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Jim Newman - The Simplicity of What Is
Letting Go & The Greatest Secret
Changelessness Is Part of the Illusion
The mind thinks there's a reasonableness to life that is actually absent, isn't it? Yeah. So the changelessness is part of the illusion. But no one changes all the time, doesn't it? No, only knowing is right. That's what I said, but knowing changes all thetime. Every new.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, the
Speaker 2
mind, the mind thinks there's a reasonableness to life that is actually absent, isn't it? Yeah.
Speaker 1
Oh, completely. No, it's completely, it's complete chaos.
Speaker 2
I remember when I first heard that part of the message, I, I rebelled against it because the, the inculcation or the, um, well, actually that this, it brings up a good question. Uh, is, isn't there also a sense of changelessness? No. Okay. So the changelessness is part of the illusion. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Yeah.
Speaker 2
Oh, and that's what the person is looking for is that changelessness. Yes.
Speaker 1
Something secure. Right. Something, something reassuring, something that can be known. So changing, knowing is changeless.
Speaker 2
But no one changes all the
Speaker 1
time, doesn't it? No, only knowing
Speaker 2
is right. That's what I said, but knowing changes all the time. Every new.
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When you, when we're talking about knowing in that sense, I think when you talk about consciousness or the, um, what do you call it, the witness? Yes. That is the experience of an unchanging presence, a constant to which everything happens. Right.
Speaker 2
But that's still part of the dream.
Speaker 1
That is the dream. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3
Yeah.
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