No personal enlightenment.
No grand awakening.
No final understanding.
No getting it.
No permanent state of bliss.
Absolutely nothing to achieve.
The Infinite is already present. How could the Infinite disappear/reappear?
The Infinite is what ‘you’ ARE.
Who do all of these transient images appear to?
Isn’t the answer ‘me’ just another image that appears and disappears?
Can images ‘do’ anything?
Knowing ALWAYS IS—but these words inevitably fall short…
‘Knowing ALWAYS IS’, what are these words pointing to?
Is this undeniable? Has this ever changed?
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Everything happens NOW
Q:Hi Jason - I like your blog a lot and realised that all non-dual people say there is ONLY THIS . The mind tries to conceptualise THIS but cant understand. So finally I just forget about it. Is THIS something that can be pointed in a more meaningful way? I keep hearing there is only this happening - what is happening , how can happening be described because everything moves into the past so quickly and I wonder if there is even a present moment?
I only experience thoughts all the time , thoughts about past and future and so dont know what is present moment. And then I just give up...All this is too complicated. I am OK with my pain, stories, suffering - who cares? I know I will live and die without any eventful stories.
A: Thank you for writing my friend. Time is thought--merely a concept about the past, future that is some sort of fear/worry/regret that can only be happening NOW. A thought cannot happen five minutes, five hours, five weeks or five years ago... There is an immediate registering that is happening spontaneously that cannot be 'turned off' so to speak. These thoughts, as you seem to recognize, are ephemeral appearances that cannot last. Whatever these stories may be, stories of pain, stories of suffering, stories of bliss, stories of peace, they appear and disappear without exception. All of these appearances in consciousness are transient, yet what 'you' ARE is the changeless, infinite background in which these seemingly separate images appear; just THIS. THIS is the changeless background in which all of the apparently separate objects appear on/in.
Exactly right! THIS cannot be known as a thought/concept, nor is it a thing to grab onto and say 'yes here it is...i have it' because that story of 'getting it' is just another appearance that appears and disappears. We can never know THIS, just the contents of THIS. There is not a special state that confirm this because any state that would appear would assuredly disappear. But, the habit of the mind doesn't 'like' that because it is used to finding and labeling. What knows the mind? Is 'me' or 'I' or 'your name' a thought? Can thoughts know thought?
So there is nothing to get or receive, no 'special' understanding or esoteric gain of any sort.
Recognize that the KNOWING....is not a thought. The effortless registering, that is ALWAYS shining this SEEING, for example of the computer monitor, doesn't require a thought.
This is what you ARE, prior to any investigation, prior to any search, prior to reading any scriptures....so start from the FACT that 'you' already ARE THAT, not a 'person' who is trying to 'get it'!
Any practice to obtain or get something is immediately futile because 'you' already ARE the infinite! What would be needed to add to the Totality?
That sense of BEING is always present, but it gets translated through the mind as the thought 'I AM'. This is where the separation appears to happen. Then the thoughts of 'me', 'I', 'your name' appear/disappear or 'i am a man, i am a good person'....So, 'your name' is just another thought/concept; thoughts and concepts don't 'do' anything (they're just labels), so there was never a person that existed who could have suffered!
My friend, suffering never happened.
Look now!
Do 'you' exist? (Surely 'you' do not say I AM NOT!!!, wouldn't that require existence to even state?)
Are 'you' awake?
What effort is needed to recognize the FACT of BEING? (certainly not twenty years in the Himalayas....)
Wouldn't BEING be a prerequisite for thoughts to appear?
That KNOWING is what 'you' ARE!
'You' are SEEING-ONENESS looking at itself, KNOWING, knowing itself, BEING, being itself....
much love,
jason
I only experience thoughts all the time , thoughts about past and future and so dont know what is present moment. And then I just give up...All this is too complicated. I am OK with my pain, stories, suffering - who cares? I know I will live and die without any eventful stories.
