33. Relationship.

Relationships play a very important role in the so called human and animal life. Human beings are meant to perform as a group and not as individuals. The body movements of human structure, so as to say, can work wonders. Like hands can be multiplied to lift weights etc, people can stand on one another to increase heights etc. So human forms evolved to work in singular and also in plural to achieve a given end result.

Relationship became a key word to achieve the best from human species to the evolving world. The grasping structure of the human mind has made language a possibility to grasp and devolop and language in turn is able to maintain knowledge that can be passed on down to generations outside of the 'gene' structure or memory. Books take on an important place in human living. In fact we read books like scriptures and learn to live in a disciplined manner. Discipline include formations of relationships to improve the quality of living. The relationship formats generate enough separation starting from a simple 'I' and a 'you' to mine and not mine, there by creating enough differences in separation like religion, country etc. Ownership in thought leads to a relation of the other with a 'me' and this game of owning people, religion and things leads to attachments and its loss or suffering.
Thought structure kick starts to make so many substories based on human relations and these would finally lead to circumstances that cannot maintain relationships and lead to disputes or fights and even mass loos of lives.
Relationship starts with near and dear ones and spreads to one's property, religion, territory and what not. While it forms the basis of unity based on similarities, it also forms the basis of disintegration based on differences which are simply the finer unseen aspects of giving in to the same context of similarities. We try to maintain friendship and when we start seeing differences, we hate the same relation and convert it to a new relation called enemy. Now they are related to me as enemies.
Human form in all its structure of creation are unique so as not to have a duplication. There is no one as the other. In fact this is true of the whole creation. No part is same as the other. Within this whole difference, we still try to put some sense of similarities and try to maintain a balance in our relationship. However it doesnt take long to find how life can poke back to dismantle our idea's of maintain control in order to use the other for 'personal' benefit.  
Relations can be maintained when life can be known fully. Life is the animator and life is all there is. This sense of a 'me' and other is thought generated differences only to make feel a centre of operation to an individual form. Identifying with form can mislead the general functioning of life, to feel like individual functioning of persons. This ignorance ends in seeking for pleasure in relationships of people and things. Finally when it can be concluded that seeking has no measurements and limitations, the basis of relationship is put to question.
People try to find the root cause of unhappiness and seek many medical and spiritual advisers and finally conclude that one can only be happy when differences with others are not judged or all relationship is put to an end. This brings about the relation of the person to his own body, when such a notional person is seen as not to be solid and all clarity dawns on the idea of separation being a farce. 
Maintaining the veil of separation is the play of life and is a light play. It loves the game of hide and seek and spends time in uniting and separating relationships, while all the time pointing to the futility of holding on to attachments or relationships or being personal about it. The person itself is a pseudo entity and does not have an independent existence. So all relationship built around oneself to be an entity, falls through only to reveal the magnificent play of life as one entity that the whole creation was.  
So be related to one another, including people and things, only to play the game of separation that life wants to play and at the same time have a clarity that all people and things are just an expression of life, playing out as people and things only to bring divergence or variety to the play that Life loves to play by Itself.

32. Mind –the only Dictionary.

We use the Oxford Dictionary or some more technical dictionary and Google or such other sites to infer meaning of unknown words and sentences. However there is a basic flaw here. We think words should have meanings that are only formed on agreement with some of the human race, and thats all there is to any meaning.. This is taken for granted. To imagine a word without meaning is to imagine a body without the person or entity inside. So it seems odd that words should remain words without meaning.

If words have no meaning, then what are words for.  Imagine an object like a pencil. The word pencil is a name to the object. Like all other names, it only identifies the object in shape and meaning by its use and nothing more. Its mostly the attributes of the object rather than the object itself. So it is only a pointer to reality. The only property that a pencil can have is its pronunciation in different countries. So when we say – Thomas or Karim, it doesn’t mean anything by itself. It only points out to a concept that we hold by that sound.
The ‘human mind’ only seeks out meanings to forms, as if forms could exist in separation to one another, and it manages to separate the whole of creation to be real world of independent objects, existing independently in its own right, as if real. So words start behaving like things, even though thingness to forms is simply a mental projection that has a strong belief around its 'concept making' ability. 
Meaning making to patterns of word design has the same functioning ability in the realm of making meaning to human and animal forms and to the rest of creation.  So meanings are made to all pattern of creation and stored as memory. In fact all of the meanings are learnt meanings either from others or oneself, somehow learnt, and become a database called knowledge. All forms, feelings etc are then seen through the veil of knowledge and coded for belief. So what we percieve in the world of form is our knowledge or belief as if world of separate objects in reality. The feed back on such behaviour can guide the meaning to be reformed and stored as if modifying the memory all the time and keeping it fit for further meaning making. Words are words and meaning is meaning. But to the human mind, words ‘have’ meaning, objects have meaning etc but all they have is their use or misuse. At best meanings serve to be pointers or attributes of what we thinks our perception to be.

