Japan Acupuncture, Phoenix, AZ （日本鍼灸、アリゾナ

"Understand the subtle difference, what are you and what do you understand to be you?" Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Definition of "truth" by Merriam Webster dictionary: constancy.
Our body decays and is not constant. So, what are we?
What is your true Self?

Japan Acupuncture, Phoenix, AZ （日本鍼灸、アリゾナ）

Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona

Next time you see florescent light, I want you to take a moment.  Close your eyes for two minuets and open and look at the light.  It is light green, and you see, slowly, the green turns to white.  Our brain converts the green light wavelength to white.  What we see as white is actually “is not.”  Question is:  what is real and what is illusion?  Our suffering is based on not knowing exactly that.  Most of us are attached to emotions and past conditionings of what we think we are, but not knowing who we really are.

Using Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s metaphor, I would like to point out that an act of flickering of a lighter.  Fuel is the body or foods.  An act of flicking is a moment of experience:  either nonverbal or a profound wow moment.  It is an illumination.  Light produced is the consciousness awareness.  It shines as long as fuel is supplied.  When let go our finger from a trigger, light is gone……..or is it?  Light is there no matter what an action is.  Similarly, consciousness is there, before and after our so-called death.  Our true self, which is the consciousness, is unborn and undying. 

Let go yourself.  It does not exist, nor “I" exits.  Then, what are you?  Know what is truly real.

Last thing.  What if we are able to extinguish consciousness, then what are we?

Cut off your head and find out.

January 18, 2013

© 2013 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC