Direct Path

Greg Goode

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• Philosophie et théologie

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• Publié par: New Harbinger Publications
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781626257757
• Langue: English

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THE DIRECT PATH
First English edition published February 2012 by N ON -D UALITY P RESS
© Greg Goode 2012 © Non-Duality Press 2012
Greg Goode has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as author of this work. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the Publisher.
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Acknowledgments
I am indebted to Colin M. Turbayne (1916 – 2006), whose profound insights into non-objectivity constitute a powerful Western version of the Direct Path. He also demonstrated to me that inquiry can be a living thing. I would also like to thank Richard Rorty (1931 – 2007), anti-dualist and philosophical renegade, for his liberating presentation of irony.
I’d like to thank Francis Lucille and Watkins Books for introducing me to the writings of Shri Atmananda (1883 – 1959). I have never met Shri Atmananda, but Francis and Watkins Books provided a living context for his teachings.
Last but not least, I wish to thank Dr. Tamara Vyshkina and Dr. Tomas Sander for their excellent editorial assistance. They nurtured the text with great care, which was guided by their linguistic skill and a deep familiarity with the Direct Path. Any errors or bloopers that remain are due to Greg.
Greg Goode
OVERVIEW
INTRODUCTION
EXPERIMENTS
PART 1 – WORLD
PART 2 – BODY
PART 3 – MIND
PART 4 – WITNESSING AWARENESS
PART 5 – NONDUAL REALIZATION
ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER IMAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT & PERMISSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
How To Use This Book
Who Is This Book For?
Love
Nondual Inquiry And Conventional Therapies
The Main Problem
The Direct Path’s Solution
How Does The Direct Path Work?
What Is “Direct” About The Direct Path?
The Approach Taken Here
Separation – The False Claim Of Objectivity
Freedom From Objectivity AND Subjectivity
A Note About Terminology
Who Realizes? Who Is Writing This?
PART 1 – WORLD
Physical Objects
Our Strategy – Trying To Validate Objectivity
Naïve Realism
The Perceptual Relativity Critique
Representative Realism And The “Veil Of Perception”
The Reality Effect
EXPERIMENTS
The Source Of The Experiments
Setup For The Experiments
Before You Begin
Being Awareness – The Heart Opener
HEARING
Experiment 1 – Hearing The Bell
Review Of Hearing
SEEING
Experiment 2 – Seeing The Orange
Review Of Seeing
SMELLING
Experiment 3 – Smelling The Orange
Review Of Smelling
TOUCHING
Experiment 4 – Touching The Table
Experiment 4a – Touch And Roughness/Smoothness
Experiment 4b – Touch And Wetness/Dryness
Experiment 4c – Touch And Temperature
Experiment 4d – Touch And Hardness/Softness
Experiment 4e – Touch And Extension
Review Of Touching
To Do On Your Own
TASTING
Experiment 5 – Tasting The Orange
Review Of Tasting
INTENSITY
MOVEMENT
Review Of Movement
To Do On Your Own
SUBTLE REALITY EFFECT – AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SENSES?
Common Sensibles – The Perceptual Source Of Objectivity?
Falsifying Interaction – Two Ways
The Molyneux Problem And The Reality Effect
Empirical Results
THE WORLD – CONCLUSION
PART 2 – BODY
As An Object
As A Feeler
As A Container Of Awareness
THE BODY AS OBJECT
Seeing The Body
Experiment 6 – Seeing The Body
To Do On Your Own
Touching The Body
Experiment 7 – Touching The Body
Touching
Being Touched
To Do On Your Own
Hearing, Smelling And Tasting The Body
Experiment 8 – Hearing, Smelling And Tasting The Body
The Body As Object – Conclusion
THE BODY AS FEELER
In The Everyday Sense
And In Direct Experience
WHAT DOES THE BODY FEEL?
SENSING
Experiment 9 – Is The Body An Object That Senses?
PAIN
Experiment 10 – Pain
Conclusion To Sensing And Pain – And Pleasure
POSITIONALITY
Experiment 11 – Is Your Arm In A Certain Position?
To Do On Your Own
MOVEMENT
Experiment 12a – Is Your Body Moving With The Chair?
Experiment 12b – Is Your Body Moving With The Car?
CONCLUSION TO THE BODY AS FEELER
THE BODY AS CONTAINER
THE CONTAINER METAPHOR IN WESTERN CULTURE
A Ghost In A Machine
Cartesian Anxiety
Anxiety And Nonduality
Seeing Through The Metaphor
Looking For Containment
Experiment 13 – The Tent
Experiment 14 – Are You A Tent?
Conclusion To The Container Experiments
DOES AWARENESS ARISE FROM THE BRAIN?
The Brain
Awareness Vs. Sentience
The Brain And Sentience
Experiment 15 – Does Awareness Arise From The Brain?
CONCLUSION TO THE BODY AS CONTAINER
No Internal, No External
AWARENESS CAN’T BE PERSONAL
THE BODY: SUMMARY EXPERIMENTS
Experiment 16 – A Walk In The Park
Conclusion To A Walk In The Park
