|
Here are my thoughts after reading the excerpt from "I Am" by Jean Klein, a philosopher of Advaita Vedanta:
Silent awareness or witness consciousness is as J Krishnamurti says is "choiceless awareness", or emptiness or suchness or isness as the Buddha says. Silent awareness is stillness in the mind. In such stillness bodily sensations arise and go, thoughts arise and go, emotions arise and go. I experience such silent awareness when I am fully absorbed in doing what I am doing such as reading, listening to music, and meditating. In such experiences the observer and the observed become one. The wave becomes the ocean. It is a spiritual union. What is freedom? Freedom from whom or what? When the subject-object dividing line is dissolved it is an experience of oneness. In such unitive consciousness there is an experience of oneness, the Divine Union. To put it in Non-dual Vedantic term, it is Self-realization. Namaste!
1 Comment
Debbie Podwika
8/21/2021 03:54:13 pm
Of all the posts (original poster), this one was very confusing for me. He was saying that if you purposefully (motivated) try to still your mind that that was still not good. ??? I agree with your reflections but somehow it seems that is not what the poster is also saying? Leave a Reply. |
RSS Feed