Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Agitation in still Awareness in "Still in Awareness"


Another video by Gangaji "Still in Awareness" with an excellent excerpt about agitation.
Agitation, restlessness is considered to be a major hindrance in Buddhism when the mind is identified with the feeling. Concentration is prescribed as the antidote. Stability of mind helps to investigate what it really is all about. I realised in Burma that when we see/live/feel that consciousness is separate from its contents, its contents lose all power over the mind. Although the content may arise again, consciousness is unaffected : it simply has nothing to do with the object. Ajahn Chah also referred to it as oil and water. Many other Buddhist teachers in the Thai Forest Tradition talk about it like Ajaan Fuang Jotiko for instance.
The following audio excerpt is so wonderful as it points to that so directly and may make live this crucial insight if you are willing to investigate it !

Excerpt 1 (2:19min)

What is the liberating truth ? From the introduction to the video :
"The most sublime truth of all has never been stated, or written, or sung. Not because it is far away and cannot be reached but because it is so intimately close. It is too close to be described, objectified, or known, yet it is yours already. It is alive and present as the stillness that is the core of your being."

(It reminds me of what Nisargadatta said, and it is found in the book "I Am That", something like : "Reality is so close to you that you can't even see it".)

"One’s own awareness is so ordinary and all pervasive it goes continually overlooked, yet ironically it offers the very freedom that is longed for. When attention is turned toward the essential experience of simply being, it is possible to discover that one is not a body identified with thoughts and feelings, but rather the limitless awareness aware of it all. Here Gangaji offers the opportunity to be aware of awareness itself rather than the often conflicting factions of mind and emotion; to give the whole of oneself to this that is already effortlessly present, alive as the inherently free awareness that you are."

http://www.gangaji.org/satsang/bookstore/compdoc.asp

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