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I have a body, but I am not my body. I can see and feel my body, and what can be seen and felt is not the true Seer. My body may be tired or excited, sick or healthy, heavy or light, anxious or calm, but that has nothing to do with my inward I, the Witness. I have a body, but I am not my body.
I have desires, but I am not my desires. I can know my desires, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Desires come and go, floating through my awareness, but they do not affect my inward I, the Witness. I have desires but I am not desires.
I have emotions, but I am not my emotions. I can feel and sense my emotions, and what can be felt and sensed is not the true Feeler. Emotions pass through me, but they do no affect my inward I, the Witness. I have emotions, but I am not emotions.
I have thoughts, but I am not my thoughts. I can see and know my thoughts, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Tghoughts come to me and thoughts leave me, but they do not affect my inward I, the witness. I have thoughts but I am not my thoughts.
Then affirm as concretely as you can: I am what remains, a pure center of awareness, an unmoved Witness of all these thoughts, emotions, feelings and sensations.
If you persist at such an exercise, the understanding contained in it will quicken and you might being to notice fundamental changes in your sense of 'self.' For example, you might begin intuiting a deep inward sense of freedom, lightness, release. This source, this center of the cyclien,w ill retain its lucid stillness even amid the raging winds of anxiety and suffering that might swirl around its center. The discovery of this witnessing center is very much like diving from the calamitous waves on the surface oa f stormy ocean to the quiet and secure depths of the bottom. At first you might not get more than a few feet beneath the agitated waves of emotion, but with persistence you may gain the ability to dive fathoms into the quiet depths of your soul, and lying outstretched at the bottom, gaze up in alerted but detached fashion at the turmoil on the surface."
-Ken Wilber, No Boundary
I have desires, but I am not my desires. I can know my desires, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Desires come and go, floating through my awareness, but they do not affect my inward I, the Witness. I have desires but I am not desires.
I have emotions, but I am not my emotions. I can feel and sense my emotions, and what can be felt and sensed is not the true Feeler. Emotions pass through me, but they do no affect my inward I, the Witness. I have emotions, but I am not emotions.
I have thoughts, but I am not my thoughts. I can see and know my thoughts, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Tghoughts come to me and thoughts leave me, but they do not affect my inward I, the witness. I have thoughts but I am not my thoughts.
Then affirm as concretely as you can: I am what remains, a pure center of awareness, an unmoved Witness of all these thoughts, emotions, feelings and sensations.
If you persist at such an exercise, the understanding contained in it will quicken and you might being to notice fundamental changes in your sense of 'self.' For example, you might begin intuiting a deep inward sense of freedom, lightness, release. This source, this center of the cyclien,w ill retain its lucid stillness even amid the raging winds of anxiety and suffering that might swirl around its center. The discovery of this witnessing center is very much like diving from the calamitous waves on the surface oa f stormy ocean to the quiet and secure depths of the bottom. At first you might not get more than a few feet beneath the agitated waves of emotion, but with persistence you may gain the ability to dive fathoms into the quiet depths of your soul, and lying outstretched at the bottom, gaze up in alerted but detached fashion at the turmoil on the surface."
-Ken Wilber, No Boundary
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Re: "Who Am I?"
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 9:34 AMIt's all just passing through, feelings, thoughts, and nothing is good or bad, just passing through.... every emotions has an advantage a a disadvantage why we choose to feel them.... even every cognitive thought.
If we become aware of them and NOT continue to stuff them down, but let them flow through us into the "kosmos," we are free to feel the universal lovingness, the void, the whatever is there to be the universal "clarity."
There are practices to help us to release all emotions from apathy to grief to anger, to pride, and help you to move towards courageousness, acceptance and peace. The trick is not to suppress but to be aware and then learn" to let go. Letting go also must be learnt and mere words are not enough to really release these limiting states of being one with what we feel and think.
I even released "love" because often what we term "love" was based on wanting something, like approval, control, and safety. Give it all up and we are so much more free to be to be more than one could ever imagine.
And, yes, this is an ongoing process.. I am no master in this but very aware at this point in time. I want to grow beyond acting out of the need for "wanting something...."
Maybe one day we all can become a pure channel of the divine and flow and serve the creation from the point of pure beingness which maybe a sweet lovingness for all.
Thank you for creating this very nice tribe! I like it here.
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Re: "Who Am I?"
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 11:56 AMThanks for joining! And yes, perhaps one day we will finally flow freely, and fly freely, so that we can be a pure example of simply being for all. By just being, the world can be shocked by a thundering silence. I was just watching a video on youtube the other day, about seeking enlightenment. The speaker, Ken Wilber, mentioned that it was probably the greatest good we could do for humanity; to be enlightened, to awakening to our original nature. -
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Re: "Who Am I?"
Thu, August 23, 2007 - 6:40 PMThe interesting thing about enlightenment is that 'knowledge' doesn't neccessarity bring enlightenment. Often times, I have found myself in my most 'knowing' and 'wisest 'state of being realizing that there is no such thing as 'enlightenment' and yet in my most ignorant state, I realize that everything IS enlightenment...
a paradox indeed
>The speaker, Ken Wilber, mentioned that it was probably the greatest good we could do for humanity; to be enlightened, to awakening to our original nature. <
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Re: "Who Am I?"
Fri, August 24, 2007 - 10:21 AMMichael, I'd say everything. There's nothing we can do to escape enlightenment, or 'what is.' In our ignorance, there it is, in our wisest, there it is. Why would it be different anyway? Just as, say, reeds blow in the wind and clouds form to rain on us, our thoughts sway left and right and our emotions make storms to pour through us. Objects rise and fall, yet all are not different from the Hindu "Self" to Buddhist "Void", to even Taoist "wei-wu-wei" (Action-without-action). Our original nature is without object, and from which all objects pour through. That feeling of simply being, of awareness that we all innately have. Before we are anything, we are that witness.
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Re: "Who Am I?"
Fri, August 24, 2007 - 6:04 PMYes.... the answer to this question is an enlightening experience.
"At first you might not get more than a few feet beneath the agitated waves of emotion, but with persistence you may gain the ability to dive fathoms into the quiet depths of your soul, and lying outstretched at the bottom, gaze up in alerted but detached fashion at the turmoil on the surface."
After a bit more experience with this you can rise to the surface and move among the turmoil and not be swept away with it. Truly, it is a wondrous place to know and experience!
PanEristic
