About Life Answers: A Complete Audiobook Reading of Sri Nisargadatta Maharajah's I AM THAT
For more information about this project, please listen to the Introductory Episode, or read the text for that episode which can be found here: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/life-answers-a-complete-audiobook-reading-of-sri-nisargadatta-maharajahs-i-am-that/
Is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj a kind of "father to the soul" of his followers? Is he a father to your soul? In what way? [Comments welcome! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabT_5dA_R4&t=932s&ab_channel=LivingTheBookofDisquiet)]
“Who am I, finally, when I’m not playing? A poor orphan left out in the cold among sensations, shivering on the street corners of Reality, forced to sleep on the steps of Sadness and to eat the bread offered by Fantasy. I was told that my father, whom I never knew, is called God, but the name means nothing to me. Sometimes at night, when I’m feeling lonely, I call out to him with tears and form an idea of him I can love. But then it occurs to me that I don’t know him, that perhaps he’s not how I imagine, that perhaps this figure has never been the father of my soul…”
-Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)
12 May 2024
63. I Am (Lucid Dreaming) That?
“An episode chiefly inspired by a 10 second piece of animation by Alyssa on her YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUO6SO7cwuc).
Check out the full TWELVE SECOND video (plot-twist?) here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUO6SO7cwuc).
Also, if you enjoyed the vid version of this on Spotify, please consider subscribing to my new YouTube Channel Living The Book of Disquiet (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE29hlYCk00lTLxt-hM-h9Q), for more of these 🙏🏼
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This episode is also inspired by the following quote from fragment 32 of Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet:
Underlying everything, the hushed night was the tomb of God (and my soul felt sorry for God).”
OTHER TOPICS THAT CROP UP:
-Lucid Dreaming: Rob’s experiences with lucid dreaming and the techniques he used to achieve it (counting backwards, repeating a phrase while falling asleep).
-Finding Beauty in the Mundane: the concept of cultivating a "waking dream" mentality, where one finds wonder and beauty in everyday experiences. Cf. Eckhart Tolle/Nisargadatta.
The Yearning for Connection: Lost loves, and the desire to recapture those feelings of connection and shared experiences. The possibility of finding a similar connection through lucid dreaming.
-Techniques for Lucid Dreaming: dream journaling, sensory deprivation, and meditation.
Life as a Waking Dream: living one’s life as a lucid dream state, rather than feeling trapped in our waking nightmares.
-In The Forest of Estrangement: A text written in 1912 and forming the initial foundations for TBOD according to a letter to João de Lebre e Lima, in which FP talks about his new project. Read both the letter, as well as In The Forest of Estrangement here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bOQQwJ6wt035RwSTrA3akITbZi9W3FLHuRWzDI5LOgU/edit?usp=sharing).
5 May 2024
62. An Arid Heart
"Sadly, or perhaps not, I recognize that I have an arid heart. An adjective matters more to me than the real weeping of a human soul. But sometimes I’m different."
-Fernando Pessoa
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I'm taking a bit of a break from Nisargadatta for a while. Heading off to do a bit of communing with another of my gurus (Fernando Pessoa) who I think still has a fair amount to teach me.
If you'd like to keep in touch, please consider joining us on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0VnAJY8OveaCzmqZvHTIOh?si=Mq8D8AtoT7mdyL2RjxWi2g) (or iTunes) (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/living-the-book-of-disquiet/id1652211543) for more of this kind of soul-searching.
Thank you, friends.
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