SHACK 4073 WHERE IS EMPTINESS?

 

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Where did the solid ice cube go when it melted, it lost its form, where did the water go to when it evaporated, where did the rain fall when it fell, where did all the human forms go when they left the corpse, did holding on vainly to the form assist, it causes stress and anxiety, the tight grip to hold tight to that which inevitably must go.

SHACK 4017 QI GONG

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SHACK 4118 THE NATURE OF REALITY

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The nature of Reality. There is no actual reality, we manufacture and manifest reality because of the fear of not having reality, we are not really here and that we really exist.

So because of non existence we create existence in the sure knowledge we exist and are here, whatever you want here to be. Satisfied hmmm  not really.

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SHACK 4119 ZENICLE

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 I want to know I know. Why so? Because I want to know I exist, maybe you do not exist,  does it really matter?

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SHACK 4120 THE ILLUSION OF REALITY

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'Reality is mere an illusion albeit a very persistent one'>Einstein. I have read and met many a scientist and philosopher, some of note and recognised as celebrities, some chatting in cafes and some out of the way places and off grid characters and of course the many dramas and films, videos and articles on the nature of reality.

Some famous philosophers and scientists when they had an awakening to whom they really are after many years of the quest, searching deep into what they felt was and is reality and living with a shared consensus that in philosophy we are inculcated and so everything we are and learnt is mainly passed down inherited knowledge, beliefs and so on and when stripped of these through a realisation we are mainly a conditioned brain washed being with a few innovations and dared going beyond the so called norm and not really stepping outside the box, either fearing madness, insane attitudes and shunned or locked away in some asylum or realising the empty atom and the quantum stuff that when one tries to put a handle on it, it disappears into the void of the empty mind of the philosopher who realises that the mind is an illusion full of someone else's ideas, thoughts and  beliefs and can either of them live with the empty mind, in fact mind has gone and if one embraces and surrenders fully to this, one has found an awareness and joy that is non local and has no destiny or subtle substance to support it and seems to be of no description or have a no location, it is consciousness. 

One can realise this intellectually and be what I term intellectually enlightened, a sort of academic satori and although the realisation seems so profound and so real as to convince one this is it I am free and one with the all and all.  Dr Suzuki remarked 'Satori is to be with God before he said let there be light'. For many who have reached this understanding that there is no reality, or that reality is a concept arranged from the storehouse of experiences collected and drummed into humanity since thought began and reinforced by authority in order to rule and have their acclaimed position in society as to be the top banana so to speak and to go further the descriptions of the atom, particle and wave are mere concepts to hang one's hat on so to speak in order to give the mind some sort of reality and keep one safe from the reality of no reality and so stave off the event of the collapse of logic and materialism and realise the emptiness of no local reality and fall into the everlasting arms of a non local no definitive anything of a seamless nature which is infinite and eternal, has no borders or explanations and yet to the experiencer who also is seamless and nonlocal it is a feeling of connectiveness and unity of joy and compassion.

The struggle to surrender fully not by will, for will cannot do this and is an expression of human endeavour and so gets its inspiration from the accrued stored and of inculcated experiences based on one's chosen belief system, academic knowledge or just plain life style and graphics therein. So it never new, it may appear to be so and a few upgraded, configurations, a few cosmetic touches it is merely left over food reheated with a few spices and garnishes added. 

The hungry ghost, the phantom of the mind, seemingly so real creates the reality according to its inculcated storehouse and its strategies and creates this entity named the ego, the collective of life's brain washed conditioning and acts accordingly to the precepts not necessarily inherited as it were but made up of a scheming ploy to be top dog or just the opposite a lazy non conforming attitude and let life slip by and often resentful of others or many other manifestations of human behaviour. 

