One of the most baffling tenets of realization regards objective phenomena as non-existent in themselves and existent only as "seeing." There is a logic to this, however. We do indeed sculpt objective reality from the single slab of the unmanifest. That tree over there would not exist were I not equipped with vision and a brain to discern it. That's hard to wrap your head around, but it's true. Then we go to the "seer" side of the "seeing," and as soon as I call myself a seer, I have objectified everything on both sides of this "seeing"--and what did we say about objective phenomena? This body-mind, too, is non-existent in itself but for the seeing of it. The snake has swallowed its own tail and digested itself...not to mention it was a rope all along.
Raja yoga, with its rich and varied strain of meditation, was very appealing to me for a number of years. I see it now as a necessary evil, just as an alcoholic views his lost years of drunkenness, necessary to exhaust all hope of finding enlightenment in doership.
Raja yoga, with its rich and varied strain of meditation, was very appealing to me for a number of years. I see it now as a necessary evil, just as an alcoholic views his lost years of drunkenness, necessary to exhaust all hope of finding enlightenment in doership.
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