We are very aware of the role played out by the stick or carrot motivation. Like a pendulum,suffering,alternates with pleasure and it keep time. However as we approach the fulcrum,the alternation comes to a halt. The fulcrums[appearing as separate individual awaring centres] are also known by the centre less field of awareness. The 'Heart' centre see things as empty[void of all dualities making up the relatives and the contraries]and these then melt into the seamless expanse of the field of Awareness.
Pain seem to have its location as with appearance of many entities on the screen of awareness,all and every minutest come from a single source,.
Physicists will comfortably entertain the 'Theory' on the Law of conservation of energy by which it is stipulated,energy cannot be created nor destroyed,but merely transform from one form to another and present to awareness the universe as well as its behaviour. If we trace all energy back to the very origin,before the various transformations get into the act,many call this the PRImodial Energy and like the projector light in the cinema bring every things to appear [both the sentient and the insentient] on the screen.
One parting subject to contemplate and that is who or what is it that is aware of the energy and its properties??.Energies itself are appearance that flash on the screen in tandem with the appearance of the human form as part of the transformation to the realm of matter [ E= mcc ]
Suffering does appear,but it appear to NO one as the seeming sufferer and the pain of suffering arise in tandem and we get the impression there is a sufferer experiencing the suffering It is Just as we get the impression that the characters in the movie actually speak and amidst the howling of the wind and the roar of thunder,all of them are nothing,but the same light passing over the sound track along with the 'picture'
I am the light[source as analogue with the projector's light]and the way[the capture of the event as the screen in the cinema register the unfolding of the movie].As the story is already recorded on film,all apparent interaction are all predetermined [as Thy will be done]
A passage from sutra and it states,there are suffering,but there is NO sufferer as all are illusionary.Knowing this remove the delusions that follow us for eons.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Is There CREATION ?
When confronted with the question of creation [as with all other questions] we look to our mind for an answer. If our mind THINKS that what around us including our very own bodies to be real, then there must be in place a process of creation. Our knowledge of the world is one based on this ASSumption and all thing arises from a cause seem a perfect explanation for the mind, until one try to establish the first cause.
Does all begin with a big bang and the universe come into being or a GOD-creator willed it into being.
The scripture of All religions is to seek for the first cause and in doing suggest that the data base of sight, sound, taste, smell, and sensation which comes and go is NOT real and merely Illusion appearing and disappearing on the 'Radar' space of awareness. VOID being the only REALity.
If we can certify that Awareness [knowing that IT is the superimposition of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling and knowing of thoughts upon its face] is independent and have no beginning, a CONSTANT that beckon no ending, and render the concept of cause and effect void, as the first cause have no cause and itself not a cause. It stand as the unchanging Absolute.
Creation is Imaginary and never did took place. That leave us with not the question of creation, but simply seeing a mistake in our assumption [which was taking the illusionary datas as real]. Wonder why then can there be suffering for the so called Created as All are mere mirages and dream stuff as expression of awareness. The empty UNMOVING space of awareness is alive.
Be STILL and Know I AM G*D.
Does all begin with a big bang and the universe come into being or a GOD-creator willed it into being.
The scripture of All religions is to seek for the first cause and in doing suggest that the data base of sight, sound, taste, smell, and sensation which comes and go is NOT real and merely Illusion appearing and disappearing on the 'Radar' space of awareness. VOID being the only REALity.
If we can certify that Awareness [knowing that IT is the superimposition of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling and knowing of thoughts upon its face] is independent and have no beginning, a CONSTANT that beckon no ending, and render the concept of cause and effect void, as the first cause have no cause and itself not a cause. It stand as the unchanging Absolute.
Creation is Imaginary and never did took place. That leave us with not the question of creation, but simply seeing a mistake in our assumption [which was taking the illusionary datas as real]. Wonder why then can there be suffering for the so called Created as All are mere mirages and dream stuff as expression of awareness. The empty UNMOVING space of awareness is alive.
Be STILL and Know I AM G*D.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Understanding.
The Truth is always present. The problem is who is to know this ? If we realized our body and mind [ five skandas ] are illusion appearing in Awareness, we can relax our concern on the welfare of the Toon character and be Awareness witnessing the dream.
The scripture points to this scenario when apprehension by No one [ Individual ] result in a deep understanding that there is nothing to be understood and Nobody exist to know this understanding. All intellectual understanding must be given up as false.
With the wisdom that all is indeed one, love and compassion is natural. If there is a sense of separation, there can arise alienation. Alienation can lead to distrust and fear and fear in turn breeds further alienation. Without the revelation of the scripture, we will continually weave the cocoon of falsehood with each rebirth. In a way, the scripture is our alarm system and once we have awaken, we can also throw out the alarm clock [ and likewise denounce the world of the objects having awakened to the dream ]
To love thy enemies is hollow, unless there is Self realization. Without the wisdom that there exist ONLY One life, flowing through everything, even loving thy neighbors is impossible.
The scripture points to this scenario when apprehension by No one [ Individual ] result in a deep understanding that there is nothing to be understood and Nobody exist to know this understanding. All intellectual understanding must be given up as false.
With the wisdom that all is indeed one, love and compassion is natural. If there is a sense of separation, there can arise alienation. Alienation can lead to distrust and fear and fear in turn breeds further alienation. Without the revelation of the scripture, we will continually weave the cocoon of falsehood with each rebirth. In a way, the scripture is our alarm system and once we have awaken, we can also throw out the alarm clock [ and likewise denounce the world of the objects having awakened to the dream ]
To love thy enemies is hollow, unless there is Self realization. Without the wisdom that there exist ONLY One life, flowing through everything, even loving thy neighbors is impossible.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
All is unborn
Truth is non-dual and is un-born. Since we are filled with samsaric memory, we got carried away by assuming Awareness is unborn and all objects in Awareness [ samsaric ] are subject to apparent birth and death. Our mind immediately register, ' Ah! we now have the Unborn and also that with birth and death ' We conclude duality when there is None.
