Teachers and students

[GliderGuider]

Nisargadatta speaks of love and awareness, of being everything and nothing.

The water in a brook speaks of the living of the fishes that happens within it and because of it, but is not about it.

My heart speaks of being the point of connection between the sacred and the mundane.

Who teaches? Who learns?

[ZombieHorde]

1. "The water in a brook speaks of the living of the fishes that happens within it and because of..."

Does mean we can learn about fish by examining the water they live in?

My heart speaks of being the point of connection between the sacred and the mundane.

By "heart," do you mean your emotions? What is the difference between the sacred and the mundane? How do you feel about non-dualistic view points?

Who teaches? Who learns?

My wife teaches anatomy lab at our university. She says she learns a lot from the experience. Is this what you are talking about?

[GliderGuider]

2. It may be more useful to search for the source of our questions than for their answers.

At least I've found that to be true.

[ZombieHorde]

3. My questions come from my mind. nt

[GliderGuider]

4. And who asks them? nt

[ZombieHorde]

5. An arrangement of atoms is asking. nt

[GliderGuider]

6. And what makes that arrangement "you"? nt

[ZombieHorde]

8. The arrangement is not me. Me is something the arrangement does.

Me is sort of a byproduct of the shifting arrangement.

[GliderGuider]

9. Cool, I like it.

Do you ever suspect that our sense of self, the personality, might be a reification?

[ZombieHorde]

10. I don't know; sounds possible. nt

[GliderGuider]

7. Here's a quote you might find interesting

It basically agrees with the "arrangement of atoms" thing:

"The Tao says that the sage sees people as straw dogs; all exterior and no interior. Empty costumes populating the stage like zombies. All appearance, no substance. Yes, the unenlightened look like zombies to the enlightened; like fictional characters animated by mysterious forces. No one home. If a person were born enlightened, rather than going from unenlightened to enlightened and having the experience of being made of straw, I think he'd find this a damn spooky place. Busy, populated, yet strangely uninhabited.

Our bodies are rental cars, the planet is a motel, and there is really no one home.