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"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Friday, December 11, 2009
Can you be just this?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Your own interpretation of yourself is as illusive and ephemeral as that of others, though maybe a little more flattering! The point is that the solid personality you think yourself to be is nothing more than an appearance in consciousness. What is more, the interpretation has been changing and will continue changing from time to time. Any thought about yourself, whether your own or someone else's, is only a movement in consciousness, only a temporary mental image. That is all you are. But is that truly you? Only a mental image? Is there really any image with which one could identify oneself as an unchangeable, independent, autonomous entity with choice of action?
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