79. Problems and Solutions ( in life).

Life is really very funny. Its unlike a machine. All machines of one species are alike. There are treated similarly, behave similarly and are maintained similarly. That is how it seems. But within that, there could be hell of a lot of differences. Somebody’s TV can work for 12 years and the same brand may work elsewhere for only few months. Life is a name and a game of paradoxes or illogicity, believed  to ‘not’ so. Though nothing can be taken for granted and always, everything is taken for granted, being the ‘basis’ of problems. This is life, paradoxical and true.

Problems ( experienced in life) is a situation. Normally one thinks that life’s problems are solvable (but at most it is soluble).  Only, one has to be smart at it –( finding the right solutions) . That’s what he thinks. When the smarty, is unsuccessful, he may hear a remark from ‘another’ , that he was ‘extra-smart’. It is, as if, smartness is in the ‘finding’ the right ‘feel’ , where one can extend his smartness to the limit, just short of being extra-smart.

But, problems are just an experience. It has to pass. It passes too, unless you want to ‘hold’ on to the memory of the problem for ever and keep it alive, which is what is generally seen happening.

I was operating a mechanical workshop and the supervisor scolded a guy, whose was  a driver, for doing some engineering job. He told him, do the job that you are paid for. Now being a jack of all trade, the supervisor asked his assistance in custom clearance, which was his expertise, and he replied ‘ I am not paid for it’. We lost the order, that day. After a few days, it was again, the supervisor’s turn to find fault and the game went on. Now, it was easy for me to employ drivers rather than supervisors and so had to get around the driver. After, telling him, that he was using the problem of being humiliated, again and again, instead of getting over with it, I offered him ‘allow’ him ‘slap’ the supervisor and complete the anti- humiliation. They hugged each other and laughed it over.

So, was the problem solved or was the problem seen at its ‘face value’ as not a problem?.

Most of the times, our problems are related to a ‘sense’ of Power. It can come with money, groupism, health or whatever. Being in a situation with all the ‘goodies’ is a feel of ‘no-problem’ and being in line with not so goodies or the ‘badies’ is regarded or believed to be, as if, ‘facing problems’

The catch is in the word ‘facing’ problem. When problems are experienced, they are not faced. They are fought. You fight for betterment of money, health, friendship or being in a group, beauty, glamour, etc etc etc. The fighting is itself the problem. When the fighting stops, it is imagined to be the solution of the problem. When you have less money, you fight or struggle for more and when you face the fact, that more will never happen for now, you surrender to ‘live’ little poor. Solution is found when living in the ‘situation’ and ‘problem’ is experienced as ‘struggle’ to ‘get’ more.

‘Fighting’ a situation is THE PROBLEM that we generally ‘face’ and ‘facing’ the situation is what brings about dissolving of the problem. So only in the case of ‘mechanical’ or machines, a ‘no problem zone exists and a problem zone exists, However ‘solution’ is just brain invented word, that only re-enforces an ‘entity’ that exists as a ‘solver’ of unresolved situations.

Suppose your leg is cut or your partner dies, there is an instant ‘problem’. After few years, life goes on and there is no talk about this problem, as,  it is not ‘focused’ any more as problem or no-problem. Same with ‘money’, power, health etc. One doesn’t get back the damaged leg or dead partner. The gravity that ‘was’ when the problem was envisaged, is now experienced with less ‘gravity’  or burden. The mental fight for ‘better’ terms, regarding the original problem just passes over. However, one does explain, for always being right, that ‘time’ is a healer. There never was anything called ‘time’ or the ‘sufferer’ existing independently the ‘knowing’ that we are.

‘Apparent’ problematic situations arise and apparently it is ‘seen’ as less problematic from a different angle. Problems are only experienced or not and never ever gets really solved, other than being imagined so.

