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“Pointers are phrases that can be used to ‘go beyond’ the intellectual mind to experience reality as it is, completely unconditioned. The most famous pointer is the simple question, ‘who am I?’ The goal is not to form an intellectual/conceptual answer but to feel the answer. Using pointers is a form of self-inquiry…”
perplexity.aiPointers are powerful,
but without love, without inner space,
pointers are just chewing gum for the mind.Relaxing is so important!
Please check out Magdi Badawy’s meditations and Satsang.“The only truth in the manifestation
is the impersonal sense I am;
the rest are concepts.”Buddha
“I know that I am, but I don’t know what I am.”
“Outer affairs are governed by inner laws”
Joel Goldsmith
“I am” is higher than saying “God is”.
Rupert Spira
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“Pointers are phrases that can be used to ‘go beyond’ the intellectual mind to experience reality as it is, completely unconditioned. The most famous pointer is the simple question, ‘who am I?’ The goal is not to form an intellectual/conceptual answer but to feel the answer. Using pointers is a form of self-inquiry…”
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I am not there yet!
Reposted from KAT:
A scientific method
Believing “I’m not there yet” is a form of self-protection. It’s all that’s in the way of knowing that you already are “there.”
We could instead adopt the belief that there is no self, and that everything is undivided, eternal, infinite Awareness.
But that would just be another belief to hold onto.
Remember the scientific method?
That’s where the world is explored through observation and trial and error, instead of jumping to conclusions or believing something.
In the scientific method a hypothesis is formed. Then experiments are designed and conducted to test it.
So we could take the hypothesis that there is no self (or that there is one) and test it through direct observation.
Can we ever observe, notice, or find a separate self in direct experience? Is there any data, any evidence for a self?
We become a scientist of the self.
If this happens, it eventually becomes obvious that there is no one.
We never prove it.
In yet another paradox of the nondual it is realized that the one trying to prove it isn’t there.
This method of testing the existence of the separate self is ancient. It’s called nondual (self-)inquiry.
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A scientific method
Believing “I’m not there yet” is a form of self-protection. It’s all that’s in the way of knowing that you already are “there.” We could instead adopt the belief that there is no self, and that everything is undivided, eternal, infinite Awareness.
“The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. The notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.”
Tara Brach (b.1953)