Seeing-Knowing

The question on the Urban Guru Cafe podcast, about “is it an event or not an event?” is an excellent question.

The problem is, is the answer to this question an event or not an event?

Let me answer like this: A mirage is up ahead on the road. Looks like water there. You walk towards it and as you get closer it starts to dissolve.

Then it is gone altogether.

Now, has anything happened?

The vanishing of the ‘water’, was that an event? In the PRESENT ‘we’ NAME something as ‘an event’ – yet it has already gone, it is ‘past’.

Is the ‘anticipation’ of a predicted future event, an ‘event’?

“I am going to become enlightened” can NEVER eventuate.

Stick with me on this.

Was the appearance of ‘water’ an event?

‘When’ the recognition of our true nature ‘arises’ it is the dissolving of an appearance of being separate.

The IMPRESSIONS are definitely registering with a seeming chronological sequence – which is simply another series of impressions.

There APPEARS to be a before, a during and an after.

NOW, get this: The essential nature of recognition is SEEING-KNOWING.

Seeing-knowing is HERE NOW.

It can’t be anywhere other than THIS here and now.

The Immediacy of here and now is NOT an event – Nothing is happening – NO THING is HAPPENING.

So, now you KNOW – WHY postulate a ‘time’ when there was ‘not knowing’?

All seeming events are composed of impressions, a movement in consciousness.

THAT which REGISTERS all movement is absolutely STILL.

As Nisargadatta expressed it so beautifully: “When I see that I am nothing, that is wisdom – when I see that I am everything, that is love – my life moves between these two”.

So, who could possibly NOT see what is being pointed out?

The teacher and the pupil are truly one and the same – as the impressions registering, they appear to be separate.

“What use are names when reality is so near?”.

Exactly. Names are from memory – that immediate registering of all impressions, needs no names to be what it is. The word ‘event’ loses its fascination.