Re: Fw: thought
Hugs, Deepak:
A thought about I Am The Universe:
There are millions of people, IN THE MAINSTREAM, who buy, for example, Greg Braden's books about cyclical universes. If they feel, accurately, that the universe is on an irreversibly downward spiral, I don't think they'll be calmed or comforted by a concept claiming what your title claims.
Can you find some way to say what you must while adding to it?
Much love,
Suzanne
"I" is not a person. There is no such thing as a person. You are never the same person as a child, infant, teenager, older man/woman. "I" is the awareness in which the so-called person arises and subsides as an intermittent stream of sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts. These in turn arise in "I", are known in "I", and are made out of "I". "I" is infinite being (formless) having a finite experience as form. The form is an illusion as it is phenomena - an activity of the formless. All forms are phenomena. All phenomena arise and subside in every moment of now. The formless is the only reality. It is timeless being. You cannot hold on to a time-bound phenomenon. It is not a "thing". Even the "you" that you call "I" is a time-bound phenomenon. Nothing to hold on to and no one doing the holding on = Freedom in Being = Yoga
Deepak Chopra
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That which is 'not a thing' cannot be divided--contributing an essential, indispensable, 'eternal' constant to all forms.
Hugs, Sperry,
With your 1st 5 lines. I have problems with the rest of what you say here I find it existentially despairing.
Love,
Suzanne
I find it existentially exhilarating
With every new instant of perceptual activity, I feel our mortal forms more closely approximating what is constant.
I can see practice achieving that with basic criteria met first. Sperry, you are an able mediator. Love Suzanne
I cannot in all honesty I believe that the universe we experience is totally a human construct
Every universe of every being is their own construct. Those with similar DNA agree most on the construct. The universe of a bacterium in a dish is much different than ours, which is close to that of our dog while the bacterium's is closer to a yeast. These are all valid universes changing with the DNA-encoded perception of each species.
DNA, bacteria, brain --anything humans have given names to are human constructs --the entire universe including what we call "God" is a human construct. Reality is awareness and its excitations experienced as observer and observed -classification and description into form and phenomena are human constructs-products of language-- linguistic, mathematical, scientific --useful but not fundamental
Here is my take.
1
We experience reality in
=he HUMAN UNIVERSE
1 Everyday reality is a human construct .
2 Fundamental reality is the awareness , the excitations of which, are t=e experience of observer & observed in the timeless mom=nt of now .
3 The fundamental experience of both observer and observed is sensations= images, feelings , thoughts . ( SIFT)
4 Systems of thought ( human constructs ) are many --religious, theologi=al, philosophical, scientific, economic, political, primitive.
Sensations, images, feelings, thoughts are entangled modifications =f awareness , and the result of social and cultural conditioning & cur=ent system of education .
- 5 Therefore no construct has a privileged position over another. </=>
6 The construct is real for the being embedded in it.
7 Excitations of awareness are on off modulations of fundamental awarene=s.
8 Excitations are in time , awareness is not in time .
- 9 Birth , death , body, mind , brain , universe, God , stars , galaxies,=Big bang -anything that has been given a name, by humans ( itself a label = are all constructs.
10 Freedom lies in the experience of identity beyond constructs -•p=re awareness/ consciousness —prior to subject/object split.
11All human suffering is the result of attachment to a construct includ=ng the fear of the construct we call death. Death happens to an exper=ence not to the awareness in which experience is born and dies in the time=ess moment of now.
12 Freedom is now in --being
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