39. Master -Student dialog.

The Master is to a student and the student –is to a Master. So :

S:         Master, Are you a realised person.

M:        Yes, as far are you think I am and no- as far I know what realisation is, when you realise it on your own. In any case, It doesn’t matter. You may ask me what you want to clarify. If it does the job, your job is done.

Ok. Who am I or who are you?

Wrong question, what am I, is more useful.

Ok. So what am I or what are you.

What I am is what you are and is the same as what all are

And what is that?

Just One, 'Life' that is apparently appearing as many,

This doesn’t get me anywhere.

OK. What is your idea of what we are?

I am a body based entity called ‘Person’ and alive.

Starting from this knowledge, seeking starts, with a doubt that this is not the ultimate truth. The doubt leads to asking what could yo be, if you were not to be a body based entity called ‘person’. Of course, you already know by now that you are not the body.

If I am not a person in the body, then I am dead. Dead person.

Ok. Doesn’t this answer your question now. You have come so closer to the truth. What are you, if you are a dead person.

How would I know, if I am dead?.

Your idea of death, is for that which was born. If you are not the body, you are ‘life’ itself that embodies the body. Or life itself appears as body like fire to a flame. In your  idea of life, human cells grow, die and regenerate within the body. Similarly, after the so called death, if life were not present, decay would not  happen at all for next two million years. So life has no death. Life, in thought form, makes a belief that ‘this’ body is alive and can die.Death is for the ‘person’, other than life, which is illusory. Life continues there, decaying the body. Life has no subjective nature. Life spins itself out as objects and so every object is a sample of life. So you can’t know life because you are life. I and me is the language of life, giving a feel of a separate person inside there, other than life, which is also an act of life, to play diverse roles.

So where does that leave me?, or, how can my mind grasp this as a concept?.

It is not for the mind to grasp, because life includes minds grasping and thought. It is enough to know that you are ‘life’, as its knowing capacity or subjective capacity that can know its own objective behaviour. This body and all bodies, as its objects. They ‘are’ forms and the knowing forms the ground, in which all appearances are arising as content or 'known'.

And what is this ‘form’ of this ‘ground’

Either you know what you are as the ground called ‘knowing’ or you understand what life is as appearances . The ‘I am’ as knowing being the knower of all the content of knowing. So knowing needs no-more meaning or concept other than as -simply the capacity of knowing. The knowing knows what appears –as forms and the mind is put into action to give meaning to them, to feel forms as real, or make appear a real world of objects. So meaning or concepts are made, as if,  to objectify forms as ‘persons’ trees, dogs, thoughts etc, for the purpose of making explanations in the behaviour of life as – separate contents of knowing.

So life does the knowing by being its object of knowing?.

Yes.

So what is ‘death’.

There isn’t a ‘death’. There is only change of form, as content of knowing. The whole world of object is continuously changing, so that, and apparently knows itself, by being the knowing, as the changeless that knows the changing content. So the changeless is the knowing aspect of life, while change is the Being aspect of life. The static and the dynamic. Only what is born can die. Forms only change its appearance, like a moth to a butterfly. All change if from nothing to something, to something else, to nothing. Death is just a phase in transformation, like birth, to childhood, to adulthood, to old age to death. What knows birth and death, is life as its knowing capacity and cannot experience death of its own true nature, as one imagines it to be.

Still unclear.

Life is only what there is. Life exhibits itself as forms. animated forms, inert forms, thought forms, etc. Life knows itself as forms, that come and go, in its knowing aspect, also known as consciousness. We are not separate from life. We are life, as its capacity to know or as consciousness. The so called our body, our mind is also an appearance arising in consciousness. Thoughts and sensations arise, to give the feelingness of an individual entity to this body, as a play of life. This is seen as its personality or objectivity. This causes immediate separation in life to make believe a subjective person and an objective world, both being two aspects of life. However it is clear that, such a person is illusory, having the body as a illusory border to -a inside me and a outside world.  The visual and audible objects seem to appear ‘outside’ the bodyline. Sense of taste and touch, appears ‘on’ the border line, and a stomach ache and pain –‘inside’ the body line – all to the knowing. So knowing knows the world as a set of sensations happening both outside and inside or everywhere –so as to say. So the appearances are happening outside and inside the body. The knowing of these appearances are happening ‘at’ the appearance. So consciousness or awareness is ‘where’ appearances appear or both inside and outside the body. Thus, body is just an imaginary boundary for referencing. It is the thought that refers all appearances with such reference as a body. But such border is illusory or unreal to consciousness or ‘ knowing’ aspect of life. It is only understood that way, for the play of life. The presence and absence of all appearances are known both inside and outside the body. Therefore, life is ‘knowing’ in its subjective nature and world of objects, in its objective nature. So life is consciousness as ‘nothing’ as its subjective ‘no form’ and appears as a world of forms as its objective nature.