A: Thank you for writing my friend. Time is thought--merely a concept about the past, future that is some sort of fear/worry/regret that can only be happening NOW. A thought cannot happen five minutes, five hours, five weeks or five years ago... There is an immediate registering that is happening spontaneously that cannot be 'turned off' so to speak. These thoughts, as you seem to recognize, are ephemeral appearances that cannot last. Whatever these stories may be, stories of pain, stories of suffering, stories of bliss, stories of peace, they appear and disappear without exception. All of these appearances in consciousness are transient, yet what 'you' ARE is the changeless, infinite background in which these seemingly separate images appear; just THIS. THIS is the changeless background in which all of the apparently separate objects appear on/in.
Exactly right! THIS cannot be known as a thought/concept, nor is it a thing to grab onto and say 'yes here it is...i have it' because that story of 'getting it' is just another appearance that appears and disappears. We can never know THIS, just the contents of THIS. There is not a special state that confirm this because any state that would appear would assuredly disappear. But, the habit of the mind doesn't 'like' that because it is used to finding and labeling. What knows the mind? Is 'me' or 'I' or 'your name' a thought? Can thoughts know thought?
So there is nothing to get or receive, no 'special' understanding or esoteric gain of any sort.
Recognize that the KNOWING....is not a thought. The effortless registering, that is ALWAYS shining this SEEING, for example of the computer monitor, doesn't require a thought.
This is what you ARE, prior to any investigation, prior to any search, prior to reading any scriptures....so start from the FACT that 'you' already ARE THAT, not a 'person' who is trying to 'get it'!
Any practice to obtain or get something is immediately futile because 'you' already ARE the infinite! What would be needed to add to the Totality?
That sense of BEING is always present, but it gets translated through the mind as the thought 'I AM'. This is where the separation appears to happen. Then the thoughts of 'me', 'I', 'your name' appear/disappear or 'i am a man, i am a good person'....So, 'your name' is just another thought/concept; thoughts and concepts don't 'do' anything (they're just labels), so there was never a person that existed who could have suffered!
My friend, suffering never happened.
Look now!
Do 'you' exist? (Surely 'you' do not say I AM NOT!!!, wouldn't that require existence to even state?)
Are 'you' awake?
What effort is needed to recognize the FACT of BEING? (certainly not twenty years in the Himalayas....)
Wouldn't BEING be a prerequisite for thoughts to appear?
That KNOWING is what 'you' ARE!
'You' are SEEING-ONENESS looking at itself, KNOWING, knowing itself, BEING, being itself....
much love,
jason
Seeing, Seeing itself
Q:How can there be this Presence/Awareness without a body? Isn't this awareness contingent upon the body after all? I've sat with several people who have died-one moment they seem 'there'/aware and the next-nothing--like a rock. My understanding is that you saying that awareness is still there even when the body dies--and I can't seem to grok this!
Everything that is expressed about what never changes etc makes so much sense-it is indeed seen- but the thought quickly appears that it is because there is a body functioning. Without it, ??? How can anything be aware without that apparatus which then makes me wonder about ALL of the non duality message. It seems inextricably connected to the human form.
Even though I hear that it is not in the mind, the mind will never understand this, etc...is there no way to put this whereby the mind would feel at rest about it and stop this yes, but...business????
How can there be seeing, awaring, being without a physical apparatus in which to transmit this 'energy'????
Well hopefully you get the gist of the question and any words you'd like to share would be greatly appreciated.
A:Presence/Awareness ALWAYS IS. If what we say is that Presence/Awareness is Reality, then it must ALWAYS BE; there is never a time when it is not. First of all, can 'you' honestly say, at anytime, "I am not"? It seems that the sense of Being or Presence/Awareness ALWAYS IS.
But, somehow, there is a misunderstanding. The thought "I", "me" or "your name" is a label that is put on the body and that is seemingly taking credit for all of the actions that take place. But, thoughts cannot "do" anything--they are merely labels.
Take a good look: Does the body appear and disappear? Doesn't the body disappear in deep sleep? Notice that everything that is perceived or conceived is an appearance that comes and goes like waves in the ocean, but the waves are not separate from the ocean. There is only ONE essence appearing as the many.
So who is it, that sees this body? Isn't the answer: "I see the body"? It seems that everything refers back to this "I"?
