LIFE

[Charles A. Hillig]

>Why ten minute fuse of contemplation ? My preference is not to give even
>one minute for the explosion to take place so that Silence and Quietness
>is unchained and liberated.

The Silence is NOT  "chained."  IT is ever present.
Ten minutes?  One minute?   The SELF is unbounded  and non-linear.  It is
beyond limitations of time and space.

>Ten minutes is too long a time for the mind
>to work its by now well-known web of illusion.
>
>The biggest source of all problems we encounter is the Mind, the
>uncontrolled and which roams as it wishes without any leash.

The biggest so-called problem may be to get past the delusion that  there IS
a "separate Mind" that's creating all of this mischief.

>
>Mindworks Ltd (with its Managing Director, the maaya) is a factory which
>creates all sorts of unnecessary and banned (to an advaitin) substances.
>I will even add, it creates only unrequired gadgets and puts hindrance
>at every step of the way.
>
>The sooner we get rid of this factory, the closer we are to remove the
>veil of ignorance.
>
>Regards
>Gummuluru Murthy
>

The "factory" will continue to, seemingly, "do" whatever IT, seemingly, "does."
Your discovery that the "lake" that you see in the desert is really only a
mirage is NOT going to make this "lake" disappear.   But, after you realize
that it's not real, you won't be running after it as before.  You may not
really, seemingly, awaken FROM the illusion as much as TO the illusion.

     Spiritual "progress" is impossible.  There's nothing that  "you" can
"do" to, seemingly, get to a place where you already exist as the Absolute
SELF.   Believing that there is, however, provides the momentum for you to
go out looking for  "The Truth."   However, your very act of seeking only
validates your delusion that you are, quintessentially, different from what
it is that you are seeking.

     Let go of struggle, do-ership and attainment.  Let go of it all!

          (and then let go of "letting go.")   Only the SELF is present.

                         With Blessings,
                                          Chuck Hillig

>From  Mon Sep 30 16:56:57 1996
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Hello,

On Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:10:42 -0230, Gummuluru Murthy
<gmurthy at MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA> wrote:

>The biggest source of all problems we encounter is the Mind, the
>uncontrolled and which roams as it wishes without any leash.

However, we should remember that when we are not aware of or do not
remember the principles of Advaita, then this action of the Mind is
exactly that which eventually (sometimes a very long 'eventually')
brings us back.

( The following insight is paraphrased from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; one
of his best contributions. )

The nature of the Mind is to be constantly in motion, always seeking
something better.   The advantage of this is that it keeps us from
being satisfied with less than the Absolute.   Boredom is simply the
mind being dissatisfied.

The practice of meditation, ie contact with the Absolute, eventually
tames the mind by satisfying it.


Namaskar,

Ken
kstuart at mail.telis.org

"The ego arises from the mistaken notion that the light of consciousness
reflected in the intellect and coloured by objectively perceived phenomena
is the true nature of the Self.  Thus, the personal ego falsely identifies
the Self with that which is not the Self and vice versa." - Mark Dyczkowski