REALITY, IN FACT.
The direct recognition of facts as non-personal is a total life-changer in that one lives in fidelity to reality, not in the mind’s conditioned intention, but now, in real attention.
REALITY IS NOT WHAT WE THOUGHT
All thoughts gain their power from our believing or not believing them. Of course, that power is given without awareness, from the totally conditioned unconsciousness we learned to think is ‘me’ and which operates – like a hand inside a glove – producing at least 85 percent of our daily, repeated reactions ie ‘experiences’.
Fortunately, it’s easy to see our minds’ deceptively meaningful feints and forays. Step out to step in.
Simply sit and quietly, totally openly, watch whatever seems to be happening now, as a spectator. Pay attention to the circus of thought; how certain thoughts ignite feelings and make the heart actually race with their invocation. Now, withdraw belief – cease to believe – just for a few moments, and not only thoughts/feelings whither and fade away unsupported, but also we may see that a direct, label-less, unfiltered, and pure experiencing emerges.
This resting in inner stillness yields a certain completeness and sufficiency, an unlimited wonder and richness in simple, direct being. A direct knowing arises that’s founded on the recognition of a fidelity to reality that limited personal thoughts ie, ‘opinions,’ can only think they know. We’re tuned to the facts, here and now. To facts – free of personal desires and personal fears. And we find that truth which concepts can only describe, measure, and re-present – however elegantly or inelegantly – with symbols and words.
NO BELIEFS, NO BELIEVER.
In sum, viewed from awareness, no belief means no believer. That recognition dawns, and there’s an end to believing. A living in and as, reality. With the demise of believing comes the demise of personal meaning. One no longer needs it, having ceded all will and direction to that unknowing – that unfettered force of spirit called universal love, which one cannot, and need not, control. Thoughts and feelings come and go freely on the mind stage, making their entrances and exits in a welcoming, lovingly curious awareness. We lose the need to believe in outside authority and find the truth of our inner, natural well-being, above and beyond the mind-made ‘experience’ we formerly believed was our whole ‘reality.’
In gently being aware, we watch how the mind continues – as it must – to live in Storyville. We wake up from that dream and find we have simply lost interest in its constant, daily drama; that what we are is not a story, not a belief. We move out of Storyville and into what we are: peace, love, beauty. Yes, and joy. We’re intensely, intimately absorbed not in meaning but in miracle, not in fantasy but in fact. In reality. In love. There’s the wonder!
