Tao Thoughts
Monk to Master…
Q. Who am I?
Master…
A. There’s only one of us here!
The one you are is that which is.
As is the Reader.
Q. Where am I?
A. I will refer to the I you still think you are and not that I whom I just told you you were; as if you had grasped my last answer you would not have asked this.
Tell me, are your lungs part of you?
Monk. Of course.
Master. Then may I ask you what you would rather I took away from you; your lungs or all the air?
Monk. I cannot separate them, now I realise master!
Master. No, not yet, listen, you are right in that at least, yet further still; The whole universe; remove or change any element and you will cease to be able to ask me questions. While your lungs seem in fact to reach the extremes of our atmosphere, your true ‘I body’ is the entire universe and is ‘that which is’. That which is outside of all your reason, before space and time and breath and lungs and Where and who am I questions.
Q. Then what is the truth?
A. As that becomes clear you will laugh at how you could ever utter such a question. When it is known, then question and answer will be nothing but lines in a whimsical tale of the monk who realised not. As the truth becomes clear the question and answer are both clearly irrelevant, uninteresting asides to spontaneous living, and I’m going for sandwich.
How to reason time.
Monk. “There is only now, the past and present can only be thought about in the now and don’t exist by themselves.”
Master. “You see this how?”
Monk. “I see that past and present only have a relative, mentally constructed, reality built from the ‘Now’ and that is all there is…”
Master. “Quiet you fool. Your “Now” only has a ‘relative, mentally constructed, reality’ to your definition of past and present; so exists not for I. I know no past or present because I know no now, I am. Remember who “You” are? You referred to yourself as “I” but I see you were not speaking from the true ‘I perspective’, but from yours as a dumb ‘I the separate independent entity’; seeing not that there is, and can be, no separate entities; or that there is no such “independent thing” anywhere, anyhow; equally like your ideas of “past, future and now” do not exist! How can you waste your “time” to seek to ask who that unreal, “mentally constructed I,” is? Don’t forget that the I that you seek is unknown to you yet, don’t waste time on that you think that you know. That poor dumb I you are seeking to force into your own concepts of, what must be, a false idea of enlightenment also, is the wrong way down the wrong path, useful to you only as I will now tell you this... To see the real I you will have no interest in your ‘mental constructs’. All you have to do is; stop asking questions, ever again!, There is nothing but that which is, and it can be no other way and that is final.
Never mention your stupid ideas of “past and future, or Now”, again.
Bring me tea at 5. Leave me Now.”
and
Every sentient one, is of the one; the absolute of all, begins in us all. It appears different. (Think how you see other people as different).
Systems of badly arranged information cloud every sentients’ mind. The older people get the worse it gets. No adult has ever died. Everyone who has died, up to the point of writing this has died with the mind of a child or, very few, they saw the truth. The adult mind you think you have is that of a child – this is not good. It is not the fantasy ‘child mind’ you may dream of in a poetic sense but is what you would fully recognise as adult. Yet it is not adult, that mind is foolish and blind. Childish; not like a true child, but as an adult who missed the truth. You grew up but missed the point. A true adult has transparent vision of themselves as time-less, mind-less, and concept-less. A true adult, one you should all allow yourselves to become, is of an enlightened way.
Rules
a) You are essential. You exist in your role, because you are part of the whole;
And so exist forever.
b) Reality exists for precisely as long as you are human; as time is only made by you then;
So you were un-”born” for no “time” and will be “dead” for no “time”.
bii) Knowing you are witness to that entire process, and the reason for it, is mind-blowing.
But then as you are it, and it is you, so there is no mind to blow.
c) You are here to entertain yourself. Just remember who that is! Yourself is I, that which is, so when you are being nice to yourself don’t forget that that self is also me, this grass and that bird.
d) The middle of anything is you;
So things only exist by your knowing an opposite.
dii) Feelings too;
Knowing concepts such as ‘life and death’ bring on some of these ‘feelings’.
e) Knowing that ‘complete process’, which can have life and death as a part of its majesty, will discount those feelings as ‘relative only to your ego’ and ‘real’ only if you so want them. And you don’t.
f) Don’t take anything the wrong way. If it seems bad, you got it wrong. Arguments only exist by your seeing an opposite;
But then error in overusing that fact leads to so called fact.
Then arguments would exist only by your not seeing the opposite.
g) You witness all you set your mind to and process a slither of reality where you are the only one who can’t see you.
Until you realise ‘that which is seen’ is you.
gii) Nothing exists ‘of itself’ but only in relation to everything other than itself.
Yet they are one. Impossible, to correctly conceive, alone.
giii) There is no mind body split but only the resultant middle of that argument.
It has two answers, one correct.
That middle is an ego forced into existence from that and all other polarities.
