83. Knowing is ‘what is’.

'Knowing' of content does not necessarily imply 'contents' to knowing, as separately existing apart from the knowing of it. Even if there is one chance, that can reveal that all objects in the knowing  (or known content) is simply the knowing of it, rather than the known, as a separate content, the truth about the 'game of objects' as an independent reality, is out of the bag. The importance of this detail, is the only fundamental thing that needs to be recognised in life. For example, knowing of a thought ( or thinking) is all there is, and there is no thought, outside of such knowing, where knowing of the thought, 'is' the thought. Similarly, knowing of pain is pain,  knowing of the world is the world, etc., meaning the objective world is simply a knowing. Visual knowing, audible knowing, knowing knowing knowing, as if such knowing has known sensations that can be imagined to make up a world of objects.

It means a lot in terms of ‘seeking’. We seek to know the truth of what we are and spend a lifetime until seeking finally stops to end the seeker in the track of seeking. Finally what is noticed is that, Knowing is ‘what is’ and 'what was' and 'what will be' and there is the only this ‘isness’ of what we think is the 'world' or 'ourselves' as separate from each other.

Awareness 'as' context is all there is but feels as if Awareness 'as' content. Even that is to say too much. Awareness is all there is. Content as separate from Awareness, is only an idea imagined to be true but not. That is the illusion or Maya, that makes feel awareness of separate contents 'in' awareness, simply by the 'aware-ing' of it. It is then taken as awareness 'of' contents, which are being assumed real and solid, separate from 'only' being aware of them. This is further interpreted as 'contents' in awareness and believed to be true and such mental conditioning becomes the basis of living as separate 'beings'.

So Awareness or ‘knowing’ is ‘what is’ and this ‘isness’ is what knowing itself is, that is eternal or not subject to time. There is nothing outside of knowing to know and so all ‘that is known’ is nothing but the ‘knowing’ of it, and it just ‘is’, not to a ‘me’ or to another, to know the knowing, as if to sentient beings.

What we are, is the capacity to know, or what 'knowing' itself is and this ‘we’ that we think we are, as separate individual entities, is some illusory knowing. Knowing cannot know itself as its content, or as known, as the activity, cannot be made an object of itself. Meaning to say, a context can be described with contents, but when the context and contents are one and the same, and cannot be separated to be judged individually and equated, context is only what is, or give it another name, contents is only what is.

A dream is just its knowing of it. There isn’t a dreamer dreaming a dream. There is just dreaming. Now dreaming is the dreamer and the story of the dream is its contents. Likewise, knower is the knowing  and also the contents of knowing as the known. To make ‘sense’ of it, one must take a place outside of it, to know it and so, it cant be it, because, It includes it. Knowing has this typical capacity of being wholeness and its contents at the same time like context being the contents. There is no other, either as knower or as known that can be said to be outside of knowing.

Presence is another word. ‘What is’ is same as to mean, what presently is. To be ‘is’, is to be present and to be present is to know it. The issue here is that, we lay stress on the contents of knowing as if there is a ‘known’ aspect to it. To do this, knowing has to objectified or given meaning to. So what is- becomes what is happening, as if the happening is a meaningful way to know what is. Happening is only an assumption of what is and any reality that is given to any objective apparent happening, is only a story line being fed to make ‘feeling’ into ‘felt. So what is, has to be ‘interpreted’ into into contents, as if separate and meaningful, outside of what is, and a story line, as if eventful, in time and space, must be built up. Such magic is the power of intelligence to convert 'what is' into 'what is happening in time, as an event'. The happening can thus have backward projection as past or memory and forward projection as imagination or plan etc and the process of breaking up what is into apparent independent parts take shape. Reality thus comes in as apparent feel of such story line and experienced as time and events in time.

The 'feel' of 'now' or looks of 'now' keep changing continually. Each content changes shape and place, as if to make feel  'movement' or 'growth'. This develops into a story line of such change, with likes and dislikes to colour the story. The story becomes the truth in imagination, and a part of such a story is referencing a 'me' story to this body.

