"Both the entire earth and the entire sky appear in birth as well as in death." - Dogen
Earth and sky are all that is. With you at birth or without you at death, they remain all that is. The movie screen remains clear and untouched before, during and after the frenetic images of ego-sense have come and gone.
"This ego-sense gives birth to all the rest of the world-appearance. When it goes, then the self shines by its own light, even as the sun shines when the veiling cloud is blown away. Just as an object thrown into the ocean dissolves in the ocean, the ego-sense which enters the self is dissolved in it." - Vasistha's Yoga
Ramana Maharshi practiced an interesting way to hollow out the ego-sense: he lay down and imagined his own death in great detail, methodically deleting himself right down to extinguishing mind, and yet he found that something remained. Just like panning for gold, he had arrived at pure consciousness.
Earth and sky are all that is. With you at birth or without you at death, they remain all that is. The movie screen remains clear and untouched before, during and after the frenetic images of ego-sense have come and gone.
"This ego-sense gives birth to all the rest of the world-appearance. When it goes, then the self shines by its own light, even as the sun shines when the veiling cloud is blown away. Just as an object thrown into the ocean dissolves in the ocean, the ego-sense which enters the self is dissolved in it." - Vasistha's Yoga
Ramana Maharshi practiced an interesting way to hollow out the ego-sense: he lay down and imagined his own death in great detail, methodically deleting himself right down to extinguishing mind, and yet he found that something remained. Just like panning for gold, he had arrived at pure consciousness.
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