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Physical deathFrom: bagua
Subject: General
Date/Time 2009-07-16 16:00:40
Remote IP: 76.166.206.98
MessageHi Steven:
"Are you aware of the present moment when you fall asleep at night? Do you have
continuous awareness as you shift into sleep? I don't know about you, but I lose awareness as I lose consciousness. I go from having awareness to nothingness--periodically punctuated by dreams--then a return to awareness as I wake up.
And here I haven't died, I've just gone to sleep--my body is
still alive.
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Exactly.
You have little control of much of your life, but your life lives on, because your awaken consciousness if not your essence or true self. You are the life force that sleeps, awakens and functions.
Being aware of present awareness is the method to know you are not solely your thoughts, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your decoctions. It is the way to directly experience that which is creation itself. This is the essence of taoist cultivation in my experience.
Intellect or ego is not capable of understanding your true nature, you need to access other aspects of your self.
"Stop and think about it."
Really!
Stop and think about it!"
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This is the essence of the condition. Thinking will not bring the answer. You must use other aspects of you to perceive your nature, not your intellect, not your thoughts. Get to know that part of you that exists before thinking, which also exists during thinking. When you see this clearly it will change how you understand your thoughts, your thinking faculty.
You may want to read lao zi, tao teh ching, chapters 5, 7, 10 amd 25. I think these clearly express this reality.
bagua
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