Alan Watts & Jiddu Krishnamurti ~ The vast extent of our Being

 

video by Aaron Paradox

 

 "On the first day, while I was more conscious of the things around me, I had the most extraordinary experience. There was a man mending the road; that man was myself; the pickaxe he held was myself; the very stone which he was breaking up was a part of me; the tender blade of grass was my very Being, and the tree beside the man was myself. I could feel and think like the roadmender, and I could feel the wind passing through the tree, and the little ant on the blade of grass I could feel. The birds, the dust, and the very noise were a part of me. Just then, there was a car passing by at some distance; I was the driver, the engine, and the tyres. I was in everything, or rather everything was in me, inanimate and animate, the mountain, the worm, and all breathing things. All day long, I remained in this happy condition."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti 

"We have been brought up to identify ourselves with just the ego, and so we ignore and are unaware of the vast, vast extent of our Being. People who by various methods become fully aware of their cosmic Consciousness have what is called a mystical experience. They discover that the real deep, deep Self - that which you really are, fundamentally and forever - is the whole of Being. All that there is, that's you."
~ Alan Watts

"What you actually are, is Being. Being is not the mind thinking. Thinking is a movement, a motion. Being is the silence that precedes the motion. You cannot see it, you cannot grasp it, because you are it. The feeling that you are, the unadorned naked Awareness that is always there, rarely heeded, is what you always have been, always will be, cannot not be. You can't look for it because it is what is looking. It is like space, you can't see it but everything is in it. Everything is it."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti 

"You have to get away from all that madness for a while because we become insane, we get confused with our roles. Man is not his role. Man is deeper than that. So, go into the forest or some place alone in nature, all by yourself, and find out who you really are! And when you no longer confuse yourself with your particular temporary body, but identify with the entire process of nature and the whole cosmos... When death comes, what a funny thing that will happen. Death comes, and will find no one to kill."
~ Alan Watts

 

 

Thanks to Simon Bartholome