From: Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:19 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] 37 words Q: But when you look at yourself, what do you see?
Nisargadatta: It depends how I look. When I look through the mind, I see numberless people. When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness there is the infinite intensity of emptiness and silence. Edg: This is the constant teaching of Nisargadatta throughout his talks: awareness is not consciousness. Edg, with all due respect, where the fuck is your head? When I read this quote, the first thing I thought was, "Hey, that was pretty cool...I have no problems with that interpretation of experience. I can get down with that." And then I moved one line lower on the screen and read your "synopsis" of this statement. What a shock. In N-baby's original statement, there were no "nots" and no negativity. In your interpretation, there were. Kinda says it all, tragedy-of-knowledge-wise.
