‘We all’ face the unknown – the future is unknown, no matter what anyone says.   Reading patterns of the appearance is not reading the future.  No one can know the future with 100% accuracy.   It is all projection anyway.  The path of a billiard ball that bounces off a dozen other balls cannot be predicted with total confidence.

We all face the unknown at every moment.  Clinging to the known cannot protect anyone from the unknown.   Certain events have far reaching effects, in the scheme of things, and no one ever predicted them.  Such is life.   Such is the appearance of duality and complexity.  What is true is always simple.

No one knows where this planet is going.   We trust that the glass of water we accept from a waiter or a friend, is not poisonous.  We trust the air we breath is not contaminated by poisonous and odourless gas.  There is no knowledge required in that trust.

It seems that knowledge shields consciousness from the unknown.  What you believe to be self-knowledge is little more than a bunch of memories.  Memory assists in the recognition of things and events or experiences.  The more memory that engages, the less is the experience of the actuality or so it seems.  Experiencing is uninterrupted.  The fresh and new nature of each moment is seemingly obscured by past experience or so it seems.

Isn’t discovery, seeing without memory.

What you think you are is simply a conceptual pattern.  What is the sum total of your self-knowledge?

‘You’ will not know when ‘you’ have disappeared for the ‘last time’……..and THAT which knows (all things throughout all time) is concept-less and has never had any bias whatsoever.
In other words, what everyone makes a fuss about, enlightenment, is not the thing it is wrapped up as by ‘personalities’.  It is concept-less awareness.

(There ain’t no one there!   Anyone who ‘claims’ to be enlightened truly has a touch of the ghar ghars)

The core of enlightenment has always been here and THAT is all there actually is. The resistance to clear pointing comes from the ‘me’ – as if it must stop the truth surfacing. But what is true is all that exists. The false is only a shadow. Who cares?

Wherever you ‘think’ you are seeing from, is the very same ‘place’ that all beings are seeing from.  The seeing includes everything.  Everything appears in the seeing.

However strange or simple your apparent situation is, it is perfect and the nature of its appearance is ‘made of the same stuff’ as it is for every creature.  The differences belong to the unique nature of this infinite expression.  The appearance of apparent entities belongs to the expression ‘side’ of an apparent duality.

The core essence stays the same and is not made of any atoms.  Nothing lives without energy, so we cannot say it is not made of energy and it would be incorrect to say it was so.  However, the naked cognition, at its uttermost core, is no thing at all.

Objections naturally arise from mind because of the nature of belief.  While belief rules, anything can appear to be real.  In reality everything appears just as it is and it is ‘all real’ but not as it appears to be.

Basically it could not appear any other way than how it does.

We are all familiar with the drama of life.  The slightest implication of an insult can turn into a ‘full blown conflict’ or so it seems.

Anything is possible in the appearance of things.  Science is desperate to explain ‘how’-'things’-'happen’.

It is the same for the explanations.  How do they happen?   How does anything happen?  AND….does anything actually happen as a separate event or thing?   If you think you know the answer, you may well be wrong without knowing it.   The knowing of anything is a basic mystery and the idea or being a ‘knower’ is insubstantial – however no one wants to acknowledge that fact.   Humorous?  Scary?  Frightening?  It can appear in any flavour without changing in essence.

We all talk about ‘purpose’ without any real grounds for such an assumption.  Avoiding the naked truth appears to be very common.  (Losing interest already?  Why?   Don’t you want to know what this is all about?)

The purpose, the only purpose is to realise what you truly are.   You are already that, so, the way that it unfolds is in appearance only.   The veil of ‘the appearance’ can only be seen through by ‘being reality’ itself – by being the naked seeing and nothing other than that.  If you take yourself to belong to phenomena, then that belief will colour the view.

The ‘garment’ of the appearance is transparent.

Pure Being is the singularity of seeing, beyond the appearance.  Because you are existence itself, you must be THAT, naked seeing.

It seems that all it takes is one clear glimpse and erroneous belief is robbed forever.

Belief belongs to the appearance – seeing belongs to the essence.

Pointing at the obvious appears to be necessary.  How strange.

Thursday evening, Sunday morning and Tuesday evening are the usual times for Bob’s meetings.

You can let me know via email if you intend to come along to the Meetings……..so we can get a rough idea of numbers etc.

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The true nature of Life is spontaneous.  This spontaneous nature is all inclusive.

Mind is spontaneously mechanical and rooted in the past. The past is dead and gone.

This livingness, right now, is all there ever is.

Out of this clear and empty nature of pure being – pure mind – everything spontaneously appears.

The bondage of self is a fiction.   Memory will serve very well, once the ‘me fixation’ is dissolved.