Problems and solutions are like looking at what is happening as  a mechanism of ‘cause and effect’. It doesn’t really exist as two ‘things’ independently.  Problem is not seen any more as problems so left alone. Experiences labelled as ‘problems’ are just like any other experiences. It comes and goes or  better labelled as ‘keep passing by’. Fighting to overcome problems is futile. The fight itself being the problem, other than which, there wasn’t one at all. It can really drain you out, if believed that problems ‘must’ be solved and not faced.

Many times you may be boycotted among friends or relatives and find yourself sulking. But being thoroughly absorbed in being individually left alone, welcomes any such boycott as a boon ( like a husband happy that the wife is not at home). Such person may feel a crowd as a problem.

Wisdom is in facing the situation or just flowing with the situation, knowing fully well, nothing ever happened.’ and allowing the experience to be faced and analysed fully, as if experimenting ‘how’ and ‘where’ a problem is felt to the body. What is depression, how does that energy play with the body, how it travels, intensifies and dies out, may be more enjoyable. This actually takes the sting out of the very label of anything being a problem.

So living a situation is a ‘no-problem’ and fighting a (hopeless) situation is an apparent problem. There are no solutions. So don’t get ‘involved’ in ‘solving’ life situations. You can love the company of people, but don’t ever imagine to ‘be savoir’ or solver of their problems. There aren’t any. There are as much success rates as failures and so nothing is true. Just ‘live’ to experience an experience for what ever it ‘feels’ to be. Life is just a ‘series’ of experiences and not situations to ‘somebody’. 

78. Karma – Cause and Effect.

Karma is a common language used in all scriptures and ‘individual’ lives, seem to be related to the meaning of this word.

The general assumption is that, that Karma is a belief system, whereby the deeds of the past, is what is effecting your present. It only means that, the happening of the present, must have a link to the past. If you cant find the link in this life time, you are free to go back a few lifetimes and do the needful. But the needful ‘must’ be done, or else the theory will stand to be exposed as a ‘failure’ which cannot be accepted, due to belief systems in place of not allowing this to happen.
This deduction, is based on science, which has an explanation for all the laws of nature, as if, all happening  of nature, were featured by man made or laid down laws. So apples are falling down, because of gravity being 9.81 units/mass unit. So the cause of falling is gravity and gravity as a cause was ‘found’ by man. Before the find, apples were still falling down. So happening happens, and reasoning around the happening happens, as if it begged for a cause. So if apples fell into the sky, some new planet nearer to earth has popped in, to levitate gravity upward. But explanation or reason or cause, must come as an understanding. God makes the understanding, to avoid confusion, in order to maintain the knower, knowing and the known, as separate from each other.

The ‘assumed reality’ of life, is based on explanations and the basis of explanations is enforced by belief systems. What is a belief?. Whatever you believe that makes the world seem ‘real’ is a belief. This is hell of a statement, but must be believed, in order to work at a system to check out its worthiness. It automatically means  that, if you believe that ‘all this’ is bullshit, then that belief is held true, for you, as ‘reality’ of the ‘world’. Belief must be believed or whatever believed is belief, it all means the same, in the end.

We grow up in a belief system. A child is born with no beliefs whatsoever. No even that, whereby it can feel to be a separate entity. It doesn’t recognise anyone or anything, as adults do, including itself being a ‘person’ or a child, or a human or an entity. The programming of the child, into an adultery, by far, has a pattern of an open field which seems to absorb whatever it ‘comes across’ as a learning process to shape ‘itself’ up to the future or survival and social behaviour. Of course, in some cases, it is quite opposite, and we explain this, as we like.

Assuming we are humans and with an intellect, ( intellect cannot be negated, as we seem to cognise and learn languages etc. It could be life’s intellect as ‘us’ or our intellect, whatever it is, intellect does exist), there is a system whereby the intellect seems to learn and implement, whatever comes in way of this intellect. For a while, let us name the ‘human’ as just as intellect. This intellect is busy picking up data and some inherent system making their meanings, as it gets to know them and somehow all this is stored as memory. However, a system must be in place to ‘recognise’ sounds and actions and their meanings, so that, this system forms the basis for the entire set of working of the human system.

