The little word is (and all of the other derivatives of the verb
to be) gets used more than any other word in the English language.
We have been taught how to define our selves and our world, who we are and how we relate to others in terms of am,
be, is, are .. etc - thus creating within ourselves and our mind all sorts of logical error, emotional distortion,
and demonological thinking - a confusion between reality and illusion.
the little i sometimes struggles to find words to explain experiences in such a way that mind can comprehend the processes that
many people experience - and that, through the understanding, they can allow the mind + body to move through with the least experience of trauma.
Cartesian Words, the Newtonian Expression of the English Language (or any language where there is a definition of stasis or fixed state can NEVER define
IS for the simple reason that IS does not exist as a constant state of Truth or Falsehood.
IS could perhaps be best describes as a principle of re-creative process, not a statement of fact.
The moment some-thing IS, a past event becomes recreated in the now through the personality and perceptions based on conditioned learning.
However, the perception of the mind can only become aware of (and interpret an image or impression of) what has already happened at least 500 milliseconds ago in some past instant of time.
Your own personal and individual perception, comprehension and conscious awareness of the experience that you had is unique to you. The HOW of the past experience and some possible explanations as to WHY is for your determination only.
No other person can have that exact same experience because the patterns and the conditioning that make up your mind which interprets your experience are unique to you.
However - perhaps an understanding of the mechanism of the experiencing sequence will allow each to release the consequential "experience-having-you" which follows when the mind goes over and over what one perceives or interprets as happening in the now in this moment .. which is really nothing more than the mind continually trying to hold onto and recreate the past by thinking about it in terms of the little word is.
If you don't actively think about "some-thing", then the mind's experience is of "no-thing"
"things" are passing through and by all of your sensory awareness all of the time (and this happens anyway) - without the mind becoming
attached to any one thing at the exclusion of all other things through the use of the stasis word is (or one of its parts)
Attachment results in re-imprinting and happens the moment the mind identifies with some-thing - as illustrated by
Descartes "I Think, therefore I Am .."
Re-imprinting of a belief, a pattern, even a trauma happens in exactly the same way and this only takes 750 milliseconds.
In other words, if you think you are unworthy, then that is the word picture and the belief image that will be created of you within your memory matrix.
Just as easily you can let it go.
ISNESS can never be known by the Cartesian mind
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"Isness: What IS and What IS NOT .. That is the question" was written, published and copyright by Transpersonal Lifestreams, Hobart, Tasmania. The url of this page is http://www.transpersonal.com.au/about/is-ness.htm and it was updated in July, 2005
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