you either think you know the truth
or see that it’s beyond the mind*
relative truth is what is thought to be
and depends on what else is thought
absolute truth is simply what is
and depends on nothing else*
or see that it’s beyond the mind*
relative truth is what is thought to be
and depends on what else is thought
absolute truth is simply what is
and depends on nothing else*
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absolute truth is eternal, timeless, imperishable – and so is being;
in some sense they “are ultimately two names for the same thing” (!gb)
in some sense they “are ultimately two names for the same thing” (!gb)
screenshot from a result of that search on Google Books
*a link – see a note on notes and links
Jacob Needleman (!? !* !*)*
NGC 4605, located around 16 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear)*
nothing doesn’t change, and nothing depends on nothing
believing in nothing is believing in what is empty of everything but the potential for anything
Shunryu Suzuki: “I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing.”
A foreword by Aldous Huxley to The First and Last Freedom, a 1954 book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, ends with this:
Choiceless self-awareness will bring us to the creative Reality which underlies all our destructive make-believes, to the tranquil wisdom which is always there, in spite of ignorance, in spite of the knowledge which is merely ignorance in another form. Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, to the uncovering of the self from moment to moment. A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom “shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.”*
*a link – see a note on notes and links
relative truth and absolute truth are two sides of the same coin*
to see the two truths as what is and what is thought to be
is to believe in nothing as the absolute truth of what is
to see ‘I am’ as the first thought, the source of all others,
is to believe in being as the relative truth of what is
nothing depends on nothing, and believing in being is no exception
nothing doesn’t change
be aware of being with choiceless awareness – not wanting the sense of ‘I am’
to be or not to be other than it is – simply see it as nothing other than what is
Judgment and comparison commit us irrevocably to duality. Only choiceless awareness can lead to nonduality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love. … Through this choiceless awareness, as it penetrates the successive layers of the ego and its associated subconscious, will come love and understanding, but of another order than that with which we are ordinarily familiar. This choiceless awareness – at every moment and in all the circumstances of life – is the only effective meditation.
—Aldous Huxley*
enlightened being is believing in nothing and delighting in being,
in feeling, and in doing well no more than need be done to be and let be,
to live and let live with nonjudgmental, choiceless awareness
in boundless love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
enlightened being is seeing deep and dreamless sleep
as consciousness returning to its origin, the eternal void:
empty of everything but the potential for anything
“… things are not as they are seen, nor are they otherwise.” —Lankavatara Sutra*
things are not as they seem; and yet they are – in the mind
people are not as they seem; and yet they are – in the mind
nothing is only as it is thought to be
no one is only as they are thought to be
nothing depends on nothing, and nothing doesn’t change
no one depends on no one, and no one doesn’t change
nothing is other than what is
no one is
nothing depends on nothing
and nothing doesn’t change
no being is a being
apart from the whole
except in the mind
and there is no mind
apart from the whole
being well is being whole, being aware of being,
and doing no more than need be done
to be and let be
may all be well
notes and links
consider the lilies …
consider any being:
no being need do more
than need be done
to be and let be
no one need do more
than need be done
to live and let live
with love …
love is being delighted
with the present,
just as it is,
flawed as it may seem
love is being delighted
with all things,
not as they are seen,
nor otherwise
love is being delighted
with being as a whole,
as direct experience,
as mystery and wonder
consider being as a whole:
nothing depends on nothing,
and nothing doesn’t change
only in the mind is anyone or anything an entity,
and to imagine otherwise is to be deluded,
is to be where we are today
whatever may be thought,
nothing is, other than the whole,
and imagining otherwise is delusion
nothing is other than the whole
no one is
if all that is thought of as you
cannot exist as it is without
all that is thought of as not you,
how are you not that too?
no one exists apart from
the interdependent web
of all existence
nothing exists apart from
the interdependent web
of all existence
consider any being
consider the lilies …
notes and links
relative truth is what is thought to be
and depends on what else is thought
absolute truth is simply what is
and depends on nothing else
to see the relative as relative is to see the absolute;
to see the absolute is to see the relative as relative
relative truth and absolute truth are two sides of the same coin
notes and links
living is wasted on getting and spending
waste no moment, want nothing, be well
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in the paradigm shift following Galileo, our culture let go of the medieval picture of the solar system, but “surprisingly little hung on the matter,” says Daniel Quinn in The New Renaissance (archived) – a passionate call for another paradigm shift, one where we let go of the medieval view of humanity that we cling to in spite of the threat to so many species, including our own
after reading The New Renaissance – the prepared text of a 2002 talk that Daniel Quinn called a concise expression of the basic message of all his books – please take a look at the related notes and links under the horizontal rule below
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live and let live
with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity,
wasting not a moment of being aware of being
and wanting nothing, not even this
be well
there is no higher purpose
than being in the here and now
with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
no one need do more
than need be done to be and let be,
but people do – it’s the culture we live in
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