Being deceived by our memory, we forget that All our memory are based on Illusions and that the many births and death registered by our Awareness is in fact UNreal [as with memory of micky mouse and spiderman] and what is UNreal have to be UNborn. The birth of superman and the death of his parents are All illusionary.[ It never took place and appear as a story in Awareness, when the mortal mind strings up each appearance with that of the subsequent one ] This is without taking into account that each appearance is followed immediately by a disappearance upon the same co-ordinates, before the next appearance can appear on a BLANK slate.
The real is uncaused and so is the False. If there is indeed a [valid] cause for the False, it will NOT be called False. How then, can one slay the imaginary dragon ??Cannot be done as both the dragon and the slayer are illusions. Full stop and all remain is what is Real, the light of awareness emitting from every locations [ cannot be confine to any region or the minutest location ]
This posting is inspired by one of the reader named Ben Ben.
Being deceived by our memory, we forget that All our memory are based on Illusions and that the many births and death registered by our Awareness is in fact UNreal [as with memory of micky mouse and spiderman] and what is UNreal have to be UNborn. The birth of superman and the death of his parents are All illusionary.[ It never took place and appear as a story in Awareness, when the mortal mind strings up each appearance with that of the subsequent one ] This is without taking into account that each appearance is followed immediately by a disappearance upon the same co-ordinates, before the next appearance can appear on a BLANK slate.
The real is uncaused and so is the False. If there is indeed a [valid] cause for the False, it will NOT be called False. How then, can one slay the imaginary dragon ??Cannot be done as both the dragon and the slayer are illusions. Full stop and all remain is what is Real, the light of awareness emitting from every locations [ cannot be confine to any region or the minutest location ]
This posting is inspired by one of the reader named Ben Ben.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wu Wei
Taoism that originates from China hold a simple concept of No Doer[Wu Wei]What is meant by No Doer? It is a concept based on observations on things that happens around us and within us.
Looking at nature,we find that many events happens because certain conditions favour it. Lets take rain for instance. When water vapour in the air becomes more concentrated depending on prevailing temperature and pressure,there will be a change of phase as the vapour transform into liquid water resulting in rain. We said that IT rain because of certain condition of humidity,temperature and atmospheric pressure. We can also stipulate a concept that The God of rain call for rain. In the earlier concept,there is No doer and things happen. In the latter suggestion,the doer is the God of rain.
To make the concept of doer ship holds,we must then have God of wind,God of Thunder and lightning.The God of mountains and rivers and a whole host of Gods to manage the affair of the world and the universe.
Modern science have explained the causes of most natural phenomenon and things happens because of gathering of certain conditions. When the conditions are in place, the event happens.
The concept run into problem when we regard deeds done by sentient being. The human appear to be the doers of so many things, constructing the highways, dams, high rise, rockets and space station, etc. So how do we reconcile doership and non doership. Here we apply the transcendental wisdom of Anatta to establish that human beings are illusions and are mere false appearance. As credit of human's effort is due to personal selves and we know they do not exist, then what doer are we talking about. The sutra states, all things are done, but there are NO Doer thereof. We can also say No Doer is just a corollary of NO self [Egolessness of a personal identity]
Human can be looked at as flesh robots responding to thoughts [instructions down loaded onto their CPU] As we cannot establish a creator of thoughts which are responses to stimuli and arises out of conditions and similar to that for rain and lightning.
Looking at nature,we find that many events happens because certain conditions favour it. Lets take rain for instance. When water vapour in the air becomes more concentrated depending on prevailing temperature and pressure,there will be a change of phase as the vapour transform into liquid water resulting in rain. We said that IT rain because of certain condition of humidity,temperature and atmospheric pressure. We can also stipulate a concept that The God of rain call for rain. In the earlier concept,there is No doer and things happen. In the latter suggestion,the doer is the God of rain.
To make the concept of doer ship holds,we must then have God of wind,God of Thunder and lightning.The God of mountains and rivers and a whole host of Gods to manage the affair of the world and the universe.
Modern science have explained the causes of most natural phenomenon and things happens because of gathering of certain conditions. When the conditions are in place, the event happens.
The concept run into problem when we regard deeds done by sentient being. The human appear to be the doers of so many things, constructing the highways, dams, high rise, rockets and space station, etc. So how do we reconcile doership and non doership. Here we apply the transcendental wisdom of Anatta to establish that human beings are illusions and are mere false appearance. As credit of human's effort is due to personal selves and we know they do not exist, then what doer are we talking about. The sutra states, all things are done, but there are NO Doer thereof. We can also say No Doer is just a corollary of NO self [Egolessness of a personal identity]
Human can be looked at as flesh robots responding to thoughts [instructions down loaded onto their CPU] As we cannot establish a creator of thoughts which are responses to stimuli and arises out of conditions and similar to that for rain and lightning.
Is there Free Will?
In our world[samsara],the subject of freewill fascinates many and opinions differ. The hallmark of opinions is it will always differ as one man's meat is another person's poison.
As our mortal mind surrender, we go deep and ask the question to Truth with its Noble wisdom?
When we are trying to establish the validity of Freewill, we should take a step back and ask first of all, this freewill is for whom.?
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Is there going to be a will for non-sentient beings like stone and wood or is freewill limited to only sentient being. Do we know the attributes of a particular sentient being? After the refresher on the five skandhas that make up a living being, we establish there is no such personal identity as all beings ARE ILLUSIONS. Now we rephrase the question and ask if Bugs Bunny can have a will?