Who/What is this "I"? Isn't this just another thought that appears and disappears? If you were to pause thoughts, surely 'you' don't disappear, because the word/label is not the thing being pointed out. The word fire will never burn anything, the word water will never get anything wet.....
Thoughts are merely labels or stories, and the mind is just a collection of thoughts or stories. The mind is hunger, searching, needing.....that's what the mind does, just see it for what it is. Isn't every thought, without exception, about some "other time" the past and future: "I really don't want to go to work tomorrow...I can't believe I said that at work yesterday.....I don't want to see my parents this weekend...."
But, aren't all of these thoughts happening HERE and NOW? It is impossible to "get out of" NOW!
SEEING is just happening spontaneously and effortlessly....then thoughts arise: "I am seeing the body" or "Is this body necessary to function?"
LIFE is living itself, SEEING itself, KNOWING itself....BEING itself....
What effort does it take to KNOW that 'you' are looking directly at a computer monitor RIGHT NOW?
What effort does it take to KNOW that 'you' are registering, effortlessly, the sensation of 'your' butt pressing up against a chair?
The apparently "separate" object cannot be separated from the SEEING/KNOWING. For instance, you hear the doorbell ring, without concepts or labels, what can 'you' possibly say about that sound without a concept? Later the thought appears: "I heard the doorbell ring" which creates duality a subject "me" or "I" then the "doorbell". Prior to those concepts of subject/object there was only the ringing of the doorbell.
Presence/Awareness cannot be separated from NOW.
This KNOWING is self-shining like the sun....and always shining....always aware-ing....
This KNOWING or sense of BEING is translated through the mind as the thought: "I Am". No one walks around and affirms to themselves, "I am" "I am" "I am"......
That KNOWING is always shining....this activity of KNOWING (that's right, 'you' are a verb!) ALWAYS IS.
love,
Jason
Everything that is expressed about what never changes etc makes so much sense-it is indeed seen- but the thought quickly appears that it is because there is a body functioning. Without it, ??? How can anything be aware without that apparatus which then makes me wonder about ALL of the non duality message. It seems inextricably connected to the human form.
Even though I hear that it is not in the mind, the mind will never understand this, etc...is there no way to put this whereby the mind would feel at rest about it and stop this yes, but...business????
How can there be seeing, awaring, being without a physical apparatus in which to transmit this 'energy'????
Well hopefully you get the gist of the question and any words you'd like to share would be greatly appreciated.
A:Presence/Awareness ALWAYS IS. If what we say is that Presence/Awareness is Reality, then it must ALWAYS BE; there is never a time when it is not. First of all, can 'you' honestly say, at anytime, "I am not"? It seems that the sense of Being or Presence/Awareness ALWAYS IS.
But, somehow, there is a misunderstanding. The thought "I", "me" or "your name" is a label that is put on the body and that is seemingly taking credit for all of the actions that take place. But, thoughts cannot "do" anything--they are merely labels.
Take a good look: Does the body appear and disappear? Doesn't the body disappear in deep sleep? Notice that everything that is perceived or conceived is an appearance that comes and goes like waves in the ocean, but the waves are not separate from the ocean. There is only ONE essence appearing as the many.
So who is it, that sees this body? Isn't the answer: "I see the body"? It seems that everything refers back to this "I"?
Who/What is this "I"? Isn't this just another thought that appears and disappears? If you were to pause thoughts, surely 'you' don't disappear, because the word/label is not the thing being pointed out. The word fire will never burn anything, the word water will never get anything wet.....
Thoughts are merely labels or stories, and the mind is just a collection of thoughts or stories. The mind is hunger, searching, needing.....that's what the mind does, just see it for what it is. Isn't every thought, without exception, about some "other time" the past and future: "I really don't want to go to work tomorrow...I can't believe I said that at work yesterday.....I don't want to see my parents this weekend...."
But, aren't all of these thoughts happening HERE and NOW? It is impossible to "get out of" NOW!
SEEING is just happening spontaneously and effortlessly....then thoughts arise: "I am seeing the body" or "Is this body necessary to function?"
LIFE is living itself, SEEING itself, KNOWING itself....BEING itself....
