Seeing-Knowing

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.