Dan/Self-Knowledge

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Dear Dan,

 

At 04:28 PM 4/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>

>>T:

>>What is it that transcends the mind? How could the mind possibly know?

>

>D: Even funnier, there is no mind to know anything.

 

The mind appears and disappears in consciousness - while it is apparently

present, it could be said to " exist, " in the same way that a dream has

temporary " reality " until it ends. The important point is that it's " a

mind, " not " my mind. " If there is an " I, " it consists of pure " spirit "

having nothing to do with names or forms.

 

Time is relative to the mind, and space is relative to the body. Without

the mind where is time, and without the body, where is space? Some say the

Grand Canyon is " big. " Big compared to what?

 

> Nothing is known, there is nothing to be known,

> and there is no knower to know anything.

 

Or: known, knower and knowledge are one in *knowing* (which again appears

and disappears in consciousness).

 

At my level of understanding, there is no perceiver or perceived;

*perception* itself is real enough, but only *present* perception. One

might argue that a perceiver is necessary for perception; I would say that

it is just not so. Before perception, there is neither perceiver nor

perceived. The *instant* perception takes place, in the *NOW*, perceiver

and perceived are " sucked into " the perceptual void and vanish, and only

pure perception or " sensing " (without memory-based identification) remains.

Probably a poor description of what I observe, but it's the best I can do :-)

 

> This 'nothing' to be known, is to be known *now*

> as nothing, without any knowledge of the knowing.

 

Someone once told me " knowledge binds. " My response now would be " only if

there is attachment to knowledge. " Knowledge, memory, desire, thought...

these things bind only those who are attached - attachment binds. The

witness is never bound, only the " person. " And since the person is unreal,

there is no such thing as bondage. Bondage is a mind-made thing, due to

delusive or incorrect ideas. Correct the perspective and everything else

naturally falls into place.

 

Love *IS*,

 

Tim

 

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