What effort does it take to KNOW that 'you' are looking directly at a computer monitor RIGHT NOW?
What effort does it take to KNOW that 'you' are registering, effortlessly, the sensation of 'your' butt pressing up against a chair?
The apparently "separate" object cannot be separated from the SEEING/KNOWING. For instance, you hear the doorbell ring, without concepts or labels, what can 'you' possibly say about that sound without a concept? Later the thought appears: "I heard the doorbell ring" which creates duality a subject "me" or "I" then the "doorbell". Prior to those concepts of subject/object there was only the ringing of the doorbell.
Presence/Awareness cannot be separated from NOW.
This KNOWING is self-shining like the sun....and always shining....always aware-ing....
This KNOWING or sense of BEING is translated through the mind as the thought: "I Am". No one walks around and affirms to themselves, "I am" "I am" "I am"......
That KNOWING is always shining....this activity of KNOWING (that's right, 'you' are a verb!) ALWAYS IS.
love,
Jason
Friday, January 9, 2009
Being is indisputable
How many more books need to be read?
How many more blogs need to be visited?
How many more meetings need to be attended?
How many more podcasts need to be listened to?
How many more Youtube videos need to be watched?
Memorizing and parroting quotes are completely worthless.
Any practice for that matter is worthless. It's all futile.
This hunger for more, presupposes that there is something to get or to achieve.
Anything that comes, most certainly goes…
There is nothing to get.
Seeing is already happening—prior to any searching.
Once this message is ‘heard’, take a look and investigate NOW.
YOU ARE, this is the only FACT that you are absolutely sure of, this isn’t debatable, a hypothesis or an assumption.
Surely you don’t doubt the FACT of Existence or Being!
Everything else is an assumption, simply an ephemeral appearance.
YOU ARE THIS—the open and empty space that these transient images appear and disappear in/on.
Are you present? Are you here? Are you awake? Is SEEING spontaneously happening?
With brutal honestly, is this an undeniable, indisputable Fact?
How many more blogs need to be visited?
How many more meetings need to be attended?
How many more podcasts need to be listened to?
How many more Youtube videos need to be watched?
Memorizing and parroting quotes are completely worthless.
Any practice for that matter is worthless. It's all futile.
This hunger for more, presupposes that there is something to get or to achieve.
Anything that comes, most certainly goes…
There is nothing to get.
Seeing is already happening—prior to any searching.
Once this message is ‘heard’, take a look and investigate NOW.
YOU ARE, this is the only FACT that you are absolutely sure of, this isn’t debatable, a hypothesis or an assumption.
Surely you don’t doubt the FACT of Existence or Being!
Everything else is an assumption, simply an ephemeral appearance.
YOU ARE THIS—the open and empty space that these transient images appear and disappear in/on.
Are you present? Are you here? Are you awake? Is SEEING spontaneously happening?
With brutal honestly, is this an undeniable, indisputable Fact?
Thursday, December 4, 2008
It Is
It seems that everything without exception—absolutely everything—that is perceived or conceived appears and disappears.
What is it that never changes?
This uninterrupted, direct and immediate self-shining experiencing, always, is just happening—NOW.
Has this direct and immediate experiencing ever been disrupted? Can you get ‘outside of’ of this. Can this experiencing be separated from HERE and NOW?
Have a look and see if this ‘me’ or ‘I’ is another story that appears and disappears?
If these thoughts disappear do ‘you’ disappear?
This unbroken sense of Presence cannot be denied.
The wise and ancient texts point that the Truth or Reality has never changed, not even for a ‘moment’.
The Fact of Being cannot possibly be a theory, hypothesis or belief. This is not hearsay—this very simple point cannot be ignored.
This sense of Being or Knowing-Presence is completely indescribable because concepts appear in it.
What is it that never changes?
This uninterrupted, direct and immediate self-shining experiencing, always, is just happening—NOW.
Has this direct and immediate experiencing ever been disrupted? Can you get ‘outside of’ of this. Can this experiencing be separated from HERE and NOW?
Have a look and see if this ‘me’ or ‘I’ is another story that appears and disappears?
