What is awakening?

you mean more walk and less talk wink

that's against my religion big grin

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No, I mean stop telling people that they shouldn't discuss things on an internet board designed to discuss things. If you really think using words is a waste of time, then disappear from boards like this one that thrive on discussion. Stop pestering people with your anti-intellectual repetitions.

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	dobro wrote:
	No, I mean stop telling people that they shouldn't discuss things on an internet board designed to discuss things. If you really think using words is a waste of time, then disappear from boards like this one that thrive on discussion. Stop pestering people with your anti-intellectual repetitions.

oh?

is that what you think i'm saying? grübel

this reminds of a saying, i forget from whom

maybe Byron Katie

"what other people say to you is their karma

how you react is your karma"

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You don't come across as a person who is looking for anything; you come across as a person who thinks he knows something and who hammers away at others with it. Above all, you come across as a person parroting non-personal realization.

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i'm coming across as a person??? grübel

i thought i was a field of awareness as ecky put it

but it doesn't really matter what i think

see AEN's latest post in the "now notes" zunge zeigen

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Yup. You come across as a person. Sorry about the demotion. big grin

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	Ammy wrote:
	What does it mean to be awake. I'm not talking about some definition I'm looking for an experiential expression of it

To see what is as it is...without telling stories about it.

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~ Eric Putkonen

eputkonen wrote:

	Ammy wrote:
	What does it mean to be awake. I'm not talking about some definition I'm looking for an experiential expression of it

To see what is as it is...without telling stories about it.

	Quote:
	Thinking that you are an awakened one, or that it is possible that you might become an awakened one, or that your teacher is an awakened one, or that there is at least one awakened one in a cave in the Himalaya somewhere, is called being asleep. Awakening means popping out of the context in which awakening makes any sense. David Carse

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Ammy wrote:

eputkonen wrote:

	Ammy wrote:
	What does it mean to be awake. I'm not talking about some definition I'm looking for an experiential expression of it

To see what is as it is...without telling stories about it.

	Quote:
	Thinking that you are an awakened one, or that it is possible that you might become an awakened one, or that your teacher is an awakened one, or that there is at least one awakened one in a cave in the Himalaya somewhere, is called being asleep. Awakening means popping out of the context in which awakening makes any sense. David Carse

True enough...Awakening and being asleep...Liberation and bondage...are stories we tell.

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~ Eric Putkonen

	Quote:
	Awakening means popping out of the context in which awakening makes any sense.

Hi Eric,

I guess another way of saying this is to no longer take your thinking/interpreting seriously anymore.

So it's really about being present without thought.

Very, very simple.

If it's not absolutely simple and absolutely immediate then that's not IT. big grin

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I was listening to Leonard Jacobson's talk last night and really loved it. big grin

http://attendthisevent.com/?eventID=12346014

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eputkonen wrote:

Ammy wrote:

eputkonen wrote:

	Ammy wrote:
	What does it mean to be awake. I'm not talking about some definition I'm looking for an experiential expression of it

To see what is as it is...without telling stories about it.

	Quote:
	Thinking that you are an awakened one, or that it is possible that you might become an awakened one, or that your teacher is an awakened one, or that there is at least one awakened one in a cave in the Himalaya somewhere, is called being asleep. Awakening means popping out of the context in which awakening makes any sense. David Carse

True enough...Awakening and being asleep...Liberation and bondage...are stories we
tell.

I wonder if those who are awake and liberated would agree with this.

Just wondering. kopfstand

does that mean you're not awake or liberated ghost

are you admitting to being among the masses of disillusioned augen rollen

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It means I am going to enjoy haunting you. big grin

ok Casper

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