econd is a prompting mechanism or mental thoughts, and something hidden that seems to know whatever is happening as a knowing capacity.
Now suppose the example is seeing the view in front of us, the whole creation is what appears like a single painting in space and is seen by a ghost called visual knowing, then there is a mental meaning making to patterns that is perceived as if to one part of the perception called 'me' and separated from the totality of perception and 'made' to feel like the other and somehow there is knowing of the subjective me and objective world, God knows to who.
All this three happenings are superimposed on each other as if to seem like an entity is reading and understanding. There is no seeing from here at all, in place, there is simply a ‘cognising’ or knowing of print. There is no understanding by an individual at all, but only prompt or thoughts which have in-built understanding. The thought encompasses meaning within itself. If thoughts don’t prompt, your head could stare at this screen for ever and no 'seeming' reading would happen, like if the print is Chinese or Kannada. And if the thought prompted that you read something, that was not there, then you actually felt that you read something and it actually was not there. This normally happens for skipping lines when reading. Therefore, it is quite likely that you missed reading many paragraphs or read something which was never there. For example there is a perception of a body and 'your' thought prompts you that he is someone you know and talking will happen until the ignorance is expelled. So you cannot know until thoughts makes you the knower, to what it feels it knows.
The knowing of all content, is a ghostly factor that is not there -as ‘something’ or ‘not something’. It is not- something- that is present, but, something which makes the presence of a thing felt. It is called life. Life is not something. Life is what gives us a feel or brings about presence of colours, feelings sounds etc. All those that are present, like colours etc. And may be called objects, are felt present, only, due to ‘life’ being present, prior to, something that can be objectively present.
This is our unborn quality. Life is what we are as ‘I’ ‘you’ it etc. The ‘I’of all is the same ‘I’. The knowing of being present. Moreover, all things are just appearances, in life, made of ‘life’ as if -to say- that, it is life itself which ‘appears’ as colours, shapes, sounds etc or life expresses itself as objects. The objectivity of an object or the thingness of a thing is an expression of life. Colours seem lively, people and animals and birds and sunset and stone and rivers all – seems so lively, because they express life itself. So the source of all objectivity is life, which, is just appearances in life, appearing real to the life that you are.
All there is – is life. All objects are pointing to existence of life and not so much to existence of the objects. For example, if you see a pen, ‘you’ are alive. “You’ are alive ‘to’ the pen ‘at’ the pen. The ‘knowing’ regarding the pen is happening at the pen. That is where knowing or ‘you’ or ‘life’ is simply available. It is ‘life’ that knows, ‘life’ that sees all at the source of the so called objects. It’s ‘Life’ that is alive to itself. Aliveness is life. Life is not the opposite of death. Death is the opposite of Birth. Life a just a capacity to see or feel all births and deaths etc., including what we call ‘our’ body. Life has no ‘our’ ‘your’ etc. There are only bodies. Life animated bodies. It is life that appears to animate a body as a live body, a blind body, a dead body. And ‘You’ are that ‘Life’ or knowing as “nothing’ and always before any births and deaths. Time and space are not available to our senses. They are just words attached to thoughts, to stretch presence of objects longer using techniques of the mind. Time and space are mind games – which is also a quality, life puts in, to make its play seem ‘spicy’.
It is only bodies, objects and thoughts - that appear to be born or come into existence and remain for duration in time and space and disappear or die to its assumed shape or form.
The knowing of these activities is a knowing to / of life - that ‘you’ are. This life is not limited to a body. Not trapped inside. There must be ‘ life’ to be around the tree to bring about its ‘seeing’ as an object, there must be life inside the tree to give it appearance of being alive, etc. However all of this comes about as a ‘knowing’ to the life that you are. Knowing is life. It is all pervading. Where ever to put the focus, there is a knowing of something present or absent. That all pervading life is what is all that is there.
If one wants to hold on to a personal self, he can do so– but to a impersonal ‘life’. Or else it ‘seems’ an imagined bondage that we try to get liberated from.
Happy ‘beingness’.
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