http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUNBD4z8RiE

the rest of the show is under the same user that posted this.

enjoy.

love

Wei Wu Wei

I hope Steve will be including some of the writings of Wei Wu Wei in his book! Cameron, are you going to be publishing it? Where can we buy it?

http://www.albigen.com/uarelove/most_rapid/contents.aspx

http://groups.google.com/group/AdvaitaNow/browse_thread/thread/ac2dfce4145f9dc4?hl=en

Best,
Gary

How about another round with Cam & Steve?

The Jill Bolte Taylor Video

Many people have sent me the video of Jill Bolte Taylor and asked me to comment. I really don’t have anything to say about it. It’s not related to what I talk about. She is talking about experiences – phenomena – and though she relates a feeling of “nirvana” in being connected to all, it’s still just an experience. Who you really are is before all experience.

It’s tempting and juicy. Brain science is a tempting place to go to look for the “seat” of consciousness, especially when somebody says it’s really pleasurable. But it’s only fancier stuff in the story of the personal self-center. Taylor seems like a good scientist and scholar, but what I’m communicating is so much simpler than all that.

Here’s what she doesn’t ask: WHO is experiencing these different things when parts of the brain are stimulated? Is there really an individual someone there to whom these experiences happen?

As always, that’s the key question.

The Jill Bolte Taylor Video

Many people have sent me the video of Jill Bolte Taylor and asked me to comment. I really don’t have anything to say about it. It’s not related to what I talk about. She is talking about experiences – phenomena – and though she relates a feeling of “nirvana” in being connected to all, it’s still just an experience. Who you really are is before all experience.

It’s tempting and juicy. Brain science is a tempting place to go to look for the “seat” of consciousness, especially when somebody says it’s really pleasurable. But it’s only fancier stuff in the story of the personal self-center. Taylor seems like a good scientist and scholar, but what I’m communicating is so much simpler than all that.

Here’s what she doesn’t ask: WHO is experiencing these different things when parts of the brain are stimulated? Is there really an individual someone there to whom these experiences happen?

As always, that’s the key question.

Your experiences and life, no matter what it is that you are doing, is an expression of that non conceptual reality.

They are both in the one. In here we call it non duality - and everything is that. To pick and choose means that there is a picker and a chooser.

Everything is that.

And Jills experience may have been a mind blower that will make her seek unity in the appearance… but at some point. She will see that she is already one, and that seeking oneness in the world is merely an act of duality.

And that should not diminish her experience at all.

Byron Katie emailed the woman - Dr. Jill - after seeing her video, and Dr. Jill responded. Seems they’re kindred souls!

Here’s a link to Katie’s website to read their email exchange about The Stroke / The Work!

http://www.byronkatie.com/

Byron Katie emailed the woman - Dr. Jill - after seeing her video, and Dr. Jill responded. Seems they’re kindred souls!

Here’s a link to Katie’s website to read their email exchange about The Stroke / The Work!

http://www.byronkatie.com/

…it made me cry.

While not nearly as hopeful or entertaining, this reminded me a bit of an interesting episode of This American Life that aired several years back and recently re-aired entitled “Testosterone”. One can listen online at http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=220. The particular segment in the episode is the first, “Act One: Life at Zero” in which a man describes his life without desire when he loses his testosterone. It’s only about 7 minutes of the entire episode.

It’s an interesting contrast, I think. We often read that in order to “attain Nirvana” or “become enlightened,” you have to rid yourself of all desire. Here’s a guy who’s lost all desire but his experience is quite different from that of Dr. Taylor’s.

The seeing is simply seen.

All thoughts including matter appears on the face of nothingness.

in order to draw a person’s face, an artist must access the right side. Pure awareness and witnessing. Drawing purely what he sees. No judgement. Puts you in the NOW.

However, then the artist must step back and ask, “Yeah, but is what I’m drawing a good likeness of Matilda?” That’s the LEFT brain - the logical brain - in action.

To draw a nose is to draw abstract lines - no meaning. Right brain.

But then you need the left brain to ask, “yeah, but does it look like a nose?” The word Nose is a label. Left brain.

All commensurate suffering as so-called individuals is the result.

Leave it to the Niz to put it this plainly and powerfully:

“Immortality is freedom from the feeling ‘I am.’ Yet it is not extinction. On the contrary, it is a state infinitely more real, aware, and happy than you can possibly think of. Only self-consciousness is no more……The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”

Freedom from the phantom, the mirage story the left side has built around us all these years.

Who could possibly not want that?

Only one answer: the left side.

love

Mike: I love what you said. That hunk of stuff, and what magical stuff indeed, the stuff of which dreams are made, is so clearly not what we are.

Half of what she described is what most artists experience when drawing people or things.

Betty Edwards’ famous book, “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” explains the left/right hemispheres - it came out back in the 70’s.

Artists use the right sides of their brain to see empty spaces as distinct shapes. (Imagine, for example, spaces between tree branches)

The left hemisphere thinks in terms of “symbols”. It has no patience for seeing (and drawing) maticulous details - jagged contours, spaces.

If you want to come close to experiencing the unity she describes without having a stroke, buy that book, do the “seeing” exercises in it, and the world will seem unified.

A last example:

When an artist paints a picture of a woman standing in front of a shipyard, he cannot distinguish between “woman” and “shipyard”. In order to create the illusion of the scene realistically on canvas, the artist must fit them together - lines, spaces, colors - on one plane.

in other words.
use the mind to know the mind to go beyond the mind.

We have a scentist confirming WHAT IS.
LOL

But she still thinks there’s a YOU that can choose.

She mentions that any of us can ‘choose’ to live free from the mental chatter. I’ve ‘chosen’ this 6 times already today and the chatter continues. What gives Dr. lady?
Strange, since she had no choice in the matter.

thanks for the link,
corey

she said it so beautiful !

I have undergone similar kind of experiance 12 years back

while chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra,scared and discontinued but it was very pleasent experince