Roy Melvyn
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
can have a center.
What you are is infinite being, that which is without dimension.
A body and mind with desires becomes a body and a mind without desires.
But if the identification continues, the problem continues.
With the cessation of imagination and desire, the drive to becoming ceases.
And being this or being that
Thoughts appear as a necessary function in the human organism.
The organism does not decide to create them any more than it decides to breathe.
They are sourced from that which sustains and supports the organism.
To believe that you can stop your thoughts presupposes that you initiate them.
Why don't you provide some sort of instruction so we can understand what must be done?
To be free from the obsession with what's next?
Is all the instruction necessary?
You are waiting for the arrival of something that is already present.
This is a trap with no exits, other than directly seeing the construction of the trap.
The senses are the gateways to the waking world.
When they are shut down, what continues are thoughts and imaginations, the subtle world revealed in dreams.
Thoughts and imaginations were also present during wakefulness, but now they take centre stage.
When these two are shut, what remains is the perceiving, without any content to perceive.
In this state, the bodily functions are set to a default threshold, just enough so that the body remains enlivened and does not begin to decay.