38. Conceptualising the 'Mind'.

• The observation of a flower is happening 'at' the flower itself. It cannot happen anywhere else. Who is it that is 'at' the flower doing the observation? - there is nobody there, other than a so called observer who cannot be observed as an object. So the subject cannot be an object of observation. Since there is no observation of observer, there is no objective observer, other than an object of observation. So there are only objects and no subject other than object itself. What is there at the flower is only the flower itself.

• The observer is the observing itself. Lets presume what we observe is observed by mind or consciousness. Is there anything else other than what is observed called the mind? How would we know, if we would know, it would come under the heading observed. Has the mind any other function, other than observing?. None what so ever. So if this is the only function and all observed is this function, then the mind is nothing but the totality of what is observed as it is nothing else as knowable and has no other function.

• The object of knowing -is the knowing of object itself. There is no other object and no other knowing outside of this 'knowing' of the object as the object of knowing. All there is - is knowing.

• The existence of an object is known in Time. So objects seems have a temporal quality other than length or area or volume. Anything that doesn’t have a duration doesn’t exist. So time is the existence provider to objects. So time is mind because mind has the same function of time. What is not existing in time or mind - does not exist. So the essence of time or source of time is same as that of mind. So time is the observer which is also the mind and this seems to give the feel or duration to objects to give its objectively 'existing' quality.

• When we say, time is mind, It just means 'now' or present moment or just presence - because presence is awareness and doesn’t have an objective quality to be conceptualised.

• Mind is time. Time is 'now'. Now is the present moment or presence. Presence is consciousness. Consciousness is awareness. Awareness is Beingness. Beingness is 'I am'. 'I am' is timeless and has time and space as its content that is ever changing. The looks of now is ever changing to make feel that time and space are reality, even though it is supported as its source by aliveness or Life itself.

37. Life –Separation and confusion.

Life is love. Life loves to do what it does. So it does apparently through these bodies. It is the same that we see on a individual sense. We love to do what we do. For smokers, they love to smoke and for non smokers, they love not to smoke. What is common is the love affair. We love to love. We love to hate, the killers love to kill, saviours love to save. Robbers  loves to rob etc. The common denominator is love. Life is indifferent by itself to pleasure and pain because both are expressions of life in the game of duality. From one level of seeing life,  love and hate seems separate views and cannot feel that it could arises out of a common source because they have nothing in common. This arises from living in the confusion of being a separate individual. When living in the clarity of oneness or that, life in all bodies is the source of all animation, there is no confusion. Confusion arises out of division and division is the basis of confusion. The initial division is that, we are separate and divided as we and the world out there which is not connected but divided from us. In the end, all opposites must dissolve into being meaningless when living happens from the standpoint of wholeness and clarity dawns that division is an illusion.  

36. Mind – The Individual Entity.

As we grow, we have many questions in life. We get answers. Some are accepted and some are rejected. So a knowledge bank builds up. This bank is nothing but understanding the world in terms of subject object world, in order to survive avoiding pain and seeking pleasure. In fact it is amusing to note that the answers are mostly known because we accept them or reject them. To reject the answers, one must have an idea of what the real answer seems like. Similarly, to accept an answer, one must be ready with a view of an acceptable answer. Some logic there, seems to tell him that this answer is acceptable. He knows this logic. He knows when the answer is acceptable. This can’t be so unless there is surety of the answer even before the answer hits him. So we know, before we know. Strange. 

