Message #14905

[Jitendra Hydonus]

'this gross physical world... so easy for things to materialize, condense, and so challenging to knot upon the condensations... as they are not so readily dissipated with the same mentality (counsciousness) from which they arrived...' ~Nomaste2all

i remember Brother Ishtananda illustration of the story of  under water observing. We are at peace being one with the water. Then a fish goes by and we think; 'what a nice fish'  Suddenly our attention draws the fish in closer and we observe its fins and texture etc. Before we know it the fish is right in our face.

We are much like this with our thoughts and emotions. We think something about what we observe and finally the thoughts we think draw in the object of our attentions. We suddenly realize we have created a knot in our consciousness. We are irresistibly drawn to the objects of our thought patterns. Our desires lead us to a challenge in our peaceful witnessing consciousness. Because of the thought condensations we experience an interruption in our free flowing enlightened consciousness. We become drawn into a space, a time a place. We become drawn onto a drama; A play. We loose our higher conscious faculties and functions and think we are now involved in the play. We cannot distinguish truth from the the play that we have become a part of. We have lost are witnessing consciousness and now think that we are actually a member of this play and that we have assumed a role that is real. We are like a actor/actress in a film that thinks he/she is really the role being played. We forget that the director has only assigned us a part in the witnessing drama.

Jitendra