When we talk to ourselves, who is actually doing the talking? Who's doing the listening? In this instance, do we have awareness? Or are we awareness? We gather this week to contemplate meaning of the separation of the Self from the non-Self. Here are our total thoughts…
Total Thoughts (January 25, 2010): Enquiry into the Truth (Tattva Bodha pages 36 - 38)
- We act and think we are the conditioning (worldly qualities); this is a function of the ego. We must become aware of it and know that it is separate from the Self; anything that changes is not real, that which changes is an illusion
- The causal body (vasanas) is the cause of the gross (perceived with senses) and subtle body (mind). The purpose of the gross and subtle bodies is to transcend the ego, and this is only possible when conscious of it.
- It is the illusion that creates the vasana, but the illusion also provides the opportunity to exhaust the vasana. This is done by experiencing it and then de-identifying with it. OR we stop identifying with the doer (ego).
- The ego is an illusion. We are not bound. To the realized, there is no delusion, it is entertainment. We are not a body with a soul.We are the soul with a body.
- The self is covered in 5 sheaths: food sheath, vital air sheath, mental sheath, intellectual sheath, and bliss sheath. The bliss sheath is our personality in its unmanifest condition.
- Since I know the different conditions of my bodies (gross, subtle, causal) and sheaths, I am therefore different from them!
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