Sutra - a shift in consciousness
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Dusty45
Louisville, Kentucky USA
Everyday Immortality
Deepak Chopra
In ancient yoga traditions, a sutra is like a pearl of wisdom--a spiritual commandment to ponder. Deepak Chopra has assembled a selection of modern translations from India's Gyan Yoga, known as the "yoga of knowledge."
Each page contains a simple statement--intended to be read slowly and absorbed one reading at a time. "Each sentence must be fully understood and comprehended and give you a new insight before you move onto the next," instructs Chopra. "As you progress through these exercises, understanding and insight unfold in sequence."
On the surface, many of the sutras seem obvious, especially to experienced spiritual thinkers. For example, the lead-in sutra states: "The material universe and the physical body that I experience through my senses are only one aspect of reality." Chopra encourages readers not to be deceived by the simplicity. Ultimately, it is the process, he explains, not the individual sutras that lead to enlightenment
#1..The material universe and the physical
body that I experience through my senses
are only one aspect of reality.
#2..All material things are made up of atoms.
#3..Atoms are composed of subatomic
particles moving at lightning speeds
through huge empty spaces.
#4...Subatomic particles are not material
things; they are fluctuations of energy
and information in a huge void.
#5...Subatomic particles flicker in and out of
existence depending on whether I am
watching them or not.
#6...Before my decision to observe them,
subatomic particles are probability
amplitudes or mathematical ghosts
in a field of infinite possibilities.
#7...When I make the choice to observe the
subatomicworld of mathematical ghosts,
the ghosts freeze into space/time events or
particles that ultimately manifest as matter.
#8...My physical body and the body of the
physical universe are both proportionately
as void as intergalactic space.
#9...The essential nature of my material body
and that of the solid-appearing universe
is that they are both nonmaterial.
They are made of of non-stuff.
#10...My material body and the body of the
Universe both flicker in and out of existence
at the speed of light.
<smile> There is more, but later...
#11...My nervous system cannot process these
quantum events at the speed at which they are
really happening, so it decodes the energy and
information soup of the Universe into the
experience of solid three-dimensional
material bodies.
#12...When I decide to observe the quantum
soup of the Universe, made up of non-stuff,
it manifests in my awareness as a physical
body that I experience as mine, and other
bodies that I experience as the Universe.
#13...In my decision to become an observer,
I create the experience of my physical body
and also that of the physical Universe.
#14...My brain is made up of the same non-
stuff or void that exists everywhere. It is a
decoding instrument that moves through a
vibrating dance of energy and information,
and, as a result of this interaction, I start to
experience material and solid things.
...to be continued...namaste
#15...My brain is a sensor that tunes in to a
nonlocal, omnipresent vibrating field
of infinite frequencies.
#16...My body is an experience that I have
in space and time. It has a location in space,
and it exists in time. It has a beginning,
a middle, and an ending.
#17...My world is a continuum of
experiences and is therefore comprised
of space-time events. It exists as objects
in space that have beginnings, middles,
and endings.
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