If these thoughts disappear do ‘you’ disappear?
This unbroken sense of Presence cannot be denied.
The wise and ancient texts point that the Truth or Reality has never changed, not even for a ‘moment’.
The Fact of Being cannot possibly be a theory, hypothesis or belief. This is not hearsay—this very simple point cannot be ignored.
This sense of Being or Knowing-Presence is completely indescribable because concepts appear in it.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Nobody is Looking
There isn’t a person looking to see that there really isn’t a person there.
What is a person? Isn’t it just a compilation of thoughts?
Is there spontaneous and effortless pure registering prior to the thoughts ‘me’ or ‘I’?
Do ‘ you’ need to walk around and affirm: ‘I am’ 'I am’ 'I am’?
In that open and empty space, prior to the thought, ‘I am’ where is this person?
Prior to the thought 'I am' isn't there just a Knowing-Presence?
You are THAT.
What is a person? Isn’t it just a compilation of thoughts?
Is there spontaneous and effortless pure registering prior to the thoughts ‘me’ or ‘I’?
Do ‘ you’ need to walk around and affirm: ‘I am’ 'I am’ 'I am’?
In that open and empty space, prior to the thought, ‘I am’ where is this person?
Prior to the thought 'I am' isn't there just a Knowing-Presence?
You are THAT.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Pure KNOWING is not a concept
What is happening RIGHT NOW?
Is there SEEING of a computer monitor? Is a thought needed to verify this?
KNOWING is prior to thought; there will never be an answer in the mind.
If a fastball is moving right towards ‘your’ head,‘you’ don’t need to think
about moving out of the way?
There is just an immediate KNOWING – and that is what ‘you’ ARE, this immediate activity of KNOWING. ‘You’ are not a ‘thing’ – not a noun, but a verb – always shining…..
That’s why there is no practice to ‘get there’, nothing to find, no final question to finally ‘get it’ because there is absolutely no answer, no ‘stoned out’ bliss, no profound ‘Great Truth’….
You ARE ALREADY IT.
Gilbert points clearly – SEEING is happening…
Ordinary and simple – SEEING/KNOWING.
Is there SEEING of a computer monitor? Is a thought needed to verify this?
KNOWING is prior to thought; there will never be an answer in the mind.
If a fastball is moving right towards ‘your’ head,‘you’ don’t need to think
about moving out of the way?
There is just an immediate KNOWING – and that is what ‘you’ ARE, this immediate activity of KNOWING. ‘You’ are not a ‘thing’ – not a noun, but a verb – always shining…..
That’s why there is no practice to ‘get there’, nothing to find, no final question to finally ‘get it’ because there is absolutely no answer, no ‘stoned out’ bliss, no profound ‘Great Truth’….
You ARE ALREADY IT.
Gilbert points clearly – SEEING is happening…
Ordinary and simple – SEEING/KNOWING.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Light Switch
What YOU ARE is much like a light switch that is always turned on.
IT IS-ALWAYS KNOWING
There is never a time when YOU ARE not KNOWING
Nothing can possibly happen to it.
If 'you' were to get punched in the face, the skin may bruise...
Is the KNOWING of this effected?
Even in deep sleep, who hears the phone ring-or the alarm clock buzz?
So simple and ordinary
So incredibly subtle
So incredibly obvious.
The alleged difficulty is due to the fact that it is so simple and ordinary.
KNOWING is happen-ING, NOW!
YOU ARE this KNOWING.
IT IS-ALWAYS KNOWING
There is never a time when YOU ARE not KNOWING
Nothing can possibly happen to it.
If 'you' were to get punched in the face, the skin may bruise...
Is the KNOWING of this effected?
Even in deep sleep, who hears the phone ring-or the alarm clock buzz?
So simple and ordinary
So incredibly subtle
So incredibly obvious.
The alleged difficulty is due to the fact that it is so simple and ordinary.
KNOWING is happen-ING, NOW!
YOU ARE this KNOWING.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Stephen Wingate Interview
The Urban Guru Cafe is very highly recommended. The latest installment is an interview with Stephen Wingate.
