12-16-2007, 11:01 AM
There are certain things that just have to be seen if you want to escape the closed loop of thinking as you see and seeing as you think.
1. Thought and thinker are one and the same. Don't fool yourself by thinking that you choose or control thought in any way. Anything that you can call "you" is composed of thoughts, internal dialogue, knowledge. You have to see this or you are ignorant and struggling in ignorance. No insult or judgement - just a fact.
2. The thinker and thought create a virtual world that parallels the real world but can never, ever touch it. "You" can only experience your knowledge, which acts as a mediator between yourself and the world; a translator, an organizer, an interpreter. But this is false from the beginning. As stated above, the knower and its knowledge are one, but it creates the false sense of knower as subject and knowledge as object - a false division that must be seen through.
All knowledge is dead; life is alive.
3. There is nothing "you" can do. Anything you attempt, any decision you make, any effort to control, alter or change, will come from this dead knowledge and will miss the mark. Therefore, the closest you can come to doing anything is to completely give up your reliance on knowledge and the mind as knower - in other words, the only thing you can do is do nothing, cause anything that comes to mind will not be it, will still be dead knowledge. You have to see that we are not after knowledge, but we are after life. And in order to live, the knower and thinker must die. Anything you've ever read or been told, no matter how wise and enlightened, will be of no value in an encounter with the actual present - the nagual. There is no way to prepare, there is no instigation of the 'event', it is not an 'experience'. This will make no sense to the mind.
1. Thought and thinker are one and the same. Don't fool yourself by thinking that you choose or control thought in any way. Anything that you can call "you" is composed of thoughts, internal dialogue, knowledge. You have to see this or you are ignorant and struggling in ignorance. No insult or judgement - just a fact.
2. The thinker and thought create a virtual world that parallels the real world but can never, ever touch it. "You" can only experience your knowledge, which acts as a mediator between yourself and the world; a translator, an organizer, an interpreter. But this is false from the beginning. As stated above, the knower and its knowledge are one, but it creates the false sense of knower as subject and knowledge as object - a false division that must be seen through.
All knowledge is dead; life is alive.
3. There is nothing "you" can do. Anything you attempt, any decision you make, any effort to control, alter or change, will come from this dead knowledge and will miss the mark. Therefore, the closest you can come to doing anything is to completely give up your reliance on knowledge and the mind as knower - in other words, the only thing you can do is do nothing, cause anything that comes to mind will not be it, will still be dead knowledge. You have to see that we are not after knowledge, but we are after life. And in order to live, the knower and thinker must die. Anything you've ever read or been told, no matter how wise and enlightened, will be of no value in an encounter with the actual present - the nagual. There is no way to prepare, there is no instigation of the 'event', it is not an 'experience'. This will make no sense to the mind.