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One Glimpse is enough.
Everything is appearance only. The Essence of everything is beyond the capacity of the intellect. In its pure nature it is the simplicity of the naked knowing, an activity of the same energy that ‘creates’ the entire appearance in this immediacy called LIFE. You cannot be separate from THAT. You are THAT and could not ever be possibly apart from THAT. Whatever the mind reveals as thought, concept or image is nothing other than THAT, appearing as ‘something different’. It cannot be different, though it appears AS all the diversity in the APPEARANCE of things. One Signature is written as the traces of ‘time’ and the entire appearance REGISTERS upon this naked awareness and is nothing other than THAT. Everything appears in the SEEING and IS the SEEING. There is NO separation.
All words fall short naturally because they are nothing but an expression of THAT, which remains un-diversified, un-mediated and for ever present.
Doubt is nothing but a thought.
An insight into one’s own true nature can happen at any time and in any circumstances, whether they be deemed positive or negative by the mind. Energy is neither positive nor negative. When the mind collapses into silence, SEEING-KNOWING remains as THAT singular Essence, which is expressed through the mind as the words ‘I am’. You cannot negate that BEINGNESS, and THAT is all there ever IS. Even the appearance of things is THAT.
There is no pattern of energy that is aware of anything, without that life essence that animates it. Belief cannot stand up to an investigation, so long as it is complete and ruthless. Belief is not the actual. The actuality is this immediate life just as it is. Wanting to alter or change it is ‘of the mind’ and the mind appears to have an agenda and at the core of that agenda is a false identity commonly called ‘me’.
There is only one LIFE. Any impression of this immediate LIFE can cut through the habits of mind and free it from the fictional bondage of self. Believing that only certain ‘methods’ can work or that some ‘personal god image’ will help you is delusional. The symbol of Adam and Eve being tossed out of Paradise is a telling symbolism. And much later Jesus said “the kingdom of God is in your midst – but you see it not.” So the kingdom is here now. What prevents you from recognizing it is belief in thoughts that you take to be your own. Investigate and see if you can actually find a THINKER. This is a key to the whole illusion of separateness. In the appearance ‘few’ will make this investigation.
In the stories from ancient times, out of hundreds of so called individuals, ONLY ONE, Moses, went up the mountain to have communion with the Clarity of Being (God). A burning bush spoke to Moses – another highly symbolic image. Find the spark of this life force in yourself and be attentive to it. It will reveal everything as it IS.
Trying to be what you are not makes you unhappy. Being what you are is effortless and in its simplest expression is happiness. Telling someone not to worry rarely brings any relief. AS intelligence itself, one must go to the ’cause’ of the worrying and expose the central figure, SEE it for what it is, which is a fixation, a reference point that is INVALID. Such directives are instantly confronting to those who cling to a false identity, so they resist the directive. Those who follow it find that they were NEVER an entity at any time.
Discovering, or more accurately re-discovering one’s true nature is ‘something’ beyond all imagination and yet so simple and uncomplicated. Having overlooked it for decades through the grasping notions of seeking it, in all the wrong places, a tremendous relief spreads throughout being in one instant of recognition. What the grasping mind ‘does’ with such an insight determines whether the insight disappears into the past as a memory or whether it stays as this natural SEEING PRESENCE of I AM.
Hi Gilbert,
Have been catching up on your posts and, as always, listening to UGC. I think something that frustrates many seekers including myself is the constant guidance to “look” or “see” or “recognize,” etc., all while simultaneously recognizing that the mind is nothing but a bundle of conditioned thoughts. But to do all that seeing and looking requires that same mind because, as Krishnamurti and others have pointed out, it’s the only instrument we’ve got (and, again, it is that instrument that has us so befuddled into imagining ourselves real and separate).
So in essence it sometimes feels as if we’re being told, “You’re a carpenter with only one tool – a hammer – and you’ve erroneously used that hammer to construct a false identity. Now go use that hammer to ‘see’ what you’ve been doing.”
It feels like a Catch-22.
Doug
Hi Gilbert,
Have been catching up on your posts and, as always, listening to UGC. I think something that frustrates many seekers including myself is the constant guidance to “look” or “see” or “recognize,” etc., all while simultaneously recognizing that the mind is nothing but a bundle of conditioned thoughts. But to do all that seeing and looking requires that same mind because, as Krishnamurti and others have pointed out, it’s the only instrument we’ve got (and, again, it is that instrument that has us so befuddled into imagining ourselves real and separate).
So in essence it sometimes feels as if we’re being told, “You’re a carpenter with only one tool – a hammer – and you’ve erroneously used that hammer to construct a false identity. Now go use that hammer to ‘see’ what you’ve been doing wrong.”
It feels like a Catch-22 and is frustrating.
Doug
Yes, understood. Why not investigate the frustration and SEE if there is actually something with any substance or independent nature that can stand on its own and you can say “This is what I am”. Of course we use the mind to investigate the mind. Inattention leads to a parade of conceptualizations. Attention to what is going on reveals what is going on – not for an entity – it is pure seeing that is seeing. if you are expecting to gain something, like some concept called ‘enlightenment’ then frustration will be perpetuated naturally. In the ancient Buddhist texts from Tibet, texts which were secret texts for hundreds and hundreds of years, it says “There is no difference between a Buddha and an ordinary being”.
The SAME ‘light’ or ‘energy’ forms all the pattern of the manifestation (Nirmanakya) and there is NO SEPARATION between samsara and nirvana.
The discriminating mind is seemingly caught in the realm of ‘words’.
Drop all words and SEE that “The Great Perfection” is Non Conceptual Awareness.
This is not somewhere else, not up in the sky floating on a sacred cloud, with ribbons and rainbows. It is right HERE, right NOW.
What obscures it? Belief in thoughts.
Now I can tell you this and it may go straight over your head.
Or it may strike a note of harmonious resonance in being.
The fixation called ‘me’ is resistance to what is.
I cannot help you – all I can do is point. The rest is up to you – and there isn’t one.
See that and be free.
Thank you.