Will is dependent on the individual making it and if there can be no individual, is having a will then possible? If not why argue on will being free or not.
As our mortal mind surrender, we go deep and ask the question to Truth with its Noble wisdom?
When we are trying to establish the validity of Freewill, we should take a step back and ask first of all, this freewill is for whom.?
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Is there going to be a will for non-sentient beings like stone and wood or is freewill limited to only sentient being. Do we know the attributes of a particular sentient being? After the refresher on the five skandhas that make up a living being, we establish there is no such personal identity as all beings ARE ILLUSIONS. Now we rephrase the question and ask if Bugs Bunny can have a will?
Will is dependent on the individual making it and if there can be no individual, is having a will then possible? If not why argue on will being free or not.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Human Being
In the Buddhist tradition a human being is made up of Body-Mind
The Mind is further subdivided into
1]Feelings
2]Thoughts[names that form the basis of language]
3]Violations with knowledge string from thought
4]Consciousness
The five bundles is termed the five Skandas.
Anatta is the foundation of Buddhism and is the teaching of the Egolessness of a personal self. The teaching consist of discourses to show that each of the five skandas are illusionary and therefore empty. All living beings are nothing but mirages that appear within Awareness.
Samsara is a 'dream' world that apparently exist as a result of delusion in believing the illusions[mirages] to be real.
We are no different from other imaginary beings like Santa Clause, Spider Man, Batman, Super man, Micky Mouse, Donald duck and others. In the stories involving these personalities, there are occasion of sufferings and joy.
Now we ask the question who suffer and who gets to enjoy, when All beings are false and illusionary. Here I part with a quote from the sutra. There are suffering, but NO ONE who suffer.
The Mind is further subdivided into
1]Feelings
2]Thoughts[names that form the basis of language]
3]Violations with knowledge string from thought
4]Consciousness
The five bundles is termed the five Skandas.
Anatta is the foundation of Buddhism and is the teaching of the Egolessness of a personal self. The teaching consist of discourses to show that each of the five skandas are illusionary and therefore empty. All living beings are nothing but mirages that appear within Awareness.
Samsara is a 'dream' world that apparently exist as a result of delusion in believing the illusions[mirages] to be real.
We are no different from other imaginary beings like Santa Clause, Spider Man, Batman, Super man, Micky Mouse, Donald duck and others. In the stories involving these personalities, there are occasion of sufferings and joy.
Now we ask the question who suffer and who gets to enjoy, when All beings are false and illusionary. Here I part with a quote from the sutra. There are suffering, but NO ONE who suffer.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Who is the dreamer behind our dreams
All of us have experience dreams at one time or others. What happens when we awake from the dreams? Everything in the dream vanished completely. We note in most cases we can recall the dream[even if it appear vague] Who then witness the dream as our body is asleep and all participants in the dream have disappeared?? For one to remember a dream, one must be PRESENT as Witness during the unfolding of the dream. Who or what is this witness.??
When we wake up from the dream, we are aware of our body and surrounding. Is this Awareness the same awareness witnessing the dream and now witnessing our waking state[which in reality is a longer and serialized dream, broken by sleep.]
The identity of the dreamer will then be Awareness or God and all creations attributed to God are just various dream world Dreamt up by God and there is in fact no Objective creation of the worlds and the living beings. Creation process is Illusionary..
With this wisdom we need not wait for the dream to end as we can awake to it at anytime. That is in the midst of a dream knowing it is just a dream. This is a stretch from the normal awakening FROM a dream[after the dream have ended]
We have understood from earlier post, "I" is this Awareness, a cosmic stage for the screening of all sorts of holograms[Including the realm of heaven and hell and those of Angels and Ghost to boot]. In the Hindu tradition the hologram is also called the dance of leila. In the Daimond Sutra,the hologram is simply referred to as Dreams.
The final conclusion is awareness stand alone as cognitive emptiness and only dreams[illusions] can arise in it. This also allow the conclusion, there is nothing real to know and there is NO one[individual]to know as All beings are illusionary too!!!!.
Dreams can be both tragic and joyful with a common thread they are all UNreal. Awareness have no role in the dream, except lending to it the light of imagination and staying behind as the witness of the dream. When One identifies with Awareness one is eternal beyond birth and death[which apply only for appearances in the dream]hence there is no fears for there is NO one to fear or be happy. All dream characters are no different from Donald duck, Superman and our good old Santa.
To put the "i" sticker on a dream character is the only ERROR[Ignorance in the language preferred in scriptures] "I" is the label[name] for GOD. The error arises when the dreamer is wrongly identified with a dream character in the dream. Awakening to the dream is sometimes referred to as Self-REALization or knowing the TRUE identity of "I" the True Self and not the false self[of an ego entity, a living being with a personality and a lifespan]
Now the familiar Rhymes
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream,
Merry, Merry, Merry be, life is BUT a dream
The boat is an allegory for our body as it move along the stream of life[from birth to death]There is no need for worry as All is but a dream.
All the world great religions with its many teaching are simply incidents within the dream with the prophet a dream character[like the rest]declaring to all in the dream, they are within a dream and NOT to take the dream as REAL.
Why worry, be happy.
When we wake up from the dream, we are aware of our body and surrounding. Is this Awareness the same awareness witnessing the dream and now witnessing our waking state[which in reality is a longer and serialized dream, broken by sleep.]
The identity of the dreamer will then be Awareness or God and all creations attributed to God are just various dream world Dreamt up by God and there is in fact no Objective creation of the worlds and the living beings. Creation process is Illusionary..