It is like first making a software system to a computer, that becomes the basis and that system then on, sytemises all that goes into it, as per the default programme and is able to ‘deliver’ itself, as per input, but primarily on the basis of the initial software.

Human intellect also works on some basis. It needs a system to grasp. That system has to be rooted very very strongly, in a way that the root is fixed for good until death. Such a system, when used as the base, will allow the human intellect to react or behave in a ‘human’ way, until seeming death.

Separation and cause and effect is enough, as an initial software. The belief that a real world exists, separation ‘exists’ and ‘cause and effect’ exists are the initial programming that can maintain and sustain the whole of human-ness as is seen now ( or separation ) to all its activity, as it passes through its entire living time or life time. Once the entire human race, comes under such a hypnotic clout’, the human race progresses as a theme of this hypnotism for ever, until that species is believed to exist.  

One knows that this intellect exists, even as a child, or at least, we say that human nature comes with intelligence, as if, intelligence is human nature. A child is brought up, being taught, that the mother is separate from it, meaning, the child is also separate entity and the world out there is more separate. Separation starts when this belief takes root. Then there is a series of ‘why’ being taught to the child. Why do you do this and that etc. Elders also howl at each other, wanting explanation for a why and the why becomes the theme of existence. Why is basically, a ‘want’ for explanation which fits the mind or soothens the mind. It is basically to put ‘cause and effect’ in place. Once separation and cause& effect and a basis takes root, the intelligence programmes memory with these settings. Meanings and reasoning are nothing but an extension of cause and effect and separation. Reasoning presumes that there ‘is’ such thing is ‘real’ and separate and gets rooted into the ‘developing’ system. Once reasoning, as a belief, takes root, explanation fills the belief to make them true.  There is no other way to be programmed for ‘us’ as this pattern remains maintained for all ages. It can fall if only the world is ‘unreal’ and this is unacceptable immediately to the whole human race. All memory is a set of meanings to sound and other sensation and a belief that such meanings, being commonly accepted is true. Memory then becomes the basis of continuity and what is happening now, is linked to the past, as if ‘cause and effect’ and memory develops along ‘that’ line.

So what exactly is Karma. Accumulation of memory is Karmic or Karma. Its a default program to a humanity. Addiction is memory based or an effect of memory. So the deeds of the past, are accumulated as memory and memory or knowledge or reasoning through memory decides the way you will behave in future. So knowledge is the basis of reasoning and reaction to one's behavior in life. So how memory is conditioned is how you will behave. Karma is another name for the belief that cause and effect is meaningful and does exist. To create such existence, rooted to the past, howsoever small the past may be, does allow ‘time’ as an extension to make this belief ‘valid’. Now, separation, time and cause & effect becomes the software to  ‘our’ programming.  This software is named KARMIC Software.So Human suffering is an act of conditioning. The only condition that is worth noting is that, we are conditioned to believe that we are 'separate' individual, as if the essence of what we are, is separate from the world. Or 'we' are inside the body and the rest of what is -happens to be the world and this is a 'FACT'. 

When explanations fail to connect a certain effect to any known cause, the void is filled by bringing the unknown to fill the explanation. These take form of previous births, heaven and hell for future births etc etc. Explaining or reasoning and attaching cause and effect or meanings or concepts is all the same game. This game is given the symbol ‘KARMA’. It just means conceptualising or meaning making or cause and effecting the ‘present’ to past or future. This maintains a ‘living’ past, and a ‘living’ future for the truth of the belief in the present living.

When this system falls apart for whatever reason, call it awakening, or brain damage or loss of 'me-sense etc, which is again a meaning making for such happening, it is seen that all concepts, were only for making a reality of separation, which never existed, and thereby, feel the illusion of time and space and also thingness of forms or objectifying forms, as ‘real’ to that of a real ‘me’ is in a real world.

Karma or cause and effect explanations, forms the basis of separation and reality and time, that maintains reality to the world of objects, which is otherwise a simple play of intelligence, the very nature of IT, being a highly hypnotic illusion.

