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Recieved: 2001/04/27 14:16
Subject: [K-list] RE: [advaitin] concentration vs... witnessing....
From: Harsha
On 2001/04/27 14:16, Harsha posted thus to the K-list:
From: "Paul J. Cote" <pjcoteATnospaml...>
Date: Fri Apr 27, 2001 5:15 pm
Subject: concentration vs... witnessing....
I have found peace in doing Japa Yoga... Nevertheless, I read an
article by a Zen Master where she purports that concentration doesn't
really clean anything up cuz you never deal with your stuff, but it
is better to feel the knot of your ego and deal with it, welcome it,
so that you can become one with it... ( I guess) and it sort of melts
and then it shouldn't come back... whereas if you just do
concentration (maybe japa is concentration, I don't know) then, your
stuff keeps coming back, because you never deal with it....
Does anybody have any opinion on this stuff?
________
I will pass my response to other lists as well.
There are no universal formulas that fit everyone. Japa Yoga helps in
concentration. Concentration can lead to increasing sensitivity to body's
energies and the actualization of Mantra practice facilitates gradual
movement of the contents of the unconscious to the surface to be assimilated
in the conscious personality. At another level, Japa Yoga can lead to Super
conscious states, so one can investigate the nature of consciousness in
waking, sleeping, and dreaming.
As pointed out by Ramana Maharshi, witness consciousness and Japa Yoga
(mantra practice), or any other spiritual practice are not mutually
exclusive.
When the witness consciousness has nothing left to witness for a time period
(due to large gaps between successive thoughts), then the witness disappears
into the Heart, Recognizes It Self as the Heart, and the Heart Reveals It
Self As Pure Being At Perfect Rest.
The Self-Witness with nothing to Witness, The Self-Seeing with nothing to
see, The Self Knows It
Self as Pure Consciousness, Pure Existence, Pure Joy. Sat-Chit-Ananda. Pure
and Simple. Whole and without divisions.
This is not the self of Buddhists which is made of different elements and so
on and on some subtle level or anything.
It Is simply THAT, prior to all possibilities. Here all possibilities
disappear entirely. It is utterly beyond the void of the Buddhists, although
one can call it Shunya, without loss of meaning. It is beyond the self and
the non-self and all that. It cannot be captured by thought. Who remains to
understand it when the Self shines forth, and yet It Reveals It Self
Perpetually in all conditions and states as simple Being-Awareness! As Sages
have said, To Know It, Is To Be It!
It Is From Here that the Cosmos emerges and it is into THAT, everything
disappears.
Love to all
Harsha
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