Now, once it takes the pointers for granted as if they are not pointers, but objects in themselves , the pointers appear to make meaning by themselves which is the cause of misunderstanding, ( God only knows how it happens). 
Human minds are like dictionaries. It has words on one side and its uses or meanings on the other side. So if the word is ‘tree’, the meaning will be all its uses and not what a tree is. For example if a cup is of steel, cup will only mean a container to hold coffee, as its utility and the steel part will never be reflecting in the word. Similarly tree will mean, it is to be used for shade, furniture, fruits etc etc.

In fact words like Human and Mind, also fall also into this category and one can’t know what humans are or what mind is, other than a concept made out for feeling so.
Mind is a space where thoughts seem to arise, so mind is just space. It has no boundaries to end with a body. Mind by itself as a limited unit never exists. You could call ‘space’ itself as mind and that would lie inside and outside of the so called 'body'. In fact space being the mind is more accurate than mind being space.

So, just like a dictionary can only point to the meaning of a word, as only a pointer, the mind also is a place to find learnt concepts only as pointers of what is happening. In fact, there isn't a human and a mind and only thinking makes it feel so. Its good at pointing to a belief to be believed in and also lived as per one's belief. Reality cpould be anything else and it doesnt care.

So what is clear is that, there isn't any dictionary in the world which gives meaning to words. They just give more words to the original single word to help thought in acheiving at a concept that could be stored as memory to that word.

Mind then learns to function like a dictionary, in always seeking to know what is happening, as if what is happening cannot let us know about itself on its own. When we give up the use of interpreted meaning, we find ourself as that Life itself that expressed its meanings as its creation by being the whole of it. The perception now is different and joyous as the burden of existence in separation dissolves to evolve wholeness function as the Unknown. 

The normal mind has been making a lot of selfish meaning to create a personal self vs an outside world and such meaning  has been passed on through the ages, in language, as if forms mean objects for a subject, that is a separate 'me'. In a way, we are trained to see only meanings when we see forms in separation and this becomes a natural game of life. To play this game, life puts a meaning to our own body and its movements and give us a feel of separate individual. So we think that this body mind has a meaning called ‘me’. Me is just a word which now takes on a meaning as if an entity of intelligence was hiding inside the body.

In replacing this normal mind as a human dictionary, with just perceiving without concepts or meanings, a new meaning of 'wholeness' would seem to appear with intuitions instead of learned concepts that change the perception of what is from a world of objects to simply 'what is' a creation, uncaused and meaningless in separation. The new simple perceiving mind, without the recognition from a memory dictionary, works in a new wonderful way. It throws away lots and lots of words as useless and the rest without its original punch of the old way.. Then what is seen is only the 'naked' expression of life, that is joyful and colurful and perfect in whichever way the expression seems to be.The words 'I am' are now meant to be ' there is an awareness of' and the words - me and mine and others are simply stripped off for all their meaning and just left as labels for communication to live without being sent to an asylum forcefully.

Me and mine are a sense of ownership words. Ownership is is itself is only a concept in separation and heavily misunderstood. parts of creation cannot own other parts of creation. There are no parts in creation. Only the looks of 'now' is simply changing and the 'Now' is what we are, as its cognisor. 

Letting go of the misunderstanding that something can be owned, is the surrender.  

Then you cannot own suffering either. It is not because there is a restriction to own but a simple knowing that life doesn’t need an owner, especially a ‘person’. So once the sense of ownership to body, or life or actions or words is rejected as a non requirement of life to itself, all that remains is the play of life, using animate and in-animate bodies, as its expression. This is 'what is' and This is all there is.

31. Creation – An expression of the Life that is Unknowable

Energy has two properties. Static as a potential of 'Knowing' and Dynamic as the 'knowing' of 'forms' or Creation. The knowing of forms takes on a lively format when part of the form feels separate and feels as the knower of the rest of the forms, taking them to be imagined objects in reality. So a part of the content of knowing feels subjective and the rest of the part of 'content of knowing' feels objective to the earlier object that felt subjective. That is the play of life. Very light and very ordinary.

