Responding to an urge here…
I didn’t come with something to say, just the urge to tell the truth…
Right now. Only that.
That here. Now.
All you have to do is notice it.
Do that whenever you remember, then notice the next thing that arises in it,
then the next.
Every time you do that you build up your strength on the side of Truth.
And you grow deeper into Truth.
Forget “Enlightenment” ! It’s just a hoax in a way–in THE Way.
Just noticing the Presence of What Is Now.
That’s the Whole of the Way.
Tweedle Dee: So many folks identify with the idea of being a “seeker”. Yet, All That Is has never been lost. How can God be everywhere but HERE? All That Is has been here all along! We can miss that by our habitual seeking. Seeking Enlightenment fits right in with our habitual dissatisfaction. We have been brought up to constantly look for something better. NOW is not good enough. Perhaps we transfer that dissatisfaction to ourselves so that we think that WE are not good enough. Then we add Enlightenment to our list of things we are seeking in order to make our lives better.
And with that we miss the whole thing. First of all, we’re already talking about Enlightenment as though it were a thing that we can acquire and put on a shelf next to the other knick-knacks.
Tweedle Dum: Wait! We don’t acquire Enlightenment, we attain it!
Tweedle Dee: So Enlightenment is like a diploma, a PhD?
Tweedle Dum: Yes, one attains it after long years of spiritual discipline.
Tweedle Dee: What about the people who “get it” without any searching or studying at all?
Tweedle Dum: Umm…they must have studied in a past life.
Tweedle Dee: Which really means that they don’t know where it came from and neither do you.
Tweedle Dum: Well….
Tweedle Dee: What if I told you that there’s really nobody to “get enlightened”?
Tweedle Dum: Ridiculous! What about all the Buddhas, rishis, and roshis? They were enlightened, weren’t they?
Tweedle Dee: One of the best explanations I ever heard was by the Zen Buddhist Suzuki Roshi who said, “There are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.” If God/Consciousness is everywhere, then it must be right here where you think you are. There’s no room here for a person separate from That. That Art Thou! The illusion of a “person” is largely an accident of our limited sense perceptions. Close your eyes and tell me where the end or edge of “your” consciousness is?
Tweedle Dum: I can’t find an edge.
Tweedle Dee: Exactly. And if you can’t find an edge, how do you know where it is? All kinds of activity arise before your senses, and all that sense data presents itself to Consciousness. Thoughts and emotions also present themselves, but Consciousness is the Always Everywhere Present. Every Body Else is the same as That. Sense data, thoughts and emotions arise and pass away in the theater of Consciousness, and where did you say this Consciousness is?
Tweedle Dum: Everywhere, right?
Tweedle Dee: You could even say “Every Here”, couldn’t you, since everyone is having the same constant experience or consciousness of “I Am Here Now” with different stuff on the movie screen, right?
Tweedle Dum: I guess so.
Tweedle Dee: You seem a bit uncertain.
Tweedle Dum: Well, I’m clearly here. I mean I can move my arms and legs. I think thoughts…
Tweedle Dee: Are you sure? Where do these thoughts come from?
Tweedle Dum: From my mind, I guess.
Tweedle Dee: And this “mind”, what is that exactly?
Tweedle Dum: I don’t know. I can’t find it right now.
Tweedle Dee: Maybe “mind” is just another idea that arises. Speak from your direct, immediate experience. Just be quiet and listen inside.
Tweedle Dum: The thoughts seem to come out of nowhere.
Tweedle Dee: Now you’re seeing clearly. Usually we try to take credit for them and say, “I am thinking,” but the truth of our experience is that they just arise, do their little dance before Consciousness, and disappear, much like every other type of experience. So far we haven’t located any kind of Self apart from Universal, Omnipresent, Eternal Consciousness, have we?
Tweedle Dum: No. I can’t find one.
Tweedle Dee: So who is experiencing this Now?
Tweedle Dum: I don’t know. I don’t know anything anymore! You’ve got me so confused.
Tweedle Dee: Who’s experiencing this confusion?
Tweedle Dum: You see, there you go again!
Tweedle Dee: Halt! Who goes there?
Tweedle Dum: Jolly joker!
Tweedle Dee: Speak from your direct experience. Don’t tell me what’s going on, tell me who is experiencing what’s going on!
Tweedle Dum: I am! I am experiencing my experience.
Tweedle Dee: You almost convinced me. What’s the difference between “experiencing” and “experience”?
Tweedle Dum: I’m here experiencing and the experience is over there!
Tweedle Dee: Are you listening to yourself? How can there be experience apart from an experiencer? If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Is there a world outside our experience? How would we know except to experience the answer!?
Tweedle Dum: Aaarrgh! So many questions!
Tweedle Dee: The last four are all restatements of the same question? You could add to that the question, “Who am I?”, and you still wouldn’t be asking a fundamentally different question.
Tweedle Dum: I can’t take anymore!
Tweedle Dee: Maybe you’re trying to hold your Self together when there isn’t one. Just let go! “Self” is just another idea that arises and passes away. When you’re not paying attention to it, where is it? Yet YOU are still here continuously throughout, whether you’re thinking of your “self” or not.
Tweedle Dum: Can you summarize it all in one sentence before my head explodes?
Tweedle Dee: You: don’t need to seek for an answer: I AM THAT, AND YOU ARE THAT, AND WE ARE THAT, AND THAT IS THAT!
Tweedle Dum:
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