Hey there. I am glad that you found our dialogue interesting. But, I think there may be a chance you misunderstood what i was saying about my own practice. When I come back to Awareness there IS thought involved AS WELL as effort. It is just that when I "come back" I try not to think the phrase in my head in the words "just come back," or "come back." So, yes, I am just coming back to Awareness, but the effort I am trying to distinctly make is so that I am not doing it conceptually with words in my head, I am trying to just complete the process of coming back to Awareness without "thinking the words." If I misunderstood you, I apologize, but it does take both effort and thinking for me to come back, it is just the matter of how I do it.
--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: > > Matt and rewrisk, > > I have found your recent dialogue quite interesting and thought-provoking (in > a good way ; ) ). While I was in India, quite recently, I became interested > in the teaching of Ramana Maharshi and Nisaergadatta Maharaj. I'm finding > that what you've both been writing about here creates a synthisis of these > master's teaching. rewrisk's talks about "reflective awareness" and Matt > talks about coming back to awareness without thinking. This 'coming back to > awareness' without concious effort seems to cancel out the 'reflective' > aspect of rewrisk's "reflective awareness" and recreates the 'state' the 2 > above masters refer to in their teachings. In other words, just awareness > itself is what is left and you are that. Hope I didn't manage to misread or > misrepresent what you both wrote earlier? > > Mike > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