All is just a happening to no-one but feeling like a world happening to a 'me'. Its magical and mystical in a way and all of human race, feel that subject object is the format that creation seems to have created itself into this apparent real world.

There is no use understanding this unless the understanding permeates to a level of not taking credit for all doing and neither blame, as the doer of the doing is just a notion in thought. Aliveness being all there is - is playing out this creation as it is felt to be, with no harm to anyone, other than in a notional way. So its interesting to let go the burden of being the doer and just watch the doing as being done by Life that simply Is. 

Life exhibits itself as an expression of energy that shows up in consciousness as forms that are perceivable in the knowing of it and though these forms just arise out of knowingness or aliveness or no-thingness, it still feels individual, separate and negotiating a survival in the world of objects that are solid matter, apart from the mental knowing of them. Very tricky and very unique phenomenon.
It is life that sees, hears, feels  etc etc.  It is life also that which animates bodies by being bodies that are apparently alive or dead, and also by being all of creation as living, non living and the space that engulfs them. Being is knowing and knowing is being, one as if many. The appearance of thoughts as mental meanings to forms as if real and separate is more magical and slowly sets in a condition of living from the point of individual entities. However there are glimpses that can make feel the illusiveness of reality, in every ordinary movement, or in time or unto death.However Life is a-casual, alive being itself, play out this crazy game of separation in parts, enjoying itself the expression so formed as if separate from itself to be known.Lonely in its static mode, it enjoys all that there is as creation, in its dynamic mode, full of change, colour and life, that captures the mind to be fully involved in separation. 
So the body, mind and thoughts are all 'life' expressing itself as all there is, including separation and suffering or dissolving of separation and wholeness.

30. Donkey and me :.

Imagine some brown chewing gum was accidentally stuck to a donkey’s forehead like an Indian ladies ‘tilak’. The gum being brown in colour, didn’t know, where it ended and where the donkey began. It went everywhere the donkey went, but was aware that the donkey was going where that the gum itself was going. After 6 months, when everybody started addressing the donkey as such, the gum thought everybody was addressing itself. Now the gum identified itself with the donkey as if it owned the donkey. When the donkey’s foot was hurt, the gum said, it –itself- was hurt at that point and so on. One day, the gum got dislodged and fell down. The donkey went about its daily life and the pain now never belonged to the chewing gum. The gum was ‘enlightened’. The donkey never knew it had or had to have -a owner and the chewing gum would be the least of any such imaginary owners. Similar is our ‘me’ sense. The I is ok. The ‘me’ and ‘mine’ are dangerous one’s.

That’s why they say, nobody gets enlightened. The gum is a 'I-thought' that sticks and drops off. So body feels light of thought process. There is not going to be a 'enlightened donkey'. Donkey will remain donkey. Sense of any owner of any body will not be perceived that way from then on.

29. ‘Knowing’ as life and a ‘me’.

Imagine that your toe is paining. Now when a toe pains, it is only the toe that knows the pain, In fact -it is life 'at' the toe that knows the pain, not the leg, not chest, not the head, not the body and not the ‘me’ or an ‘I”. There is no owner to the pain, other than a simple knowing called life that is available at the toe. The pain is felt by life. It is not felt by ‘toe’ or any other part of the body. We use words, like , I feel the pain. These are just words. At max. the toe feels the pain. Whose toe?, body’s toe -says a thought, whose body- Mine- says the thought. These are just thoughts. That doesn’t shift the pain from the toe- to the body- and to the ‘I’. It seems here that ‘I’ wants to own a body, and body wants town a toe. There isn’t a need to own. You cant go on owning whatever is seen. You can’t own the Sun, Moon and bodies. Not even one body.

There is just life and body here. There is a knowing. A knowing of pain -at the point of pain, knowing of an object -at the point of an object and knowing of a sound -at the source of sound. All knowing at its source. That’s all there is. All there is –is knowing. All there is –is life. Playing bodies, knowing sounds etc.etc. There is no owner to life. There is no owner to knowing other than knowing itself. Life is the ‘knowing’. It is not your knowing. It is just ‘knowing’.