Then the crux; I know all of this and have sampled the seamless at times and yet there is a bit, a hard and fast stuck bit of the ego that will not let go and to some this awakening was a curse and I know of some who went to distractions such as alcohol, extreme sexual indulgence, went crazy and some that distracted themselves in extreme behavioural activities and one or two who committed suicide and many became depressed and psychotic. For me I wrestle still with the final jump and the thought of the illusion or reality has become a Koan and the paradoxical nature of the illusion of reality versus the most of humanity believing in the reality and the challenge to live in the world especially with the state of humanities moral compass, religions, wars, politics, powerful wealthy persons, multinational companies with no allegiance to country or origin just to make profit and live the so called good life and shunning from the idea that impermanence is the nature of the reality of the Universe and seeking eternal life as a robot with their 'brain and personality' down loaded and then be  a cyborg, or there is no no after life and might as well just do what is the best  for me and not mind the others after all the end is oblivion. So what I feel is that the Koan of the Illusion of Reality and in fact that is the deception, there is no reality and my ego rebels at this, all egos do not like to be deceived and will challenge the deceiver, the magician who pulled the rabbit out of the hat and told us it was real and like a child I thought it was and now I know it was and is not real I have the conundrum which I have solved and realise it is the Koan of seemingly reality as inherited inculcation versus there is no reality proved in science and philosophy and yet science and philosophy are mere concepts to HOLD reality in place and are just explanations which change overtime and they are indeed a moving phenomena with a Noble Prize to make sure we keep the illusion safe and sound and yet I feel uneasy about the reality because I have tasted the non reality and there is the 'stuck hard bit in the frying pan' that refuses to be completely empty and pristine.

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SHACK 4116 POLITICS

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 Do you understand politics? I confess I am bamboozled. For instance there are agreements and they are broken, the one that comes to mind are the two Minsk agreements that were supposed to stop this Ukraine and Russia war and somebody has altered them as from the original on sites like Wikipedia and taken out the main elements, I use to monitor these and do articles on many more, there were so many around the Covid debacle that I gave up. Doctors, professors sacked because they went against the narrative and brain washing, now coming out with freedom of speech gradually being restored.

The trust  certainly in the UK of politicians is almost zero and the debates in the parliament are like a children's party and TV and Radio programmes with discussions are hand picked and thy never get to the points raised and the experts squirming to answer and even heckled are not shamed or embarrassed.

Politically when women and children are slaughtered in great numbers so it is politically ignored when even the biased media point out the atrocities. So where has the moral compass gone, for instance in the UK many children have suffered during the Covid Lockdowns with increased mental health, so just think of those slaughtered and deprived in countries now at war or in new leaderships that take us back many years although promising reform and fresh air.

Is there a solution; I feel that many are aware of the problems but are either seduced by the media and easier take away meals with additives that are doping the minds and failing the bodies and just collapsing on a sofa and watching violent films or war dramas or porn further cause apathy and dullness. Then again in the UK some horrific murders by young males that are watching on the dark net are viewing videos on killing and weapons of torture and so on and it is becoming so elsewhere. 

In the UK a man raped his girlfriend, murdered her sister and mother, young boy murders three young girls and others injured in dance class, young man murdered his mother, sister and brother and was on the way to slaughter youngsters in a school and the USA school and college slaughters, in Germany car and vans ploughing into crowds in markets and so on, the war in Israel and Hamas. All over the world the crimes get more grizzly and gore and mindless psychotic with mental health at an all time low.

Some say this is a purging and cleansing, the wounds and boils of the past bursting and the puss is coming out like a lancing of a boil and the cancers and malignancies of past countless karma coming to the surface of the battened down ships hatches of rotting cargo needing to be cleansed and like one of the labours of Hercules;- for the fifth labour, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to clean up King Augeas' stables. Hercules knew this job would mean getting dirty and smelly, but sometimes ...It seems this is happening and pollution and floods, droughts with extreme suffering is upon the world and perhaps as the the sixth extinction is drawing nigh the signs are a wake up call if we heed it.

It needs an awakening by grass roots and not Netflix or social pungent media or corrupt multinational companies who have no allegiance other than to make money and harvest their own self power and dominance to somehow grow a social awareness and spread and share their wealth and could a great miracle come about if the mass population really want it.  

SHACK   aka    GEOFF

SHACK 4115 KOAN

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WHAT IS HERE WHEN THERE ISN'T A HERE

OR

MAYBE THERE IS A THERE?

SO

WHERE IS THERE THEN

SHACK   aka   GEOFF