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(translations into French and German will follow)
Squiggles for one's distraction..
Big bangers and mash
For me, here, world has just happened. It explodes into life like a timeless big-bang with no beginning or end. Life just IS. So it is noticed that everything is completely fresh, clear and unique. Hence the wonder in its unlikely existence! So thought, feelings, sensations, carpets, oceans, people, cats, trees, aging, death, birth, custard, smelly feet, laughter, sun, moon, stars, itch, everything, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING HAS JUST HAPPENED - for the 1st and only time; timelessly in 'me'; nowhere else. Completely unique; amazing, yet perfectly ordinary. We live and die in this same apparent moment. Your body will die; as a leaf falls from the tree in this same, beautiful, timeless moment.
So here, the day-to-day daydream still unravels, yet it is seen with a freshness. Life is noticed to be both purposeless, yet utterly amazing. All and everything is welcomed. Bad moods and good. Just happening; completely new. It certainly makes things a lot simpler! There is nothing else than this, yet appearances of people and places happen as 'before'. "Chop wood, carry water" and all that...
So in terms of apparent enlightenment, you are it already. Nothing need be said or recommended. A feeling of not quite seeing this is a feeling of not quite seeing this; utterly perfect and divine – a fresh, pristine ignorance! - The miracle of ignorance at all!
The oceans and the mountains; deserts and great cities; aeroplanes and squirrels; your memory of an apparent past and the apparent ability to read these words (squiggles) just happen - is just happening. From nothing to everything. An incredible illusion. Ultimately, nothing has ever happened - and nothing WILL ever happen; yet everything is just happening. This is what the word heaven is pointing to in the bible - Your timeless Life right now. But forget religion, just look around.
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Private Detective
So let’s play a game called Private Detective. - Let’s look at the actor under all this fancy dress; the one who’s playing all these roles. Let’s look at what it is to be alive as ‘me’.
…But before we begin playing it should be said that, like any other game, this is just a bit of entertainment. It’s meaningless. It has no ‘higher’ purpose ok?!. Please don’t take it too seriously! – this is not some convoluted technique like ‘self enquiry’ – it’s just a game. So anyway, let’s take a look… What do you find?
Let’s see. Here, I find sensations of sitting in a chair, a slight feeling of hunger, sounds of birdsong above, the cool breeze, blue sky, palm trees, an itch, a pen making symbols on this page and an internal monologue – the voice of ‘David’ if you like. What comes up for you? Similar kinds of physical sensations, sense perceptions, thoughts etc ? Just the normal kinda thing, yeah? Ok, game over.
So what? …So nothing!
As was mentioned above, the game took no purpose – has no purpose whatsoever – but there do appear to be characters speaking out there(in IMAGINATION) who DO believe it to be of some benefit; and DO suggest it at spiritual meetings or in their books/therapy sessions– to become the ‘witness’ or to ‘self enquire’ ; to reach the root of oneself; explore one's subconscious; apply cognitive techniques such as NLP or CBT; to realize oneself as life or awareness..the beloved..or whatever (even the 'wonder of this!'); to forgive oneself; to get in 'the zone' etc,etc - Forget all that bullshit!!!!!! ....it's fine; but useless!
The whole apparent arena of self-help is a presently arising pipedream. If you like the idea of a dreamed person feeling better about their dreamed life then great, go ahead; seek help.Why not?!
- You have no control in the matter anyway..
There IS no-one there. There IS no ‘you’ ! It’s just imagination arising presently. So who or what could be found?! ..Imagination.
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Life is impersonal. Yet within it appears a very personal, separate experience happening to a supposed entity called ‘me’. This is paradoxical; and it might be said here lies the source of all questioning – in this apparent paradox arising. The ‘me’ that arises, the sense of self, is simply a focusing in the whole of experience on a separate entity. It only can and does arise timelessly and has no actual substance of itself. There is no entity, full stop. It is merely, apparently, perpetuated by a seeming focus on it.
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There’s actually nothing; but THIS.
NB : Whether this is actually seen or not is totally irrelevent by-the-way!
