WORDS – HINTS AND WHISPERS OF REALITY.
Ah, words and images! Oh, how they convey, portray, and betray, yes? In truth, words are always and only about words. They’re freighted with trainloads of heavy, accumulated meanings, implications, intonations, indications, preferences and denials…they’re loaded and gain their ‘weight’ not so much from their meaning as from belief in that meaning. So it may be useful to look more deeply at how words and images influence and indeed, define, control and limit most of us from living fully in a natural freedom and harmony that’s in fidelity with reality. The key here may lie in seeing below the surface of words like, say, ‘Self-knowing.’ What is that?
In Self-knowing, all words and images – sacred and profane – are entirely seen and understood as being merely pointers, symbols of something ‘else’.
That something else is That which is actually seeing these words; that which is aware of all that’s happening in body/brain consciousness here/now – all the words and feelings, things, events and ‘experiences’ that come and go like the weather, in the sun of nonpersonal awareness. That which is choicelessly watching these words now is wordless, imageless, awareness.
Indeed, reality is not a concept, not a set of ideals however seemingly revolutionary; not a personal perspective. What IS defies all comprehension or description, all cerebral ‘knowing’. In aware living, nothing is known; all is simply, directly apprehended and recognized as Self. This includes conformity and nonconformity; there’s no duality in reality, so to speak; there’s just One thing going on here and now, and like truth, it is not to be known in any way that involves a knower. We are, and this is, totally unknown, yes?
In fine, ultimately, it’s up to each of us to lovingly see from our own understanding and authority, the real actions and not just the words – of supposed ‘teachers’, peers and influencers. To first and foremost see for our Self, from directly knowing our Self nature which is unalloyed, unchanged, love, beauty, peace and joy…way beyond changing, conditioned, seemingly ‘personal’, body/brain thoughts and feelings.
SELF-KNOWING LEADS TO SELF-UNKNOWING, SO TO SPEAK.
Anyone, apparently wise or otherwise, who tells us he or she knows does not know. At bottom, and with respect, he doesn’t understand there’s no knower, no knowing, and nothing that can be truly known in the flux and flow of continuous, changeful experiencing. There is some essence we may call love, peace, beauty, joy and delight, but it’s up to each of us to bypass all the wordsmithing, all that’s personal, that’s conceptual, that seemingly separates, that creates conflicts.. then, and only then, mind and heart is empty, and one may be graced to discover that one is that which all words and images merely represent.
These words are an invitation to be one’s own authority, to draw back one’s own curtains and let in a little light. We don’t know the truth; we are the truth. In loving what IS here/now, as it presents – absent any filtered ‘knowing’ of it – one is beautifully alive, free and happy simply to be. To love and wonder.
Still, it’s up to each of us to bypass all the wordsmithing, all that’s personal, that’s conceptual, that seemingly separates, that creates conflicts.. then, and only then, mind and heart is empty. One is happy, free and alive simply to be, to not know; to love. 🙂