PART 3 – MIND
Why Is The Mind Important?
Why Investigate The Mind?
Getting Past The Mind
Cultural Interlude
A Ghost In The Machine: Alienating Metaphors
The Container Metaphor
The Mirror Metaphor
The East Has Them Too
What Is Our Direct Experience?
Pieces And Parts Of The Mind
MENTAL OBJECTS
Kinds of Mental Objects
Suffering
The Structure Of Thought
The Collapse Of Structure
Experiment 17 – Thinking About An Orange
Review Of Experiment 17
To Do On Your Own
Experiment 18 – A Purely Conceptual Thought
Review Of Experiment 18
Thoughts Have No Binary Truth Value
But Thought Is Made Of Truth
Thoughts Have No Referents
Thought Exercises To Do On Your Own
About Belief
About Memory Thoughts
Experiment 19 – Remembering Breakfast
Review Of Experiment 19
Memory Experiments To Do On Your Own
What About The Other Mental Objects?
Experiment 20 – Finding The Difference Between Mental Objects
Conclusion To “Finding The Difference”
Two Experiences At The Same Time?
Background
MENTAL OBJECTS: SUMMARY EXPERIMENT
Experiment 21 – Fireworks
Conclusion To Mental Objects
MENTAL STRUCTURES
Spiritual Teachings Also Propose Structures
The Reality Effect
But Do We Experience Structures?
Experiment 22 – Finding The Subconscious
Inquiry
What Right Have We To Say That Anything Comes From Witnessing Awareness?
The Sense That I Am The Seer
Conclusion To Mental Structures
MENTAL FUNCTIONS
Choosing, Doing
Experiment 23 – Finding The Choosing Function
Inquiry
To Do On Your Own
Why You Can’t Directly Experience The Choosing Function
Freedom From Choice
The Attention
Conclusion To Mental Functions
MENTAL STATES
That Sounds TIRING! What Is Our Direct Experience?
Experiment 24 – Looking For The State Of An Active Mind
Inquiry
Experiment 25 – Looking For A Bad Mood
Inquiry
Conclusion To Looking For A Bad Mood
Conclusion To Mental States
To Do On Your Own
Note About Deep Sleep
Deep Sleep In The Direct Path
The Goal Of The Teachings On Deep Sleep
Experiment 26 – The Happiness Of Deep Sleep
THE MIND – CONCLUSION
WHERE WE ARE NOW
PART 4 – WITNESSING AWARENESS
TWO KINDS OF WITNESS
THE OPAQUE WITNESS
INVESTIGATING THE OPAQUE WITNESS
DESIRE, WILL AND CHOICE
Experiment 27 – Is Desire Built Into The Witness?
Further Inquiry
Creation And Causality
Experiment 28a – Does Awareness Have A Cause?
Experiment 28b – Does Awareness Cause Arisings?
Experiment 28c – Does An Arising Cause An Arising?
Patterns
Experiment 29 – Is There A Pattern To Arisings?
Inquiry
LEVELS OF AWARENESS?
TIME AND SPACE
Space
Time
Experiment 30 – Is There Time In Awareness?
Conclusion To The Investigation On Time
TRUTH
Truth And Knowledge In The Direct Path
Conclusion To The Opaque Witness
THE TRANSPARENT WITNESS – THE END OF SUFFERING
Unconditional Love And Sweetness
You Can Close The Book Now
The Subtle Duality Of The Witness
Inquiring Into The Witness
Actually Doing The Inquiry
Experiment 31 – Can You Find An Arising?
Experiment 32 – No Presence Or Absence To Arisings
The Collapse Of The Witness
PART 5 – NONDUAL REALIZATION
OK, SO WHAT’S LEFT?
Stabilization
Can There Be Inquiry After Nondual Realization?
FREEDOM FROM THE PATH
JOYFUL IRONY
JOYFUL IRONY AND LANGUAGE
TEACHING IN THE DIRECT PATH
ENDNOTES
BACKCOVER
EXPERIMENTS
Experiment 1 Hearing The Bell Experiment 2 Seeing The Orange Experiment 3 Smelling The Orange Experiment 4 Touching The Table Experiment 4a Touch And Roughness/Smoothness Experiment 4b Touch And Wetness/Dryness Experiment 4c Touch And Temperature Experiment 4d Touch And Hardness/Softness Experiment 4e Touch And Extension Experiment 5 Tasting The Orange Experiment 6 Seeing The Body Experiment 7 Touching The Body Experiment 8 Hearing, Smelling And Tasting The Body Experiment 9 Is The Body An Object That Senses? Experiment 10 Pain Experiment 11 Is Your Arm In A Certain Position? Experiment 12a Is Your Body Moving With The Chair? Experiment 12b Is Your Body Moving With The Car? Experiment 13 The Tent Experiment 14 Are You A Tent? Experiment 15 Does Awareness Arise From The Brain? Experiment 16 A Walk In The Park Experiment 17 Thinking About An Orange Experiment 18 A Purely Conceptual Thought Experiment 19 Remembering Breakfast Experiment 20 Finding The Difference Between Mental Objects Experiment 21 Fireworks Experiment 22 Finding The Subconscious Experiment 23 Finding The Choosing Function Experiment 24 Looking For The State Of An Active Mind Experiment 25 Looking For A Bad Mood Experiment 26 The Happiness Of Deep Sleep Experiment 27 Is Desire Built Into The Witness? Experiment 28a Does Awareness Have A Cause? Experiment 28b Does Awareness Cause Arisings? Experiment 28c Does An Arising Cause An Arising? Experiment 29 Is There A Pattern To Arisings? Experiment 30 Is There Time In Awareness? Experiment 31 Can You Find An Arising? Experiment 32 No Presence Or Absence To Arisings
INTRODUCTION
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