Advaita Quote of the Day
I am the other person, the other person is myself; in name and shape we are different, but there is no separation. At the root of our being we are one.
The Matrix* invites us--and we usually accept--to hallucinate we are awake, dreaming, white, black, brown, yellow, chosen, gentile, male, female, rich, poor, middle class, common, preferred, educated, uneducated, beautiful, ugly, tall, short, happy, depressed, virile, limp, hot, frigid, alive, dead, etc. That's only what we can see, measure, taste, touch. When we turn our attention back 180 degrees into the First Person Singular--to use Douglas Harding's term--we discover our Original Face, clear of any of the above space-time limitations.
*The word Matrix is derived from Latin mater meaning mother. It also has the connotation of a womb or place where something grows, in this case the illusion of separation. I am here and you are there. I am an object and so are you. You are a conspiracy theorist and John worships at the feet of the collectivist and toxic totalitarian takeover of the world. The Matrix is synonymous with the Hindu concept maya meaning wizardry or illusion; that which makes humans believe in objectivity, ie, the world is made of things, objects. There are mind manipulators waging war on us as Alex Jones and David Icke point out daily: schools, churches, mass media, alternative media, bankers and their funny money, you name it. Those who are the targets of psychological engineers--the majority of mankind--end up becoming the prison wardens of the very prisons they live in. Yet, the rabbit hole goes down much deeper than most conspiracy researchers realize for when I'm aware of my First Person Singular--in contrast to what I see in the mirror--I see that that Emptiness contains not only clusters of galaxies but also George Bush and the rest of the Matrix. I am no thing yet every thing. Are you in the world, or is the world in you?
