Seeing-Knowing

The life force is registering in this pure cognition as form. The One energy is forming the body and all the thoughts, feelings, sensations plus the world, without separating itself into parts. It appears that it is through the form that everything is known in the immediacy. There is no separation. However, if the consciousness is identified solely with the form, then ’separation’ appears to be real.

One Awareness appears AS everything and it is infinitely diverse. At each apparent center of cognition a different body appears AS the First Pattern to appear in the vast field of diversity. That pattern is ‘your body’ and it appears in MIND. One Awareness – One Mind. You cannot find awareness in the same way that you cannot find mind. They are One and the same. Being identified with the first pattern of the appearance is the ‘link’ to be identified with the world of appearance. The body must be included in the naked seeing as an appearance – then the identification loses its hold. In this naked knowing you cannot say what you are – but you cannot negate that you are. What I am pointing out is not usually spoken of. What is more digestible is erroneous information about ‘things’ that one can identify with and so the erroneous teachings are exceedingly popular – yet no one gets free. How ironic it all is.

Bring it back to the immediate.

So even this life force, which animates everything is ‘pointing’ at the empty space-like awareness in which this immediate SEEING-KNOWING is ‘happening’. The evidence is what it is.

You are this immediacy of knowing. Anyone who suggests that you are anything beyond that is just making up a story and cannot prove anything about what they are pointing at. It is hocus pocus.  What is being pointed at here can be verified instantly and the truth of it is totally available right now.

You are not a ‘happening’ or an ‘event’ in ‘time’ or ’space’. There is no need to accept or reject anything. A response may appear “What a relief”.

A relief for whom? The habit of believing that I am an individual needs to be broken. From a worldly sense, such a suggestion is unheard of. Preposterous. From a worldly sense the whole point is to fortify the belief in being a separate individual and to protect that belief with all your might. Hence all the conflict and suffering.

Take a closer look at this ‘drama’ of life. Investigate the images and see what it all is. It is similar to a movie projected on a screen.

Go up to the screen and see that it is all nothing at all like it appears to be. Expand it, examine it. The character in this movie (me) is a mind projection. Seeing it for what it is frees up the fixation of focus on the illusion. You do not have to do any ten day meditation retreats or watch endless videos about non duality. There is actually nothing to do, apart from seeing what is.

Everything that ‘you’ think about yourself is merely translation of the mind. Every word of it is a word that you have learned (in the so-called past).

The ‘presence’ that you are, is the ‘ground’ upon which all these concepts and words play out their apparent ‘meaning’. So long as the central character is believed to be ‘what I am’, then the ‘state of affairs’ prevents a clear view of ‘what is’ to ‘happen’. It could be said that intelligence ‘acts’ as an uncompromising elimination of the obscuring factors, without mercy or hindrance from any ‘thing’.

This ‘act’ could be likened to ‘light’ shining through belief. It is naked ‘knowing’. In ‘ancient times’ this ‘power’ of seeing-knowing was known by the name of ‘GOD’. In some traditions it was and still is forbidden to utter the name of GOD. That symbolizes the truth of the matter but nothing more can be said about that. Yet, it is spoken of by everyone, irrespective of what is said, it is THAT itself expressing as words and concepts. Even an Atheist, the ‘non believer’ can only utter any word because that ‘life force’ is there ‘prior’ to the appearance of the utterance.

You cannot detect your own true nature as an ‘object’. Search as long as you wish, you will not find it because the power of cognition is ‘prior’ to anything that is cognised. Your appearance as that form called a body-mind is exceptionally ordinary – nothing ‘special’ and yet it is totally unique. It is not a ‘person’. In recognizing your own true nature, one recognizes the true nature of all apparent ‘others’. This cognition is ALL-inclusive. It could NOT be any other way. Smiling happens spontaneously and the relief of not searching for your ’self’ is a blessed relief.

The Current flowing through the WHOLE is ONE Current, One LIFE, expressing itself without the hint of any obstruction whatsoever. Any apparent obstruction is being ‘made’ by the current and is THAT. There are no exceptions.

