Richard:
All of us do only think. There’s no real knowing. To see the unknown is a great task. Not seeing seems to be much easier than seeing. It takes a lot of courage to see, since our society always urges us to wear some extremely dark sunglasses.
seeingwhatis answering:
To not know is a great task. Or no task. But no task is impossible for an individual to have. Knowing is mind. Still there is knowing, which is a miracle. Pure reflection of seeing what is. Second to knowing there is thinking of knowing, which is belief in form of doubt. When you see you see and apart from that you just exist without belief. To just exist as one with all you have to vanish completely, and then lose your perception. Still there will be a process, but no memory. No one to enlighten directly from that no-state.
You know if you know. Otherwise you think.
My answer:
Richard
Of course there is no knowledge in thought, as thought is mere projection of the fearful mind.
Let´s put it like this: The Unknown sees you, and when you allow to be seen, you see the seeing…This can happen only when mind is peaceful and “un-moving”- like the stillness of the lake mirroing the pure sky.
You see, that is very hard to swallow this, but what we call “society” is our own resistance and fear to abandon illusion.
Society as such, can exist ONLY within our inward illusion, society is indeed a sum of illusions, mine and yours…Once we start letting go of and seeing illusion as illusion, we can feel horrendous loneliness…as what is left…? We have built our whole life on a terrible misunderstanding…It hurts to fully realize that, it feels like we are left with nothing.
That´s why most humans don´t dare leaving the false, as the false connects and binds them.. This is their sense of security, being false but together… To face this utter loneliness requires huge courage as you start questioning the collective deception. As you know, if you deprive people of illusion they will react fiercely, feeling threatened…and consider you being odd, crazy or whatever…Generally they don´t like the individuals who go against the current.
Not fearing solitude is the beginning of the death of illusion, and then only,
The Unknown can make itself “known” to us.
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I entered the subway. There were no vacant places, so I sat down next to a girl you couldn´t possibly ignore.
And yet, that´s what I did, knowing how arrogant and obnoxious good-looking women often are, I turned my back on her, writing what I had in mind for the moment, feeling at ease, managing to catch my idea.
Here is what I wrote:
The so-called modern mind is eternally occupied. An occupied mind is unspeakably mechanic and redundant, totally uncreative, blind, yes, impotent – nothing more or less.
This witless mind is always aroused, greedy and horny for pleasure,
but only on a mental level – passion and emotional fulfillment being to it like dawn to a vampire.
Any spontaneous, genuine and undaunted feeling is its greatest threat.
It doesn´t hear, it doesn´t see, it refuses to live.
To be continued
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Paul:
Julien, whatever you do, please continue!!! Losing Mirrors of Encounters would truly be a great loss!
This is one of my favorite blogs, without a doubt you would be severely missed if you decide to cease your blogosphere existence.
Me:
Actually, I was pondering of quitting Mirrors of Encounters, as I sometimes saw no further purpose with it.
I felt kind of lost, not feeling that I create enough impact neither within or without me, as to bring things to another level of dialogue and meaningful interaction.
But there have been other bloggers – like you now – answering me so warmly,
“dissuading” me from dropping this blog.
What I am saying basically is this, and these are not mere senseless words:
We are now a handful of people interacting with each other.
IF WE RELY ON AND HAVE STEADFAST CONFIDENCE IN THE POWER OF OUR TRUTH WITHIN,
WE CAN BRING THE CHANGE WE DREAM OF.
This is the very reason which makes me stay. I trust that we can create something together. This requires
great readiness to further inquire, undaunted openness and courage to examine ourselves thoroughly and impartially.
The more we heed, trust and manifest our dreams in honest dialogue and loving reciprocity, the more we heal ourselves and this world.
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Everything around feels so empty because everybody is obsessively looking for worth and meaning outside.
It is sort of peculiar to say this, but the reason why our present age feels so hollow is because modern man is hollow inside. He is always on the go – where to really?…- ever eschewing, ever procrastinating. As he feels frustrated and unhappy, life is always somewhere else. Everybody is busy to escape. Indeed, out of fear, cowardice and sloth, people refuse to grow – that is, to take the trouble to initiate the inner journey, to confront their inner essence.
So due to this sometimes seemingly irremediable inner poverty, invariably projecting themselves away from themselves in order to escape their inner hollowness, Self-loss and blatant worthlessness, most humans have lost contact with Life, with everything alive. As Oscar Wilde very well put it, they know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Most of the people today have lost the ability to recognize real worth, they kind of recognize only their inner absence, really, the monstrous stupidity we face everywhere is the outcome of this fear, escapism and refusal to go inward.
It is so flagrant, despite the incredible outer richness in the Western world, people have never been so hauntingly poor. You can witness this inner poverty in the ubiquitous greediness, ignorance, despair, sloth and stupidity. For sure, the more you flee yourself, the more univocal and dumb you become – like music today.
Meaning, beauty, order and Sense stem from being in touch with the inner world, with Self. Absence of Self is evident: no art, no music, no real expression, but infamous ugliness everywhere, disorder, noise…Modern man not only that is hollow but is very noisy.
He loves noise…NOISE IS THE SONG OF HIS NON IDENTITY. He is always noisy trying hardly to conceal his inner worthlessness and misfortune.
I do not intend to be cynical I am just diagnosing the age I am part of. All this being said I ask you all:
How can we tell people that they are dreaming an evil dream? That nobody is poor, that there is incredible riches inside their souls, that beauty, order and meaning are not just “philosophical stuff” but absolute reality.
HOW CAN WE TELL A POOR PERSON OF HIS RICHNESS WHEN HE STUBBORNLY SEES HIMSELF POOR?… My question is of the highest importance, it´s the key to the change we all need to undergo.
Do we have to keep projecting our worthlessness into total outer chaos? Do we have to see war, violence, destruction and calamity before WE DARE TO LOOK INSIDE?
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