In the absence of ‘Karma’, belief systems, cause and effect, time and space, just falls out of the maintained system, and there is a coming back to ‘what is happening’ here and now, with no basis to believe expect that, what is happening is what is happening and there is no-one to believe or disbelieve, other than the basis of the development of intelligence, playing out that mind-body as separate. This is a state of being childlike.

Anyway, this is the play of intelligence with the theme of ‘KARMA’ as can be enjoyed for what it is or suffered to be what ‘we’ ‘think’ this all is.                                                   

77. Reformation and Transformation

Reformation is a path whereby one changes ‘oneself’ to become ‘another oneself’ or changes his inlook and so also his outlook, for himself and to others, as to who one should be known as.  It is as if, one is not happy with oneself and needs to become ‘more’ or different, which becomes a goal and also unfolds a path, to reach such goal. There is a trying to get there and with some grace, a  success as wished or failure as unexpected, depending on seemingly various factors of ‘will power’, clarity, dedication, sincerity,  Conducive circumstances, luck, success etc etc as purporting the end result.

People reform themselves from being smoker, non-vegetarian, angry bad person, etc to their opposite behaviour. Here it seems as though one has a choice and free will to make possible this change, as planned and have a good rate of success ( but is seen to range from normally from 0 to 100) and any deviations are explained to patch up the deviancies along the line.

Motivations, role models, examples, success rate data’s, therapy etc, are introduced as support to make reformation successful. For some, it comes out very easy and for others its a perfect disaster that becomes known only at the end of the game. They can say, we played the game to ‘lose’. Might as well have – ‘not played’ at all. The pathway gets suffocating for such victims of reformation.

Transformation is the limit of reformation.  The range here is seemingly different. One doesn’t know where he started off and where he landed up. It has nothing to do with trying to transform. It is a complete change of life’s behaviour pattern, as compared to ones mental conditioning. Life form, then on, never seems the same to oneself, even though to the outside world, he may seem never to have changed. ‘Awakening’ is a term for such transformation. The ‘me-sense’ or a sense of doer-ship is just ‘missing’ completely for that ‘apparent’ person, as if it was an illusion right from the beginning of ‘his’ life.

Transformation is not reformation. One can’t plan to lose oneself. It is suicidal. You need help of life, or ‘Grace’ outside of one’s ‘thought of’ abilities to bring about transform. The present pattern of one’s mental conditioning and meaning held about oneself and the outside world, both seem to be of ‘no’ significance at all after such occurrence. However life goes on, much lighter, compared to before, as if one has left behind a big burden of ‘trying’ to live life.  

Existence is ‘Life’ happening around, as if ‘with’ events and people and the rest, always in a rush to  maintain change.  ‘People’ are in fact not other than existence. Meaning, it is ‘life’ all the way, expressing as people and trees and roads and days and nights etc. However in normal cases, we are taught to believe that we are living life as separate persons, rather than being ‘hollow forms’lived by life, that has no ‘we’ component to take charge of it at all. It is life that talks these body forms as ‘I’ and ‘me’ and behaves as if, ‘we’ live with individual freewill and choice. This is not understood as there is no-one ‘in there’ to have this understanding, or life pretends to put ‘you’ off making such claims about non-duality, lest its game, be easily exposed, which is still a part of the play of duality, making it more ‘lively’.

Part of life’s game as existence, is to realise that this is non-serious playing of itself. This requires a new style of expression ‘as’ ‘transformed people’, even though all of it is ‘life’ in expression.  The ‘person’ concerned who has this ‘understanding’ before  and after, feels a huge difference within himself, as life played out that person, before and after. The after game, seems perfect and extraordinary, while the whole world was looking at the ‘before’ part, as imperfect and ordinary play of life. The play out as seen ‘after’, is a case of transformation that transforms the person from being ‘someone’ to not being at all or being ‘no-one’.  No-one is a very amusing game. All can be said about someone. But for a no-one, there isn’t as case to be ‘said’ at all. It is like talking all the itme about a ‘no –elephant’. Its funny. Its a big joke played out on the whole ‘no-human’ race.

