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Just Being

1.43: Coalescence beyond thought- objects cease to be colored by memory, now formless, only their essential nature shines forth

One morning, neurologist Jill Bolte Taylor woke up with a headache. A blood vessel then burst inside her left hemisphere, and silenced all the brain chatter in her head. She was left with no language. No memories. Just sensory intake and an all-encompassing feeling of joy. (From her memoir, “My Stroke of Insight”.)

No labels, no details, no associations, no memories. “Stripped of the usual accoutrements of category and meaning with which the mind dresses up an object to set it apart from other objects: this is an apple, apples are red, I like apples.” (Chip Hartranft)

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What is the experience of Reality before the labels, details, the memories and associations? A few who have known this report a deep sense of peace and contentment, a connection to all things. This Reality allows one to rest in that nonjudgmental, non-discriminating state of ‘just being’. You need not have thoughts; you only understand the being of your true self.

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