Sharing here a recent discussion about the confusion we face while discussing or perceiving life from an assumed separation where things like chairs do not have supposed awareness or that humans have more awareness etc.
There is an assumption here of separation between chairs and humans. And a further assumption that humans have certain qualities of sensitivity and intelligence that inanimate objects like chairs or even so called more alive things like trees and animals do not have in the same measure.
Within the play of separation (which is nothing but a complete imagination made of assumptions) all things have different qualities very much like a child who decides the characters of its imaginary play characters and then makes them play. The child itself becomes a character as well sometimes.
However, within our human perception, I found it easier to see more experientially that there is no real separation at all. We just have to take a ‘real’ ‘raw’ looking around. So asking questions like - how far away from me is the chair I am sitting on? - are far more useful.
There is no separation. There is only an imagined or assumed separation which makes for the play of separate things. There are no human bodies separately existing and containing some consciousness or personal awareness which view a separate world etc.
The excessive physical pain and mainly the mental suffering that is encountered in a so called human body is entirely due to a intense belief that it is more special or closer to a so called separate me mental image than the tree or the sky. This assumption leads to questions like - oh but when this body is hurt there is a lot of pain but when the other body is hurt there is none etc. so I must be this body and not the other. The pain is part of the play of assumptions and separation and the heavy value given to a certain image called me. Once a heavy value is believed in, the emotions and feelings come in and result in dramatic energetics to confirm the belief.
The riddle cannot be solved at the level of beliefs. There is no separate human and awareness or consciousness do not belong to a person. What is born is the whole universe. And what is true is universal. There are truly no specific things.
Yet the play is lovely and divine. When you play, play fully and whole heartedly knowing it’s a divine play only. The only reason we get into these strange concepts like awareness etc is because we are filled with fear and don’t enjoy the play. To get over the fear we need something higher than us to rest in. Yet the reason we feel fear is only because we believe very strongly in being separate human bodies.
The main thing I feel that should be seen first is not awareness etc but non separation. We must see what the fear is based on. It’s just an assumption which can be unravelled by objective investigation. It assumes that we are separately existing humans. But no separation is possible and when we look around it can neither be seen, heard or smelt. As this is seen, fear loses its grip.
The play still happens but it’s not as intense. But it’s certainly far more lovely like playing with dolls. And that loveliness knows there is nothing to truly worry about ever. Or get to. Or analyse at the level of things too much. We somehow know when to drop the analysis. The play can only be played spontaneously to be lovely.
If we keep thinking and analysing at the level of parts, then we get lost in the supposed separation again where stones are dead things and we are these alive intelligent humans looking at dead stones. We don’t see that the intelligence is nothing but an attribute and can’t be the ultimate truth because it assumes separation from the stone. It simply isn’t like that.
All is One. The thinking mind should be first put to its true use - to truly analyse and examine the matrix of fear and greed. It will come to a wholistic point which will either be wholistic emptiness or a wholistic undefined fullness. This fullness is the infinite or eternal aspect of love and beauty. It’s the habit of over analysing about specific things that goes. I’m not a fan of awareness but more of non-separation which is very easy to actually see in our actual experience.
There is an assumption here of separation between chairs and humans. And a further assumption that humans have certain qualities of sensitivity and intelligence that inanimate objects like chairs or even so called more alive things like trees and animals do not have in the same measure.
Within the play of separation (which is nothing but a complete imagination made of assumptions) all things have different qualities very much like a child who decides the characters of its imaginary play characters and then makes them play. The child itself becomes a character as well sometimes.
However, within our human perception, I found it easier to see more experientially that there is no real separation at all. We just have to take a ‘real’ ‘raw’ looking around. So asking questions like - how far away from me is the chair I am sitting on? - are far more useful.
There is no separation. There is only an imagined or assumed separation which makes for the play of separate things. There are no human bodies separately existing and containing some consciousness or personal awareness which view a separate world etc.
The excessive physical pain and mainly the mental suffering that is encountered in a so called human body is entirely due to a intense belief that it is more special or closer to a so called separate me mental image than the tree or the sky. This assumption leads to questions like - oh but when this body is hurt there is a lot of pain but when the other body is hurt there is none etc. so I must be this body and not the other. The pain is part of the play of assumptions and separation and the heavy value given to a certain image called me. Once a heavy value is believed in, the emotions and feelings come in and result in dramatic energetics to confirm the belief.
The riddle cannot be solved at the level of beliefs. There is no separate human and awareness or consciousness do not belong to a person. What is born is the whole universe. And what is true is universal. There are truly no specific things.
Yet the play is lovely and divine. When you play, play fully and whole heartedly knowing it’s a divine play only. The only reason we get into these strange concepts like awareness etc is because we are filled with fear and don’t enjoy the play. To get over the fear we need something higher than us to rest in. Yet the reason we feel fear is only because we believe very strongly in being separate human bodies.
The main thing I feel that should be seen first is not awareness etc but non separation. We must see what the fear is based on. It’s just an assumption which can be unravelled by objective investigation. It assumes that we are separately existing humans. But no separation is possible and when we look around it can neither be seen, heard or smelt. As this is seen, fear loses its grip.
The play still happens but it’s not as intense. But it’s certainly far more lovely like playing with dolls. And that loveliness knows there is nothing to truly worry about ever. Or get to. Or analyse at the level of things too much. We somehow know when to drop the analysis. The play can only be played spontaneously to be lovely.
If we keep thinking and analysing at the level of parts, then we get lost in the supposed separation again where stones are dead things and we are these alive intelligent humans looking at dead stones. We don’t see that the intelligence is nothing but an attribute and can’t be the ultimate truth because it assumes separation from the stone. It simply isn’t like that.
All is One. The thinking mind should be first put to its true use - to truly analyse and examine the matrix of fear and greed. It will come to a wholistic point which will either be wholistic emptiness or a wholistic undefined fullness. This fullness is the infinite or eternal aspect of love and beauty. It’s the habit of over analysing about specific things that goes. I’m not a fan of awareness but more of non-separation which is very easy to actually see in our actual experience.