...you will continue to search for answers in thought. However, the truth lies elsewhere, and you cannot think your way to THAT.
I didn't say that you SHOULD shift attention away from thought to what can be seen or heard; I said that IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE TRUTH, that is one of the fastest ways to do so. I am saying that if you stay focused on what is here and now through direct sensory perception, the mind's questions will spontaneously get answered (will be seen through as misconceptions).
I have no idea what YOU will do as a result of reading these words. That's the mystery.
Niz once said to a student, "you didn't get into this mess overnight." He meant that what happens on the way from childhood to adulthood happens so gradually and so insidiously that no one is aware of what is happening.
As a little child, you interacted with the world directly through your senses. As an adult, you now interact with imaginary thoughts ABOUT the world. There is an enormous difference between these two types of interactions. We allude to that difference when we say things like, "actions speak louder than words," or "the map is not the territory," or "take time to smell the roses."
The mountain climber who loses herself in "the zone" does so because attention becomes solely focused upon what is happening (what can be seen, heard, felt, etc). Time, space, selfhood, and all questions cease, and there is just climb, climb, climb. The "10,000 things" and separateness returns only when attention shifts back to thoughts.
Are thoughts "less than?" Who would think such a thing? Who would need to compare anything? All I'm doing is pointing.
(Walks away from the computer and out the door. Walk, walk, walk....... look, look, look.........listen, listen, listen! Only THIS!)
I didn't say that you SHOULD shift attention away from thought to what can be seen or heard; I said that IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE TRUTH, that is one of the fastest ways to do so. I am saying that if you stay focused on what is here and now through direct sensory perception, the mind's questions will spontaneously get answered (will be seen through as misconceptions).
I have no idea what YOU will do as a result of reading these words. That's the mystery.
Niz once said to a student, "you didn't get into this mess overnight." He meant that what happens on the way from childhood to adulthood happens so gradually and so insidiously that no one is aware of what is happening.
As a little child, you interacted with the world directly through your senses. As an adult, you now interact with imaginary thoughts ABOUT the world. There is an enormous difference between these two types of interactions. We allude to that difference when we say things like, "actions speak louder than words," or "the map is not the territory," or "take time to smell the roses."
The mountain climber who loses herself in "the zone" does so because attention becomes solely focused upon what is happening (what can be seen, heard, felt, etc). Time, space, selfhood, and all questions cease, and there is just climb, climb, climb. The "10,000 things" and separateness returns only when attention shifts back to thoughts.
Are thoughts "less than?" Who would think such a thing? Who would need to compare anything? All I'm doing is pointing.
(Walks away from the computer and out the door. Walk, walk, walk....... look, look, look.........listen, listen, listen! Only THIS!)
