The last thing we want to do
The world with its 8 billion others is the spontaneous projection of our Self-Less Presence.
This kind of language meant nothing to me.
And simultaneously, there was this immense attraction, a very strong need to understand.
What I’ve found over my decade of searching is that there is no point in trying to understand the words — although we will read right over that statement and try anyway.
I tried by reading ALL the nondual books for many years.
But the only helpful option available is to STOP reading or listening to words and find out in direct, wordless experience what this means.
You STOP caring what others say about this and start wanting to figure it out for yourself. You STOP reading the textbook and instead conduct the experiments it describes.
Words are only useful as a reminder — a hopefully helpful description of what it is like to know this. Words are also useful for instructions on HOW to find out for yourself.
But finding out is done through direct inquiry.
LOOK. DON’T THINK.
Look as though you’ve never looked before (because you haven’t).
It’s the last thing we want to do but it must be done.
“Finding out is done through direct inquiry.
LOOK. DON’T THINK.
Look as though you’ve never looked before (because you haven’t).
It’s the last thing we want to do but it must be done.”
YOU talking to me?
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Yes, every square inch of public space is now filled up with words and numbers. There are signs and advertisements all over the place. Look at TV. Constant words and numbers flash in front of ones face, either pictured or said. We spend nearly every moment of our lives bombarded by words and numbers. Such is the obsession with the conceptual mind, which is the obsession of modern people. They cannot stand a space without words and numbers. When someone becomes silent, someone else feels obliged to say something. If there is an empty public space, somebody wants to stick a sign there to give you information. The obsession with the conceptual mind is an attempt to stressfully manipulate people constantly with words and numbers. The desire to manipulate is part of the conceptual addiction of modern people, and it is associated with and reinforces stress and dissociation.
The first thing that many people do when waking up from sleep in the morning is to turn on the radio or TV. They then keep it on all day long.