The repeating patterns that appear to make up the appearance of world and body, thought, feeling and emotion, are nothing but pure energy – spontaneously expressing AS ‘things’ or objects.   The pure subject of all things is No Thing – emptiness.  It is not even a subject.

Everything is appearance and there is no entity abiding anywhere.

LIFE is spontaneous.  ’You’ can never grasp it – you can only ever BE that.

If you go in search of conceptual answers to clear away your doubts and questions, then consciousness is, for you, an infinite complexity, which will never come to an end.

What is true is always simple.  A ‘teacher’ who asks you to follow some complex explanation of the meaning of life, which requires belief and mental structures that on must remember, is not pointing at what is true.

Nothing can live without energy.  Belief structures require constant attention (energy) otherwise they fade away.  A great deal of diss-ease flourishes due to this constant maintenance of beliefs.

The clear and self-evident sign of freedom from erroneous beliefs, even if just for a brief moment, is the sense of relief that permeates the being.  That sign of relief is a sure sign of where freedom from erroneous belief is.   It is not a location in space or time and it has no direction in the mind.   It may be called ‘thoughtless reality’ or simply an ease of being.  The burden of carrying beliefs is a heavy one and it is unnecessary.

The complexities of belief move away in direct proportion to the ‘amount’ of freedom from belief accrues.   That is just an expression.  One metaphor is that if one were to walk from the midst of a dense forest out into an open field, it appears that there is more space.

Of course there is no more space than there is.  It feels like there is more space.

It is the same when the ‘forest of belief’ is ‘walked away from’.  The ground of being is like space.  The appearance of ‘things’ requires space to appear in.  The true nature of mind is clear and empty.  Because it is clear and empty, ‘things’ can appear and disappear in that space.  Being identified with the content of mind is the ‘cause’ of a great deal of suffering.   The question to ask is ‘who is it happening to?’

Just as the eyes are clear and empty, the mind is also clear and empty.  Being identified with the apparent content is only an appearance.  You are not in the body.  The body appears in what you are.  It also disappears in what you are.  Fear of death is attachment to ideas.

SEEING that there is no past, no future and no present, is the revelation beyond all revelations.

The witness of Life has no capacity to know anything.  Memories are constructs made from yesterdays building blocks.

All there IS is this immediate cognition.  There is no ‘knower’.

The SEEING contains it all. It is ALL SEEING. Once you see the transparent story of me, the belief in it is on the verge of being thrown over. This ‘period of time’ is vital and brief. What must be seen is that the mind ‘comes back in’ and appears upon THAT which (is) was so clear and so obvious, without thought or mind.

Just like the shining darkness of the universe is the host of all the galaxies, stars, planets and endless play of light and shadows. You are THAT…..the Ever Present Prior-ity.

What is the friction happening on?  Who is upset?  Who is it happening to – who dislikes so and so or such and such?  Who is it?  What is it?   We can spend an entire life time avoiding that core issue – why?

The audio book is now available – click HERE to order  -  Here is a sample for those who want to listen.  Audio Book Sample

Here is some feedback on the (entire) audio book:

“Gilbert, I have to give you some feedback on the audio. Powerful stuff!! It quickly settles one into a relaxed mode of receptivity and does teeter on the meditative, with excellent spaced pauses. Several times the sensation of floating was there quite strong (one is aware that one is aware of this sensation too!)  - Of course the potency is derived from the direct pointing, but all the subtle background sounds only enhance and illuminate the clarity. There was something very simple and natural I felt about this audio” – S.

You may be theorising about WHY a lot of the time……..and make no mistake it is that, that takes you back into belief. Vigilance! Quiet noticing of what is.

Be quiet and see.

Satsang is a joke usually. It is just precious self-images playing hide and seek. The guru is the main player and holds all the aces up his sleeve. It is a parody of the most insidious kind. The more precious it looks, the more deluded are the players. Who cares?

The only value of a one to one consultation is that the mind can be put on the spot. Saving face is seen through…..

You can do this for yourself. Just be 100% genuine.

Belief in erroneous ‘things’ will dissolve by itself.

A clear insight will ‘come’ so long as you keep dropping the engagement (deny belief OR simply letting it be as it is, without ‘going’ with the story) with whatever the story of me appears ‘as’. Appearance is not reality.

There is no success or failure. You are already THAT. The mind is time – no answer in it.

It may just seem like another set of words – the mind is time – one needs to really see the truth of this fact. The mind is Maya – no one EVER wakes up in the dream and there is no way out of the dream. You must SEE that the dream NEVER actually happened – time never started ticking. There is only this present moment and those words are just labels.