AFTERLIFE OF A MINDING-MIND:
NOTHING BETWEEN ME & THEE
...REGARDLESS OF FORMLESSNESS IN FORM
OF ANYTHING OR ANYONE…
CREATIONS’ CORE IS THE SAME
∞
WHEN THERE IS NO ME OR MINE
THERE IS NO PROBLEM
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12:09 AM-3/16/19
NOTHING BETWEEN ME & THEE
...REGARDLESS OF FORMLESSNESS IN FORM
OF ANYTHING OR ANYONE…
CREATIONS’ CORE IS THE SAME
∞
WHEN THERE IS NO ME OR MINE
THERE IS NO PROBLEM
ew
12:09 AM-3/16/19
The SELF simply ‘IS’ and has no frame of reference
with which to ‘compare’ one state of Being with another …
there is only BEING.
While limitless attempts have been made
to ‘describe’ BEING-ness,
none are possible since BEING is infinite
and cannot be contained
with a frame of words.
John McIntosh
Excerpt from this Excellent short sharing
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/labels
Read just AFTER today's Morning Whisper above Surfaces
with which to ‘compare’ one state of Being with another …
there is only BEING.
While limitless attempts have been made
to ‘describe’ BEING-ness,
none are possible since BEING is infinite
and cannot be contained
with a frame of words.
John McIntosh
Excerpt from this Excellent short sharing
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/labels
Read just AFTER today's Morning Whisper above Surfaces
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self.
The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence
into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails
a difficult and prolonged readjustment.
The reflexive mechanism of the mind
-or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious -
is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind
is ever after held in a fixed now moment
out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze
upon the Unknown.
-- Bernadette Roberts
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8712-bernadette-roberts
The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence
into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails
a difficult and prolonged readjustment.
The reflexive mechanism of the mind
-or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious -
is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind
is ever after held in a fixed now moment
out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze
upon the Unknown.
-- Bernadette Roberts
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8712-bernadette-roberts
Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside.
And not only do we not need a self to love God,
but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him,
for that in us which knows God,
is God.
-- Bernadette Roberts
And not only do we not need a self to love God,
but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him,
for that in us which knows God,
is God.
-- Bernadette Roberts
The truest communication with God
is absolute, total silence;
there is not a single word in existence
that can convey this communication.
-- Bernadette Roberts
is absolute, total silence;
there is not a single word in existence
that can convey this communication.
-- Bernadette Roberts
Coming home that day from the library, Roberts turned her gaze inward
and saw there was no longer a center, no longer a self.
There was emptiness.
She felt great joy and lightness with this knowledge.
She decided that this emptiness and joy was Christ.
She could live forever with that.
However, further annihilation was in the cards.
Chapter 2
After a while, the joy of the emptiness began to wane
and Roberts sought
to rejuvenate it by spending time alone,
simply gazing into the
emptiness,
which she was still sure was God.
and saw there was no longer a center, no longer a self.
There was emptiness.
She felt great joy and lightness with this knowledge.
She decided that this emptiness and joy was Christ.
She could live forever with that.
However, further annihilation was in the cards.
Chapter 2
After a while, the joy of the emptiness began to wane
and Roberts sought
to rejuvenate it by spending time alone,
simply gazing into the
emptiness,
which she was still sure was God.
On one such occasion, the emptiness expanded rapidly
and every sense of life became drained from her.
The realization that came was:
"When there is no personal self,
there is also no personal God."
This marked the end of an interior spiritual life, as well as any other
kind of life. Roberts felt now that she was on an unknown path,
lifeless, yet she recognized life all around her. She intensely felt the
need to be in nature, as life at home was too routine and lifeless.
Though she found herself in the midst of life during her time of the
day she spent in nature, she still had to deal with an intense
emptiness.
In a matter of days another realization arrived, a new way of perceiving
reality: "God of life was not IN anything, it was just the reverse:
everything was IN God."
At this point, Roberts comments on the limitations of language: "One
thing is for sure: as long as we are caught up in words, definitions,
and all that the mind wants to cling to, we can never see how it works.
And until we can go beyond our notions regarding the true nature of life
we will never realize how totally secure we really are
and how all the fighting for individual survival and self-security
is a waste of energy."
and every sense of life became drained from her.
The realization that came was:
"When there is no personal self,
there is also no personal God."
This marked the end of an interior spiritual life, as well as any other
kind of life. Roberts felt now that she was on an unknown path,
lifeless, yet she recognized life all around her. She intensely felt the
need to be in nature, as life at home was too routine and lifeless.
Though she found herself in the midst of life during her time of the
day she spent in nature, she still had to deal with an intense
emptiness.
In a matter of days another realization arrived, a new way of perceiving
reality: "God of life was not IN anything, it was just the reverse:
everything was IN God."
At this point, Roberts comments on the limitations of language: "One
thing is for sure: as long as we are caught up in words, definitions,
and all that the mind wants to cling to, we can never see how it works.
And until we can go beyond our notions regarding the true nature of life
we will never realize how totally secure we really are
and how all the fighting for individual survival and self-security
is a waste of energy."
Roberts points out that the mystic depends upon the separation of God
and self for his mysticism, for his oneness experience that he or she so
values. But the no-self experience becomes the Only God experience, and
with God eternally accessible, where is the mystical experience, the
lights and visions? It is the end of the mystical life and the beginning
of real life.
And that is what Roberts is talking about all along. She repeats that
there is the theologically defined oneness of self with God, known in
its highest category by the mystics; and there is "undefineable
essential Oneness" beyond self and God, which theology does not deal
with. It is the becoming of God, not merely the relationship with God.
These are the two ways of seeing and knowing.
Above excerpts from
ww.nonduality.com/berna.htm
and self for his mysticism, for his oneness experience that he or she so
values. But the no-self experience becomes the Only God experience, and
with God eternally accessible, where is the mystical experience, the
lights and visions? It is the end of the mystical life and the beginning
of real life.
And that is what Roberts is talking about all along. She repeats that
there is the theologically defined oneness of self with God, known in
its highest category by the mystics; and there is "undefineable
essential Oneness" beyond self and God, which theology does not deal
with. It is the becoming of God, not merely the relationship with God.
These are the two ways of seeing and knowing.
Above excerpts from
ww.nonduality.com/berna.htm
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