Seeing-Knowing

All the striving, the reaching for, the grasping at, is all in vain. STOP trying to see – STOP trying to know.
Seeing-knowing is already happening beyond the limits of mind and believed in identity.
SEEING is happening. KNOWING is happening. ‘You’ are not ‘doing it’.
That is the realisation.
The ‘past’ is formless concept-less consciousness.
The ‘future’ is formless concept-less consciousness.
The ‘present’ is formless concept-less consciousness.
Forget everything and be what you actually are.
This is effortless living.

Freedom as thoughtless reality. It could be as easy as removing all concepts pertaining to time and then simply being thought free, unattached to whatever thought or thing appears. The mind could not cloud up with delusions about tomorrow or yesterday. The clarity of being is not in the mind.
Language is a tool for communication. Language implies many things that are nothing but imaginary, yet because these things are commonly believed in, we may never question their actuality.
There are no realms of time in the actuality of this immediate consciousness. You cannot be anywhere else than ‘as’ this immediate consciousness right now. All concepts about other times only appear in this unchanging immediacy, this presence – this awareness, now. The following demonstrates how the concept of time implies other-ness.
And the day will (has) come when men (self-proclaimed saviours – mere preachers) shall speak of love and truth as if they were commodities that only they can offer and sell to you – and you will be (are) completely alone with your response. All of your trusted advisors will (have) abandoned you and the eternal moment of reality will (is) bear (ing) witness to the light of truth shining from your own eyes.
When movement is stillness and stillness is movement, when the mind is no mind and no mind is mind, then (now) nothing shall be (is) hidden. All of the past will be (is) formless consciousness and the future, the same – and so it is that discriminating mind is brought to its knees and its crown is removed. Only then (now) will you know your own true freedom (freedom from the illusions of mind).

The message is not hidden, except by words. One must look past the words and find the truth of your own experiencing.

The story about conditioned mind is only conceptualisation. If you want to discover your true nature, go in the direction of naked cognition.
The required insight is nothing but naked seeing – and seeing is already happening – and you are not ‘doing it’.

Before language, before the limits of mind were ever imagined, your true nature abides serenely beyond body or mind.
The first and last frontier is unspeakable.
Here, no one exists except existence itself. Maya has no power to weave its apparent magic of delusional mind.

No attachment can attach itself to anything here.
The absolute potentiality of all existence has never manifested even one atom here.
The self-aware radiance of being knows no boundary and shines through all circumstances of mind and matter. This natural being rests on nothing at all and the beauty of its radiance is free of any form called a witness.

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The question comes from discriminating mind. The question about ‘how’ is based on belief that ‘I am the doer’ and I can change what is.  This must be bypassed one way or another.  Everything is an expression of THAT single essence – One without a second.  Mind is time – being is timeless.  Seeing is not via a seer or the seen.  The seer and the seen depend on the pure function of seeing and without it, they do not exist in any way shape or form.  See concepts as leaves on the tree (of life). There is no separation. It is only a display in mind that appears to divide the natural oneness. Contrived mind games are not the ‘seeing’ itself. Contrived mind games are a display of possibilities. Everything is clear and obvious as it is. By taking a stand ‘as’ a pattern in the display, a bias comes into play. The pattern that appears (anywhere) does not have the capacity of seeing-knowing. The pattern appears upon the knowing. You are formless. Identification with form (devotion) can only deliver identified consciousness back to its origins when it is TOTAL identification. The identification dissolves into the formless via devotion to the form (often a guru). Such a ‘path’ is long and often without completion. The direct path (jnana – knowing) cuts away the identification with form by pure seeing – seeing that I am formless. All points of view are floating upon pure seeing and are naturally a biased distortion of seeing – like a wonky lens. Withdraw back into pure seeing and forget about being a ‘seer’. One instant of total pure seeing is enough. Few will agree. ‘People’ do not want truth – because what is true undermines their investment with ‘me’.

Reply:  Destiny for WHOM?

The mind is time.  Being is not in the mind.   The mind is ‘me’.   Searching or seeking through ‘belief’ is completely misleading.  The seeker wants to belong, wants to believe.  It is all dualism and there is no way to get to your true nature via such ‘paths’ and concepts.  It just cannot happen.   ‘Teachers’ must have something to sell otherwise no one wants what they offer.  They usually sell beliefs and fancy concepts about awareness or whatever.  None of it is real.   Reality is thoughtless, concept-less.  It is what you are.  Believing you are a concept or image has no value and it only binds the mind – it never frees the mind.   Most ‘teachings’ are just subtle traps for the mind and the teacher never reveals that.  Good business is good business.  