The Urban Guru Cafe
Stephen Wingate's website
The Urban Guru Cafe
Stephen Wingate's website
Sunday, July 13, 2008
BE
Almost any 'teacher' can point to THAT which YOU ALREADY ARE-AWARENESS. But, it seems that very few ‘seekers’ accept this possibility and cannot conduct a thorough investigation. This investigation does not require an extraordinarily high I.Q, ‘spiritual’ preferences, a pious family, visiting ‘saints’ or twenty years in the Himalayas.
Accept this invitation as a possibility and discard the story of a separate individual.
The mind is one story after the other.....
A story arises...and another story arises to verify that story….
and an endless supply of stories are in the queue….. one fiction after the other
...fictions that lead to other fictions….but, they are just fictions...see them for what they are.
Have a look:
Who is this ‘I’ that doesn’t understand?
Who is this ‘I’ that is stressed out?
Who is this ‘I’ that doesn’t see clearly?
Who is this ‘I’?
Aren't there stories that verify this story of ‘I’? Can a thought do anything?
Isn't the 'I’ a subtle story for the sense of BEING?
Discard all stories and BE.
This BE-ING is the open space of KNOWING/SEEING that YOU ALREADY ARE.
Accept this invitation as a possibility and discard the story of a separate individual.
The mind is one story after the other.....
A story arises...and another story arises to verify that story….
and an endless supply of stories are in the queue….. one fiction after the other
...fictions that lead to other fictions….but, they are just fictions...see them for what they are.
Have a look:
Who is this ‘I’ that doesn’t understand?
Who is this ‘I’ that is stressed out?
Who is this ‘I’ that doesn’t see clearly?
Who is this ‘I’?
Aren't there stories that verify this story of ‘I’? Can a thought do anything?
Isn't the 'I’ a subtle story for the sense of BEING?
Discard all stories and BE.
This BE-ING is the open space of KNOWING/SEEING that YOU ALREADY ARE.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Discard all stories
There isn’t a ‘you’ who is SEEING, there is only SEEING.
Who is SEEING/KNOWING?
Perhaps the thought: “I see” arises.
This is an extraordinarily subtle story.
The mind takes credit for SEEING/KNOWING.
Discard the thought “I see” and what’s left?
Discard the concept SEEING/KNOWING.
What’s left?
Perhaps in that open space of KNOWING a thought will arise:
“Is this it?”
Discard it.
Didn’t the thought appear on THAT?
SEEING/KNOWING cannot be grasped by the mind because thoughts appear on THAT.
The description that thoughts appear “on” THAT is still duality, which implies that thoughts can appear some place other than THAT. Can a thought exist without it being known? The thought and SEEING/KNOWING, seemingly two are ONE.
There isn’t an answer…
(do not stop there and cling to the story of “no answer”)
In response to the reader who left the anonymous post “So then what?”
Just THIS – without an explanation; that’s about as close as words can point but even that’s false. All concepts are immediately duality and therefore, false.
Extremely subtle and so easily overlooked- so simple and very ordinary…
There seems to be some that are searching for an explosion of permanent bliss or supernatural powers as a confirmation. This is another story. Clinging to the idea of achieving a ‘stateless’ state is another trap. Abandon the search because there isn’t a goal to be reached. You ARE already THAT.
Who is SEEING/KNOWING?
Perhaps the thought: “I see” arises.
This is an extraordinarily subtle story.
The mind takes credit for SEEING/KNOWING.
Discard the thought “I see” and what’s left?
Discard the concept SEEING/KNOWING.
What’s left?
Perhaps in that open space of KNOWING a thought will arise:
“Is this it?”
Discard it.
Didn’t the thought appear on THAT?
SEEING/KNOWING cannot be grasped by the mind because thoughts appear on THAT.
The description that thoughts appear “on” THAT is still duality, which implies that thoughts can appear some place other than THAT. Can a thought exist without it being known? The thought and SEEING/KNOWING, seemingly two are ONE.
There isn’t an answer…
(do not stop there and cling to the story of “no answer”)
In response to the reader who left the anonymous post “So then what?”
