Comments on: The Infinite Depth of Your Own Self

By: whitefull

whitefull — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:53:00 +0000

well, u must have been experienced it..

By: anandapadmanaban

anandapadmanaban — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:36:22 +0000

Beloved Andrew, In my limited knowledgeof the whole subject, this is the second time I find that a spiritual teacher has explained meditation simply and clearly wherein one’s own experience, discovered to whatever depth, is explained and validated to a student’s heart’s content. Incidentally the first time I heard it was also through your own teachings in the late 90′s. This is one reason why I strongly believe that there is no one else who can share the teacher’s platform with you. In two minutes I observe that I experience deep meditation sitting in front of a computer. With infinite gratitude, Anandapadmanaban.

By: R.S.Prasanna Venkatesha Murthy

R.S.Prasanna Venkatesha Murthy — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:50:12 +0000

It is good teaching sir. Thanks very much.

By: GopalB

GopalB — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:28:14 +0000

While meditation is the means to discover the inner depth, vast majority of people engaged with activities of the world, this meditation itself may be a frustrating experience as they may not be able to get to the depth. Better way is to engage with work itself as a meditation , with a selfless spirit of service, without any regard to reaping the fruits of such work for selfish ends. This will purify our inner self from our egoistic nature with which we normally undertake the work for name, fame, money , recognition etc, with resultant human emotions of fear, frustration ,greed, zealousy . With such a pure mind alone , one can discover the depth of the inner self and the evolutionary enlightenment potential for larger good , with this instrument of body mind and intellect we are endowed with as human beings. We should develop an attitude to see every work we are doing, as a means for self-purification and for larger good.

By: Michael H Ward

Michael H Ward — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:04:16 +0000

Breathtakingly beautiful description, Andrew, opens up the field of awareness so lucidly, everything we hold onto arising from the unmanifest (so briefly!) and then dissolving again. One of my teachers describes this level as “personal awareness without the encumbrance of personal history.”

Gratitude and blessings.

By: Bruce Balter

Bruce Balter — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:53:01 +0000

what ever happened to “something does not come from nothing?”

By: Frank Zadlo

Frank Zadlo — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:49:46 +0000

Andrew, of what you speak appears to me to be available every instant, without meditation. The Big Bang is still happening every instant. Nothing is occurring as something out of the field of nothing and we are not able to demonstrate that anything is here. We are only and forever in the instant of becoming. The traces of the supposed Higgs Boson have only demonstrated that there is nothing, no evidence, for the passage from nothing to something. It is occurring every instant and there never has been any where else to be other than this moment that is occurring.

Frank Zadlo

By: Vince Staples

Vince Staples — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:36:07 +0000

“The Infinite Depth Of Your Own Self”, written by Andrew, is extremely beautiful and profound. It is an expression of the Truth in words that come as close as possible to explaining REALITY – that which is unexplainable (inexplicable) and beyond concepts or words. Yet we need words to ‘point’ at this REALITY to assist us in formulating an idea that cannot ever be grasped. And here we have an extraordinary exposition that makes the heart tingle knowing that this ‘finger’ points in the right direction. The words strike deep into our being for they resonate with TRUTH which deep inside we have always known and never really doubted at our core. Thich Nat Hahn, the renouned Buddhist, also speaks of ‘No Birth, No Death’ and now, having read this, I know what he was referring to! Read this often and let it permeate deep within so TRUTH becomes ‘experience’ and not just knowledge! IT can never be explained but IT can be known!

By: Doug Grills

Doug Grills — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:53:24 +0000

Call me unenlightened, but I don’t get it! If I want to be “enlightened” concerning “The Infinite Depth of Your Own Self” I will find, as the last sentence states,…”we find only nothing at all: desirelessness, the fullness of Being…” Since “Being” is capitalized I assume there is some divinity here in this “nothing at all.” So to find the fullness of Being I take a leap of faith into “nothing at all.” So something is nothing. Go nowhere to get something? Am I too linear? I recently received an email entitled “The Case for Certainty.” This sounds like a case for uncertainty…for nothing that is located nowhere. If it is nothing and nowhere how will I know when I get there if there is nothing to relate it to.
Doug

By: gurucharan

gurucharan — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:42:46 +0000

Nice description. The richness that is inherent in a Self with infinite degrees of freedom is certainly a goal of many meditation practices. We do need a new language to describe it.

I have always had easy access to such states of Being and appreciate their trans-formative potential for body, mind and Self.

How do you answer those who ask “We can create such a “state” by meditation, neural pattern induction and otherwise. What makes you believe that this is not simply a state of desynchronization of the various neural networks and not a state or reality beyond a simple production of a default state in the neurons?”

I agree with you, but wonder how you bridge this epistemic versus ontologic gap?

My own practice in the stages of meditation I recently put in the book “The 21 Stages of Meditation” (New Leaf) where I distinguish the crystallized self, expressive self and transcendent self.

Look forward to your reply in this conversation.

Gurucharan Khalsa (Director of training kundalini yoga)