With this wisdom we need not wait for the dream to end as we can awake to it at anytime. That is in the midst of a dream knowing it is just a dream. This is a stretch from the normal awakening FROM a dream[after the dream have ended]
We have understood from earlier post, "I" is this Awareness, a cosmic stage for the screening of all sorts of holograms[Including the realm of heaven and hell and those of Angels and Ghost to boot]. In the Hindu tradition the hologram is also called the dance of leila. In the Daimond Sutra,the hologram is simply referred to as Dreams.
The final conclusion is awareness stand alone as cognitive emptiness and only dreams[illusions] can arise in it. This also allow the conclusion, there is nothing real to know and there is NO one[individual]to know as All beings are illusionary too!!!!.
Dreams can be both tragic and joyful with a common thread they are all UNreal. Awareness have no role in the dream, except lending to it the light of imagination and staying behind as the witness of the dream. When One identifies with Awareness one is eternal beyond birth and death[which apply only for appearances in the dream]hence there is no fears for there is NO one to fear or be happy. All dream characters are no different from Donald duck, Superman and our good old Santa.
To put the "i" sticker on a dream character is the only ERROR[Ignorance in the language preferred in scriptures] "I" is the label[name] for GOD. The error arises when the dreamer is wrongly identified with a dream character in the dream. Awakening to the dream is sometimes referred to as Self-REALization or knowing the TRUE identity of "I" the True Self and not the false self[of an ego entity, a living being with a personality and a lifespan]
Now the familiar Rhymes
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream,
Merry, Merry, Merry be, life is BUT a dream
The boat is an allegory for our body as it move along the stream of life[from birth to death]There is no need for worry as All is but a dream.
All the world great religions with its many teaching are simply incidents within the dream with the prophet a dream character[like the rest]declaring to all in the dream, they are within a dream and NOT to take the dream as REAL.
Why worry, be happy.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Awareness and Objects of Awareness
Now that we were told Awareness is the 'knowing' space and Objects are appearances[data bases] that comes and go within it. This allow the thinking mind to set up a duality of 'Cognitive void'[Nirvana] and the ever changing display of data[dusts] within it[Samsara].
If we can visualize awareness as the vast still depth of the ocean and the surface displaying waves of differing sizes as the varying states with objects, we can reconcile both as water[essence]. Without water we do not get the ocean[Nirvana]and without the ocean, what waves[samsara] can we talk about.
So the one essence which is emptiness in its natural state can Appear as Illusions of ALL forms from the tiniest of subatomic landscape within atoms to the borderless cosmos.
Awareness, like space is indivisible, but we can concentrate the consciousness over a particular space, like a spot light which can be directed on a blade of grass or expanded to zoom out into space. Consciousness can expand and contract and be replace by state of Unconsciousness. In short All changes of consciousness is within the UNchanging Awareness which is the ONLY essence. If 'I' am indeed this and there being no others, Then every happening is in ME and being Alone, the only game left is Solitaire.
If we can visualize awareness as the vast still depth of the ocean and the surface displaying waves of differing sizes as the varying states with objects, we can reconcile both as water[essence]. Without water we do not get the ocean[Nirvana]and without the ocean, what waves[samsara] can we talk about.
So the one essence which is emptiness in its natural state can Appear as Illusions of ALL forms from the tiniest of subatomic landscape within atoms to the borderless cosmos.
Awareness, like space is indivisible, but we can concentrate the consciousness over a particular space, like a spot light which can be directed on a blade of grass or expanded to zoom out into space. Consciousness can expand and contract and be replace by state of Unconsciousness. In short All changes of consciousness is within the UNchanging Awareness which is the ONLY essence. If 'I' am indeed this and there being no others, Then every happening is in ME and being Alone, the only game left is Solitaire.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
As it is
What happen when we detect an error? We cannot just delete it, leaving a blank. As with spell-check, errors in spelling is high lighted and replaced by one with correct spelling. To make sure the label 'sugar' is on the right jar, we must check the content against our taste for confirmation. If it taste sweet, then we know the goods match the description. In doing so we are not manipulating the content to fit the label, we just placed the label where it should be or as it is.
Now we know, the label 'I' we used to point to our body and/or mind is in error. Guided by the wisdom of the kithab, we now know the TRUE identity of 'I" to be the field of Awareness and is consistent with its ONE "taste". Sugar have always been sugar with sweetness as its essence. The confusion arise only due to error of sticking the label on the wrong jar[containing other than sugar].
Now that we have no doubt, we have been Awareness all these while, the simple hindsight show up the silliness of the past when we mistook our selve as humans with a body that display a certain personality and are gender and raced based. Our True Identity is that Ultimate Subject which is aware of objects within its field[consisting of sights, sounds, taste, odour, sensation, thoughts and feelings.] Objects are mere data base that appear and disappear within the field call "I" Awareness itself is unchanging and unmoving and itself indivisible as one cannot cut up space. The appearance and disappearance of object are dependent on awareness as sound can only be known when there is hearing. However in the absence of sound[object],hearing is still present. Otherwise, what is it that note the silence?. In fact this presence of awareness is not dependent on anything and is Truly sovereign. Awareness have no source[creator] and itself a prior condition for the appearance of objects.
In the primordial state of awareness on the very First instant, appearance manifest within it, there can be no movement or change in appearance[post activities that follows with the first appearance]In this absolute stillness, there can be NO time as time record events of change. No change mean no event and therefore no time. In the absence of light, the form of space cannot be known, be it a tight space in a room or out in the wide open space of the cosmos, it cannot be discerned.
Human knowledge is memory on a collection of experiences. No experience translate to no memory[record of memory]and result in NO knowledge.
In some scripture knowledge is represented by the forbidden fruit and ingesting it breaks the primordial peace[as in the garden of Eden]
If one can leave thoughts behind, by seeing through them as illusions appearing and disappearing there is the realization of intrinsic wisdom. By abandoning thought[forbidden fruit],our discriminating mind of duality such as good and bad is stopped in its track as its very function depends on thought. In a flash, we are back in the garden of Eden which we never left, but merely intoxicated[confused] by our mortal mind[intellect].
