All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of iceberg.
그런 느낌적인 느낌….
Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came.
진짜?
Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.
여기서 신과 근원, 자기자신, 우주? 는 동일어.
This is what great artists sense and succeed in conveying in their art.
우리가 이름 붙이지 않고 바라보고 느끼고 만지고 경험할 때.
When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness.
언어라는, 생각이라는 덫에 갇히지 않을 때 비로서 제대로 경험할 수 있다.
For this to happen, you need to disentangle your sense of I, of Beingness, from all the thins it. Has become mixed up with, that is to say, identified with. That disentanglement is what this book is about.
나라고 생각하는 느낌으로부터 해방되는 것.
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that continuously unfolds within and around you.
빠르게 상황을 판단하고 제멋대로 단정짓고 결론 내리면 똑똑해지는 것 같은 착각이 들지만 실은 점점 실제와 멀어지고 점점 더 바보가 되는 것만 같다.
In this way, cleaverness maybe gained, but wisdom is lost, and so are joy, love, creativity, and aliveness.
빙고!
They are concealed in the still gap between the perception and the interpretation.
퍼셉션과 해석에 갇힌 헛똑똑이들의 범람.
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
내가 자꾸 텍스트에 기대는 삶에서 멀어지려고 하는 이유.
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“I” embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. A. Einstein referred to as “an optical illusion of consciousness.” That illusory self then becomes the basis for all further interpretations, or rather misinterpretations of reality, all thought processes, interactions, and relationships. Your reality becomes a reflection of the original illusion.
사랑도, 나도, 모두가 착각. 착각의 방에 갇힌 인간 존재.
The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.
착각을 착각이라고 인지하면 착각에서 벗어날 수 있다.
Most of the time it is not you who speaks when you say or think “I” but some aspect of that mental construct, the egoic self. Once you awaken, you still use the word “I,” but it will come from a much deeper place within yourself.
내가 나라고 말할 때 나는 진짜 내가 아니라 에고. 나와 내가 분리된 것 같은 느낌에서 과연 벗어날 수 있을까?
우선은 에고의 작동 조건에 대해 알아보자.
The egoic mind us completely conditioned by the past. Its conditioning is twofold: It consists of content and structure.
I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them. That is the fate of the ego.
우리는 사물을 통해 identification을 시도하지만 내가 산 차, 내가 산 집은 내가 될 수 없다.
What you identify with is all to do with content; whereas, the unconscious compulsion to identify is structural. It is one of the most basic ways in which the egoic mind operates.
The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.
아무리 봐도, 사도, 읽어도 채워지지 않는 이유.
- Do you realize that you will have to let go of the ring at some point, perhaps quite soon?
- How much more time do you need before you will be ready to let go of it?
- Will you become less when you let go of it?
- Has who you are become diminished by the loss?
암에 걸려 시한부 판정을 받은 상담자가 도우미가 반지를 훔쳐갔다고 확신하면서 화를 내자 던진 질문.
BEING MUST BE FELF. IT CAN’T BE THOUGHT.
갑자기 영화 <레이버데이>의 한 대사가 생각난다.
"요즘 사람들은 파이 만드는 걸 책으로 배운다지? 느껴봐. 이 감각을. 가장 완벽한 순간의 이 느낌을"
대충 그런 내용의 대사였는데 두고두고 남았다.
이소룡 선생도 '생각하지 말고 느끼라'고 하셨는데,
이 분도 뭔가 좀 아셨던 듯.
우린 생각하느라 참 많은 시간을 허비하지.
끝도 없는 생각, 생각, 꼬리에 꼬리를 무는 생각.
햇살은 저리도 눈부시게 밝고 아름다운데.
Whenever you completely accept a loss, you go beyond ego, and who you are, the I Am which is consciousness itself, emerges.
내가 얼마나 모자란가 사심 없이, 부끄러움 없이 인정할 때 자유로워지는 것처럼.
It doesn’t mean you should never lock your door. All it means is that sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
삶의 매순간을 받아들이게 하는 말.
The ego isn’t wrong, it’s just unconscious.
When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile.
에고 자체와 싸우려 들거나(자신을 쳐 복종시킨다고 했던가..), 에고를 부정하거나(안야,, 아니야 거짓자아야 나에게 하는 말이야..) 하는 것이 아니라 그저 의식하는 것. 그리고 미소짓거나 심지어 웃어보이는 것.
How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are.
SNS상에서 주고 받는 멘션이 우리가 될 순 없다.
The ego’s sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.
누군가의 나에 대한 평가가 내가 될 수 없듯이.
“I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment.” That’s the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
그저 마음에서 일어나는 것을 알아채는 것이 시작.
Once the ego has found an identity, it does not want to let go.
일단 에고가 자신을 뭐라고 정의하고 시작하면 웬만해선 바꿀 수 없다.
If you hold your attention in your hands for a while the sense of aliveness will intensify.
고흐가 그랬다. 그림 그리는 게 왜 좋으냐는 물음에 그리는 순간 만큼은 머릿속에서 누가 말하지 않는다고. 나는 그말이 정말 무슨 뜻인지 안다. 내 온 감각을 써서 그릴 때 얼마나 좋은지. 얼마나 잡생각이 사라지는지. 얼마나 투명해지는지.
When you are in touch with the inner body, you are not identified with your body anymore, nor are you identified with your mind. This is to say, you are no longer identified with form but moving away from form-identification toward formlessness, which we may also call Being. It is your essence identity. Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a door way out of the prison that is the ego.
내 몸도 내가 아니고, 나는 형태 없는 존재일 뿐이니. 불교철학과 만나는 대목. 몸에 대한 자각은 몸에 갇힌 에고로부터 자유로워지는 거대한 Shift의 시작. 하지만 우리가 정말 몸으로부터 자유로워지는 것은 가능할까?
When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream. Another dimension of consciousness has come in.
사르트르의 공로라지만 벌써 예전에 노자는 이미 알고 계셨는데.
The ultimate truth of who you are is not in I am this or I am that, but I Am.
이것도 아니고 저것도 아니고 그저 존재하는 나….
When you yield internally, when you surrender, a new dimension of consciousness opens up.
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