Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Explanations

The explanation of Non-Duality must enter dualistic realms of language. It is inevitable. The best it can do is point to the inexplicable. We need language just like we need the mind to make the ultimate investigation.

The transcendence of the fixations with mind content is the aim of any true investigation, even if that is not fully appreciated at first. What answer could possibly come from the mind's content?

In a certain way, you already know the answer because you are the answer, moment by moment. It is actually one Moment of knowing.

The mind may make all kinds of objections about anything at all but the foundation of the mind is being -- is 'knowing'. You know that you ARE.

Can we even separate this space of knowing into any sort of twoness?

Could it be a boundless emptiness, which 'knows' all content without exception?

Could it be that it is this stillness, which 'knows' all movement without exception?

Contemplate this -- and you may see that you already know and do not need words.

Knowing is instant. Words are secondary.

In the realm of words and concepts, we appear to leave THIS immediate knowing and enter a realm of descriptions.

In this psychological 'journey' of mind, you can only 'arrive back' at the place you have never left, which of course is now.

This 'space of immediate knowing' has never left you.

It is, in fact, what you are.

Gilbert Schultz ~ Everything is Clear and Obvious: An Exploration of Conscious Presence