So humans reform and feel better or worse, but when transformed, its the ‘one’ just popped out of the normal life-style system. The someone of everyone seems ‘jacked’ and also thus was the case already, for all time before, and never ever noticed. An open secret –as call it to be.

Huge sighs and lots of fun, from then on, watch the joke, playing out mankind as if ‘real’ separate entities, who have lost all the fun.

76. Thinking and Acting

We think, we act, we play, we discuss, we plan, and go about our daily work as if, we are in control of ‘intelligence’. These words hide the intelligence’s working, as if, makes feel, it is our personal limited entity’s intelligence at work.

Thinking is an activity. Talking, planning, playing, etc are activities. Activity of the ‘form’ is a seeming ‘action’ or acting or expression. This includes, movements of body, (including mouth and vocal cords,  for the talking part ) , as if, action/expression is taking place. However, thinking or planning ( which again is also thinking) seems prior to action. Thinking however, is an activity in itself or an action / expression, where the movement is, formless in nature and is a direct ‘creation’ by consciousness or life itself. All movements and acting or actions are of ‘life’ itself, but the movement of forms, seems limited to form, as if, life is also limited to that form only, which is not the case in reality. In reality, there is ‘only life’ appearing as forms and formless, as we speak of objects and thoughts.

We sometimes say, think before you speak or before you act, so as to avoid self embarrassment or damage to others, to an extent, unintended.  We can tell somebody, very close, “why did you rob my money” and he may hang himself in guilt, and we may add another guilt to ourself, for ‘effecting’ such a result on that person, more far than our expectation, that seems to make us own such guilt. Here it seems, we could have, by some chance, saved the ‘happening’ if we could think correctly the consequences, prior to speech or at the right time, so as to say.

It may seem, thinking and speaking is an art to be mastered. But, thinking is an activity and speaking or acting out -is an also an activity. So think before you speak, becomes ‘act before you act’. Here the problem is that, the ‘you’ that needs to make such a ‘doing’ possible is ‘objectively ’ absent’. The doer of all deeds or activities is ‘life’ itself. Call it consciousness, life force or God or what ever. Even though it seems a separate entity, that is doing so ( thinking and speaking or acting). It is life force animating the form that is doing it. The fan may seem to rotate, but the electricity is the rotator to the form. The form is just an image to depict the expression like a painting of the painter. The painting doesn’t express anything. Life expresses itself as the painting, the painter, the forms etc.

Form is an expression of life. The expression of the form is the expression of life ‘as’ form. Thoughts and knowings are the expressions of life as formless forms, or unseen forms. The totally of all  expressions of ‘Life’ is the Universe that is known ( to life itself as knowing).

So, it is ‘life’ expressing as thoughts seemingly to forms, and ‘life’ animating forms, as if, an effect of thought.  And so All there is –is life, as forms and formless  (thought, emotions, etc) being the totality as this waking state knowing and dream state knowing, expressing itself as a world of known objects.

So next time when thinking happens and speaking happens, just know that it is all happening, with no-one separate to be in charge of happenings, other than happening itself, unfolding that way in the knowing of it.

75. Appearance, Reality and Language.

Appearance, Reality and Language are all interlinked. Appearance appears as reality and fortified by language. How does this get managed? Mysteriously- is one answer and funnily or seriously is other, out of the many more that can be brought about as more names.

When appearance appears real, meant real and felt real, it has no choice but to be real.Reality cannot ‘appear’ real or unreal, because reality is not appearance. Reality is reality. Appearance is its  pseudo effect. It’s not ‘what it is’ and hence the name. The form of appearance cannot either taken seriously ( as real) nor can be discounted ( as unreal). Hence know as appearance, meaning neither real nor unreal. ‘What’ knows the knowing of appearance can do the trick of knowing appearance as an expression of reality in what ever terms its wants itself known.

