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.
KM Chee
ReplyDeleteThe act of "seeking" is activated by these preconditions:
1. The thought of "seeking" arising involuntarily, although the "seeker" thinks that he is the one who created the desire to "seek".
2. The "seeker" thinks that there is a physical, mental or emotional "distance" between himself and what he is "seeking" for. In other words what he "seeks" are objects (physical or non-physical) outside of himself.
3. There must be reward, tangible or otherwise, upon finding what one has set out to "seek".
In the samsaric world, the above are perfectly logical and may be necessary if one were to improve one's station in life.
But within the realm of THE TRUTH, which is the teaching of all religions, the above is far from the ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
The Article itself has presented sufficient "mind triggering" and "self awareness" arguments to show that the "seeker" is NOT the originator of his thoughts.
For one who has opened the door to THE TRUTH, he considers himself a part of the all-encompassing field of Consciousness. This means there is no "distance" between himself and what he "seeks". He is part of that which he "seeks', and what he "seeks" resides within him or is part of him.
In the samsaric world we "seek" things to enrich our lives, but within the realm of THE TRUTH we "seek" to escape from the burning house (meaning the samsaric world of suffering) without having to be "recycled" back to this world.