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The Rishis’ Observation
The ability of the rishis to enter the fourth state at will and observe what is there, is not “thinking” as we use the term–the whole phenomenon is an immediate experience, like recognizing the fragrance of lilacs or the sound of a friend’s voice. It is immediate, nonverbal, and, unlike a flower’s fragrance, totally transforming.
Rather than seeing time, space, matter, and energy “out there,” the rishis observed that reality begins “in here,” with our conscious awareness. At any particular time, they reasoned, a person must be in one of three states of subjective awareness–waking, sleeping, or dreaming. What he perceives in these states constitutes his reality.
The ancients assumed that reality was thus different in different states of consciousness–a tiger in the dream state is not a tiger in the waking state. It obeys entirely different laws, and similarly, the laws of the sleep state, although not known to the conscious mind, must be distinct from those of the waking and dreaming states.
The rishis looked closer and detected between each of these states a gap that acts like a pivot as one reality turns into another. For example, just before falling asleep, the mind gradually leaves the waking state, withdrawing the senses, shutting out the waking world, but at the junction point before the mind actually falls asleep, a brief gap is opened, identical to the one that flashes by between each thought: it is like a little window into the field that is beyond either wakefulness or sleep. This realization opened the possibility for leaving behind the usual boundaries of the five senses by diving through the gap.
Adapted from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (Bantam Books, 1990).
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That's what it is all about Monique. LEARNING :)
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LOL! I was initially thinking, "what?" reading your response Brenda, but it was very clear upon completion, "EGO".
I am now researching The Rishis' all because DC has offered me a new word/subject.
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Whoa! This one is like trying to grasp a handful of smoke. LOL!
I wonder if one could say that whatever is is as real as you are conscious of. I could have an idea that someone doesn't like me and then find out later that they either do like me, don't like me or don't have an opinion one way or another (as yet if that is possible). What I think though is what is "real" for me at the time. What the other person thinks, I cannot say no matter what he/she says to me or another person. Because...he or she judges liking me, not liking me, or being indifferent based upon NOT who or what I am but who or what they THINK about who or what I am. That in turn is based upon their conditioning, their past experiences, and limited concepts, etc. Hasn't a darn thing to do with me but guess what? Most of us think it does. Can you say EGO?
We all go around living a life based upon our "reality" and whatever that is, is not other people's. Yet...we can have what we think is a conjunctional experience or belief that everyone sees the same. But do we really have the SAME experience or belief? Just ask a dozen witnesses to describe some robbery or event that just took place. Man! Were they on the same planet?
The "gap" Dr. Chopra talks about it the place where no-thing is. Anyplace else is just what we think is real.
(What the heck did she just say?) ;)
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