However, all there is, is what is or pure knowing and not what is ‘happening’ as nothing ever is happening. Truth simply Is and expresses itself as an isness of what is logically happening, as if logic comes alive with cause and effect as its theme causing ‘what is’ or knowing into what is ‘happening’.

So not to worry about 'Life' as nothing is happening, other than just a knowing of it, like a happening, happening in the dream. Relax and be free.  

82. Life and You.

There is a peculiar relation between ‘life’ and ‘us’. A virtual relation that gets stronger and stronger by the day and only a miracle could pierce the virtuality to get a peek into reality. In fact all relations are like that. It starts with a binding like a thin hook and then gets more and more stronger like a ship’s anchor  and then makes reality of the  ‘you’ that seems to become the role played by ‘life’ as you. It gets impossible to ‘come out’ of this ‘becoming’ called ‘me’.

What is life. We know life as we are taught about it or in a context that we use it. If we take a broader context in viewing life, we can call ‘life’ as all that would be called ‘creation’ and its movement, moment by moment or simply the play of ‘life’. First the creation- like a flame and then its movement like a how the flame moves or a ‘dance’. The source of such a creation that ‘IS’ and moves is ‘life’. It is like the source of the flame. Call it ‘fire’ if you like. Fire is not only the source but also the appearance of the flame and has its own way of creating some sort of negative pressure within it, that allows out side air to be sucked in it, helping it to keep burning upwards and also to dance in its existence. However all of it is ‘fire’ and its play. All one source and appearance. Likewise, is ‘life energy’, Its also the appearance and also the movement. Nothing else need be. Appears because of its to be perceived, creates its own forces that keeps giving a change to cause its own dance that we ‘feel’ is its aliveness. THIS INCLUDES A ‘YOU’ IN ‘IT’. So in relation to life, ‘you’ are inclusive in it and are ‘of’ it.

Now we go about trying to relate to such ‘life’ from a place of this individual ‘me’, to get enlightened and to become that ‘life’ that we are told we actually are. Its easy at the level of understanding that we are not what we think we are but what ‘we are’ is life. Its difficult in the beginning, even to think so,  but when pondering or seeking day in and day out, that this ‘we’ is lived and the ‘what’, ‘this we’ must be, is life itself, we come to the end of the road or a place where we desperately want to let go the feel of an individual me and have the feel of ‘life’ as ‘me’. Then we don’t know whether we will be able to feel ‘me’ as life or feel the ‘whole life’ as me. This game goes on for a while, whilst  we are desperately trying to come out of the cocoon of ‘me’ into the butterfly as ‘life’. This  ‘trying’ to project ‘a me’ as not an individual self is also ‘life’ playing a limited ‘me’ trying to wear itself off as an individual. But the ‘trying’ itself maintains the ‘me’ while trying is happening, limiting this me as a try-er. The individual effort is what keeps the ‘scheme’ of ‘me’ alive. This mechanism of trying is what keeps the separation going on and on. Trying to reach what you desire is the name of the game of the individuality. Not trying is a also another way to keeping  the ‘trial’ alive or to do the ‘not trying’ and so has the same effect.

Life as you and you as life are both the same movement. As long as you make a personal effort, life becomes personal. As long as you feel personal, it is ‘life’ behaving as a personal you. ‘You’ cant feel impersonal, because there is a ‘you’ or a personal ‘you’ trying  ‘to do’ this feeling out of choice or free will. Letting go the ‘you’ or personality is already ‘life’ in its natural state. Once this is seen, the strength to hold on a ‘position’ as a person becomes weaker and weaker. As long there is a will to let go, the will itself becomes weaker which brings about the ‘letting go’ of the ego or the personal self or the ‘sense of me’.

