Seeing-Knowing

Comment on last post: Thanks for this article, Gilbert. This is indeed a thorny subject which leaves many people bewildered and frustrated. The other extreme to the “there is nothing you can do” argument is that you need to find a guru or teacher, somebody fully “realized”, to become “fully realized” yourself. What is your opinion about this?

Reply: There are absolutely no conditions to this natural state of self-realizing awareness. It is the falling away of erroneous belief or the seeing through of belief that ‘appears’ to be the turning point. From the point of view from mind, which is time, it is like approaching a window or doorway to a new world, free from all beliefs. Once one has seen through all beliefs, the ‘past conditioning’ disappears and one finds the timeless stateless state of pure cognition (if we must put a name on it, that is accurate enough). In that seeing through the ‘door’ or ‘window’ is known to have never existed.
In the appearance if you meet someone who has actually seen through the ‘me’ (or self-centered activity) then they can certainly point you in the ‘right direction’. I am not exaggerating when I say that 99.999% of teachers are useless, because they are speaking from a relative point of view and they most usually say or imply, by inference, that there is something to be acquired via their methods. They also claim to be in a state higher than their devotees. Their behavior is often absurdly superior.
What I would say is that the resonance one senses or feels when hearing direct pointing is not explained away by any concepts. The only value the pointers have is in the moment of recognition. The resonance one feels is LIFE itself – as if being called forth from underneath a pile of old beliefs and conditioned mind.
In that resonance or that recognition, one simply knows that ‘this is true’, without words – it resonates strongly. By sticking with that resonance, it takes you where you need to go. The genuine messenger claims nothing as a personality and does not need charisma or any form of seduction to deliver the message. And the message may take on hundreds of appearances – always fresh and new, even if the words are the same as you have heard before.
The ‘me’ is resistance, so there is usually a lot of struggle that goes on and a lot of self assessment. With a genuine interest, no conclusion can truly satisfy the lasting desire for what is true. All conclusions fall apart. Whatever conceptualized answer appears, it will sooner or later fall apart and this activity goes on for a little while until the mind is exhausted and the resonance shines, naked and without any conceptual support. Belief is overthrown naturally. All these words will sound like the ravings of a lunatic if there has not been a taste of genuine, wordless resonance in being.