I appear to be angry, means I am neither angry nor un-angry. Its reality is not fixed. Its like making yourself appear angry to a child. You are just appearing to do so. Now, if the child believes so, it feels it real. Some children are too stubborn or smart and say, you are pretending. Now it can make you laugh and call off the show, or it can make you pretend more real as angry until the child has no option but to think that its earlier thought was a mistake and so, slowly it believes that you could be angry, and abides by, what you wanted the child to think and staert to cry, so that you can ‘now’ call off the show of being really angry or pretence angry, which by now it is not really assessing the value about.  Appearances have this quality. It can enforce, what it wants to believe. There is no one judge what is true about it and false. It is sole discretion of knowing of the ‘appearance’ which is Life itself as its source.

When we say, I appear angry or relaxed, it is an expression of ‘life’ animating this body. However, memory can twist the appearance to reality as if, I am a angry man/ bad man etc to imprint a permanent label of that expression onto the man itself, as if there could be an angry ‘man’. The temporary expression has been mentally made permanent - but mentally. Expressions change and changes are not permanent. No one gets this in the head, because there is no –one, other than an appearance and there is no head. Mind is also an expression of the source or the expression animator called ‘life’. Life becomes mind, to be used as a tool of the source to manage expressions or appearances into forced reality that is ‘not’.

What is reality? If there was no reality at all, and all that is perceived were appearances, the innocence would believe the perception to what is depicted, as if the child was assessing your anger. It believes what is expressed. So the truth remains hidden. However, the key to knowing anything is knowing itself and not the holding of the knowing as memory as a temporary part of the change. So reality by itself is a mindboggling, because as far as creation is concerned, reality is playing out as its expressions by being ‘what is’ as its appearance and boggling the mind into believing it is real, without a choice not to do so, life being mind itself.

Language is meaning making of perception. We have sign language, body language, spoken language, meaning happening to oneself as if in thought and emotions etc. So meaning making about perception, is happening as if multipronged through various forms of language and effecting the knowing, as if it was the only way to know, or forcing a knowing to take place, as if, there was  meaning or story of what the perception was. Story them becomes a reality. In the absence of a ‘separate’ knower, knowing itself acts as the knower, since all contents of experience have to known by itself, whichever way it chooses to and express, with life being the expression as well the knowing of it.

So knowing perception is packed foolproof system of getting to know whatever is depicted as real. What else there could be to know, other than knowing it the way knowing seems to know it. In fact, It is impossible to imagine any other way to beat the knowing to know better, as there is no other than knowing to do the knowing. So the game goes on, undetected as, the detector, that has to do the knowing as a  ‘who’, is also the expression and also the knower of it as the knowing of it. So life as the source of creation, expressing itself, and knowing itself by being ‘knowing’ also, is all in itself, known whichever way it desires to know itself.

So, all there is perception, made to feel real, as if there is world and people, apart from the perception of it, as depicted to the ‘knowing’ suffering or rejoicing, as the meaning given in the perception, converting its biggest joke of being its own expression but seeming like a world of objects.

Knowing at times, laughes at its own jokes, like we chuckle. Hahaha.

74. Energy and effects of IT.

Do we know energy?. Do we understand energy? How do we go about energy?. Does it exist? What is energy?.

All these are questions . The answers are anybody’s  guess and belief.

Lets us take electricity. What is electricity. It produces light in bulbs, motion in motors, magnetism in coils, shocks in persons etc etc . All the descriptions are the effects of electricity. Depending on the effect, we ‘assume’ what is causing them is ‘electricity’.

The light cant know it, the shock can know it, the motor cant know it. Etc. Either the effect is there or not there. But who or what is the cause is anybody’s guess and nobody’s confirmation.

