--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote: > > It is the difference between concept and experience. The experience is that we must have a me, a personalization to accomplish the journey of the not me. Perhaps we see that we are witnessing everything. That doesn't sound normal to me, nor were my experiences of it. It is much more fascinating and fulfilling to be ourselves. I look at it like a little kid (me) playing hide and go seek with Mother Divine. I lose myself again and again in the world, only to rediscover Her in the most unlikely places. > > Makes the entire journey of life a wondrous thing, established in the impersonal foundation of Being. It is the ocean in a drop experience. I cannot come up with a logical explanation for any experience, that doesn't then turn spherical, and therefore holistic, and without logic. In order for perception in the moment to occur, multiple paradoxes must be accepted, such as Brahman encompassing both ourselves and One as One, including not One. > > Yogastah you know the rest. > This is beautifully stated - thank you.
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" jstein@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > > > > > > "In Unity, who is it who has this control?" > > > > > > From a personal perspective, we do. One thing I've noticed about stabilized states of consciousness is that they always feel normal. So if someone is in the waking state, or CC, or Unity, it always feels normal, it always feels like us. > > > > > > I was just thinking that the progression, the evolution of states of consciousness, is like learning to dance with an invisible partner, and by doing so, we learn bit by bit how to perform the dance as perfectly, as creatively, and as powerfully as the Universe itself. Cosmic life. > > > > > > But there is always a "me" in the experience, a unique way of expressing this "no self". Once the Universe has granted us the grace to express ourselves on Its behalf, we continue to move forward as ourselves, simultaneously seeing the innocent reflection of the Divine everywhere, yet continuing to do the things we ourselves enjoy doing, regardless of the state of our consciousness. > > > > > > Does that answer your question? > > > > Well, it's *an* answer, thanks. But I've been reading > > some of Michael DG's old posts, and he makes a > > distinction, as I understand him, between the state > > where there's still a "me" in the experience and the > > state where that disappears (maybe Brahman Consciousness > > rather than Unity? I'll have to go back and check). > > > > I'm also faintly remembering a post Jonathan Levy made > > (another brilliant articulator of MMY's teaching) on the > > old, old TM-list back in the late '90s that had to do > > with the dynamics of a person in Unity having the desire > > that a bird should sing. I can't begin to recapitulate > > what he said, other than that there was no way to > > formulate that situation in words without paradox. And > > then he went ahead and formulated the paradox. > > > > I mention it just in case anyone here who was on that > > list remembers what he said. It was a sort of Aha! > > experience for me; it's still the basis of my (purely > > intellectual) understanding of Unity, but it's so > > abstract I just give up trying to express it in words. > > >
