Sutra - a shift in consciousness

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Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA

#18...My brain is an instrument that I use
to have experiences.



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#19...Where is the me that is using this
instrument (called the brain) to have these
experiences called the body, which gets born,
moves through space and time, and then dies?



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#20...Me is the experiencer behind every
experience, the thinker behind every thought,
the seer behind every scenery, the observer
behind every observation.
druidess6308 Reverse, Pennsylvania USA
This is all so true, Dusty. And it echoes "The Secret", and many other great works of this nature. The Kaballah even says the same basic things...and so much more.

Beautiful read so far. wine



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#21...The experience changes, but the
experiencer remains the same. The thought
comes and goes, the thinker is always there,
the scenery transforms, but the seer remains
unchanged, eternal. The real me is the seer,
not the scenery.



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#22...I cannot experience the experiencer by
using my senses, because when I use my
senses, I begin to have experiences and then
I am no longer with myself. I am with
my experience



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#23...I cannot experience the experiencer
by thinking thoughts because when I am
thinking thoughts I can no longer be
with myself, the thinker.



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#24...Thoughts are experiences. The thinker
is the experiencer. Perhaps the thought is the
thinker in disguise, and the experience
is the experiencer in disguise.



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#25...This is the dilemma.
Is the thinker the thought?
Is the experiencer the experience?



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA

#26...Could the seerer be the scenery?
Could the thinker be the thought?



wishguy concrete, Washington USA
Dusty45: #22...I cannot experience the experiencer by
using my senses, because when I use my
senses, I begin to have experiences and then
I am no longer with myself. I am with
my experience



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA

#27...Let us examine both experiencer
and experience.



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA


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,"



wishguy concrete, Washington USA
You Did Shrooms And LSD didnt you? Laughter is the best medicine. teddybear



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
<smile> typical



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
wishguy: You Did Shrooms And LSD didnt you? Laughter is the best medicine.


Don't know what you are talking about. wink
But, those who have would understand...



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#28...All experiences are space-time events.

#29...They are in the world of dimensions.

#30...My body occupies space.
It has height, width, volume.
It exists in time.
It is time bound.

#31...Even thoughts are flickering space-time
events. They occur for a flicker of an instant
and have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
For a flicker of an instant, they occupy a
apace and a location in awareness.

#32...Therefore all experience is time bound.

#33...The experiencer, on the other hand,
being the silent, nonchanging witness
in every experience, is timeless.

#34...The experiencer is dimensionless.

#35...The experiencer occupies no space.

#36...Since the experiencer is there before the
experience and is there after the experience,
it is always there, and being always there,
it is eternal.

#37...Eternal, unbounded, spaceless, timeless,
dimensionless, the experiencer is Spirit.

#38...Spirit is the real me.

#39...Nonmaterial and dimensionless,
Spirit can neither be created nor destroyed.

#40...Spirit is spaceless, timeless,
and dimensionless.

Fire cannot burn it and water cannot wet it,
wind cannot dry it, weapons cannot kill it,
eternal and unbounded and nonchanging,
without beginning and without ending;
it is nowhere in particular
and everywhere in general.

The spirit is the eternal me.

#41...How can I find Spirit?
Not by thinking.
Not by doing.
Only by Being.

#42...Only through silence, only by Being
can I know myself.

#43...When I am using memories, when
I am not anticipating, when I am just being,
then I am just awareness. Then I experience
myself as the timeless factor in the midst
of time-bound experience.

#44...As Spirit I know that my persona
changes, I don't.

#45...I look into the mirror, and I see the
change in my persona from ten years ago.
But the me that is looking is unchanged.

#45...It is the prison of memory that creates the
boundaries of space-time and causation.



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
#47...When I escape the prison of memory,
I experience the boundless in the
midst of boundaries.

#48...Memories are frozen pictures of
space-time events.

#49...The me who experiences the memories
is the nonchanging space between
these space-time events.

#50...I notice the spaces between my thoughts.
Thoughts come and go.
The spaces are always there.

#51...I am now noticing the spaces between
written words, spaces between objects, spaces
between thoughts, spaces between sounds,
spaces between musical notes, spaces inside a
cup, around it, and outside it. I am noticing
spaces, spaces everywhere. They are all the
same spaces, and they are alwyas there. Before
the thoughts came, after they left, the space is.
Before the music was born and after it died--
the space is. Before the words were uttered
and after the speech was silent--the space is.
Before and after death--the space is.

#52...The space always is, and in this
space I am.

#53...Before birth I am.

#54...After death I am.

#55...I always am.

#56...When I quantify space I create time.

#57...Time is a way of measuring space.







buzzy biddeford, Maine USA
Dusty, I think you have been listening to too many Beatles songs. Thankyou for sharing. Alot of wisdom in those pearls.



Dusty45 Louisville, Kentucky USA
laugh Thank you. teddybear

and, a bit more...

#58...When I quantify time I create space.
Space is a way of measuring time.

#59...When I quantify myself I create a person.

#60...When I notice the spaces between sounds
and the spaces between words and also
the spaces between any thought and the
background silence behind everything,
I realize that all these spaces
are the same space.

#61...This space is the entry point.
It is the transformational vortex,
the corridor, the window to Spirit.

#62...Spirit is beyond the void of space.
This realm, beyond the void,
is not an empty nothingness;
it is the womb of creation.

#63...Nature goes to the same place to create
a galaxy of stars, a cluster of nebulas,
a rain forest, a human body, or a thought.

That place is Spirit.







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