🦊 ARE WE JUST OUR BODY AND MIND OR SOMETHING BEYOND
“I’m not the body; I’m not even the mind”
With every incoming breath and outgoing breath
I found that interesting
Mind - (for some Idon’t even know if it exists) it vanishes in my experience when I sleep
So thinking…………
We do so many things
We talk so much
We relate with many people
We use so many things this and that
But
When we sleep it all disappears in our experience. Poof
I really don’t know
I m so puzzled
That’s all I can say
But this is interesting:
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Eckhart Tolle
Just as the spider draws out the thread of the cobweb from within itself and withdraws it again into itself, in the same way the mind projects the world out of itself and absorbs it back into itself.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
Mind is an extraordinary power inherent in our true nature that is pure awareness.
It creates all thoughts.
If all thoughts are removed and looked into, there is no separate entity called the mind.
So thought is the true nature of mind.
Other than thoughts, there is no such separate thing as the world.
In sleep, there are no thoughts and there is no world either. In waking and dream, there are thoughts and there is the world too.
Just as a spider spins out of itself a web and draws it back into itself, mind projects the world from itself and dissolves it back within.
When the mind comes out from pure Awareness, the world appears.
Therefore when the world appears, our true nature does not shine.
When our true nature as Awareness shines forth, the world does not appear. By inquiring into the nature of the mind constantly, our true Self is seen in the end as the mind.
Our true Self is pure Awareness. The mind lives on only by attaching itself to a gross body. It does not stand alone. Mind alone is known as the subtle body or the soul.
- Sri Ramana Maharishi