Seeing-Knowing

The investigation is not a gradual process. It can appear as a process of elimination. “I am not this – I am not this”…etc.

The pure seeing is not identified with anything and can never be identified with anything or nothing. Seeing is seeing. everything appears in the seeing. That should be plainly obvious and it is plainly obvious, if you drop all words and concepts about the seeing.

The mind is nothing but thought, conceptualizations, memory and images. A thought cannot SEE. This point is often missed. Dividing the mind up into ‘parts’ is actually only more conceptualizing.

Ramesh Balsekar suggested the concept of the ‘working mind’, which merely implies that there is someone there ‘working’ or that it is simply a mechanical processor. It may appear to be a useful concept but it really is unnecessary to divide the mind, since mind is just thoughts, basically. Creating a fixation in the mind is counter to what is being point to. Naked seeing-knowing is not an entity.

What needs to be recognized is that there is only one seeing happening. The ‘mind’ cannot see. The mind translates, that is all it does. It labels ‘things’ and the labels are words. Each word was learned ‘in the past’. So, we use the past to translate the immediate present and so a fabrication is constructed and that veil seemingly obscures clear awareness through belief in the construct of words, memories etc.

There is nothing to gain and nothing to lose. Seeing through the words is easy. Dropping the belief appears to be hard. Why? Because I take myself to be that self-image called ‘me’. Investigate it and SEE that it has no substance and no independence apart from this Immediate cognition (cogniz-ing) that is happening NOW. This has been explained so many times, over and over.

What is missing, so it seems, is the seeing through, the recognition of one’s true nature. But how can it be missing? ecause seeing is happening now. What the mind translates the seeing into it where the problem is – and the central figure is ‘me’.

The missing letter ‘b’ in the previous lines registered in the seeing……recognized immediately and the mind may even fill in the missing letter without any problem.  In that instant seeing, memory and an adjustment take place.  Can you divide that ‘happening’?  Does it need to be pulled apart by the intellect?  Isn’t it understood before any analysis?

Seeing is NOT in TIME. The mind is time – so there is no point in looking in the mind for an answer to this. Seeing is happening. See if you can find a ‘seer’ or a ‘thinker’. That investigation will show what needs to be recognized or noticed.