Presidio School of Management - MBA in Sustainable Management

Urban Ecovillage Conference in Chicago Nov. 9-11 2007

Rating System : Discussion

Edward West holds a BS in Mechanical
Engineering from Yale University and an MBA in Sustainable Business
Management from the Presidio School of Management (expected
graduation, May 2007). His background includes solar-powered car
design, engineering consulting, robotics, and running a small
photography studio. His passions include musing about the future of
emergent web-driven community knowledge sharing, developmental
psychology, and Zen Buddhism.


Here's his favorite Nisargadatta quote:

Of the unknowable only silence talks. The mind can talk only of what it knows. If you diligently investigate the knowable, it dissolves and only the unknowable remains. But with the first flicker of imagination, interest in the unknowable is obscured and the known comes to the fore. The known, the changing, is what you live with- the unchangeable is of no use to you. Only when you are satiated with the changeable and long for the unchangeable, are you ready for the turning round and stepping into what can be described, when seen from the level of the mind, as emptiness and darkness. The mind craves content and variety, while reality is, to the mind, contentless and invariable.

The person is merely the result of a misunderstanding. There is no such thing. Feelings thoughts and actions race before the watcher in endless succession, creating an illusion of continuity.

Only the sense 'I am' persisted- unchanged. Stay with the changeless among the changeful until you are able to go beyond.

-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj