A collage from Wei-wu-Wei

September 19, 2001

Interpretation of the ever-present understanding, universally available, with what appears

as patience, consistence, and pertinacity, is attributable to what is known as wei wu wei,

which is a Taoist symbol implying functioning which is non-volitional, spontaneous, ineluctable and, as such, totally impersonal.

The whole Buddhist and Vedantic system (Advaita) depends on the non-existence of

identity, so does the very idea of 'enlightenment' - which is reintegration in universality.

I doubt if there is anything else to be understood, since every other element of

doctrine is dependent on that, so that such understanding is final.

But in itself it is an impossibility is a thing-to-be-done, since it requires the absence

of anyone to 'do' it or to abstain from doing it.

Here there is neither doing nor abstaining from doing but only absence of abstaining from doing - which is the Master's way of saying total absence of any identity

to do or to abstain from doing anything whatsoever.

That is the arrow of an enlightened archer, for - however many such arrows may

be loosed - each one must split its predecessor in the bull's-eye - which is the eye which is itself the flight of the arrow.

Portrait of a Tao-Buddhist:

If it is a concept - he bows and smiles,

If it isn't - there's nothing to smile at,

And no-one to bow.

'You' cannot 'see' (or seek) IT (mind) because 'you' think 'you' are looking, and 'you' cannot see looking, for IT is what is looking, and what is looking is not a 'you.' No 'you' could ever see IT. 'You' removed - IT IS HERE.

I am the awareness of being aware that I am universal awareness, the first dim, the second

brilliant, the last a blinding radiance.

The quality of 'humility' refers to the lack of anyone to possess it.

It needs supreme humility in order to understand, and absolute silence of the mind. It might even be said that absolute humility is understanding.

I cannot say it,

I cannot know it,

I cannot be it.

Because I am it,

And that is all I am.

All things considered,

Bondage is wholly the notion of 'I,'

And liberation is the liberation from the idea of liberation.

Is there anyone to be bound, anyone to be free?

So What.

When Light seeks out Darkness,

The only finding is understanding that what has been 'found'

Was the absence of that which was seeking.

All that a Seeker can find is his own absence,

For this which is seeking is all there could have been to be found.

Asking 'Who am I?' therefore is the Light Searching for the Darkness of a 'me,'

And finding that there is no 'who?'

but only the absence of the presence of this-which-is-asking.

Why does light seek out Darkness? Because there is not else in the Cosmos which it has not found.

Turn the light in to yourself - and believe me, you'll find nothing there.

You? You - whoever you are - are just an error of perception or a misinterpretation of the facts.

I think that I act; an 'i' acts me,

But all the time I am being dreamed

by what-I-am.

The essential metaphysical principle is that everything cognisable is whatever we ourselves are and never anything that has any independent nature of its own.

Awakening is agreeing to attend your own funeral.

Looking for ourselves is finding our presence. There is something sought and someone

seeking, something seen and someone looking, because what is sought for is the presence

of someone acting, and what is seen is the presence of someone seeing.

There is no such 'thing' to aim at, seek or look for, as what one is. On ceasing to seek or

look - one is present.

The personal notion is not inherent and is the whole trouble.

Whatever you may be, you are being 'lived.' You are not travelling, as you think: you are

being 'travelled.' Remember: you are in a train. Stop trying to carry your own baggage

yourself! It will come along with you anyhow.

'Pure Thought' is seeing things as they appear - without arguing (thinking) about them,

just 'seeing, seeing, seeing,' as Rumi said. Above all, without interference.

We are required to cease looking at objects as events apart from ourselves, and to know

them at their source - which is our perceiving of them.

Silent identification with non-being is the same as that which is described as sudden enlightenment.

The identified man takes part; the unidentified man looks on.

All is just seeing; there is no thing seen.

And there is no see-er other than the seeing of the seen.