Compromises reign over the clarity of direct pointing.  There is NOTHING to teach and there are NO methods or practices – such ideas are mechanical repetitions and the ONLY value they have is in really seeing that they are useless.  Knowing transcends belief.  Most resist such information – because it undermines the spiritual self image that is a fabricated piece of nonsense that has no actuality at all.   What you are is beyond doubt and concepts.  

Innately you already know that you are – it is just the mind that ‘creates’ problems about identity out of nothing – problems for the imagined ‘me’.   If this news feels prickly, then investigate that sensation and SEE what feels uncomfortable.  There lies the ‘problem’.

What is your true nature?

You are reality itself.  Nature, the nature of all things, ALL things,  expresses itself as the appearance, which we know as the universe and the nature of all things.

The actuality is reality and the actualisation of the appearance (of things) is the expression.  In not realizing one’s true nature, one measures oneself against reality and finds wanting.

Everything is energy.  Nothing can exist without energy.  Energy is the expression.  What you truly are is the potentiality, which is never depleted, used or changeful.

It appears that the mind or consciousness is divided by thought or concept but that is  impossible.   Belief is never the actuality.  Seeking through belief is so obviously an error and yet it appears that everyone does exactly that.   It is an illusion and in the actuality the seeking never started.  The mind interjects with ‘Yes but……(etc).   The mind is dualistic in expression and mind, as pure awareness, is non-dual in essence.   How this obvious factor can be overlooked is astounding and yet naturally occurring with no real problem, unless it is referred to an imagined entity (the dualism of this belongs to a point of view ‘in’ dualistic mind).

Only by starting with the actuality, AS the actuality, does the dualistic point of view dissolve (naturally).  The self-centred ‘approach’ can only find failure, even if it may appear to be psychologically dressed up as a personal success ‘story’.  The ‘dead end guru mind game’ is an excellent example – yet few recognise it for what it is.

Everything is energy.  What do you understand about this energy that appears as (your own) body and world?  The energy expressing itself as ‘understanding’ is not divided by dualistic mind.   There is only one reality – you are that.   How could you possibly not know this?

Putting definitions on ‘things’ and states of being is very common.  It would seem that society is based on common definitions about what is real and what is not real.   At the core of these ‘definitions’ is the dualistic notion of ‘I’ and ‘Not I’.   In this perception of separation there is actually no clear and present evidence to support the division between ‘I’ and ‘Not I’ and that factor is the unavoidable ‘insight’ that is necessary for a transcendence of belief in the unreal.

We use language to communicate and we all have definitions about thousands of ‘things’ and ‘states of mind’ and almost all of these definitions remain as what we can terms as non investigated beliefs.  At the core of all non investigated definitions or beliefs is a believed in entity commonly called ‘I’ or ‘me’.

Depression is a complex ‘symptom’ of society.  Transcending belief in being depressed is easy and yet it would seem that the cost is too high.   The erroneous investment in a fictional identity is woven into a thousand beliefs and the sense of threat of being purged of all these beliefs is far too confronting.   It would seem that ‘we’ are caught in a conundrum.

All it takes is one clear and clean insight into one’s own true nature and these old ideas about ‘me’ or ‘I’ are transcended instantly.   It is not an entity that makes any insight ‘happen’.  A radical or sudden ‘shift’ is highly unlikely and any stories about some other who has shifted into some new state of being is not really helpful to anyone.  It is more likely to be a hindrance than a helpful piece of information.   A shift in perception is only a new reference point – seeing is actually uninterrupted.

It is always possible to transcend belief.  It seems almost impossible to ‘do this’ for oneself and most often some guidance is necessary.   Self-deluded ‘born again’ addicts simply display fanatical tendencies and an annoying habit of trying to convert others into their beliefs.   Fanatical behaviour is a mask and a transparent one, although the wearer of the mask cannot see how transparent the mask is.

Zealous and fanatical ‘teachers’ are very common and followers of such teachers are easy to find.  It is all paraded under the banner of ‘Freedom’ yet it displays nothing but slavery through the obvious behaviour and beliefs, which make themselves obvious.

What is rare is one who has the discrimination and the potential to transcend belief.   There are existing, some who know how to point in such a way that anyone, who is completely genuine, can experience the required insight.  Society, as it is, does not place any value on the transcendence of belief.  Society places value on fixing up the ‘me’ and that is all well and good but it does not fix the actual problem.   Masking the ‘problem’ is good business and the ‘customers’ come back for more.

Over the period of about ten years I have had contact with hundreds, thousands of ‘seekers’ and out of all those numbers only a few have been willing to investigate belief totally and without compromise.   Nothing can be forced.   Only by facing what we fear the most (our nothingness) can we truly find our true nature.

