MORE ABOUT INNER STRUCTURES IN AWARENESS

(This is another excerpt from my upcoming book, which is like a user-friendly userguide to the direct path.)

Last time, in "Does Awareness Have an Inner Structure?"  we took a quick look at the "grid" notion of a structure that some have proposed that awareness has. We also saw that in direct experience, there is no structure. But these notions come up frequently, and sometimes even nondual teachings imply that awareness has a structure. So let's look at this in more detail.

If Truth is true, it would stand to reason that it would be found in all traditions--Eastern and Western. Intelligence would bring us to the same conclusion irrespective of the path. The absolute, by definition, would have to ultimately reveal itself whenever it was single mindedly demanded to be known. For Truth to exist, there could be an infinite amount of paths, but, in the end, there would be only one destination.

Does this conclusion hold up when we inspect Western Philosophy?

We find Greg Goode to be an invaluable resource on surveying our Western Philosophical Non Dual roots. Click here to as we re-explore an interview that aired on ConsciousTV deeply exploring just these issues.

(This is another excerpt from Greg's upcoming userguide to  the direct path.)

The question about an inner structure of awareness is something that occasionally comes up for people doing self-inquiry.  People think things are really happening, and they want to know why.  They hear that consciousness is the sum and substance of everything, so they think "Aha!  What is making consciousness do all that?!  What's happening on the inside?"

Click here to read the rest of "Inner Structure" by Greg Goode.

Here in the Heart,
A wellspring of Bliss.

The Ecstasy of formless Satchitananda,
Shining into form.

Not just "peace" and "happiness".
...Ecstasy.

The enlightenment of each sage has followed a different process: no two alike.  However, when you read the biographies of each of these enlightened sages, you notice that they collectively had one thing in common: the profundity of enlightenment is a life-changing development.  The bottom line, in these recorded lives, is that there was a radical change between the pre-enlightenment life style and the life’s consequent course.

[An unpublished manuscript from an upcoming book by Robert Wolfe.]

I'm a sad excuse for an advaitan.
The entire time I saw my teacher, Jean,
I went not to gain "understanding",
Or to follow, yet again, the "advaitic thread".

I went to bathe in the Radiance
That emanated from that form.
Yes... from that form.
A shameless dualist?

Michael Jeffreys reviews the DVD "Awe and Wonder: It's Darkest Before the Dawn"  which features an intimate conversation between Jeff Foster and Chris Hebard about Jeff's life and awakening.

What is it to do a freedom inquiry--as compared to a traditional inquiry into the nature of experience?

Click here to read Peter Dziuban's latest thoughts on a "freedom inquiry".

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