Everything remain as it is and nothing change. The earth remain a sphere even the whole world believe it to be flat.'
'I' have always been awareness, as God told Moses 'I am that I am'. 'I' is Awareness which is inconceivable and non-perceivable and cannot be known as with object. Isn't this an attribute of GOD.
Perhaps, GOD, Buddha, Tao, Brahman. Johovah, Tuhan are but different name for this ONE ultimate subject which is omnipresent, eternal, the only knowing there is[omniscience] and the source of everything[making it omnipotent]Immutable and indivisible. Jesus is full of clarity when he declare 'me and my father are ONE'. On other occasion he express the same thing from a different view as 'BE Still and Know I AM God'. If we take a snapshot of space and its content. The contents are the phenomena or appearances[comes and go and never still]while the context, the space itself is an unmoving[Still]field which in reality IS the Noumena [True nature] of everything and its essence is VOID.
All the confusion evaporates when duality of subject and object are erased as all objects are merely manifestation[Illusions] of ONE awareness. The hindu in advaita just conclude all as 'om tat sat' meaning All is That[Awareness].So our True identity 'I' alone is, and there can be no others. Once we know the world to be illusionary, we must purge all our data banks from error entry[delusions].In our daily operation, depending on past memory, we must not continue with the wrong view that the world is real and we are individuals collectively known as human. The mirage[dream] continue,but we see the dream as dream and enjoy the show like a movie, knowing full well all that is up on the screen[2-D representation of space] are illusions.
For the very first time we awake TO[not the usual From]the dream, meaning in the midst of a dream, one know it to be a dream. Like a movie, it can be story of tragedy, human drama, comedy cartoon, supernatural and paranormal celebrating pain and joy and yet the actors and props are only the projector light caught on the screen and in reality there is no sufferers and enjoyer, while there is suffering and joy in the story. What we treat as Reality are in fact fiction. The confusion being just a simple error introduced into the sixth consciousness.
Holy cow! I being awareness is not borne and will not die so there is no fear of death. Also in awareness there is no other and as all is myself there is no who or what that I should fear or love as there exist none, other than me[awareness] is REAL .The love and aversion for mirages stop. Time and space are the story board from which fiction spring to life and all collection of past event are term HIS[story] which means story of GOD[as in thy will be done].In clarity history are fictions, the movie house that never rest[Samsara, never running out of new film from 'karmic' production]
Sakyumuni wisdom is in this simple observation. 'If there is no unconditioned[Awareness or Nirvana],there will be no escape for the conditioned[phenomena or the world of samsara]'. Both Nirvana and Samsara share the same space and Nirvana is not to be thought of as a heavenly place outside of samsara. Awareness is the substratum of everything including space.Space in modern physic actually change 'shape' as it warps in the vicinity of gravitational force and in region of strong field[in the vicinity of black hold]the distortion is very noticeable.
It has nothing to do with effort of the individual,one of the many dream characters, but simply BE the awareness that is witnessing the on going dream within its knowing apace. Awareness is already perfect and need no addition or subtraction to enhance it.
Now we know, the label 'I' we used to point to our body and/or mind is in error. Guided by the wisdom of the kithab, we now know the TRUE identity of 'I" to be the field of Awareness and is consistent with its ONE "taste". Sugar have always been sugar with sweetness as its essence. The confusion arise only due to error of sticking the label on the wrong jar[containing other than sugar].
Now that we have no doubt, we have been Awareness all these while, the simple hindsight show up the silliness of the past when we mistook our selve as humans with a body that display a certain personality and are gender and raced based. Our True Identity is that Ultimate Subject which is aware of objects within its field[consisting of sights, sounds, taste, odour, sensation, thoughts and feelings.] Objects are mere data base that appear and disappear within the field call "I" Awareness itself is unchanging and unmoving and itself indivisible as one cannot cut up space. The appearance and disappearance of object are dependent on awareness as sound can only be known when there is hearing. However in the absence of sound[object],hearing is still present. Otherwise, what is it that note the silence?. In fact this presence of awareness is not dependent on anything and is Truly sovereign. Awareness have no source[creator] and itself a prior condition for the appearance of objects.
In the primordial state of awareness on the very First instant, appearance manifest within it, there can be no movement or change in appearance[post activities that follows with the first appearance]In this absolute stillness, there can be NO time as time record events of change. No change mean no event and therefore no time. In the absence of light, the form of space cannot be known, be it a tight space in a room or out in the wide open space of the cosmos, it cannot be discerned.
Human knowledge is memory on a collection of experiences. No experience translate to no memory[record of memory]and result in NO knowledge.
In some scripture knowledge is represented by the forbidden fruit and ingesting it breaks the primordial peace[as in the garden of Eden]
If one can leave thoughts behind, by seeing through them as illusions appearing and disappearing there is the realization of intrinsic wisdom. By abandoning thought[forbidden fruit],our discriminating mind of duality such as good and bad is stopped in its track as its very function depends on thought. In a flash, we are back in the garden of Eden which we never left, but merely intoxicated[confused] by our mortal mind[intellect].
Everything remain as it is and nothing change. The earth remain a sphere even the whole world believe it to be flat.'
'I' have always been awareness, as God told Moses 'I am that I am'. 'I' is Awareness which is inconceivable and non-perceivable and cannot be known as with object. Isn't this an attribute of GOD.