It has been demonstrated many times in ‘my life’ that if I start speaking clearly and precisely (about this ’stuff’) amongst ‘ordinary folk’ in a social situation, one by one they will all leave the room – make their excuses, and go away as quickly as possible. If they cannot leave for one reason or another they will band together and make verbal attacks in an attempt to discredit this apparent ‘me’ here. The belief in ‘me’ is common. 99.9999999% believe, without question, in the ‘me sense’.

This radical and cutting ‘knowledge’ cannot be forced onto anyone with any success. Such activities lead to blood being spilled.

Those who gravitate to it, do so, not by any choice of their own. It appears that a certain ‘willingness’ to explore must be present. I am no missionary nor am I an agent for any spiritual tradition.

As Popeye the sailor man said: (I yam what I yam) “I am what I am”.

The following notes are ’sharp pointers’. Proceed with caution, if you want to hang onto the belief in me.

P.S. Eleven years ago the double doors to the Temple of Me began to disintegrate. They hung on their hinges for a while longer. The dust of their remains blew away with the winds of brief time, never to return – and the Temple was transformed into this natural openness which pervades the universe.

Temenos.

The only ‘problem’ is that I take the translations of the mind to be reality and they are not reality. At best they are approximations and at worst they are completely entangling contortions of the mind. To ponder one’s existence with an open mind is a fleeting and uncomfortable thing, so it seems. However, let it be noted that, that uncomfortable-ness is calling for attention, as it points directly at the fictional drama – it is the fictional character.

‘We’ resist the very thing that we should explore. The ‘me’. How could what I truly am be harmful to what I am? Everyone has an ‘inkling’ at the very least – an inkling of what is clearly true about themselves – what they truly are. Since the common belief is that no understanding can be outside of the naming of things, it all remains a mystery. The ‘problem’ is that the mind cannot put a totally satisfying ‘label’ on this naked knowing which expresses as the thought ‘I am’. So it remains elusive. No one can pin it down.

But wait………How can what I truly am be elusive to myself? The ‘reason’ it is so elusive is that what I truly am is not to be found IN thoughts.

Thoughts APPEAR in what I truly am and they are all transitory and I am not transitory at all. I am here and this wakefulness cannot be denied. I may not be able to define it but I can certainly not ‘turn it off’. What is being pointed to is very much like ’space’. We see it but we don’t see it. It is ‘nothing’ to the mind. You have never seen yourself. What you are is ‘doing’ the seeing and knowing. How could it be otherwise?

Duality is due to the mind’s apparent ’split’ which is only the way in which the so-called mind ‘operates’. If you have been following what is being offered here on this website it may appear that the ‘pointing’ is getting clearer and clearer. One may feel as if there is the finest of membranes separating one from ‘realizing’ what is being pointed to.

However, what is truly being pointed to is nothing other than what you ARE. What seemingly keeps one from the natural realization (which is already happening) is a bunch of concepts that are believed in. They are only believed in because they have not been investigated cleanly and precisely.

SEEING is not perceiving (in my terminology). Everything is actually clear and obvious just as it is. But we take the mind’s translations to be ‘reality’ and they are not. (Mirage has no water in it – you perceive water where there is no water – what appears in the seeing is a mirage, not water)

To KNOW what is real one must BE what is real. The ‘person’ is not real. It is a description of ’sensations’ (body). The ’story of me’ is mind.

What you truly ARE is not the body nor the mind. So, if you accept that this is true, then what are you? With a genuine interest, one can contemplate what I am by dropping all memories and descriptions of ‘me’. Be totally OPEN to what presents itself. The miracle of existence is ever fresh and it is un-mediated. You are looking OUT OF the simplicity of being – but there is no ‘you’ there. This clear and obvious view is not comfortable for the ‘me’ and it will avoid the view at all costs. When you die to the ‘me’ the ever fresh view is unencumbered. ‘YOU’ can’t fabricate this view and there is no need to – BECAUSE it is ALREADY present as this pure function of cognition. I call it seeing-knowing.

