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Observing (seeing) is uninterrupted.
”People’ spend their whole lives wanting to wake up – so it seems. But are you unaware right now?
Isn’t it obvious that the wakefulness is present?
What is actually wrong with that wakefulness?
Doubt is a thought. All the conceptualizing and the making of problems is due to misunderstanding.
Stop pretending to be on a path of becoming and be what you ARE, right NOW. Now is all there IS.
Someone says: “I have utmost respect for Advaita but I am a westerner. I am also influenced by my genetics, etc. I simply don’t buy that all of the Advaita teachers online today are living it out inwardly 24/7. It is a struggle to transform one’s consciousness.”…….
WHO can transform consciousness? To even entertain such a notion is delusional. Consciousness is ALL there is. It does not need to be transformed – it is transforming consistently before your own eyes. Being a slave to concepts about liberation and endless methods and practices is useless.
The ‘Eternal Truth’, if we can actually use such words accurately, is right here, right now. All you need to ‘do’ is SEE what it is that seemingly obscures you from its obviousness. It is not about being convinced about someone else living a 24/7 state of mind.
‘People’ try to stay in the NOW. It is all useless. Turn it around.
SEE if you can actually GET OUT of this NOW.
It is impossible….and in recognizing that simple fact, all the beliefs about some future time of deliverance, falls away naturally. Spirituality is complete nonsense. The ACTUALITY of LIFE itself is obvious.
All there is is LIFE.
There is no ‘owner’ of a life.
Chat conversation……..
Q: Hi Gilbert
Gilbert: Hi.
Q: what is the observation?
Gilbert: Impressions registering
Q: Ah
Gilbert: All there is, is observing – no observer and no observed.
Q: then there would be no observing either?
Gilbert: The mind splits up the observing into observer and observed – but it is not really split in two. In recognizing that, you are already beyond the mind.
Why sacrifice that clarity for more thoughts and beliefs?
Q: what is emptiness?
Gilbert: No Thing.
Q: I see emptiness as transcendence.
Gilbert: WHO sees transcendence?
Q: nothingness too is transcendence – transcendence exults, nobody sees it
because the seer is transcended.
Gilbert: Seeing is happening? Is that seeing yours?
Q: seeing is absorbed.
Gilbert: When did you claim the seeing?
Q: in transcendence – only linguistic habit.
Gilbert: Who transcended?
Q: transcendence is in relation to the encompassed.
Gilbert: It is all conceptualizing – which appears in the seeing
No relationship in non duality – Nothing (no container) can ‘contain’ No Thing.
pause……..
Gilbert: Mind is time. You will NEVER encapsulate THAT with a concept – so stop trying to.
Q: just BE?
Gilbert: BEING is – it requires no action from ‘you’. What effort are you making to be?
Q: so the unpleasant is resisted.
Gilbert: Everything registers without bias. Who says something is unpleasant?
It is all energy- there is no right or wrong to energy.
Q: memory.
Gilbert: See everything AS IT IS. Memory is appearing spontaneously and registering as impressions in the immediacy.
WHO is it there in any particular memory?
Q: unfulfilled desires?
Gilbert: WHO owns a desire? All desires are actually unfulfilled.
Once a desire is fulfilled it disappears. Who wants (something, anything) ?
What is actually missing? There is no answer in the mind.
The mind will come up with all sorts of questions……for ever.
Q: I am afraid of emptiness.
Gilbert: WHO?
Q: The sense of ‘I’.
Gilbert: That is not what yo are. You are not the sense of I nor the sense of being alive. You ARE emptiness – in that emptiness, go into the sense of ‘I’ and really see it for what it is.
Q: is emptiness deprivation?
Gilbert: No emptiness is fullness….Joy…Bliss – Some call it ‘Sat Chit Ananda’ (It is subtle).
Q: Then why is it empty?
Gilbert: It is empty and full in the same instance. There is no ‘WHY’. Who wants to know?
Q: You mean it is empty of matter and full of acausal ecstasy of pure being?
Gilbert: It IS all emptiness APPEARING as things…. Cause and effect is duality.