Just THIS – without an explanation; that’s about as close as words can point but even that’s false. All concepts are immediately duality and therefore, false.
Extremely subtle and so easily overlooked- so simple and very ordinary…
There seems to be some that are searching for an explosion of permanent bliss or supernatural powers as a confirmation. This is another story. Clinging to the idea of achieving a ‘stateless’ state is another trap. Abandon the search because there isn’t a goal to be reached. You ARE already THAT.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A Simple Experiment
Try this…..
Hold your breath
Turn your head –very slowly- until your head cannot turn anymore to the left
Then, rotate– very slowly – until your head cannot turn anymore to the right
Exhale.
Were there any worries or problems? Any sort of drama?
Was there a judgmental attitude of good/bad 'separate’ objects?
Was there a pure nakedness without labels? A pure recording?
Was this a direct experience or a belief?
Rest in THIS
SEEING/KNOWING....
Hold your breath
Turn your head –very slowly- until your head cannot turn anymore to the left
Then, rotate– very slowly – until your head cannot turn anymore to the right
Exhale.
Were there any worries or problems? Any sort of drama?
Was there a judgmental attitude of good/bad 'separate’ objects?
Was there a pure nakedness without labels? A pure recording?
Was this a direct experience or a belief?
Rest in THIS
SEEING/KNOWING....
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Call off the Search
Running towards the horizon trying to catch the sunset
Futile
There isn't an "answer" or "solution"
It cannot be understood because it is KNOWING
Futile
There isn't an "answer" or "solution"
It cannot be understood because it is KNOWING
Monday, June 23, 2008
The Movie Camera
What you ARE is much like a transparent, invisible movie camera; it is recording absolutely everything spontaneously without exception. But, it is not an object, yet contains all objects.
Does a movie camera make a judgment on what is good/bad?
Does a movie camera create labels or comment on what is happening?
Isn’t everything recording effortlessly right NOW? Isn’t everything IMMEDIATE?
A miraculous spontaneous unfolding…
A witnessing-being-presence…
Ranjit called it the bird’s way. Does a bird leave a trace as it flies through the sky? Everything is happening NOW!
No past, no future – those are just stories.
Aren't stories a desire/fear about what will happen or what has already happened?
AWARENESS is recording all of this NOW.
When you are watching a movie at the theater, all of these appearances on the movie screen come and go – no exceptions. It is all a beautiful play of shimmering energy appearing as forms. You would never check to see if the screen is alright after the building exploded in the movie! Doesn’t the constant shifting appearance imply a changeless background?
What must be perfectly clear is that the SEEING/KNOWING (movie camera) is not separate from anything (any apparently ‘separate’ object). Seemingly two - there is only ONENESS, because there must be a KNOWING for anything (any ‘separate’ object) to exist -two sides of ONE coin.
You ARE SEEING-ONENESS! This is Randall Friend’s invaluable, profound pointer.
When a bird is chirping….
Isn’t there an effortless spontaneous KNOWING that happens? No one tells you about it, this is direct experiencing. Doesn’t a story shortly follow thereafter: “Oh…that’s a beautiful song the bird is singing…I wonder what kind of bird this is?” Remove the story - what is happening NOW?
Be brutally honest, is it happening to a “me”, or is it just happening spontaneously?
Isn’t there only the chirping?
Now remove the story of the movie camera or SEEING-ONENESS…and what is left?
Does a movie camera make a judgment on what is good/bad?
Does a movie camera create labels or comment on what is happening?
Isn’t everything recording effortlessly right NOW? Isn’t everything IMMEDIATE?
A miraculous spontaneous unfolding…
A witnessing-being-presence…
Ranjit called it the bird’s way. Does a bird leave a trace as it flies through the sky? Everything is happening NOW!
No past, no future – those are just stories.
Aren't stories a desire/fear about what will happen or what has already happened?
AWARENESS is recording all of this NOW.
When you are watching a movie at the theater, all of these appearances on the movie screen come and go – no exceptions. It is all a beautiful play of shimmering energy appearing as forms. You would never check to see if the screen is alright after the building exploded in the movie! Doesn’t the constant shifting appearance imply a changeless background?