What we are trying with electricity, is as good as with any energy. Ultimately, all energy is just one energy, which just is not measurable, feelable, knowable etc directly and whatever means we use to know, can only manage to know the ‘effect’ of energy. We are not able to know energy directly, because the essence of electricity or energy is ‘pure’ intelligence ‘exhibiting’ ‘effects’ as audible, visible, feelable,  shockable, etc measurable only as an effect and calibrated to whatever is ‘convenient’. etc. What you perceive or measure is an ‘effect’ and not IT, or whatever  we call energy. So what is ‘noticed’ is only ‘movement’ of energy called ‘effect’. Even a still visual has to be continuously maintained by ‘movement’ of energy. What energy is, no-one will ever know even though, It exists ‘effected’ as all that can ever be known.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If it was not created, how did it come about.  Does it exist as something at all, that can be perceived directly unlike assuming its presence through its effects?. Is it present as an absence, which can never ever be known as to what it is?. If not perceivable, directly, it cant be said to be ‘is’ or ‘is not’. It neither ‘is’ nor ‘is not’ as energy, because what energy is, is not directly detectable as whatever its ‘core’ is. Then how do we make an ‘it’ to ‘it’ as if present?.

All said and done, energy “is” because its effects ‘are’ perceivable and all energy is one energy in different forms or differently perceived effects.

Such an intelligence is ‘Life”. It could be the only intelligence that ‘Life’ is.  It could be ‘effecting’ as the visual, audible, perceivable etc, that makes up the world and the ‘effect’ perceivable is the ‘form’ of this creation. With some ‘special’ effects as time and space, and the power to know itself called mind, the universe ‘is’. It is not a universe, but an effect created by something that is not, at least physically, but named as energy or intelligence. 

The knowing of energy is an aspect of energy itself. In fact, the knowing of ‘its’ effects is only what ‘is’, because as such, energy is present as not a thing but presence itself as intelligence or subjectivity. In some mysterious way, intelligence plays itself as ‘only’ knowing. To know is to be and to be is to know, is the ‘magic’ act.  Knowing of something makes feel it is present, and this is the ‘mysteriosity’  of the intelligence. Knowing of visual, knowing of audible etc etc, with time and space as ‘technical knowing’ is able to ‘make feel’ with some practice, as one grows up, ( but there isn’t anyone other than intelligence with its effects) as an effect of some big universe. Memory or intelligence as memory, and imagination, adds more flare to the game of increasing space of ‘here’ to everywhere and increase ‘now’ to past and future. Add to this ‘conditioning’ or ‘accepting’ forms as ‘things’ and ‘me’s and you’s, create the balance to make this game, self-sustaining and evolving as the scientific universe that appeals to us.

So energy is ‘Nothing’ as  nothing can be said about it, its ‘movement’ causes an perceivable effect or ‘knowing’ and such knowings in many aspects as of visual, audible, thought, emotions etc, which is again ever changing make up this universe of ‘form’ and objects in the mind, or using mentally empowered thingness to forms.  So interest in the game  or its aliveness is kept up by change of effect or else called ‘movement’ of effect, which is already movement of energy, as we can explain to ourselves as objects of such effect of the energy called ‘Life’ . Progress, digress, creativity, competitions, love  and hate,  etc. are the names for such movements, that maintain the ‘sense’ of energy. The effect is a impact of energy and also the sensing of its presence.

So all in all, Life is intelligence which is another word for energy, creating its effects as appearances and experiences to form that IT is perceivable ( as effects or reflections only) and with a little or more flair of time, space and a ‘feel’ of ‘thingsness’  to human body that we think we are, to make the theatrical dramatics complete.

73. Presence, Absence and You

It is not very easy, to understand how we perceive anything. Let us take an object called  X. When X is present to the seeing, we perceive its presence. Once an idea of X is firmed up, the perception of that X can from then on keep happening, whenever it feels like. Let us presume X was a car. As the car goes out of the seeing limits, it has disappeared. If anyone asks you, where the car ‘is’, you would tell him, just round the corner on the parallel road or something like that. So there is first a visual presence of the car, until it is absent to the seeing. Once it is absent to the seeing, it is present to memory or mind, what we call, ‘mentally present’. So all contents of seeing are first apparently present to the seeing and their physical absence then becomes a mental presence. This includes people and places as they seem to be mentally present somewhere, even though out of sight. So the universe being present is a combination of physical presence ( when present to ‘seeing’ ) and mental presence of all that is absent to the physical seeing.