Perhaps, GOD, Buddha, Tao, Brahman. Johovah, Tuhan are but different name for this ONE ultimate subject which is omnipresent, eternal, the only knowing there is[omniscience] and the source of everything[making it omnipotent]Immutable and indivisible. Jesus is full of clarity when he declare 'me and my father are ONE'. On other occasion he express the same thing from a different view as 'BE Still and Know I AM God'. If we take a snapshot of space and its content. The contents are the phenomena or appearances[comes and go and never still]while the context, the space itself is an unmoving[Still]field which in reality IS the Noumena [True nature] of everything and its essence is VOID.
All the confusion evaporates when duality of subject and object are erased as all objects are merely manifestation[Illusions] of ONE awareness. The hindu in advaita just conclude all as 'om tat sat' meaning All is That[Awareness].So our True identity 'I' alone is, and there can be no others. Once we know the world to be illusionary, we must purge all our data banks from error entry[delusions].In our daily operation, depending on past memory, we must not continue with the wrong view that the world is real and we are individuals collectively known as human. The mirage[dream] continue,but we see the dream as dream and enjoy the show like a movie, knowing full well all that is up on the screen[2-D representation of space] are illusions.
For the very first time we awake TO[not the usual From]the dream, meaning in the midst of a dream, one know it to be a dream. Like a movie, it can be story of tragedy, human drama, comedy cartoon, supernatural and paranormal celebrating pain and joy and yet the actors and props are only the projector light caught on the screen and in reality there is no sufferers and enjoyer, while there is suffering and joy in the story. What we treat as Reality are in fact fiction. The confusion being just a simple error introduced into the sixth consciousness.
Holy cow! I being awareness is not borne and will not die so there is no fear of death. Also in awareness there is no other and as all is myself there is no who or what that I should fear or love as there exist none, other than me[awareness] is REAL .The love and aversion for mirages stop. Time and space are the story board from which fiction spring to life and all collection of past event are term HIS[story] which means story of GOD[as in thy will be done].In clarity history are fictions, the movie house that never rest[Samsara, never running out of new film from 'karmic' production]
Sakyumuni wisdom is in this simple observation. 'If there is no unconditioned[Awareness or Nirvana],there will be no escape for the conditioned[phenomena or the world of samsara]'. Both Nirvana and Samsara share the same space and Nirvana is not to be thought of as a heavenly place outside of samsara. Awareness is the substratum of everything including space.Space in modern physic actually change 'shape' as it warps in the vicinity of gravitational force and in region of strong field[in the vicinity of black hold]the distortion is very noticeable.
It has nothing to do with effort of the individual,one of the many dream characters, but simply BE the awareness that is witnessing the on going dream within its knowing apace. Awareness is already perfect and need no addition or subtraction to enhance it.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Error
What is error? It is the wrong judgment that arise from wrong assumption or just carelessness. Wrong assumption is itself a careless action. Error can be corrected by replacing what is wrong with what is right. If we have added wrongly, we just delete the incorrect sum total and replace it with the correct total. If the error come from the calculator, we replace the calculator.
Most of the major error we undergo, got to do with wrong assumptions such as:
1]The earth is Flat
2]The sun rises and falls[An assumption of the sun orbiting round the earth]
The error when spotted is then put right and we say now our earth is a sphere and the earth orbit round the sun, but at the same time rotate on its own axis to create the Illusion of the sun moving.
Now consider the following assumption and see if there is inherent error.
a] I am a person[of certain gender, race ,age, personality]
b] I am the thinker[creator of all my thoughts]
As an illustration, let say we have various jars for salt, sugar, coffee and milk and the labels for salt and sugar got on the wrong jar.[that is the jar containing sugar have salt as the label and vice versa]
With this error, we can end up having salty coffee. However, once the error is detected, we just placed the label on the correct jar. We know the label was in error as we know sugar does not taste salty[even if it looks and feels the same]. More valuable we have the knowledge that the taste of sugar to be of a certain kind of sweetness.
Now is the Label 'I' assumed correctly. If not, then Who AM I???
Lets us do a simple Reality check. The body cannot be the 'I' as it is changing every moment and from an infant, it will change to a child and finally an adult. 'I' cannot be the body or we will end up with many 'I' one for each moment in time.
Now let us see if 'I' is the thinker. If one is the creator of thought one have the sovereignty to manufacture or not manufacture thoughts. In which case, one will be able to stop thoughts arising whenever we want and for as long as we want. Just try stopping the thinking process for one single minute. The error is exposed. The 'I' cannot also be a thought which comes an go and we will end up with many different 'I'
What is 'I' then, now that we know it cannot be a WHO.
We now ask What am I?
As the scripture suggest, why not we Try if 'I' can be a name for Awareness. The error is recognised, but it can only be corrected with an assumption that is also fact[Truth]
Most of the major error we undergo, got to do with wrong assumptions such as:
1]The earth is Flat
2]The sun rises and falls[An assumption of the sun orbiting round the earth]
The error when spotted is then put right and we say now our earth is a sphere and the earth orbit round the sun, but at the same time rotate on its own axis to create the Illusion of the sun moving.
Now consider the following assumption and see if there is inherent error.
a] I am a person[of certain gender, race ,age, personality]
b] I am the thinker[creator of all my thoughts]
As an illustration, let say we have various jars for salt, sugar, coffee and milk and the labels for salt and sugar got on the wrong jar.[that is the jar containing sugar have salt as the label and vice versa]
With this error, we can end up having salty coffee. However, once the error is detected, we just placed the label on the correct jar. We know the label was in error as we know sugar does not taste salty[even if it looks and feels the same]. More valuable we have the knowledge that the taste of sugar to be of a certain kind of sweetness.
Now is the Label 'I' assumed correctly. If not, then Who AM I???
Lets us do a simple Reality check. The body cannot be the 'I' as it is changing every moment and from an infant, it will change to a child and finally an adult. 'I' cannot be the body or we will end up with many 'I' one for each moment in time.
