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?
Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend
Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend
dear friend,if i am not a person inna body-mind then who can the world be a dream of my own creation?
ReplyDeleterespect, paco
Dear paco,
ReplyDeleteYes - 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