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Question: The last words of the book 'Ask the Awakened One' by Wu Wei Wu is a quotation from Huang Po:"Let me remind you That the perceived Cannot perceive" (A more accurate translation from the same passage from Huang Po goes: "You have been clearly told that the object seen does not see in its turn. Why put another head on yours…" ). And Wu Wei Wu adds: 'If you should ever come to understand the full significance of this, will you not have understood everything that needs to be understood?' This full significance …What a jump! An abyss, is it not? To put it briefly: I cannot feel you, Leo, as but an "object" for "Me" and devoid of perceiving, seeing and ...answering…? Could "you" help the motionless jump? Answer: Here is a little twist on Huang Po's words: Let me remind you That the perceiver Cannot be perceived. The very centre from which the perceiving emanates cannot be an object of perception, just like fire cannot burn itself This centre cannot be known, it is itself the very Knowing. In its light all objects of perception are lit up. One of these objects is the perceived person. Another is thought; aka the mind. This unknowable knowing is here right now, aware of the reading of these words and the thoughts that arise. It is the all reflecting mirror, which remains itself beyond being reflected. It is the unheard listener, who 'hears' the thoughts as they tumble by. It is the ever still point to which all movement appears. It is the innermost innermost. It is the Presence that always already is the full significance.
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You know that experience when life is continually believed to be somewhere
else? First it was 'finishing work' (while working), then it was
'being at home in front of the cricket' (while walking home), then
it was 'falling asleep to build up energy "to how it should be"
(while watching the cricket). And all of this happened against the
backdrop of thinking I should be out in the sun, because that's
more healthy, because it'll make me look all brown, blonde, blue-eyed
and attractive to women, and it might be rainy tomorrow.
All of this has inspired one nice reflective bit of clarity though. It is clear that prior to awakening I would definitely have believed that all of this yearning for otherness was very dualistic and unenlightened. (Incidentally, I would also have believed in the extinction of this impulse by, say, meditation or 'not being a slave to my desires', 'leaving these chocolate biscuits next to me alone'. But actually, of course, this activity is nothing but a function of this very yearning for elsewhereness, the wish to be 'somewhere still, a place beyond desire'.) But the fact is, the fact that is so clear and obvious now and which makes this all so simple, that all of this, everything, including all desire, including the desire for desirelessness, is the presence, oneness, that is absolutely unmoving, desireless. Remembering and seeing this is a kind of permissiveness and love for the processes - making them playful. And at other times this somehow gets in amongst all the dry striving and softens it, melts it.
From a new book by Guy Smith: 'This is Unimaginable and Unavoidable'
Available at:http://www.non-dualitybooks.com/ Art by: Michael Cook Title: Otherness Visit him at: http://www.artinsight.com/index.html |
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When you see beyond the illusion Of the phenomenal world, You see that you haven't really lived. I projected a world With birth and death Buying and selling The sun and a moon Unbeknownst to you I placed you in the dream. Sleeping, you dream along with Me. Now, when I chose to wake you up I whispered love songs in your heart. The world vanished. All that's left is you and Me. More music and you vanished. There was only Me In Truth that's all there ever was. Salah J. Abed safad@msn.com Painting from: The Osho Zen Tarot Deck Found at: http://www.scorpiosite69.freeserve.co.uk/OhsoZenTarotDeck.htm |
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The state of Self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and always have been. Sri Ramana Maharshi |
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It sure is hot! Mr. Johnson, a businessman from Wisconsin, went on a business trip to Louisiana. He immediately sent an e-mail back to his wife, Jean. Unfortunately, he mistyped a letter and the e-mail ended up going to a Mrs. Joan Johnson, the wife of a preacher who just passed away. The preacher's wife took one look at the e-mail and promptly fainted. When she was finally revived, she nervously pointed to the message, which read: "Arrived safely, but it sure is hot down here!" |
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