What is meant by Truth. It’s just to know the truth of what you
really are and a 'me' cannot know what 'I' am simply because this 'I' business is playing out the 'me' and also the 'world' as content of knowing with a 'me' feeling as if a subject to the rest of me, to be felt by the me, as if its object. But such division is just a feel being played by life with itself.
Upto now, we think we are this body mind. We can never think of anything
else that we can be, other than this body mind.For a moment, we take away the aspect that we could be this body mind.
Now what is left?. Since we can never think of any think else that we could be,
other than this body mind entity, then, we cant be anything at all. Thats what
Neti Neti is. You are not anything at all ( objectively).
Experientially, we know that we are. This cannot be negated. We exist.
So if not the body mind, how else could be our existence taking place?
What else could we be ?.
Intellectually, we know that under any circumstance, there is awareness
of contents of creation. Perceptions are automatically happening and
effortlessly too. There is 100 % knowing, of what is known. If you cant read
without spectacles, then that knowing is 100% that seeing is blurred. A blurred
knowing cannot know the blurr seeing.If we are drunk, there is 100% knowing. A
drunk knowing cannot know a drunk feeling, This means knowing is 100% clarity
of degenerated contents in the knowing from 100% to zero. Even when blind, the
knowing, that contents in the seeing are devoid of seeing, is happening with 100% clarity. The
knowing is always at 100% clarity, as to whatever is perceived. May be contents seem
unclear, but even this sense about deformed contents are very clear.
So we can say, intellectually that ‘knowing faculty’ is what we can be, that has body and mind, as its content. So this perceiving faculty is what we
are. That is the TRUTH of what we really are.
However, knowing of pain is
pain. So since knowing is what we are, which is also pain, then the isness of
pain is what we are. So all knowing again is all creation, like pain, and that
is what we are, the isness of content of creation. So we are nothing
objectively and isness of everything objectively,
So we are both knowing and isness of content of creation simultaneously.
The only way it can happen is only and only if knowing is all there is, knowing
of content is the content, making feel that there are contents to knowing, as
if to a knower as known items, outside of such knowing. THAT is the TRUTH.
Whichever way you analyse it, we can get to the bottom of what TRUTH is,
experientially for oneself.. Now comes the question of 'being' the truth,
rather than an intellectual knowledge of the truth. When the notion of
'me-sense' to the body drops, Being is all there is. Knowing is the being of it
and being is the knowing of it.
Much Appreciation Nanda!
ReplyDeleteThanks Julian.
ReplyDeleteJust superb. If you are on the mind-body level, it can swiftly take your being if you intuitively grasp what Nanda says here.
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