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
*a link – see a note on notes and links as well as notes and links below
the four stages of acceptance (J.B.S. Haldane)*
1) This is worthless nonsense
2) This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view
3) This is true, but quite unimportant
4) I always said so
Shunryu Suzuki: “I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing.” (!?)*
believing in nothing is believing in what is empty
of everything but the potential for anything
of everything but the potential for anything
enlightened being is seeing any being as inseparable from what is
… there can be no general rule. But for all, the gateway to reality, by whatever road one arrives at it, is the sense of ‘I am’
—Maurice Frydman: Nisarga Yoga (!?)
and – on a site superseded by this one – a post on love and letting be*
no one need do more than need be done to be
and let be, to dwell in choiceless awareness*
on the sense of ‘I am’ – and to see this as it is
and let be, to dwell in choiceless awareness*
on the sense of ‘I am’ – and to see this as it is
no one is as they are thought to be
nothing is as it is thought to be … unless it’s a story
what is thought of as you cannot exist
without what is thought of as not you
you are not either this or that
you are … both this and that,
the relative and the absolute
without what is thought of as not you
you are not either this or that
you are … both this and that,
the relative and the absolute
‘I am’ is the first thought. It’s a story.