Where is your son?, we say, he ‘is’ in the backyard. His ‘isness’  or presence is ‘fit-ted’ into physical or mental space.

If we close our eyes, the contents of physical seeing disappears and reappears in the seeing of it. So contents of seeing are present only in the seeing of it. Similarly, the rest of the universal space, including all that was seen in the past and likely to be seen in the future is floating abstractly somewhere in the mental space to be 'seen' in the thinking of it. Just like contents of seeing or physical presence of objects, ‘only’ appears in the seeing, contents of mental seeing of mental objects are available ‘only’ to the mental seeing. Mental seeing is actually thinking of the mental contents. Just like physical contents are absent when not seen, the mental contents are absent when not thought about them.

Duration or time also is such an object. A series of appearance and disappearance is ‘termed’ movement. There is no movement, other than appearing and disappearing. What disappears physically is made mentally present as a reference and compared to next physical presence, to make movement. Without ‘mind’ or mental help, there can be no movement. Physically, there is only appearing of fresh new scenes. We cannot make out the freshness of any new scene as we are caught up with mental presence, interfering with physical presence to make a ‘notion’ of change or movement.

So physical presence is what is perceived physically in the seeing and physical absence is mental presence, what is perceived mentally. It is very strange that we are able to perceive the universe mentally, as we have to assimilate all that is seen in the past and future, to make a perception of universe. In this case, when sitting in the room, that instant seeing is only for a fraction of a second and has to be assimilated with mental contents of a ‘life time’. The fractional content is physical and lifetime content is mental. In other words, the presence of  ‘your’ whole universe is purely mental with fractional or negligible physical presence. It does not sound very soothing that the universe is ‘mental’ or that there is ‘no’ physical universe.

So coming back to the point of presence, there is a physical presence of contents of seeing and mental presence of the same contents, when it ‘goes’ absent to the seeing. This means there is no complete absence of contents or a single content called X, unless it is absent to the seeing and absent to the thinking also. This means, if X is not thought about, it can be absent so totally that nothing need be discussed about X as if X was outside of time and space , physical or mental, out of universe.Therefore featuring anything, 'makes' it present and not featuring is out of the sphere of time and space.

Absence of mental content is called ‘fasting’ of the mind. All that physically disappears, including your body, when there is not seeing of it, like in sleep, must be present to the mind and that too in the thinking of it and not otherwise. So all that is featured, including time and contents of space is available only in the thinking or physical appearance of it. This being the game of MAYA, a combination of physical appearance and mental appearance makes the world that we perceive and there can be nothing outside of IT. Since we have no power to create physical appearance nor mental appearance, the notion of we, since perceived, must also be a featured content. This completes the MAYA, featuring the universe with a ‘me’ as if the centre of perception.

Since there is only contents of physical seeing and mental seeing as what is happening and there is a perceiving of it, because which we conclude that these contents ‘are’, the perceiving of the content gives it the 'isness' or presence and the contents are not separate from perceiving, The perceiving is the contents or what is happening and what is happening is the perceiving of it. If the perceiving of it is the symbol called ‘I am’ and is not separate from the contents perceived called what is happening, then what is happening is also ‘I am’. So there is only what is happening  or ‘I am’ which seem two sides of the same coin but in practice is one and the same . Perceiving is what is happening and what is happening is perceiving. Perceiving is a behaviour or capacity of ‘Presence’ making what is happening as physical presence or its absence as mental presence as if what is happening are the contents of Presence. If the material of what is happening is that of Presence and so is Perceiving as the power of the material of Presence, then all there is –is Presence, seeming to be what is happening or the Universe and such presence is ‘you’ or your nature, which all is as isness, acknowledging all that is- by being all that is as seeing and thinking of IT.