All along we understand that it is ‘life’ projecting the ‘me’ in ‘itself’ as its content . Now this ‘me’ wants ‘me’ to somehow project ‘me’ as ‘life’. As if I can be something very big as life itself. So we try to be humble, broadminded, accommodating, saying ‘yes’ to ‘all that is’ etc etc, just we think ‘life’ should be. It is not possible for a ‘me’ to behave ‘life’ like. The absence of ‘me’ is ‘life’ already, including and excluding ‘a like’ to make it ‘life-like’. Its just that, one fine day, ‘you’ wont be there, feeling very light, not knowing, where  and how that part ‘you’ got out of ‘YOU’ or ‘all that there is’. It just gets left behind like a lizards tails, in total unawareness.

At the peak of seeking, with trust and faith that individual persons never really existed the way, ‘we’ normally saw and felt the personality in ourselves and others, the nature or heaviness of individuality begins to get lighter and lighter until there isn’t a ‘you’ to know that a ‘you’ that was, is now ‘not’. You wont know when it happened, because when it happens, the you that is supposed to always be in charge of all knowing that was, itself is gone missing. Its like a stick churning the burning coal wanting to know, when it will actually ‘stop’ churning. The stick already became the fire, with no separation left. So there comes a time when suddenly, there is no judgement, as if there is ‘no one’ left to judge, or judgement itself is ever happening or not. Then what is left is ‘life’ or simply the ‘play of life’ of simply ‘play’ or simply THIS.

So hang on, until there is no-one to hang on, and feel the funniness of ordinariness of how ‘life’ always was, and was ignorantly believed to be much the other way, being personal, because in its play, being personal is what kept running the show of this ‘is-ness’ becoming  ‘separate me’ and the ‘outside world’. No need to continue being part of the play from then on, because the play was always played, by not a you or anyone, but by no-one at all and will continue to play ‘you’ ‘as’ personal at times ‘just this’ other times, as the play demands from time to time, which was always what it did, but now, there is a knowing of it, from the side that ‘life’ wanted itself to ne known, and that too –‘effortlessly’, as knowing was always known to be.   

81. Time and Now.

Now seems to be an element of time. But that is a belief, because ‘Time’ as something in existence in itself is a belief.  All beliefs are valid because of a faith in the belief that is beyond being shaken up and also the ‘basis’ of individual lives or apparent persons ‘is’ simply this set of beliefs.

‘We’ as separate persons are hooked up to beliefs and this set of beliefs is passed on to generations to come, which is what keeps the fiction of ‘reality’ alive or ‘lively’.

There seems to a secret here that can be unlocked, as if it is possible to come out of beliefs and see the world for its true nature. However, the true nature of creation includes persons having beliefs and seeing the world through a veil of such beliefs. It’s more like apparent people are ‘lived’ with a common agreement of living with beliefs of time and space and names for forms etc which makes the working of creation an open secret, that can be seen for its exact nature, but can’t be known on a relative level of individual person and must be lived from a point of believing that relative reality is absolute reality.

The ever changing contents ‘is’ what is noticed in the ‘knowing’ that ‘we are’,  and the ever ‘constant’  capacity of this knowing is what doesn’t form the content to be known, and keeps getting missed out, as what can be known, being the obvious and taken for granted, as if not. This is purely due to ‘life’ living its contents in that way and will continue to be perceived as it is meant to be, in the game that life plays itself out.

 The term ‘Now’ has a very important role to play in our lives. Life ‘is’ this  ‘Now’ ‘being’ witness as a present time element and also ‘being’ the contents as what is perceived as the world, to its own knowing capacity.  There is actually only ‘knowing’ of perception and such knowing is this ‘Now’ knowing it so.

The term ‘now’ has many contexts in which it can be used and the meanings that seem to appear when used in such circumstances, makes it seem appropriate to complete the communication, as if the understanding about the context in which it was used, was very normal and appropriate to indicate reality of ‘time’. But most of the time, it is used to make a sense of ‘Isness’ as if the content ‘is present’ as of now and for real.

