Being and Doing
I think I'll just make two posts a day- one in the morning and one in the evening-
"Disciple: What is this ignorance?
Master: Listen. In the body appears a phantom, the ‘false-I’, to claim the body for itself and it is called jiva. This jiva always outward bent, taking the world to be real and himself to be the doer and experiencer of pleasures and pains, desirous of this and that, undiscriminating, not once remembering his true nature, nor enquiring “Who am I?, What is this world?”, is but wandering in the samsara without knowing himself. Such forgetfulness of the Self is Ignorance."
A short extract from Advaita Bhodha Deepika.
Reflections on meditative experience"
"On the one hand, over three years of meditation (almost every day, always for more than 20 minutes) has led me to accept that it is possible to embrace the wonderful tranquillity of my always-pure essential nature; that this is a distinct thing – distinct from other notions of inner self, an original thing, a deep thing. In some way, that feels like having a soul. But for non-duality! The very moment I start to preceive of my own slice of the one life force being ‘me’ and not life force, things stop making sense. If that inner essence were just ‘me’, then how come during some peak experiences, I have felt what it is to know that I am encountering all Wisdom? Every single bit of wisdom in the cosmos. Life itself. The source. The ground of being. That cannot be ‘me’! I am far from being all Wisdom!" - Mystical Wondering
Osho makes everything sound simple, but are they?
"If judgement disappears, you have become innocent. If you don’t divide things into good and bad, ugly and beautiful, acceptable and nonacceptable; if you don’t divide things, if you look at reality without any division, your eyes will come into existence for the first time…………..There is nothing good or nothing bad – existence accepts everything. And when you also accept everything you have become existence-like. You have become one with it. ……….Morality, immorality – both are hindrances. When you transcend both you have transcended the mind"
Here is someone taking a original look at what it means to do something: can we be anything other than what we are? If not so, is it possible for us to do anything- is being different from doing?
"Let me give you an example that came up in my vision when I was taking a trip observing rolling hills of beautiful grass while the wind was blowing on a beautiful sunny day. The grass was greener than ever and it was swaying back and forth as if it were full of life. (which isn’t incorrect, grass is life so it would only be natural to look this way.) As to doing or not doing, I can no longer say that it is doing anything other than what it is, grassing if you will. The grasses nature, out of all the manifestations that is Self, is to be bendable, to continuously grow, and whatever mysterious things it may have up its sleeves, but it isn’t doing anything then being what it is. So to see it sway back and forth has nothing to do with the grasses nature, its natural ability to bend makes it seem so but this is not the grasses doing, this is winds nature. The winds nature is to be what it is, is it moving or in action? I can’t say that it is because winds nature is to be wind, it requires no action or reaction for it to happen. So the fact that grass is perceived to be moving isn’t so and the doing of wind is not a doing at all, as it is natural to wind to be it’s nature."- Atomic Potential