Now let us see if 'I' is the thinker. If one is the creator of thought one have the sovereignty to manufacture or not manufacture thoughts. In which case, one will be able to stop thoughts arising whenever we want and for as long as we want. Just try stopping the thinking process for one single minute. The error is exposed. The 'I' cannot also be a thought which comes an go and we will end up with many different 'I'
What is 'I' then, now that we know it cannot be a WHO.
We now ask What am I?
As the scripture suggest, why not we Try if 'I' can be a name for Awareness. The error is recognised, but it can only be corrected with an assumption that is also fact[Truth]
The allegory of the movie
We are all familiar with going to the movie to witness an entire story unfold on the giant screen.
The screen is representation of the unmoving space around us and also within us. The phenomenon that appear in space are the appearances[illusion]on the screen all derived from a single[projector] light passing through a still frame of a movie strip. The successive spooling of the film provide a continual succession of pictures on the screen. Each picture carry with it the many appearances of landscape and living beings. Succeeding replacement of the picture create the illusion of animation and the story comes alive on the still screen.
The film represents God's will or karma[prerecorded and canned] and the many appearances are from one and the same light after passing through the film.
As awareness is not conceivable or perceivable, the use of allegory is for us to intuit on it and also established the wisdom to recognize appearances as illusion, thus ending the delusion of accepting phenomenon as real, when in fact it is a mere projection within the light of awareness. Our own bodies and minds are likewise illusion from this one light.[Awareness, God, Tao, etc.] As illusions are unreal, the apparent birth and death of beings are also illusionary on the same footing as other illusionary friends from the comic and cartoon world.
The many are illusions from the one light[source] and thus share the same essence.
In real life the One field of awareness is the source of the appearance which in essence is the light as in "I am the light and the way. Since awareness is the only reality all else are mirages, but sharing in one essence[noumenon which is void]
The reflectivity[essence] of the mirror is also the changing faces of reflections. Except for the reflections seen, no body ever see the TRUE face of a mirror[the substratum of the reflections].
The screen is representation of the unmoving space around us and also within us. The phenomenon that appear in space are the appearances[illusion]on the screen all derived from a single[projector] light passing through a still frame of a movie strip. The successive spooling of the film provide a continual succession of pictures on the screen. Each picture carry with it the many appearances of landscape and living beings. Succeeding replacement of the picture create the illusion of animation and the story comes alive on the still screen.
The film represents God's will or karma[prerecorded and canned] and the many appearances are from one and the same light after passing through the film.
As awareness is not conceivable or perceivable, the use of allegory is for us to intuit on it and also established the wisdom to recognize appearances as illusion, thus ending the delusion of accepting phenomenon as real, when in fact it is a mere projection within the light of awareness. Our own bodies and minds are likewise illusion from this one light.[Awareness, God, Tao, etc.] As illusions are unreal, the apparent birth and death of beings are also illusionary on the same footing as other illusionary friends from the comic and cartoon world.
The many are illusions from the one light[source] and thus share the same essence.
In real life the One field of awareness is the source of the appearance which in essence is the light as in "I am the light and the way. Since awareness is the only reality all else are mirages, but sharing in one essence[noumenon which is void]
The reflectivity[essence] of the mirror is also the changing faces of reflections. Except for the reflections seen, no body ever see the TRUE face of a mirror[the substratum of the reflections].
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Attributes of awareness
What are the objects we are aware of? and how do we discern them?
The endless objects can be classified into six groupings
1]Sights
2]Sounds
3]Smell
4]Taste
5]Sensation
6]Thoughts and feelings
The first five can be located on a space matrix, and exhibit certain quality and properties.
For item 6,we cannot pin down where thought and feeling are located, but we generally feel it within our body. All objects are Dependent on awareness or we will have no knowledge of it.
If the data bases that flash before us are known to us, then Awareness are the context or a field upon which objects appear. We are aware of objects coming within the body and also outside, thus awareness have no boundary and Space like .
Awareness is always present whether objects appear or not.
Awareness is the One subject 'awaring' of the objects that appear and disappear.
As seeing cannot see seeing and hearing cannot hear hearing, Awareness cannot be aware of itself.
As with the case with hearing, we can know its presence by sound heard and the silence of no sound. So too we can Intuit awareness is present even when no objects appear.
So Truth being also called awareness is Omnipresence, Omniscience[the Only knowing Subject],Eternal and is Independent on its own. As naming is arbitrary others names commonly used are God, Witness, Tao, etc.
Awareness being a field have no location. Like the apparent center of gravity[CG} of an object located within the field of gravity, there arise also the phenomenon of apparent center of awareness in the sense organs Located within the field of awareness. Like the weight in an object which is apparent and induce by the gravitational field will totally disappear when the field is switched off or the objects moved outside its range as in outer space.
As awareness is the function of the field, all object within it have no awareness and only an apparent center in sentient being giving the impression of individuality. This is parallel to various objects each having an apparent individual weight from other objects within the same field.
As CG can be located out of the body for certain body shape, so also the centre of awareness[CA] can be located outside the body which gave us the often mentioned out of body experience.
The objects which made up ego are the five skandhas which can have only APPARENT awareness. It is wrong to ASSUME human have awareness[one for each human, like the concept of weight]when all appear within the ONE and Only field of awareness.
What differ from Awareness field and other field such as gravity, heat, magnetic, etc. is that it is not dependent on any source for its generation. The truth of awareness[a field]is self present without the need of a source[unborn] and it self is the CONDITION for all object to appear. No Awareness, no appearance of any object is possible, including space and time.
