All thoughts lead away from herenow. In the absence of thought even "herenow" vanishes. In the absence of thought there is no self or other; there is only THIS manifesting "just like this." In the Gospel of Thomas Jesus says, "Be as a passerby." This is equivalent to E.'s climbing out of the river onto the riverbank and watching. It is noticing or attending "what is."
Anyone who wants to find the Infinite needs only to attend what is herenow. Absolutely nothing is hidden. Fingers typing on a keyboard, the hum of a fan, the smell of coffee, and whatever else is sensed in this moment is All. Looking around non-conceptually, everything (every thing) imaginable vanishes--stories, selfhood, ego, problems, time, space, thingness, truth, beauty, attainment, enlightement--every thing disappears and only THIS remains. THIS has no name or form. THIS is not even "THIS." We can call THIS "Tao," or "Source," or "the Infinite," or "THIS," but these words represent the only thing that cannot be represented.
THIS is alive, intelligent, and conscious, and It can imagine. It can imagine Itself to be any thing, and it does so. It imagines that it is beautiful or ugly, old or young, successful or not-successful, enlightened or not-enlightened. Whatever It imagines is imaginary. Not one thing It imagines is the truth because It, alone, is the truth, and the truth is unimaginable.
Anyone who wants to discover the unimaginable must quit imagining. It is that simple. That's all there is to it. Nothing else is required. If imagination ceases, the known universe, along with the knower of the known universe, vanishes. That which remains in the absence of imagination, the knower, and the known, is THIS.
After THIS is discovered for what it is, it will no longer matter whether imagination is exercised or not. Thereafter, products of imagination will no longer be confused with THIS.
Anyone who wants to find the Infinite needs only to attend what is herenow. Absolutely nothing is hidden. Fingers typing on a keyboard, the hum of a fan, the smell of coffee, and whatever else is sensed in this moment is All. Looking around non-conceptually, everything (every thing) imaginable vanishes--stories, selfhood, ego, problems, time, space, thingness, truth, beauty, attainment, enlightement--every thing disappears and only THIS remains. THIS has no name or form. THIS is not even "THIS." We can call THIS "Tao," or "Source," or "the Infinite," or "THIS," but these words represent the only thing that cannot be represented.
THIS is alive, intelligent, and conscious, and It can imagine. It can imagine Itself to be any thing, and it does so. It imagines that it is beautiful or ugly, old or young, successful or not-successful, enlightened or not-enlightened. Whatever It imagines is imaginary. Not one thing It imagines is the truth because It, alone, is the truth, and the truth is unimaginable.
Anyone who wants to discover the unimaginable must quit imagining. It is that simple. That's all there is to it. Nothing else is required. If imagination ceases, the known universe, along with the knower of the known universe, vanishes. That which remains in the absence of imagination, the knower, and the known, is THIS.
After THIS is discovered for what it is, it will no longer matter whether imagination is exercised or not. Thereafter, products of imagination will no longer be confused with THIS.
