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Reality – I am THAT.
Why should anyone feel gratitude for someone who only speaks in blunt terms that appear to consistently threaten to rob you, rob you of all your favorite erroneous beliefs? The body may feel some relief once the angst slips away, the burden lifted from the carrying all that weight – the weight of the dramas of the world. But the ‘me’ idea cannot be grateful for its own undermined foundations. The love of being may express itself in any way without any prediction or prior notice.
People fall over each other trying to rub shoulders with teachers and gurus who promise all kinds of impossible things in the future. Promises of a future deliverance and methods on how to live an enlightened life. All based on some vague experiences and second hand concepts. The immediate ‘truth’ is always immediate and it is not locked into any time realms – or into any mind, yours or anyone elses. Those who profess to have acquired any special state of mind, a state that they can transmit to seekers, is just spiritual nonsense. It is a gross misunderstanding. However that kind of thing is very popular. It is a ‘belief system’ and it is all about BECOMING. The fact is that there is no becoming in BEING.
Being IS right NOW. it is always right NOW – and right now is all there ever is.
Realizing this immediate being-ness, (one could say) is reality breaking through the illusion of belief. No one acquires anything in this immediate actuality.
Reality is not something that can be delineated or captured by any concepts. it is not a thing or object, nor is it a subject. Words and concepts can only ever point at what is either true or false. Belief in anything is merely a belief.
Belief is NOT the actual. Any word is a pointer. The word ‘water’ points at the substance called H2O. The entire manifestation is an appearance of elements playing about, appearing to be. (Science tells us the following) Break them down into finer particles and they are found to be energy, a movement in space. Break them down further and they are found to be nothing but space.
So where do ‘you’ enter into this play of elements.
The life force that animates the body and the mind is basically the same energy that ‘creates’ the entire manifestation (appearance).
The most intimate experiencing is a silent openness, a clear space, where this life force is sensed totally without a concept to divide it.
Some call it ‘I am-ness’, or this sense of presence.
If the mind is brought to a stillness in being, a recognition ‘happens’. It cannot be described. No words can ever truly capture or convey it.
You can only BE that – and you are that.
Confirmation happens all by itself.
I would like to say…I do feel gratitude for what you are saying, over and over again. Actually, I feel like jumping for joy Gilbert.
ive been a big fan of urbanguru cafe for some time and im genuinely touched by the speakers you have on. when i hear ug krishnamurti say that ‘what i am saying is not born out of the mind and that there is nobody talking’, i get a cold chill across me. its quite moving, but for who ? the mind ? and if so then that also is an expression of oneness. and yet i dont believe in a clear seeing through of the what is and what isnt because i havnt seen that . i think non duality is a product of wishful thinking and i think that whatever is being seen by you and ‘others’ will always remain a concept until there is a seeing through by the individual who may then recognise there is no individual. in the meantime [ and time can feel mean ] i cant help by being interested in non duality. i listen and i go to some meetings. its an odd thing but much more enjoyable than captain beefhearts ‘trout mask replica’