The endless objects can be classified into six groupings
1]Sights
2]Sounds
3]Smell
4]Taste
5]Sensation
6]Thoughts and feelings
The first five can be located on a space matrix, and exhibit certain quality and properties.
For item 6,we cannot pin down where thought and feeling are located, but we generally feel it within our body. All objects are Dependent on awareness or we will have no knowledge of it.
If the data bases that flash before us are known to us, then Awareness are the context or a field upon which objects appear. We are aware of objects coming within the body and also outside, thus awareness have no boundary and Space like .
Awareness is always present whether objects appear or not.
Awareness is the One subject 'awaring' of the objects that appear and disappear.
As seeing cannot see seeing and hearing cannot hear hearing, Awareness cannot be aware of itself.
As with the case with hearing, we can know its presence by sound heard and the silence of no sound. So too we can Intuit awareness is present even when no objects appear.
So Truth being also called awareness is Omnipresence, Omniscience[the Only knowing Subject],Eternal and is Independent on its own. As naming is arbitrary others names commonly used are God, Witness, Tao, etc.
Awareness being a field have no location. Like the apparent center of gravity[CG} of an object located within the field of gravity, there arise also the phenomenon of apparent center of awareness in the sense organs Located within the field of awareness. Like the weight in an object which is apparent and induce by the gravitational field will totally disappear when the field is switched off or the objects moved outside its range as in outer space.
As awareness is the function of the field, all object within it have no awareness and only an apparent center in sentient being giving the impression of individuality. This is parallel to various objects each having an apparent individual weight from other objects within the same field.
As CG can be located out of the body for certain body shape, so also the centre of awareness[CA] can be located outside the body which gave us the often mentioned out of body experience.
The objects which made up ego are the five skandhas which can have only APPARENT awareness. It is wrong to ASSUME human have awareness[one for each human, like the concept of weight]when all appear within the ONE and Only field of awareness.
What differ from Awareness field and other field such as gravity, heat, magnetic, etc. is that it is not dependent on any source for its generation. The truth of awareness[a field]is self present without the need of a source[unborn] and it self is the CONDITION for all object to appear. No Awareness, no appearance of any object is possible, including space and time.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Who is the seeker?
When the thought is fed into us that 'Truth liberates', the thoughts that follow will be how to get to this Truth. With this, the so called seekers emerges. Let see what create the seeker from an earlier non-seeking. It is just the arising of the thought of seeking that makes one a seeker. Give-up the thought of seeking and the seeker disappear. We are what we thought!!
Without the wisdom from the scriptures[any religion],seeking will just be a repetition of the thoughts of seeking and stops when the thoughts move to other thing. The kithab ask a simple question. Who is aware of our thoughts including the thought of seeking ??? Our attention have always been on the thoughts. For a moment contemplate who is seeing these thought. Next we have to clear the ignorance of who is the CREATOR of our thoughts. Here I suggest a simple 'Reality' check to see If the self[ego] is the creator. If it IS, one will be able control the arising of thoughts as one wishes and also limit the type of thoughts. Now can anyone stop the flow of thoughts for a minute or even a second?
The failure to stop thought[as thinking is an involuntary process]we have to accept that the thinker[creator] of thought is not you and further investigation confirm it cannot be found.
Now back to who is aware of the thoughts and discern its quality such as good or evil, sad or happy, etc....If thoughts are imagine to be words on the monitor screen within our mind, who is watching and reading from the screen???
Instead of naming the seer X[unknown],we use the term Truth. Now Truth is the identity we wish to know. Truth is the one watching the monitor and so have to be away from it, while thoughts are displayed on the monitor. So Truth can NEVER be displayed on the monitor. We know Truth is present or how else are we to know the thought as it arise and disappear and the sequence continue.
All religions are simply here to reveal the Truth[seer].Although, we have not solved for X, we are certain it has the attribute of knowing thoughts. Does X have other attributes? Stay with this post to find out.
Without the wisdom from the scriptures[any religion],seeking will just be a repetition of the thoughts of seeking and stops when the thoughts move to other thing. The kithab ask a simple question. Who is aware of our thoughts including the thought of seeking ??? Our attention have always been on the thoughts. For a moment contemplate who is seeing these thought. Next we have to clear the ignorance of who is the CREATOR of our thoughts. Here I suggest a simple 'Reality' check to see If the self[ego] is the creator. If it IS, one will be able control the arising of thoughts as one wishes and also limit the type of thoughts. Now can anyone stop the flow of thoughts for a minute or even a second?
The failure to stop thought[as thinking is an involuntary process]we have to accept that the thinker[creator] of thought is not you and further investigation confirm it cannot be found.
Now back to who is aware of the thoughts and discern its quality such as good or evil, sad or happy, etc....If thoughts are imagine to be words on the monitor screen within our mind, who is watching and reading from the screen???
Instead of naming the seer X[unknown],we use the term Truth. Now Truth is the identity we wish to know. Truth is the one watching the monitor and so have to be away from it, while thoughts are displayed on the monitor. So Truth can NEVER be displayed on the monitor. We know Truth is present or how else are we to know the thought as it arise and disappear and the sequence continue.
All religions are simply here to reveal the Truth[seer].Although, we have not solved for X, we are certain it has the attribute of knowing thoughts. Does X have other attributes? Stay with this post to find out.
The lifting of the veil begins
If the Truth is Eternal and present everywhere, how come so few get to know it? The entire view is veiled over by a mirage we called the world and its inhabitants[including we humans]. This veil is lifted for a brief period at the end of a cosmic cycle. During this narrow window of time, Truth will shine through, without the aberration of the veil. Even if the veil should come on again, no one can ever forget the Truth as they Identify with it as 'I".
Can 2012 be the year when the veil is fully lifted?
Know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.
Can 2012 be the year when the veil is fully lifted?
Know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.
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