Spontaneous, off-the-cuff comments by a World Teacher [even if not so widely recognized as such in
his/her lifetime] – in response to questions in Satsang, are
typically very deep.
" If you deeply, penetratingly inquire within
yourself "Who am I?" you find
that you cannot possibly be a body; nor can you be an individualized or
separated Mind; nor can you be the idea of
"I" which is just an idea & not your essential Being, or
the quintessential Consciousness." Master Nome
This perfect summary warrants word-for-word adherence. Examined carefully, without
"body-image" prejudice, [typically
stronger when the Body is self-appraised as especially beautiful, or the
opposite], that trillion-cell, dying sack of unlikely atoms belongs in a
zoo or biology lab more than in the center of your Mind as one’s actual
Identity. Can I really be this
salt-water bag, jammed with muscle-meat & neurons ? Where is my actual self in all that mess ? Where was that Body a hundred years ago
? Where will it be a hundred years from
now ? If this Consciousness began
decades ago, then how ? How do wet
neurons "know", how do they seen to think ? Will I really soon disappear ? Or could there really be some individual
"soul" transported to some fairy-tale Purgatory jail-house, or worse
? Who makes this stuff up ?
How about some "Mind" that is a supposedly
invisible, individual ghost that
generates unsubstantial thoughts, each lasting for an instant, none with any
way to contact other thoughts or some objective
outer entities ? Materialist nerve-soup
theories are just as flimsy. Am I what I
think ? What is a Mind anyway ?
Then there’s that instantaneous notion "I", the
reference for each & every thought – good/bad for
"me", close/far from "me", & so on. Some inner certainty of Existence is
doubtless. But what constitutes any
actual self that "I" could refer to ?
Can "I" be anything objective
at all, or must it not be point to a pure Subjectivity
that must be Formless, without boundary or separation, & not–individualized
? As for the true Universal, Non-Dual
"I", what does it "do", how does it "be" ? Find "I" to be Pure Consciousness.
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