I've been reading I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj.
There's a lot I don't like about this book, but there's also a lot I do.
The thing that occured to me this morning is that there's a relationship between Nisargadatta's main message and the blessing at the end of most Anglican (Christian??) services.
The blessing goes like this...
In the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit, may the peace of Christ, which passes all understanding,
be with you, and remain with you, always.
Nisargadatta's main message is to go beyond mind and examine profoundly the sense of
I Am.
Where does understanding lay?? In the the mind you say? So when one experiences a peace beyond the mind...
" 'I am' itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor the mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love."