Or the true reality behind that illusion:
That middle is an ecology of all manifestations, yet cares not for the labels.
h) No time passes.
Time is 100% occupied by you from birth to death and has no further relativity to exist by outside of that lifespan.
hii) Any old arguments in your head making ‘the universe’ seem old are invalid.
It is old relative only to your perception of time; and that is only valid for your lifespan. If you are 31, then the universe has existed for 31+ laps of our sun. When you die, no matter what your ‘age’ then you have lived for the exact age of the universe.
i) It takes you to see that ‘that which is other than you’ exists. It takes that which is other than you to allow for that.
The ‘one you are’ is ‘that which is’.
Inseparable, the same.
j) The eyes do not look, they absorb. The mind is responsible for looking; its failure here is the splitting of one of the sensory inputs into values, good and bad. These only exist due to the mind itself – here is the illusion.
k) The stiller the viewer, the more that is seen.
l) Why seek happiness?
When the quest only defines sadness!
Breathe deep, or sit,
for; ‘this is It!’
m) The greatness of forming time and space from a sequence of 2D images we extract from the ‘eternal moment’ is that it is and can only be the gateway to bewilderment, rapture and laughter - at It/you.
Due to ‘It’ being, in its purest sense, ‘One and All’ – and what can see or experience that? ‘It’ reincarnates as both environment-suitable-for and Experiencing-organism-of.
You/It die with every death, are born with every birth, consume yourself, and depend entirely on each other for the ‘experience of experiencing’.
Should you go with part one of the ego trap, (That middle is an ego forced into existence from that and all other polarities. – mentioned earlier) then you will suffer a polarised existence; you will ‘experience’ due to fallacies of division – probably not tested by you but taught to the ego.
Should you come from beneath the ego, from the outside/inside of the ‘ecology of your life’ then you should feel at one only with that which is you/It, or truly, It – so then see subsequently, the complete picture; that you cause It, including that tiny spot where the ego used to sit claiming ‘it had you covered(!)’ over that big divide(!) of ‘you vs the world(!)’.
mii) At the time of a natural thought there is often a good answer or a spontaneous action with no interference. The mind, however, can monitor the nervous system and memories of previous monitoring. This ‘feedback loop’ gets you; thinking, in trouble, analysing; pulling the past and future fallacies into, and thus vastly cluttering, the otherwise pleasantly fun, but not seen that way at the time, eternal-timeless-moment.
That is: ‘The greatness of forming time and space from a sequence of 2D images we extract from the ‘eternal moment’ is that it is and can only be the gateway to bewilderment, rapture and laughter - at It/you.’
n) Death is like one of those ‘timeless sleeps’ where you feel great afterwards but it could have been a microsecond between falling to sleep and waking. No time would be seen to pass.
It’s actually a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ that death would be a drawn out affair ‘until the end of time itself’. The wolf is that fallacy and derives from the ‘life’ side of the equation having that wolf dressed as a cute sheep, as the vivid illusion, ‘time’; so leading to you perceiving false concepts of death as relative to that ‘time illusion’, which at its worst, can seem to drag.
But time doesn’t drag (it sits where it belongs in the world of concept) when you are you at the time of natural thought.
Seemingly ‘ no thought’ at the time, yet all gets done; only seen as thought when the feedback loop reports pleasure at re-experiencing something it liked before.
Don’t go running off with that false pleasure the feedback loop (ego) is offering though. Instead, work towards stillness of mind where the moment is uncluttered, even by time passing, and those ‘no thought’ times will reign.
o) Was the best thing, at the best time, the most excellent fun time, just the greatest part of the most wonderful great thing that ever happened to you… planned?
No!
Shut-up then!
Philosophy
Life: There is no one sentence to completely explain it. By the second sentence, you’re fucked.
Politics: As soon as absolutely anything becomes “Them and Us”, not “You and I”, peace can only deteriorate.
Philosophy: When you settle on a label, you loose your suppleness. You stiffen up and wait for the world to consume you.
The answer moves. All is dynamic, including the answer. All is interdependent, mutually arising.
Awakening: If your path relies on books, you would pass an exam in it. Only a quiet, unquestioning mind has it.
The state and the answer are simultaneous. Lose one, lose both.
weird ending
Gradually more complex – gradually less
The most advanced alien life, say a dolphin, lion, garden shrub; all is actually as well advanced as every other. Only the human, feeling advanced with its tools* is in folly due to the wish to explain itself, where every other is just.
The organism, of which you are, changes. When it loses complexity and reduces to one, it has nothing to do but re-gain complexity.
*The ‘advanced’ things in our life are just tools** to explain, what to ever other being, just is.
** computers, rulers, miles, minutes. Self, ego, god.
Ha ha ha!