It is interesting that, we often use this term ‘Now’ or the ‘present’ as if somehow it is linked with all that is not now, or the so called past or future to make ‘time’ possible. In fact the absence of contents in the ‘now’, is imagined to be really ‘available’ ‘in’ the past or future, to make them exist that way. Such a method of perception is purely creating a mental existence of objects, from the past to the future. So we push all ‘physical’ or ‘Presently’ non existence contents category of  imaginary and real mental contents of the past and future, in order to give continuity to the contents of the ‘present’ in both directions of time. Therefore all continuity must be purely ‘mental.

What is the real issue here?. Can ‘now’ or physical reality ( as may call it) be really clubbed to make a continuum  with past and future that is more on a mental level? However, the world seems to work well this way, as we all play this game in a trance. How real is physical reality?. How real is mental reality? How real is this imagined reality anyway?. These are unanswered questions due to paradoxical answers that seem to make sense in both ways, when argued in that sense.

Whatever is ‘featured’ in creation is seen or known in the ‘now’.  In fact, it is ‘now’ that is the actual cognisor of featured creation, that we feel as ‘present now’. What is absent, is not there. It is either ‘was there’ or will be there. Meaning, we make it present at some other point in time and such point in time is only revisted via the mind, or mentally, to make time real or bring time into existence. Even when we talk, we must bring time in words that depict time, which itself is the basis to create time, as there isn’t one to go back or forward as past or future. I will go there ‘tomorrow’ is an example.

Suppose I take a set of cards and show it to child. Now suppose I take away some of them and keep it behind my back and tell the child that it has disappeared, it is very much impressed. In fact it is wonderstruck. It doesn’t make a difference to the child, if the cards actually went out of existence, because its has believed this to be true. Now if we tell the child, that all the cards were behind the back, then all the wonder is gone away. Similarly, all contents of ‘Now’ ‘that’ disappear, are mentally allowed to continue, so as to assimilate with a new set of contents are featured ‘in the now’.  Once the apparent reality is embedded in memory or imagination, the mind has the speed and capacity to revisit this apparent reality, and make logical a story of all the is present and absent, but mentally present. The contents of yesterday and day before and all the past for millions of apparent years, is actually memory, lying behind the back of ‘now’, now. Physical presence of perception, mental presence of the perceived and imagined presence of would be perceived are all happening ‘now’ to make sense in a story form, giving reality to apparent existence.  The ‘now’ features apparent reality using direct perception and also perception vide thoughts ( which are indirect but feels direct).  All of perception is happening only in the ‘now’, as if there isn’t any knowing out of now. Now is not long or short as all there is –is now. Etrnal, meaning without a relation to ‘time’. For every event, its all past and future is revisited mentally in a flash and meanings made. This happens each time for every event subject thought of. If a thought of wife or child or place comes up, its whole story in time is revisited in a flash and then understood.  Its like having to pass a flashback clip, everytime a movie clip has to show some idea of the past. Its all happening ‘now’ with no realtion to time, and time is depicted as an element in the featuring of now. This is the magic of creation. Complicated and featured simply.

 Now’ is actually eternal. It doesn’t mean that it has a every very long duration. It only means that ‘time’ is not applicable ‘to’ ‘now’. Since ‘now’ is all there is, and at the same time it is still ‘now’. The ‘focus’ or split mind dwells in contents of the ‘now’ whether present or absent ( as if kept in front of you and behind you) and converts it to a story of world of objects and ways of individual lives. All contents of what ‘is’ featured or ‘was’ featured or ‘will be’ featured is only a mechanism of ‘focus’ trying to dip into the contents of ‘now’ which are all ‘here’ in the now as direct or mental perception and mentally presents it as an event in time. The narration by thought of the featuring of presence and absence of objects makes a feel of time. Time by itself is not a ‘something’ that could be seen or heard or felt or tasted or cognised as such. It doesn’t exist. It is only made to feel that way, in a mental format or conceptual format or a magical way.  The magic of ‘life’ is its display of what ‘is’ and what ‘is not’ and make feel an event in time space, as if all of it was real and graspable.