The questioner  is mind or thought. There is only knowledge that seems to be operating the mind. There cant be any other mechanism involved to operate the mind. The way, mind keeps itself active or alive, or seemingly ‘is there’,  by keeping itself busy seeking all type of knowledge to maintain separation as an individual mind. This cycle of creating questions from knowledge that is already there, ( which is nothing but a collection of answers that it already has), and finding answers for such questions thus arising, is what is maintaining the continuity of the mind. The mind is also providing the sense of an individual entity that seems to have these questions and seeking these answers. So mind provides the sense of an individual entity. So in its opposite version, No-mind means no individual entity. No mind or no thought means, the thinker is absent. No thinking means, answers are not required. So one who is not seeking answers, has no requirement of questions and does not need the feel of an individual entity. So, the individual entity is nothing but the questioner or mind and these questions arise only due to knowledge already fed in there in the past, which is now seeking more knowledge to keeps itself modified due to the changing nature of 'what is' or what is happening. Once some basic knowledge has been gained for survival, just to avoid being targeted by society as 'not fitting into the norms of social culture' more knowledge is actually an hindrance, as it strengthens the nature of being separate of making a strong sense of person ( ego) 
Life, that we actually are, at the core of our 'being' can then experience the world directly, when the sense of 'individuality' is at the minimum or has dissolved. Seeking to know why , why, why, of all appearances comes to an end and it is known that the sense of an entity was purely notional in thoughts and had no reality of its own. Life becomes much lighter without the sense of separate person and life goes on just the same with a very light sense of 'being'. 
It feels very light and very funny and very peaceful, as if that was what one was always seeking. An absence of being 'one'. 

35. Enlightenment in 3 steps.

This is just a way of writing as if realisation is an achievement that can be done stepwise. However, once there is a resonance in what is written, a clarity sets in, followed by some belief or frame of mind, that starts questioning the very belief of believing all that seemed to be true and this could lead to removal of ignorance.

Realisation, is just a dropping of the sense of ‘me’ or a individual entity, that was till then, seemed to be manipulating one's life as individual body mind with freewill and choice. This dissolving of the 'me-sense' to the body, also drops all the ‘you’s' and the ‘others’ feel to other bodies and there is a clarity in knowing that knowing of life is all there is and life operates by itself, as if this creation is a 'single' Being. We can say, all there is  -"Life" or God, or Aliveness or Awareness or THIS or 'what is happening'.

So here it goes :

First step : Understand that one's life is not limited to one’s body. How and why? Because seeing, smelling and hearing is happening outside the instrument of the body. If the body is an instrument of seeing or hearing, it has to be sensed within the frame of this instrument. Also -Touch and taste are happening at the skin level, emotions seemingly happens inside the body and finally thoughts - in an totally unknown area. Could be in cyber, but totally unknowable area.  So it is clear that body is directly not involved in the seeing and hearing. But seeing and hearing is happening and done by 'life'. Life as we know is a ‘no-one’ or no-thing and exist everywhere and nowhere in particular, doing the sensing as if centred around a body.

Second step : In the absence of an entity to a body, any relationship of things and people as 'mine' has only a notional meaning and has no physical reality to it. So my body, my car, my wife, my nation and my etcs are just a way of talking to enforce a notional 'me -sense' and has no other purpose. It is use only to poke an ego that doesn't have a 'real' existence but only an apparent one.  This means ownership ( or attachment ) has no deep meaning other than in the mental realm or unreal space.

Third step : To realise that if the above makes sense, then the meaning of all ‘me’s, you’s and other’s, as an attachment to respective bodies or life’s, fall away and seem to exist only as a figure of speech used by life when it speaks various bodies..

Conclusion : All there is  - is life. Life is playing all bodies and showing up as objects and also life is the one knowing them as content to the knowing.

Its ‘life’ that sees, hears, thinks, feel, cries, laughs etc and doesn't need a owner called ‘me’ to take credit of all seeing, hearing etc.  Also thoughts, created by life, seem to suggest that a person in charge is at the centre of all such knowing, that is separate from life. Thoughts are not true in this aspect. Their role is to generate a 'me -sense' while also interpreting the world of sensation as a world of real separate objects.

So, as mentioned in the scriptures, Life or God or Brahma is reality. World when seen in separation of God is unreal and when seen as expression of Life or God is Real. So Brahma is real, World is Unreal and Brahma is the world. Unreal, as seen in separation and real when seen as 'no-separation'.