You are nothing but THAT.

Everything that is said can be either correct or incorrect – it can never be TRUE. True understanding is wordless and silent. This can never be expressed – only pointed to. You have no idea how language was formed or why.

All you have are theories and definitions and with those you bind yourself into such a confounded knot. You believe that by thought you will free yourself. Where the actuality is, that it is thought that has bound you into a realm of mere beliefs.

And Belief is NOT the actual. Whether your ’situation’ is conceived of as being gross or very subtle, it makes little difference. What is it that recognizes difference and what is compared to what? What needs to be recognized is that everything is being referred to the ‘me of memory’ and everything is being judged from that ‘translation’ through words.

Be silent.

Jacques Monod: “It may be asked, of course, whether all the variants, conservations, and symmetries that make up the texture of (scientific) discourse are not fictions substituted for reality in order to obtain a workable IMAGE, partially emptied of substance, but accessible to the operations of LOGIC itself founded upon a purely abstract, perhaps ‘conventional’ principle of IDENTITY – a convention with which, however, human reason seems unable to dispense.”

From a book titled “Chance and Necessity” published by Collins.

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One does not need high flying philosophical ideas to realize one’s true nature. We don’t need to twist ourselves into grossly absurd expressions like “Sitting in a chair is happening”. Ordinary language is all we need. “Anger is arising” is another grossly overused catch phrase. It is pathetic how the simplicity of direct pointing is turned into a Club Psychology with all this Non Dual Jargon that is sprouted over and over, like a parrot talking. You do not have to dress in any particular way or speak in any particular way. The Non Duality Scene seems to be packed with so many pretenders, including gurus and teachers.  How could anyone find their way through and out of the maze?

I cannot listen to the usual guff that is served up by the popular gurus and teachers.  That is why we created the Urban Guru Cafe.  To present a range of speakers who are not trying to trick the seeker into more beliefs.  Nothing is asked of the listener – just follow what is being pointed out and see if it is true – for yourself.

The usual ‘teachers and seekers’ are obviously full of suppressed frustration and self-calming bullshit. It is truly amazing how some folks can go on and on with that bullshit for decades and not see through it. The investment in the belief that ‘I have made considerable progress – and I am almost there’ must surely wear thin and crumble at some point.

The knife that cuts through it all is:

What you SEEK you already ARE.

Everything is clear and obvious. From habit and memory the mind responds with “Yes but……”etc.
It is not complex ‘before’ the mind adds its ’stuff’ and it is not complex ‘after’ the mind adds its ’stuff’.
In the immediacy of ‘no thought’ no complexity can be found.
So all the complexities are seemingly in the thoughts and concepts. The ‘me concept’ appears to hide in the minds complexities. The slightest increase in attentiveness cuts through the mist of the mind.
What substance do any of the concepts actually have?
Be attentive to what is happening when you examine these things.
It is exceedingly simple.
Where the un-mediated functioning of seeing-knowing is ‘taking place’ there is no problem.
Watch the mind and see if what I am saying is true or false.
Retrace whatever is ’seen’ to the seeing.
The TRUE nature of the mind is clear and empty.

These points are priceless – similar pointers were hidden for hundreds of years in the esoteric traditions.
Protected from the general public. However, it is openly obvious and needs no protection. Those who have an intention to use the ‘information’ for self-gratification do not re-cognized the simple pointers. They cannot SEE what is so obvious.
As long as there is a strong sense of self-seeking going on, the obvious will evade detection.
Where does all such drama take place?
In Clarity – where there is no grasping consciousness, clanging and banging about like a blind drunk lunatic looking for his empty bottle.

You know, when I first came upon the directness of this message, in its fullness, it was on a cassette tape. It was a recording (not a very good recording either) of one of Bob Adamson’s meetings in Melbourne. The response was to write down many of the things that were being expressed. I quickly covered a full sheet of paper. the writing got smaller and smaller to fit it all on one sheet. I periodically re-wound the tape a hunderd times to try and catch the exact words. That little exercise became a book called “What is wrong with Right Now?”
As it turned out, my impulse, although it appeared to be a selfish impulse, driven by my NEED to understand, it turned out to be a beautiful sharing – expressed as a fresh liberating document, as a book.
That (this) sharing has not abated, at all.

