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Religion the search for self, inquiry into the sense of self.
What do we find in the search? we find what has always been here all along. Now call off the search, you were never not here, you were never lost.
There is here and here is there - Right NOW nothing and everything infinitely for eternity, Infinity popped aware.
Nothing to get.
Nothing to attain.
Nothing to grasp.
Just simply BEINGNESS / ISNESS / Consciousness.
You cannot shoot the messenger down, you can only shoot the message...the fictional story of YOU
YOU are real..but your story is fiction. Only your story shows up. YOU don't.
You can shoot down the story, but you cannot shoot the you in which the story is known, for you do not exist without your story.
The strange existence of non-existence - the absurd notion of non-dual duality. Is just about all that YOU ARE...and all that can be known.
One has to look within oneself to see how any message resonates - that is, does it stimulate a response of love or fear. If fear, then it should be discarded, regardless of the purported spiritual authority from which it issues.
Right NOW what AM I unless I think about that?
''Thoughts'' about what's past or in the future has the typical effect of distracting one from ''What Is'' NOW already perfect.
If pondering birth or death is perceived as a useful way of spending one's time, who am I to argue otherwise? Perhaps a good question one might ask oneself is ''What lives? what dies?''
Contrary to a preachers claim - there is really nothing special or dramatic in need of being accomplished, no great prize to be attained other than being here already, just as we are, and not avoiding the abundance of that by hankering after more, or better, or different. Relax, you are the Buddha, you are Enlightenment, you are not some fictional idol outside of you. You are IT ..no need to claim it. Or proclaim it ostentatiously.
Of course, if someone believes there is an ascending path that they must walk, then let them walk it to their best ability, but not expect that they are going to end up acquiring some mystical state that is not already true of them from the beginning. This is why those who finally get the humor of trying to become what they already are end up laughing out loud.
Obviously it is pointless to attempt fashioning a fixed philosophical position out of such a view - unless it is directly recognised, that game is just more head tripping. That's OK too, though not very satisfying. Relaxed and care-free philosophers aren't too common.
Enjoy the trip, but beware of tripping over yourself, for there isn't one there to trip over... You don't trip, you are being tripped.
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Relaxing into the Nondual Self - No Religion Necessary.
Re: Relaxing into the Nondual Self - No Religion Necessary.
To know death is to know birth.
To know you can die is to know you are born.
Knowledge therefore informs itself...it's self informing.
To know is to attain conceptual knowledge.
Knowledge can only be conceptual, in this conception.. via free spontaneous mentation, boundless in and of itself without location...knowledge is secondary heresy imprinted upon the unborn not-knowing inconceivable reality...knowledge is like water colour painted words upon flowing water.
Is knowledge born? ..does knowledge die? ...if it is born then it's only source is from the dead...else how would what it is to be born even mean?
Is the actual source of all known knowledge known? can that which is dead be born? Can that which lives..die?
Looking at it from this view point...it can be seen that being alive is no different to being dead...both concepts, death and birth are knowledge known...aka the same stateless state. Death would be known as stateless, and birth would be known as state.
Can't have one without the other...and since there is no such state as a stateless state...any claimed knower of birth and death is an illusion. You cannot con a con with your claimed knowing. Knowledge doesn't belong to a ''someone'' ...there is here only not-knowing known.
There is no knower because there is no other than this immediate not-knowing known, forever one with itself infinitely for eternity.
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To know you can die is to know you are born.
Knowledge therefore informs itself...it's self informing.
To know is to attain conceptual knowledge.
Knowledge can only be conceptual, in this conception.. via free spontaneous mentation, boundless in and of itself without location...knowledge is secondary heresy imprinted upon the unborn not-knowing inconceivable reality...knowledge is like water colour painted words upon flowing water.
Is knowledge born? ..does knowledge die? ...if it is born then it's only source is from the dead...else how would what it is to be born even mean?
Is the actual source of all known knowledge known? can that which is dead be born? Can that which lives..die?
Looking at it from this view point...it can be seen that being alive is no different to being dead...both concepts, death and birth are knowledge known...aka the same stateless state. Death would be known as stateless, and birth would be known as state.
Can't have one without the other...and since there is no such state as a stateless state...any claimed knower of birth and death is an illusion. You cannot con a con with your claimed knowing. Knowledge doesn't belong to a ''someone'' ...there is here only not-knowing known.
There is no knower because there is no other than this immediate not-knowing known, forever one with itself infinitely for eternity.
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