From the wall of Kora Koos (One of the member of the Happening Group)

From the wall of Kora Koos (One of the member of the Happening Group)

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Kora Koos posted on his wall:

"Give me only the basics! I'll look for the details on my own!" asked a friend all of a sudden. "First, you are alive. You are conscious of experiences. You are conscious because you are aware or you are present to what is happening in experience. You are aware because you are awake whether totally, partially or residually. You are not aware/conscious when you are asleep or unawake but still you are alive. So you are basically alive whether awake or unawake...

Everything in experience rests on this aliveness, from which both awakeness and sleep arise and subside. Consciousness and its contents (including the ego) rest on awareness, awareness rests on attention or awakeness. The quality of the flow of attention influences everything within its embrace: awareness and consciousness. Total attention yields total awareness and consciousness. Partial attention yields partial awareness and consciousness. Residual attention yields residual awareness and consciousness as in dream and absorption. Absence of attention flow results in absence of awareness and consciousness along with its contents. Total attention is total communion with aliveness, which is ever-whole, ever-perfect, prior to any arising in consciousness and ulterior to any subsiding in consciousness. It is the ground of all states of consciousness, awareness and attention. The ground is total rest, which embraces total activity unconditionally just like a dreamer embraces the dream experience totally or the sleeper embraces the sleep experience totally."

"Total attention rests naturally on the ground consciously while total inattention (sleep) rests naturally on the ground unconsciously. In total attention one is the Now, the power of the Now as both total rest and total activity, ever-whole, ever-perfect. Beyond this nothing can be said. Still, whatever is said is not the truth but an expression, a story, a theory in consciousness when apprehended through partial or residual attention..."

Self-realisation is free but not cheap. One has to pay ATTENTION and invest one’s full conscious PRESENCE to what is happening in and as the Now.

Nisarga Raman----All statement except last one , are to the point. You say ""Self-realisation is free but not cheap. One has to pay ATTENTION and invest one’s full conscious PRESENCE to what is happening in and as the Now."------------Does this not presuppose the presence of one who is giving attention to something other presence. Subject and object. Especially when you are saying to give total attention( invest one’s full conscious PRESENCE). I think it is impossible as an act/doing. Perhaps you may be trying to express that "this total attention" happens in the process. Am I right Kora Koosji ?


Kora Koos-----"I think it is impossible as an act/doing!" Yes, thought can not do that, if thought will act or do anything, it will be tantamount to partialisation of attention through focussing, segregating, etc on the basis of its schemas and habits. When thought releases the energy of attention, then attention is free to be fully present to itself as the Now. This is very difficult to put into words!

Thought, as an element arising within attention/awareness/consciousness, cannot act; it simply reacts on the basis of its background, dominant contents and templates. Thought can not pay attention; this is not its natural action or function. Instead it steals or captures the energy of attention for its operations. Only attention can pay attention and when its energy is not stolen and squandered by thought reactivities, then it is free to be action fully present to its all-embracing action/function of creating awareness and consciousness of the Now, which is an expression of itself. So at any moment, one can either react as a thought-arising or simply pay attention and be fully present to oneself as attention. So one's action or reaction at any moment is indicative of one's position either as reactive thought or active attention.

Ruth Spooner--- Wonderful.....from no words to limitation of words never easy.....♥