Life moves on and on in this fashion, with no-one to claim otherwise because life is the only player, converting knowing of visual, audible, and such other knowing to make feel objects to itself, pretending to behave as individual bodies, which is not the case. But its very creative and effective. Living life from the point of view of ‘life’ is more fun, falling into the flow of nature, ever unpredictable and always spontaneous, embodying apparent objects of its contents and feeling its own self as its game of filling in time ( that is not). Now is all there is.

80. Mistakes and Guilt.

We learn many things in life. Languages, knowledge, cooking etc etc, most of comes to use in making living a little more easy, if we may believe so. Many a times, we seem to make mistakes and at times ‘blunders’. There are times when we curse ourselves and cry at our mistakes, which we think could be avoided.  At times, it is so severe as to loose one’s child, push one to death ete, or simply make the dish more salty and unpalatable, all of which are purely attributed to ‘mistakes’ of a person.

Basically it is just a notion that, whatever happened with ‘me’ as a doer, could be avoided, if one could  go back in time and space, or into the past. But ultimately, we reconcile that mistakes happen and either accept our mistake or try to cover it up, pretending that a mistake never comes to light, to others, that be involved with the effects of such mistake. Some may claim that ‘it’ was on purpose to save grace.

There is a basic element of ignorance in all these cases, in labelling of so called ‘mistakes’. One cannot help rectify the mistake, during its happening. Mostly it seems that there was no presence of mind while such mistakes were happening. You could make a ‘silly’ mistakes like in maths exam or a gross mistake like remitting money where one zero became additional or some ‘better half’ of a healthy tissue got operated upon or whatever.

Mostly, the mistakes are an outcome of forgetfulness, which is not in one’s control. We think that, it could be avoided, if at that time, memory had not failed or presence of mind was focused on the criticality of what should have not gone wrong rather than roam around aimlessly elsewhere  Could the situation be any different with say some practice or a method to avoid such instances in future?  Many would think so and there could be dozens of institutions raking in money, in making one believe their advice or expertise can do the needful and make one ‘mistake’ free.

Mistakes are seen as mistakes and seen as correct depending on the situation.  Sometimes mistakes help to make the situation better too, after which one may be appreciated for purposefully arranging  to make it seem like a mistake. When not seen as a mistake, it is not in that category.  The category only comes into light when the ‘effect’ of mistakes, is not ‘likable’, or else, one does not bother with the label. There are certain people who do not have such a category at all. In the animal kingdom, mistakes are not recognised at all. Hahaha.

What is the reality here? Can mistakes be avoided by some kind of method which can anticipate or stop  a mistake from happening? The answer is a clear “NO’.  Life operates bodies. A sense of ‘me’ or ‘doer’ is just a notion, derived from the language that ‘life’ uses, speaking bodies as ‘I’ or ‘me’. There isn't an ‘entity’ there, separate from life, that is in control, with a ‘will’ power to do correct or wrong or make mistake or prevent mistake. It seems that some have a good presence of mind and some do not. But at the very BASIS, there isn't  some-one to begin with, that can or cannot avoid mistakes.

So life flows as a set of correctness lased with seeming mistakes, as if done by a ‘one’. You can forgive and forget everybody’d mistake, as there isn't anyone in the body to make them or fake them.  Just take it easy and let life include accepting one’s own mistakes and others as well, as ‘what is happening’ in absence of a ‘doer’.  So mistakes are not mistakes is they are labelled. Another way to ignore is to realise that  ‘there isn't anybody’ to a body, to ‘make’ a mistake ‘happen’. It all just ‘what is happening’, good with a mix of seemingly ‘bad’.  So, one can relax, with a lesser sense of guilt about one’s mistake or use it to pursue the ‘entity’ that could make or avoid mistakes.   

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.