One small seed has the potential to cover the Earth with trees. This ‘message’ also contains the potential to free ‘all men’ (and women of course) from the bondage of self. The only resistance is from a belief in an investment. The investment is ME. That investment brings little joy, if any. It mostly brings suffering upon suffering for the believed in ‘entity’.   Could it all be imaginary?    Could it simply be ignorance – the ignoring of what is so obviously clear and present?   Consensus would have us believe in all manner of dramas and personal psychological twists and turns in the mind.  It is all shown to be nothing but belief.  It is the naked seeing-knowing that cuts through all beliefs in a simple movement of recognizing one’s true nature.
The oddest thing is that this exceptional good news, this ‘message’ is resisted on all sides by ’society’.  The Establishment has no room for it.
As a sense of ‘me’, as a sense of being a separate self, a rebel any ‘Rage-ing against the Machine’ is useless. Exhausting.   A sense of injustice is equally useless and only drags one back into the imaginary persona, the ‘person’.
The natural recognition or resonance must arise spontaneously by itself. Hearing the ‘message’, in whatever form it takes, is what counts.
Even though this pattern, this appearance of an I, periodically tires of ’spreading the message’, there is no ‘I’ to have a choice in the matter. Endless resistance from apparent others does not touch this presence any longer. The View is Clear and Obvious.
Everything is exposed for what it is, without concern.

There is Nothing that can resist this message and even ignorance stands no chance.
The darkest corners of the universe are illuminated and ‘no one’ is revealed to be anywhere.

If you are laughing right now…………..good.
If you are crying right now……………..good.

It is spontaneous…..as everything IS.

The whole universe moves upon emptiness.
All the patterns, the forms, are appearance and none of it has any independence from REALITY.
There is nothing that separates anything from anything. It is ONE WHOLE.
Just like the multiple ‘objects’ that appear in a mirror, it is one single reflection – one appearance.
The friction that appears between an apparent ’self’ and ‘what is’ can be called a resistance to ‘what is’ AND the unchanging factor is that ‘what is’ could not be any other way than what it is.
There is no one to change anything, no one to alter or modify ‘what is’.
In knowing the truth of this, the believed in character, the resistance, eases off and intelligence flows with ease. The weight of the ‘me’ is an unnecessary burden (for itself).
There is no one that can know the truth of it except ‘the truth of it’.
It is only a ‘me’ that suffers BECAUSE the me is the resistance.
The so-called ‘Great Self-Liberation’ is not meaning that some ’self’ gets liberated.
It is simply the SEEING-KNOWING that there is no self that could be in bondage.
It is ’self-liberating’ (as in ’self-adhesive’) – in ‘effect’ no bondage takes place at all – except in the ‘appearance’ and the appearance cannot bind anything, except as an appearance of bondage.
These points are exceptional subtle, so if it is not clear, go over it again and again until it ‘dawns’ as the Actuality.

‘We’ have bound ourselves up with words. All the gnashing of teeth, the groaning and all the resistance is merely an appearance – a simple movement upon emptiness.

Let me direct you to the obvious clarity of seeing the truth of what is written here.

Let the mind rest upon nothing – let it be spacious and free – just for a moment.

Recognize the emptiness that this seeing-knowing is ’seeing from’.

The true nature of mind is clear and empty.

Even if only a glimpse of this is tasted, it is enough. That taste will overthrow all beliefs. It may appear to take a little ‘time’. The resistance, the ‘me’, will lose its apparent power and everything (will) resolve(s) itself naturally.

(There is absolutely no reason why I should tell you this – and it is not an ‘I’ that is writing this note)

The KNOWING that is ‘there’ is the very same KNOWING that is ‘here’. There is NO separation.