What holds the molecules of a crystal together?

What quality of life is it that moves and permeates every cell and orchestrates the magnificent architecture of a living body?

It is not the feeble reasoning of a ‘me’ that does these things.

It is not an isolated doing in any way shape or form.

It permeates the entire universe in this very instant.

How could you be separate from THAT?   Impossible!

EVERYTHING is relative.  

A thought says ‘I am a hopeless case’ – I can see the ‘road’ that such a thought sits on and I can see where it leads.    Equally, in the same way a thought says ‘I am free of all things’ – and not even a vision of a road appears to be connected to such thoughts.  

What is real?    Well, thoughts will not necessarily tell me or show me what is real.   I can think my way into all sorts of mind mazes – but can I think my way out?    

Put it all aside and all that is left is this sea of sensations – waves and ripples – endless sensations through all the senses – and words and thoughts are seen as vibrations immersed in this sea – the meaning of the thoughts and words is not obscured but they are merged in the same sea……and they don’t ’cause’ any trouble.  

You see God told Adam to name all the animals.   Animals come into existence without names, just like all phenomena. I know that you know this ‘sea of sensations’ because you have spoken of it frequently.  

THAT is the basis of life.   We all love life, we love to be.  Psychological suffering is unnecessary.

There are many ways of expressing the certainty of being.  Each expression is unique and each one who expresses something about being is also unique.  Confirmation of one’s own experience may appear to be necessary, especially if doubt is a common occurrence.  In the belief of being someone who is looking for some meaning for being or some ‘reason’ for ‘why I am here’ there is a biased view, which distorts the view.  The fixation that we commonly call ‘me’ is like a lens that alters the view.   If by some chance occurrence, or by some shock, this fixation drops away, then the view is clear and open.   The significance of the open view may not register as anything of value.  Our habit of believing in the minds translation of events and experiences, as being reality, is one that needs to be broken.  Very few appear to be ‘willing’ to even attempt to break it.   There is so much invested in ‘the belief in me’ and so the mind, as if it had any power of its own, avoids anything that nudges the rawness of naked cognition (thoughtless being).

Very clear expressions can be delivered, yet few appear to have the capacity to follow what is being pointed out.   Confusing belief with ‘true knowledge’ (knowing) is so common it seems that it is never challenged at all in ‘the general scheme of things’.

Self-Knowledge appears to be so vague in most that they do not even distinguish the difference between sensation and feeling.  ‘People’ use the word ‘feeling’ to describe what is actually sensation or touch.   Feeling is a very clearly defined aspect of being but if the mind is confused and caught up in discontent and personal suffering, then such distinctions remain embedded in the chaotic mental flurry, so common to so many.

Intellectuals who believe they are not confused cling to their definitions like a dog to a bone.   They do not see that they are lost in the mental terrain.

Feelings, what are they?

A musician could be said to be in touch with their feelings, more so than a labourer.  That is not a value judgment in case someone runs off into some reactionary mental spiel about the above sentence.  An artist who paints or sculpts is guided by feelings.   When we look at a painting or sculpture, we feel it in a certain way.  We may not be able to describe how that happens but there are certain common factors that we all experience in such circumstances.   If you hear or read some comments by so called art experts, it is often a lot of empty talk that seems to have nothing to do with the feelings one may have about a particular art piece.   The mental description is never equal to the actual thing.  Even in literature, the words are only pointing towards an experience or an event.  It may be a complex experience or event but the words only ever point to it.   We may resonate with the words and acknowledge their appropriateness but they are only ever ‘sign posts’ to the actual experiencing, which is actually unique in itself.  Words can never capture the ‘reality’ of what actually is.  Words only point.

Feelings do not have a definite location or point.  Feelings have apparent volume.   We may often say that we share feelings with others but there is no way that that can be proven to be true.  Agreement is agreement.  A judge and jury may come to some agreement but the agreement is not an actual proof of anything, except that an agreement has been acknowledged.   The fact is that there are many who are in prison for crimes that they never actually committed and there are many who walk free, who actually did commit a crime.   Words never capture the actual.  A word is never the thing.

If I ask you how you feel about something, you will probably give me a series of words to explain what you feel.  I may get the gist of what you mean.   Beyond all that, as Shakespeare says “There is neither right nor wrong but thinking makes it so”.    That sentence is indisputable.   To deny it one must use thinking – to affirm it there may simply be a resonance in ‘knowing’ or being.   Knowing something is true is not actually limited to the mind or words.

So, after all these words, have we come any closer to what feeling is?

What is your feeling, right now?