Beyond ideas, believed.
FACT FACING IS LOVE, LOVING.
“My mind is so dulled by the weight of the past, it can’t see. It says, ‘Let me look,’ but as I look, I’m off, and the whole process begins. So just look, watch. Don’t try to do this, that and ten different things; just watch, move with it, and then you will come to the extraordinary realisation that you are never looking at a fact, but at ideas. When you realise that, your mind is already sharp, already sensitive, and therefore already out of time.”
~ J Krishnamurti
~ As ‘my’ story goes, I devoted two decades of study and world travel related to exploring the humanities, arts, ancient, mystical, and traditional religions, and specifically philosophical approaches to somehow, someway, someday, really come to know “The Truth.” A truth which I deeply felt someone high and wise could give me, to have and to hold. All these spiritual forms were, in their own way, openers to new understandings, and deeply appreciated. In 2006, that story – the ‘me’, the self – happened to be totally abandoned; the observer and the observed dissappeared, and there was a sudden easeful and graceful awakening of reality to itself, apparently midwifed by Adyashanti. There was the startling non-personal realization that ‘I am not the body’ and ‘I am not the mind.’ That totally changes everything, yes. 🙂
The mind is now seen as what it is, how it functions, in fact: it’s a binary, conditioned, personalizing algorithmic-like, sorter and sifter of likes/don’t likes; a habituated labeler and obsesive collector of bits of bling; of passing intellectual pursuits, pleasantries, and forged ‘understandings’ stored in memory that heavily veils one’s direct, factual recognition of reality as it is – unknown, uncertain, and unpredictable. And really beautiful for all that!
PEACE, IN FACT.
All in all, reality is one massive mystery, and I am – we are – That. That I am is certain; what I am is unknown, and a daily discovery and delight. There’s no knowing, there being no knower. That which we really are – this active, living presence in Being beauty, peace, joy and love, loving – is a non-personal, wonderful movement way beyond beliefs of conflicted mind’s grandest ideas and ideals about life. Love, aka, awareness, continues to dredge, deepen and widen presence in being itself. In seeing and acting in fidelity to reality, to what is, in fact. Love, and be well. 🙂
