Eight of us on a sunny but cold morning. Viewed two video one about the theory that we live in a simulation. The other Susan Blackmore on no Self not even a self. Susan believes we live in a physical world and is reconciled that there can be no transcendent spiritual life.
Then suddenly they all left (see below)
Everything—absolutely
everything—happens all of a sudden.
Investigate into the
nature of your own experiences. Find out what is true, for you.
In truth, nothing
truly is, since all things are merely transitioning from nothing to
something, from here to there, between this and that, and back to
nothing.
The nature of all
things is spontaneous, inevitable, and impermanent; including every
thought, every emotion, every sensation, every perception, every
experience, every memory, and every moment.
All things are done
and undone, all of a sudden.
Your spontaneous
aware presence that is cognizing these very words is also
mysteriously happening, here and now. However, it alone is the only
unchanging aspect throughout your entire life. Every experience
registers within this field of unbroken awareness, as it alone is the
illuminating light behind all that becomes known to you. In fact,
"your" awareness is not separate from you; it IS
"you"—impersonally.
All that seems to be
happening, all of a sudden, is revealed to you—as an aspect of pure
awareness—within your unmoving, unchanging, infinite presence of
spontaneous knowing.
All of a sudden, a
thought appeared to you. All of a sudden, you were thirsty. All of a
sudden, you sneezed. All of a sudden, you got up and stretched. All
of a sudden, your arm was itchy. All of a sudden, there was a knock
on the door. All of a sudden, a gust of wind blew the gate open. All
of a sudden, the phone rang. All of a sudden, it started to rain. All
of a sudden, a new opportunity presented itself. All of a sudden, a
car came out of nowhere. All of a sudden, you found yourself
overreacting to an unexpected situation. All of a sudden, you felt
grumpy. All of a sudden, you found yourself smiling as you gazed out
the window. All of a sudden, you were talking with a stranger. All of
a sudden, you were forty-five years old. All of a sudden, you have a
bad back. All of a sudden, you no longer enjoy what you used to love.
All of a sudden, your childhood hero died. All of a sudden, the world
isn't how it used to seem.
No matter how
cautious or prepared you might be, nothing can ever prevent whatever
spontaneously happens all of a sudden. What is, is. You cannot argue
with what already is, so why bother? Allow, accept, embrace, and be
fully present with whatever is, here and now.
Hang on to nothing,
as nothing truly is. And this is true freedom—being free from the
mind's desire to control the uncontrollable.
To integrate this
understanding into our lives, you must inquire deeper into the
temporary nature of being. You must first see through life's illusion
before you can free yourself from its false drama. You must realize
that nothing is as it seems.
What does it mean,
"to be"? Does it not also mean, "to not be"?
Being and non-being are interdependent. Similarly, every moment
bleeds into the next, blurring the lines of what is, and what is not.
In other words, you can only know what is, by its relativity to what
is not. The two seemingly separate states are forever entangled. In
truth, the two—being and non-being—are one.
From nothing, comes
the appearance of something.
The appearance of
any thing's is-ness, however, is not what it seems. What is, is never
constant, nor permanent. What is, is nothing but a brief
appearance—an image arising within awareness.
Indeed, some things
do appear to last longer than others, which creates an impression of
permanence, consistency, stability, durability, and reliability, but
this remains as nothing but an illusion, thanks to the mind's
dualistic concept of space and time. Regardless, what is has no
foundation for permanence outside of the awareness that perceives it.
What is, cannot be
without your awareness to distinguish it from what isn't. Therefore,
the underlying essence of all that is, is what isn’t—and what
isn't, is nothing but the emptiness of unfettered consciousness.
What can we deduct
from this? Spontaneity is the river of life!
Embodying this
undeniable truth is to awaken from the dream of egoic delusion.
If you resist what
is inherently spontaneous (which is everything), you cause yourself
to suffer, which is why "letting go of attachments" is one
of the most important spiritual teachings there is. To cling to
anything is to suffer—regardless of whether it's your possessions,
your relationships, your sense of self, your career, your beliefs,
your thoughts, or even your emotions. To be truly free in life you
must liberate yourself from the illusion of how the world appears.
Rely only upon the
Self, pure Awareness. Any safety, comfort, or security that is
conceptualised outside of your Self—in the world of physical or
mental form—is a delusion. You, as you believe yourself to be, do
not exist. You are a Presence, for sure, but you are not the
personalized body or mind—this is a misperception created by the
mind's duality. There is nothing personal whatsoever, which means
there is nothing you need to protect or defend. You only need to stop
believing yourself to be something that you are not.
You are the totality
of every experience—not you, the person; you, the presence. All of
sudden, every experience happens, of which you are aware. You are
indivisible from any experience as every experience consists of the
very same thing as you—awareness. You and what you perceive are
one—Awareness—this is the non-duality of being. You are the calm
presence beneath all that appears, all of a sudden.
You are this
Awareness, here and now. Liberate yourself from believing yourself to
be an individual that is somehow separate from the world, from
others, and from every experience. No longer believe yourself to be
limited to the body and mind.
Become unbound.
Simplify. Abide in your natural inner stillness, the aware silence of
Self. Know yourself as Presence, as a field of infinite,
non-discriminating present-knowingness, through which all things come
and go, all of a sudden. Rejoice in the freeing realization that all
you once thought or believed is an illusion!
Abide only in the
truth—and you are That. You, this present-moment Presence of
Awareness, is True—nothing else. The entire cosmos arise within
you, as you.
You are Now and now
is all you.
You are the
emptiness in which all things come and go, rise and fall, appear and
disappear. You are nothing but That—the infinite space into which
the entire universe expands.
And this is the
final, ultimate understanding into which you must surrender all
discontent, anxiety, fear, stress, sadness, discomfort and suffering.
What once was, is no
more. In truth, what once was, never actually was. All that is, is
you.
You are not a thing;
you are nothing but Now. You are the spontaneous bliss of Being. You
are the effervescent flow of awareness, continually refreshed and
renewed.
You are, all of a
sudden, spontaneously, here and now—empty, aware, blissful, loving,
peaceful, compassionate, and calm—at one with the world, as the
world.