Buddha pointed out all this over 2 thousand years ago….where have you been?
Q: In Sanskrit there is the word Shunyata, Shunya, which is not correctly translated as emptiness but as transcendence.
Gilbert: beyond the mind….that is all transcendence means. Mind is time.
Q: All encompassing, all transcending existence consciousness bliss Absolute, eternal and ever-new.
I can see what you are saying because I have experienced the emptiness of phenomena and the profound peace beyond.
Gilbert: No ‘I’ ever experiences anything.
Q: That is inconceivable
Gilbert: You are THAT. …… and notice that you cannot actually conceive of what you are.
Q: That’s linguistic convention, the meaning is that the dissolution of ‘I’ occurred.
Gilbert: The mind translates the experiencing into a story.
Q: That’s true.
Gilbert: Nothing ever happened.
Q: In the Absolute nothing happens…or happening and non-happening is one and the same.
Gilbert: When a dream ends – it is gone – and never was. – Absolute MEANS everything.
Q: And nothing….nothing….the nothing, which encompasses everything and the everything which is nothing.
Gilbert: The mind objectifies the word absolute and divides it up – and that is a problem
Q: Yes, mind cannot conceive of the Absolute – the mental absolute is not real.
Gilbert: So, now will you carry on in the mind or will you SEE the mind for what it is?
Understanding is Silent….is Wordless.
Q: Yes…..it is wordless.
Gilbert: Simply Know that….that is all you need to know. The knowing of that is wordless.
Q: Language is a mistake if internalized – its helpful only in conversations not as baggage.
Gilbert: It is all we have….to use to POINT.
Q: The thorn to remove the other thorn.
Gilbert: In the appearance of things most ‘teachers’ point in the wrong direction – a direction that is popular but it does not free anyone.
Even so the dream ends. Once the dream is gone are you concerned with it? You can’t get it back, so let it go. It is the same with the waking state. Thoughts appear and disappear. Let them be and let them go. Do not fixate on them.
Q: Aware of awareness and ignoring the content as shallow dream empty of content.
Gilbert: NO, awareness is not aware of awareness. It IS awareness – it is self-aware. And…….Everything is THAT.
Q: Awareness is free of content…it’s rapture.
Gilbert: Content IS awareness. No separation.
Q: Yes.
Gilbert (I inadvertently posted this to someone’s earlier comments, so just in case, here it is again):
Two steps back this week – maybe….
Ramana Maharshi urges self-inquiry, to inquire within, again and again, “What am I?” or “I-I” until it is seen not to be real. Krishnamurti et al says the mind must be undone by the same mind that creates the fictitious self. The first person to turn me on to non-duality – the late Robert Adams (Silence of the Heart) similarly urged the seeker to look within, to locate the “I” and in discovering its non-existence at last shed that which kept “him” or “her” trapped in duality.
But more current non-duality teachers (many of whom I’ve enjoyed on UGC) declare that there’s nothing to be done because there’s nobody to do any thing. This apparent contradiction between older and newer teachers is confusing. Obviously Ramana et al was similarly pointing to the non-existence of the seeker but nevertheless urged the seeker to exhaust himself chasing the tail. Even the likes of Jesus could be argued to have urged a similar search. Which makes me wonder why so many of the newer teachers (I just listened to the wonderfully affable Tony Parsons again) more or less pronounce that there is no rhyme or reason to it, nothing to do, no one to do it, to seek is to keep the Truth receding into the distance and also, you can’t help but seek.
As always, some elucidation would be appreciated.
The only thing you can be absolutely certain of is the fact of your own being. That is intelligence. The appearance of a self-center appears upon that being-ness, that intelligence. What you are is intelligence and by simply investigating the belief in me, it reveals itself as an add on. It is transient.
There is no point in creating complex ‘reasoning’ for the beliefs. Investigate them and the appearance is sen through. It is not difficult. No need to believe any teacher and what they get over heated about. Simply look into what is happening. The very impulse to look withdraws the energy going into the belief in a self-center. Because it is not real, it falls apart. The ‘result’ is naked awareness, without any fixed concept in the way.