What must be perfectly clear is that the SEEING/KNOWING (movie camera) is not separate from anything (any apparently ‘separate’ object). Seemingly two - there is only ONENESS, because there must be a KNOWING for anything (any ‘separate’ object) to exist -two sides of ONE coin.
You ARE SEEING-ONENESS! This is Randall Friend’s invaluable, profound pointer.
When a bird is chirping….
Isn’t there an effortless spontaneous KNOWING that happens? No one tells you about it, this is direct experiencing. Doesn’t a story shortly follow thereafter: “Oh…that’s a beautiful song the bird is singing…I wonder what kind of bird this is?” Remove the story - what is happening NOW?
Be brutally honest, is it happening to a “me”, or is it just happening spontaneously?
Isn’t there only the chirping?
Now remove the story of the movie camera or SEEING-ONENESS…and what is left?
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Direct Experience vs. Belief
To KNOW without a shadow of a doubt the Truth of what you already ARE there must be direct experiencing. It seems that there are many ‘seekers’ clinging desperately to concepts without conducting a full investigation. All that is necessary is recognizing what is happening RIGHT NOW. You are probably SEEING words on a computer screen RIGHT NOW. You are 100% certain of this. Nothing could convince you otherwise.
Listen.
What is happening?
Look.
What do you see?
Perhaps it is raining and you see the droplets falling, crashing against the window. This is direct experiencing not a belief.
Anything that requires a story to exist – is immediately false.
This is belief.
When you were a small child your parents told you the story of Santa Claus. Without any reason to doubt or question, you trusted your parents. They told you that he lives at the North Pole, has a team of elves that work endlessly and has eight tiny reindeer…
What if you were to conduct a full investigation? What if you went to the North Pole and searched for this toy factory? What if you did the math and calculated the number of houses he would have to stop at all over the world? What if we rounded up a group of witnesses and recorded the lack of physical proof? The evidence would surely be mounting against the jolly elf but what if we just stayed up very late on Christmas Eve and watched what happened around the Christmas tree?
As you stealthily hide behind the couch, you directly SEE your parents placing presents underneath the tree! The whole story crumbles. Everything attached to that false belief of “Santa Claus”… must also be false!
No Santa Claus.
No elves.
No reindeer.
Nothing.
It was all a story that was believed in – just forms of hearsay and conjecture. Direct experience instantaneously destroys belief.
If you conduct an investigation of the story of “me” thoroughly, isn’t everything a story? Aren’t there stories to verify other stories? Follow these stories backwards until the point of no return: no questions, no answers and nothing to say about it. No label (word or concept) can stick because it is THAT which is witnessing these concepts arise. Simply rest in that open space of KNOWING.
Listen.
What is happening?
Look.
What do you see?
Perhaps it is raining and you see the droplets falling, crashing against the window. This is direct experiencing not a belief.
Anything that requires a story to exist – is immediately false.
This is belief.
When you were a small child your parents told you the story of Santa Claus. Without any reason to doubt or question, you trusted your parents. They told you that he lives at the North Pole, has a team of elves that work endlessly and has eight tiny reindeer…
What if you were to conduct a full investigation? What if you went to the North Pole and searched for this toy factory? What if you did the math and calculated the number of houses he would have to stop at all over the world? What if we rounded up a group of witnesses and recorded the lack of physical proof? The evidence would surely be mounting against the jolly elf but what if we just stayed up very late on Christmas Eve and watched what happened around the Christmas tree?
As you stealthily hide behind the couch, you directly SEE your parents placing presents underneath the tree! The whole story crumbles. Everything attached to that false belief of “Santa Claus”… must also be false!
No Santa Claus.
No elves.
No reindeer.
Nothing.
It was all a story that was believed in – just forms of hearsay and conjecture. Direct experience instantaneously destroys belief.
If you conduct an investigation of the story of “me” thoroughly, isn’t everything a story? Aren’t there stories to verify other stories? Follow these stories backwards until the point of no return: no questions, no answers and nothing to say about it. No label (word or concept) can stick because it is THAT which is witnessing these concepts arise. Simply rest in that open space of KNOWING.
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