Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

Why not look

...without trying to reach any conclusions, and see what happens? Why not look so intensely that the looker disappears until only looking continues? The mind can never make sense of the truth, but that does not mean that the truth cannot be realized. Realization does not occur through the mind, nor through a person. Realization occurs when truth discovers what it IS. When the Buddha said, "In all the universe I am the only one," he was referring to something unimaginable. Jesus, Al Hallaj, and innumerable other sages have said, "I am the truth." What were they pointing to?

In the Gospel of Thomas Jesus said, "The kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth and men do not see it." People do not see it because they imagine that they are subjects looking at objects. When the subject disappears, objects also disappear. When the illusion of the subject is seen through, what remains? Why not take a look?