Seeing-Knowing

The true nature of Life is spontaneous.  This spontaneous nature is all inclusive.

Mind is spontaneously mechanical and rooted in the past. The past is dead and gone.

This livingness, right now, is all there ever is.

Out of this clear and empty nature of pure being – pure mind – everything spontaneously appears.

The bondage of self is a fiction.   Memory will serve very well, once the ‘me fixation’ is dissolved.

The repeating patterns that appear to make up the appearance of world and body, thought, feeling and emotion, are nothing but pure energy – spontaneously expressing AS ‘things’ or objects.   The pure subject of all things is No Thing – emptiness.  It is not even a subject.

Everything is appearance and there is no entity abiding anywhere.

LIFE is spontaneous.  ’You’ can never grasp it – you can only ever BE that.

The mind is time, thought, concept, and the illusion of being separate.  We must use the mind to understand the mind.  Question everything!!! –  and discover that belief is never the actuality of pure ‘knowing’- pure being.

If you go in search of conceptual answers to clear away your doubts and questions, then consciousness is, for you, an infinite complexity, which will never come to an end.

What is true is always simple.  A ‘teacher’ who asks you to follow some complex explanation of the meaning of life, which requires belief and mental structures that on must remember, is not pointing at what is true.

Nothing can live without energy.  Belief structures require constant attention (energy) otherwise they fade away.  A great deal of diss-ease flourishes due to this constant maintenance of beliefs.

The clear and self-evident sign of freedom from erroneous beliefs, even if just for a brief moment, is the sense of relief that permeates the being.  That sign of relief is a sure sign of where freedom from erroneous belief is.   It is not a location in space or time and it has no direction in the mind.   It may be called ‘thoughtless reality’ or simply an ease of being.  The burden of carrying beliefs is a heavy one and it is unnecessary.

The complexities of belief move away in direct proportion to the ‘amount’ of freedom from belief accrues.   That is just an expression.  One metaphor is that if one were to walk from the midst of a dense forest out into an open field, it appears that there is more space.

Of course there is no more space than there is.  It feels like there is more space.

It is the same when the ‘forest of belief’ is ‘walked away from’.  The ground of being is like space.  The appearance of ‘things’ requires space to appear in.  The true nature of mind is clear and empty.  Because it is clear and empty, ‘things’ can appear and disappear in that space.  Being identified with the content of mind is the ‘cause’ of a great deal of suffering.   The question to ask is ‘who is it happening to?’

What I am, what you are, is eternally prior to every atom.  What appears, appears upon THAT, which is not made of any thing.

Just as the eyes are clear and empty, the mind is also clear and empty.  Being identified with the apparent content is only an appearance.  You are not in the body.  The body appears in what you are.  It also disappears in what you are.  Fear of death is attachment to ideas.

SEEING that there is no past, no future and no present, is the revelation beyond all revelations.

The witness of Life has no capacity to know anything.  Memories are constructs made from yesterdays building blocks.

All there IS is this immediate cognition.  There is no ‘knower’.

In a previous Posting Erin says in the comments: “The Insufferable Me-Me-Me is so thin you can see through it”.

The SEEING contains it all. It is ALL SEEING. Once you see the transparent story of me, the belief in it is on the verge of being thrown over. This ‘period of time’ is vital and brief. What must be seen is that the mind ‘comes back in’ and appears upon THAT which (is) was so clear and so obvious, without thought or mind.

Just like the shining darkness of the universe is the host of all the galaxies, stars, planets and endless play of light and shadows. You are THAT…..the Ever Present Prior-ity.

We see and experience things ‘in life’ that grate against something in ourselves.  It is our problem – it is not ‘out there’.

What is the friction happening on?  Who is upset?  Who is it happening to – who dislikes so and so or such and such?  Who is it?  What is it?   We can spend an entire life time avoiding that core issue – why?

Resonance in the Heart is an e-book and now it is an AUDIO BOOK. It is a re-edited version approximately 2 hours long.

The audio book is now available – click HERE to order  -  Here is a sample for those who want to listen.  Audio Book Sample

Here is some feedback on the (entire) audio book:

“Gilbert, I have to give you some feedback on the audio. Powerful stuff!! It quickly settles one into a relaxed mode of receptivity and does teeter on the meditative, with excellent spaced pauses. Several times the sensation of floating was there quite strong (one is aware that one is aware of this sensation too!)  - Of course the potency is derived from the direct pointing, but all the subtle background sounds only enhance and illuminate the clarity. There was something very simple and natural I felt about this audio” – S.

Clear insights are happening – only because seeing is happening – the mind will always translate via the memory and the ‘me of memory’ only carries on as a ‘problem’ because of belief. It is a vicious circle of one concept feeds another and on it goes. Cut it off by removing belief. Then see what happens.
The general advice is to let everything be what it is…(appearance)…do not try to alter anything. What will be noticed is the tendency to go with the story of me. Habits can be broken. How many of YOU are there? The conflict between modified self images (identified consciousness) cannot survive as a believed in ‘thing’ if it is investigated by the original belief free consciousness. Remember that it is ALL appearance only.

