"The Being that
is seemingly individualized is actually always infinite and undifferentiated.
In the very space in which appears Samsara, the repetitive cycle of birth,
Illusion, and death, is the infinite, the eternal. The very nature of the one
who seems as if bound is Liberation. At the moment that you were born, no one
was born. At the moment a thought arises, nothing actually occurs.
Where Samsara seems to
be, there is really only Brahman, the infinite, eternal
Being-Consciousness-Bliss, which, in Self-Knowledge, we know as our real
nature, Always, there is just this one Existence, which perpetually is just as
it is. Samsara, or the Illusion of duality and its consequent suffering, is the
result of imagination. That imagination is constituted primarily of
misidentification. If misidentification, which is ignorance, ceases, Samsara,
or, Illusion, ceases. The Illusion, or Samsara, and any of its bondage and
suffering, depend entirely upon misidentification. Such is ignorance regarding
one's own nature.
If ignorance is done
away with, Samsara is found not to be anywhere. This is why it is said that
Maya, or Illusion, is inexplicable, for, when we find its nature, it ceases to
exist, For the purpose of Self-Realization, or Liberation from all of the imagined
bondage, inquire into the nature of your Being. If it seems to be
individualized, inquire into the individualized being, and the individuality,
being false and an Illusion, it will cease to exist." Master Nome
So if there really is no Illusion, no World, no Body, no
Mind, no Individual Ego, then what up ?
One of any number of takes on the whole thing could go like
this:
A notion of "other" seems to flicker in
dimensionless, infinite Consciousness.
But "other" leaves behind a "me" – the Ego–"I". Other thoughts referenced to this false
"I" make up a Personality, an Individual Mind. Mind pretends to
function through a Brain, with Senses, all in a head-quarters on top of a Body
that moves & lives on a planet in a Universe.
Yet just as every Conception takes up no space in that
space-less Mind, so too every Perception projects "out" from Mind as
just another thought & takes up no space either. The objects perceived, the World just ain’t
really there. Only the thoughts &
they’re no more substantive than the Dream thoughts that make up every Dream
world we experience. Even when we think
we enjoy a World, that’s all just an inside job too. Ditto for sorrow.
Happiness feels very inside, just like Love because they’re both the same
Reality – Consciousness.
[Next time we
summarize a way that thought constructs Mind, Time, Space, a World.]
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