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Recieved: 2001/01/29 06:54
Subject: [K-list] Looking for the source of emotion
From: Pieter Schoonheim Samara
On 2001/01/29 06:54, Pieter Schoonheim Samara posted thus to the K-list:
In the practice of yoga, the main intent is to "isolate the seer" - the
subject "I." Before this awakening, the seer or sense of "I" is focused by
the mind to the various thoughts, images, sensations, emotions, energies
appearing in the mind. Therefore, we think "I am these thoughts and images"
which we try to understand and grapple with and seek sources for in the
process of building an identity.
This identity of the thoughts, images and impressions and the sense of "I"
is what is overcome when the "I" or seer is isolated. At that time the seer
abides in itself and automatically relinquishes attention to the idea of
identity between the images appearing in consciousness, i.e., the constant
flow of thoughts and impressions and sensations and emotions.
You abide in single Truth. That Truth dissolves the mistaken impression in
the mind that the "I" sense is related to the minds images through an
identity. The images and activities still continue, but something new has
happened, an impalpable experience, where at one and the same time, the
sense of "I" is distilled and dissolved and sucked in from its mix with the
images appearing in the mind, and a radiance of light shines through and
beyond all images seen in effect, at every level causing them to disengage
from attention.
Therefore in all the practices of yoga, one always maintains a sense of
enquiry into from where the seeing arises. It's less important to consider
from where a thought or emotion of idea or sensation may arise, as this may
simply bring one to the root of a thought, which is to say another thought
or idea, even the sensation of stillness. But whether the mind is very still
or very active, whether the energies and visions appearing in the mind are
powerful or subtle, there should always be the enquiry into where the seeing
arises, as this seer, which lights the body and mind and the universe in al
its dimensions from waking to dreaming and deep sleep to superconscious, is
at the substratum. It is the "I" of our "I."
There is a simple story of Shiva and his wife Parvati (also known as Uma).
Shiva represents the dissolution of the Universe and all that is seen, and
as
such the eternal abiding in and as the Self. Parvati was very much into
practicing yoga and meditation. One day, she came to Shiva and told him
that she had just had the experience of a million million suns, to which
Shiva replied, "who had the experience?" At once she understood that the
realization she sought was within the seer and returned to enquire from
where the seeing origins, and in the process realized her single all
pervasive Self.
In the practice of yoga, the body and mind begin to charge and polarize with
the electromagnetic balance in the heart. With continued practice, the
power of the polarization and the magnetic field becomes more and more
powerful, more and more in balance, more and more pure. If there is an
enquiry maintained as to from where the sense of "I" - the subject "I" - the
seer and seeing originate, it will be felt to be in the heart slightly to
the right, where we point, when we say "I." This is the source of all
Light. The Yoga Sutras of Patenjali also advise a meditation of abiding is
the self effulgent light in the heart. The heart referred to is the
Hrdayam, were Hrd literally means "That which sucks in everything" and ayam
"This is that place." Thus, as the charge in the body builds and the
enquiry is made into the origin of ones experiences, suddenly the knowledge
of one's single "I" awakens and there is a very single sense of abiding in
simple natural Truth, a silence which is unrelated to the silence of the
mind begins to prevail and the tendency of the mind to shift the sensation
of "I" from one thought to the next to the next always trying to hold to the
varying images as one identity, ceases and is replaced with the pulsation of
"I" as "I."
To the extent that one might be familiar with the first and second
Commandments given by "I AM" to Moses, it is almost as though these
Commandments have taken hold where not only does this single "I" disallow
images to appear before it, but it will also not allow the use of the word
or
even the sense of "I" to be linked to rising thoughts and images.
This experience is called "Non-Dual" in most religions, because the "I" is
discovered to be always abiding in Itself as undifferentiated Light
illumining the whole universe and all planes of consciousness throughout
time at once. The idea of it may seem almost incomprehensible or
unthinkable, yet by enquiring into from where the seer arises in all one's
practices, this Truth emerges as single awareness, without causes or
conditions.
Hope this is helpful.
Pieter
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