There is only I, unconditioned, devoid of attribute or identity. A mere thought of 'me' is instantaneous bondage.

'I thought, for a second, that I had understood.'

'You do understand, but your conditioned objectivising bangs the door as soon as it opens.'

The only possible practise is total absence of practise, the absence of non-practice, since in

total absence of practice there is no practiser - and identity is no more.

Gone with its ego, the scourge of volition.

Mind as a concept, utterly absent,

Pure noumenality, none to conceive it,

Untrammelled and radiant, is all that we are.

As long as there is thinking as if by an objective appearance - there is a 'you,' and 'it' thinks 'it' is bound. As soon as such a thinking-process ceases there is no 'you' to think that it is bound. For no 'you' is present when mind is fasting. In a fasting mind no I-concept arises. And there is no inferential entity to assume that it is unfree.

....in all forms of advaita...the ultimate question is "Who am I?' there could never be an answer other than a repetition of the word 'Who?' - for that can supply the no-answer which is awakening to the understanding of why no answer could be.

Absence of an entity to be enlightened

Or not to be enlightened

Is the double negative, the double Absence,

Of Shen Hui and all the great Masters.

Sunya (void, emptiness) only means that nothing can be said about this to which it refers.

We should never forget:

What we are looking for is what is looking.

If we clearly apperceive the difference

Between direct apprehension in Whole-mind

And relative comprehension by reasoning

In mind divided into subject-and-object

All the apparent mysteries will disappear.

For that will be found to be the key

Which unlocks the doors of perception.

For you seeing is believing,

For me seeing is - just seeing.

I am the light that falls on ten-thousand

specks of dust so that each may shine.

I am what remains when the last thing, the ultimate object, is denied.

Disciples - Devotees - Idolaters

What are most of them doing?

Worshipping the tea-pot

Instead of drinking the tea!

Losing oneself in what is Here

Is finding that 'here' is what one is.

Destroy the 'ego,' hound it, beat it, snub it, tell it where it gets off? Great fun, no doubt,

but where is it? Must you not find it first? Isn't there a word about catching your goose

before you cook it?

The great difficulty here is that there isn't one.

It's important to understand that there is nothing to acquire, but only error to be exposed, because acquiring necessarily involves using, and so strengthening that spurious 'I' whose dissolution we require.

September 19, 2001

At 9/19/2001-01:34 PM Sandeep Chatterjee wrote:

><Realization >

> A collage from Wei-wu-Wei

>

>Interpretation of the ever-present understanding, universally available,

>with what appears

>as patience, consistence, and pertinacity, is attributable to what is

>known as wei wu wei,

>which is a Taoist symbol implying functioning which is non-volitional,

>spontaneous, ineluctable and, as such, totally impersonal.

>The whole Buddhist and Vedantic system (Advaita) depends on the

>non-existence of

>identity, so does the very idea of 'enlightenment' - which is

>reintegration in universality.

Wow! Beautiful! Thank You Sandeep.

Tell me something. It is very easy for me to go into the

silence/nothingness nowadays. However, who is it who observes the

'emptiness'? If 'I' also disappear than who will remember and note that

fact? How will I know that I had been there? Like in deep sleep for example?

[Damn! How do I get rid of these violet color..... :-) ]

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With Love,

Cyber Dervish

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September 19, 2001

Hiya Jan,

<SNIP>

Wow! Beautiful! Thank You Sandeep.Tell me something. It is very easy for me to go into the silence/nothingness nowadays.

Someone going into nothingness, is that nothingness?

However, who is it who observes the 'emptiness'? If 'I' also disappear than who will remember and note that fact? How will I know that I had been there? Like in deep sleep for example?

That's why "you" will never know.

And if 'you" know, maybe what's happening is that you are dropping some acid<LOL>

A conceptual dialogue....

Q: You use the words `aware' and `conscious'. Are they not the same?N: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep.

Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.- Nisargadatta

Cheers

Sandeep