--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pointing-out instruction for everyone: Genpo Roshi's "Big Mind" process: > > http://www.bigmind.org/ > > http://in.integralinstitute.org/live/view_bigmind.aspx#big_mind > > http://in.integralinstitute.org/contributor.aspx?id=26 > > Big Mindyour Original FaceNondual AwarenessSpirit itself, is not > other than who you are at this very moment. To get us to realize > this, many spiritual paths and techniques call us to go beyond the > ego, into its source or ground. And rightly so. However, what an > integral approach would suggestand what we find wonderfully > exemplified in Genpo Roshi's Big Mind Processis that in order to > transcend the ego, we must include it as well. In order to go beyond > in order to taste the spaceless, timeless Realitywe must integrate > what is with us here and now, in space and time. > > The Big Mind Process befriends the many voices within usthe > dualistic voices with which we narrowly identify at one time or > anotherin order to gently lead us into a recognition of our nondual > self. Because the enlightened state is ever-present, we can access it > any time. And while a permanent realization of Big Mind requires > growth through stages of development, this process is one of the > quickest and most reliable ways to give us a taste of this "stateless > state" right now. > Thanks- I really enjoy all of these different perspectives on Brahman. I appreciate the emphasis here to integrate what we are here and now, that we won't somehow be someone else when we permanently realize Big Mind, as the author calls it.
This is the process as I experience it; to over time integrate every experience of ours, rid ourselves of all experiential awkwardness with our Selves, until all experience and all states of mind are experienced without losing our natural non-dual state....Then, and only then, the FUN begins! ------------------------ 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/