--- tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TorquoiseB: snipped > Bingo. You're on a roll today. Some are convinced > that their subjective experience of Brahman *is* > Brahman, or that "they" are Brahman while that > experience is going on. My view is that there is > a state of attention from which one can experience > Brahman, but it's still Just Another State Of > Attention. All states of attention are open to > interpretation. > > Tom T: > It is my experience, not my view, that Brahman is > the point where one > begins to know that any state of Consciousness is > available at any > time just through attention. Until that point one > doesn't know > intimately this as a continuum of awareness. One can > be at any point > value of consciousness at any time. Kind of neat > actually. One then > gets to go back and integrate all the parts of > ourselves that had been > isolated. There is also a 180 degree shift in > reference point. It > feels like instead of being in the penthouse looking > out one is now > established in the heart and looking in. Poor > analogy but a real > change in how things are seen and processed. > Initially feels like > there is no center anymore. In computer terms one > looses the central > processor and it all shifts to distributed > processing. In other words > no processing occurs internally it all occurs out > there where ever the > attention falls. Ultimately one kind of gets that > the inside is now > the outside and the outside has moved inside. > ANother poor analogy but > the best that can be done today. Tom T Awakening is the "opposite" of waking state in the sense that in waking state "you" are inside a huge physical world which is "outside" you. In Realization the entire world is inside you. It hangs like a basket in "your" awareness. > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> > Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and > poor with hope and healing > http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