You may be theorising about WHY a lot of the time……..and make no mistake it is that, that takes you back into belief. Vigilance! Quiet noticing of what is.

Be quiet and see.

Satsang is a joke usually. It is just precious self-images playing hide and seek. The guru is the main player and holds all the aces up his sleeve. It is a parody of the most insidious kind. The more precious it looks, the more deluded are the players. Who cares?

The only value of a one to one consultation is that the mind can be put on the spot. Saving face is seen through…..

You can do this for yourself. Just be 100% genuine.

Belief in erroneous ‘things’ will dissolve by itself.

A clear insight will ‘come’ so long as you keep dropping the engagement (deny belief OR simply letting it be as it is, without ‘going’ with the story) with whatever the story of me appears ‘as’. Appearance is not reality.

There is no success or failure. You are already THAT. The mind is time – no answer in it.

It may just seem like another set of words – the mind is time – one needs to really see the truth of this fact. The mind is Maya – no one EVER wakes up in the dream and there is no way out of the dream. You must SEE that the dream NEVER actually happened – time never started ticking. There is only this present moment and those words are just labels.

All the striving, the reaching for, the grasping at, is all in vain. STOP trying to see – STOP trying to know.
Seeing-knowing is already happening beyond the limits of mind and believed in identity.
SEEING is happening. KNOWING is happening. ‘You’ are not ‘doing it’.
That is the realisation.
The ‘past’ is formless concept-less consciousness.
The ‘future’ is formless concept-less consciousness.
The ‘present’ is formless concept-less consciousness.
Forget everything and be what you actually are.
This is effortless living.

Freedom as thoughtless reality. It could be as easy as removing all concepts pertaining to time and then simply being thought free, unattached to whatever thought or thing appears. The mind could not cloud up with delusions about tomorrow or yesterday. The clarity of being is not in the mind.
Language is a tool for communication. Language implies many things that are nothing but imaginary, yet because these things are commonly believed in, we may never question their actuality.
There are no realms of time in the actuality of this immediate consciousness. You cannot be anywhere else than ‘as’ this immediate consciousness right now. All concepts about other times only appear in this unchanging immediacy, this presence – this awareness, now. The following demonstrates how the concept of time implies other-ness.
And the day will (has) come when men (self-proclaimed saviours – mere preachers) shall speak of love and truth as if they were commodities that only they can offer and sell to you – and you will be (are) completely alone with your response. All of your trusted advisors will (have) abandoned you and the eternal moment of reality will (is) bear (ing) witness to the light of truth shining from your own eyes.
When movement is stillness and stillness is movement, when the mind is no mind and no mind is mind, then (now) nothing shall be (is) hidden. All of the past will be (is) formless consciousness and the future, the same – and so it is that discriminating mind is brought to its knees and its crown is removed. Only then (now) will you know your own true freedom (freedom from the illusions of mind).

The message is not hidden, except by words. One must look past the words and find the truth of your own experiencing.

The story about conditioned mind is only conceptualisation. If you want to discover your true nature, go in the direction of naked cognition.
The required insight is nothing but naked seeing – and seeing is already happening – and you are not ‘doing it’.

Before language, before the limits of mind were ever imagined, your true nature abides serenely beyond body or mind.
The first and last frontier is unspeakable.
Here, no one exists except existence itself. Maya has no power to weave its apparent magic of delusional mind.

No attachment can attach itself to anything here.
The absolute potentiality of all existence has never manifested even one atom here.
The self-aware radiance of being knows no boundary and shines through all circumstances of mind and matter. This natural being rests on nothing at all and the beauty of its radiance is free of any form called a witness.

Question:

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The question comes from discriminating mind. The question about ‘how’ is based on belief that ‘I am the doer’ and I can change what is.  This must be bypassed one way or another.  Everything is an expression of THAT single essence – One without a second.  Mind is time – being is timeless.  Seeing is not via a seer or the seen.  The seer and the seen depend on the pure function of seeing and without it, they do not exist in any way shape or form.  See concepts as leaves on the tree (of life). There is no separation. It is only a display in mind that appears to divide the natural oneness. Contrived mind games are not the ‘seeing’ itself. Contrived mind games are a display of possibilities. Everything is clear and obvious as it is. By taking a stand ‘as’ a pattern in the display, a bias comes into play. The pattern that appears (anywhere) does not have the capacity of seeing-knowing. The pattern appears upon the knowing. You are formless. Identification with form (devotion) can only deliver identified consciousness back to its origins when it is TOTAL identification. The identification dissolves into the formless via devotion to the form (often a guru). Such a ‘path’ is long and often without completion. The direct path (jnana – knowing) cuts away the identification with form by pure seeing – seeing that I am formless. All points of view are floating upon pure seeing and are naturally a biased distortion of seeing – like a wonky lens. Withdraw back into pure seeing and forget about being a ‘seer’. One instant of total pure seeing is enough. Few will agree. ‘People’ do not want truth – because what is true undermines their investment with ‘me’.