I tried to explain or describe this new dimension of awareness in conversation with my daughter, Jessica, yesterday and I failed miserably. It's like pinching mercury. I'm dancing on the moon while everyone experiences only earth-bound gravity.
Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. Existence, felt as being or "I am," sans the "I," rests in Knowledge of what I really am and all that I am not, answering all questions, quelling all fears, fulfilling and thus ending all desires, not engendering but exposing Reality as perfect peace--Bliss--this is the tripartite expression of the bliss felt upon abiding continuously, consciously in pure awareness or Existence-Knowledge-Bliss.
Words like "stillness" and "silence" disturb what they try to describe. All of this learning and knowledge must go in the end. Thoughts are at best veils and at worst distractions.
Eckhart Tollle wraps this thing in words as cleanly and simply as it can be done for a western mind.. Advaita does not make sense without practice of jnana yoga. These things are too far out for most westerners--some of us are drawn, some driven there, but too few so far. Tolle gives me hope that the truth is beginning to resonate despite it origins. "Stillness Speaks" has the message in spades for those with ears to hear, as Jesus said.
Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. Existence, felt as being or "I am," sans the "I," rests in Knowledge of what I really am and all that I am not, answering all questions, quelling all fears, fulfilling and thus ending all desires, not engendering but exposing Reality as perfect peace--Bliss--this is the tripartite expression of the bliss felt upon abiding continuously, consciously in pure awareness or Existence-Knowledge-Bliss.
Words like "stillness" and "silence" disturb what they try to describe. All of this learning and knowledge must go in the end. Thoughts are at best veils and at worst distractions.
Eckhart Tollle wraps this thing in words as cleanly and simply as it can be done for a western mind.. Advaita does not make sense without practice of jnana yoga. These things are too far out for most westerners--some of us are drawn, some driven there, but too few so far. Tolle gives me hope that the truth is beginning to resonate despite it origins. "Stillness Speaks" has the message in spades for those with ears to hear, as Jesus said.
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