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A lovely excerpt about the erroneous mental separation between "my body" and the "world", from "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Q: The world is full of events which do not appear in my consciousness.
M: Even your body is full of events which do not appear in your consciousness. This does not prevent you from claiming your body to be your own. You know the world exactly as you know your body — through your senses. It is your mind that has separated the world outside your skin from the world inside and put them in opposition. This created fear and hatred and all the miseries of living.
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I see,w/your saying~
And i feel insecure in the midsts of these concepts,because,i am not too sure i understand fully...hmmm...but if i just listen hard enough hopefully i can understand.thank you...
Nothing to understand
In the above quote there is really nothing to understand and there are no complicated concepts involved, just a statement of facts...
Usually our mind has difficulty with the very simple things because of its inherit belief that truth should be involved with complex logical reasoning... But truth usually hides in these simple things... Hence, our mind unfortunate tendency to overlook truth...
There is nothing to understand, just follow these simple words of Nisargadatta Maharaj and see if you can find a flaw in the argument... their power is in their simplicity...
You cannot deny the mere facts in these words the same as you cannot find one single fact supporting the yet so strong belief that you are the body...
Oh ok~
so pretty much i over complicated it in my mind.Got it.Good point.