I AM points to that undeniable sense of BEINGNESS, that timeless awareness in which the appearance of the world arises in.

It is then seen that there never was an "I" - that this I AM was something else - the very activity of knowing the apparent world, including that body-mind.

This dream world passes like a cloud - what never passes is the inherent truth of your own timeless being and awareness.


love
randall