The Essence of Realization
You are not a thing. You are not a thinker. You are not a feeler.
Make no mistake about it, for we are already in the maze of words.
Forget the words (they are just thoughts – and go to the essence).
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What is luminous, ever-present and prior to any mental cognition? You are that.
The seeker is a thing, a thing on a mission. Both the thing and its
mission are illusions of the mind already wedded to lack and inadequacy.
That is the core delusion.
It is also the Wound.
The
seeker is the mask that is the inevitable outcome of the Wound as well
as that which keeps it partly hidden. No matter how hard we try the pain
of the Wound will always be with us. It is the permanent scar of our
primal scarring.
The false identity will always coalesce around
a thought, for it is a thought and thoughts can only know other
thoughts! Reflect on that; thoughts can ONLY refer to other thoughts –
it is a universe of thought.
How does that happen?
It happens this way. One thought fixates on another. The connection of the two thoughts creates an entity (“you”).
Fixation occurs in two flavors. One, it (the subject thought, i.e.,
“you”) will judge another thought as bad (or good). That is flavor one.
The second flavor clings, where the subject thought (“you”) claims
another thought as itself. This is how the false “you” is created. It is
created a hundred times or more everyday. In this way it is made into a
deeply embedded and inevitable habit. We call this habit the psyche.
So what to do?
Just notice without ever judging or clinging. Just softly and
graciously notice the whole show of appearances. That’s the whole
teaching.
This is, in essence, pure Buddhism. It is simple, but
it’s not, necessarily easy, but it doesn’t need to be difficult. Only
the mind (the “you” thought) will judge it so and thus make it so.
Just softly and graciously notice. That’s all.
The seeker is a thing, a thing on a mission. Both the thing and its mission are illusions of the mind already wedded to lack and inadequacy. That is the core delusion.
It is also the Wound.
The seeker is the mask that is the inevitable outcome of the Wound as well as that which keeps it partly hidden. No matter how hard we try the pain of the Wound will always be with us. It is the permanent scar of our primal scarring.
The false identity will always coalesce around a thought, for it is a thought and thoughts can only know other thoughts! Reflect on that; thoughts can ONLY refer to other thoughts – it is a universe of thought.
How does that happen?
It happens this way. One thought fixates on another. The connection of the two thoughts creates an entity (“you”).
Fixation occurs in two flavors. One, it (the subject thought, i.e., “you”) will judge another thought as bad (or good). That is flavor one. The second flavor clings, where the subject thought (“you”) claims another thought as itself. This is how the false “you” is created. It is created a hundred times or more everyday. In this way it is made into a deeply embedded and inevitable habit. We call this habit the psyche.
So what to do?
Just notice without ever judging or clinging. Just softly and graciously notice the whole show of appearances. That’s the whole teaching.
This is, in essence, pure Buddhism. It is simple, but it’s not, necessarily easy, but it doesn’t need to be difficult. Only the mind (the “you” thought) will judge it so and thus make it so.
Just softly and graciously notice. That’s all.
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