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The tragedy of erroneous beliefs.
It is all appearance only. Every particle is an appearance. No matter how close you look at things, nor how far away, it is all appearance.
Everything appears in the seeing. Seeing does not go out from your eyes and grasp objects, then return with information. Seeing is everywhere and every thing. No separation. If you can grasp that ‘truth’ many erroneous ideas will fall away instantly.
How many clouds have there been in the sky? Do any of them have any distinct and lasting characteristics as a separate entity? Trillions upon trillions of clouds have gathered and swirled around, dropped their rain, hail, sleet and snow, and then dissolved back into the empty sky. Millions are forming right now and millions are also dissolving.
Not one cloud has left a trace of itself anywhere – no cloud is stuck to the sky. No thought is stuck in the mind. There are billions of microbes in and on your body and they outnumber the cells of the body by far. Who are you? Who is running this ’show’?
‘We’ think we are so important but even something like the weather can put us in our place so easily……… we run, we hide, take cover, then we re-emerge and start our arrogant behavior all over again.
Who are we? A small bug can wipe out thousands of us completely off the scene within a few days.
The tragedy of it all is that it is self-centered activities and self importance which ’causes’ all the suffering ………and so few are willing to look at those factors with any precision.
Who cares?
it may have been a rhetorical question gilbert but i care. for me, suffering seems to be the space between who you wanna be and who you are. that space is where the seeker [ hello there its me] sits. some might say thats where they wanna sit because they are happiest suffering. personally i dont care about having an experience where background and foreground merge into one and beingness shines through and tells its story of what always there. i care about not suffering. even if my thoughts are phantoms that appear and dissappear [ which they are] i want to know when [im on london time] the suffering will stop. and if its so obvious why oh why am i missing it. loving the ugc