The knowing of pain is just a simple knowing. I and you are just words for communication. Simple words to avoid confusion. But these words are themselves the cause of confusion when the speaker believes them to be true. Then arise an owner for the pain. Therefore, It is not a toe that is paining, but an ‘I’ that has started to ‘suffer’. There is no suffering other than the pain in the toe. But this is made to seem that. The pain in the toe is causing a ‘me’ to suffer. ‘Me’ and ‘suffer’ are thus words without actual and factual meaning. But they are given pseudo meanings. Then these meaning are taken to be real and felt real – All as a play by life in life. Ignorantly.

There isn’t a owner to life. No body can know how this word ‘me’ has taken up such massive meaning as to own life within the body. There is just life. Appearing as bodies and object and life source or life energy moving them. It doesn’t require an owner. It works well even without a ‘sense ‘of individual ownership. If all parts of life, become independent owners, then petals will own petals and flower will own flower and toe will own toe. Up to this. It seems ok. But flower owning a petal and a body owning a toe still can make some sense. Wholeness or life can own bodies. ‘I’ cannot. Therefore there isn’t any thing called an ‘I’. The ‘I’ is only a personal sense of ownership. There is nothing new to be owned at the level of the body and life. In any case, a limited ‘I’ cannot own it. It is just a word floating around, and taking ownership of whatever it latches on to. It is like a tenant owning the house.

The I -is a word just used for communication between two human looking bodies. That communication is done by life and is known in life. However, there is a limited feeling with the uses of this word. It is as if this word has become alive somehow and taken procession or ownership of life within the body. It is life that gave birth to the word ‘I’ and the meaning there seems have given birth to life itself and limited it the life inside 'a' body. Now life gets captured by its own creation of the word 'I' that was meant for simple communication.

So the word ‘I’ has no standing as an owner. It doesn’t mean anything. ‘I’ cannot have pain in the toe. There is only – pain in this toe. So ‘I’ was never meaning something so big as we imagine. I was never there as a real ‘I’. In fact I is never there. That is why you are free. I is nothing. Could not have been born and can never die.

There is only life and body. Not my life and body. We are not souls, we are not anything. That is why we are free, because we are never to be found as anything anywhere. That we and me are just words for pointing out a body. There is body, that is in pain, and all problems. All this belong to life. Nowhere is a 'me'. The me was never ever there. It can't die, because it was never ever there. Not even as an illusion. That is the illusion. So simple. It is like putting a yellow tag on red and telling the red that you are yellow. Like telling the tiger- you are a sheep. Never ever was. Adam and eve were Adam and eve. Not a ‘me’ and a ‘you’.

I and you are just illusory words.  They are just not even a word. It is a catalyst. The most deadly of the catalyst. It doesn’t get affected on its own, but has the ability to effect life itself - as if - to behave as a separate 'person'. In fact, life should have been getting rid of this word once for all, if it didn’t want to suffer. But that would end the dream that life is dreaming because it would now become like a single colour painting. Like a green background only, searching for a photograph. Not even a shade would be found to make a mark of a portrait.

So there  isn’t an 'I'. There is only life and body parts there. Life doesn’t need an owner. It itself is the creator of pain and feeler of pain. So 'I' is free, because it never was. Funny isn’t it?. How that sense came into being is the question that doesn’t have an answer and that doesn’t need an answer as there is no-one other than life. But that’s the way life sees itself. Have good laugh ( and that will also be life laughing using that body ).

When there is an understanding  that this ’I’ has no actual significance for oneself, it will dissolve like salt toy  in the ocean of life .The whole ‘me- sense’ that was feeling energetic due to mistaken ownership for life itself, will seem like an arrogance and it will be seen clearly that life was all that there was. Life was seeing, hearing etc etc and walking and talking all bodies and the body that was considered mine. There was no-sense in considering life belonged to a ‘me’. It was a wrong usage of the term that had picked up a new meaning which was actually and arrogantly meaningless. There was no owner to life as an individual. There was no ‘I’. There was no you and the tree and the buffalo. These were just identity tags for life to communicate in life. There wasn’t any person within or outside of life. Life behaved as an individual and there was a sense of ownership. It was as if life was kidnapped and renamed as ‘me’. That was ignorance and arrogance.

All there is –is life. There wasn’t a me. So the me was never existing and was never in bondage because it never ever existed to begin with. It was never born. There was a need to attach it any meaning which now has to be removed. Life is void. It is like the vastness of darkness. You cant find it with a light called ‘me’. You will see only the light. You cant see life.

So there is nothing to do. Just to realise that, ‘I’ never was and never will be. All there is –is life.