Open Globality
We have come together to find out what we mean by truth, our real nature, globality. This inquiry calls for a certain quality of attention, an attention free from any expectation. It is really a state of not-knowing, where we are simply open. It should also be clear that what we are looking for, we already are. It is completely objectless. Truth cannot be known by the mind and requires a different kind of perceiving than the mind uses. It is not a functional perceiving which is in duality—"I perceive this"—but being the perceiving, where there is only perceiving without any perceiver or thing perceived. In other words, we are the perceiving.
All that can be obtained, perceived, or thought is an object, but we are the subject of all objects. So if we remain in a state of trying to achieve understanding, we will only find an object, and not the objectless truth. This object may be a subtle state, but what we are fundamentally is not a state. In trying to obtain ourselves, we go away from ourselves. When this is understood, our mind is automatically brought to a stop where all the energy used in projecting and attaining is no longer directed, and we find ourselves in non-directional openness, waiting without waiting. This is really the most profoundly relaxed state of the body and mind. We are simply open, open to the unknown. We can never go to it, because there is no one to go, and no where to go. We can never take it, we can only be taken by it.
We are accustomed to using the mind to understand, so we must go to the end of the mind, until it comes to the point of being completely exhausted. In other words, the mind must know its limits. This brings an absolutely relaxed state.
We can only know what we are not, we can never know what we are, because we are the knowing. See in the moment itself how this understanding acts on you: that you can never know it, never represent it; that you can only be it. Then there is a natural and inevitable giving up. It is a transformation of energy. Something happens in your body, in your brain cells, and a moment comes when you know that you are nothing. And you feel yourself in this nothingness. In this nothingness there is fullness.
We have come here together to explore and understand self-knowledge, our real nature. This inquiry asks for an open mind, free from all knowing and expectation. When the mind is free from knowledge and anticipation it is open to the unknown, available to the all-possible.
Let us be knowingly in this openness. It is felt as love.
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Writing: Open to the Unknown, by -Jean Klein
Art: Charnine
One to One
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Homage
to Great Bliss!~
Maitripa's Song of Mahamudra, The Dharma Fellowship
—Art: Vladimir Kush
Beautiful Words
NirvanaAll is abolished but the mute Alone.
The mind from thought released, the heart from grief,
Grow inexistent now beyond belief;
There is no I, no Nature, known-unknown.
The city, a shadow picture without tone,
Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief
Flow, a cinema's vacant shapes; like a reef
Foundering in shoreless gulfs the world is done.Only the illimitable Permanent
Is here. A Peace stupendous, featureless, still.
Replaces all, —what once was I, in It
A silent unnamed emptiness content
Either to fade in the Unknowable
Or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite.
—Aurobindo—Art by: Wivica Furstner
Sights & Sounds
Mysterious Ways
Alan Watts
3:33 min
Funny One
One Ringy-Dingy
Lily Tomlin: "Why is it when we talk to God, we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?"
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