This is about 'who am I' again in
another angle. Before it was mentioned that we are made of atoms and
atoms are 99.99% space or empty, and that the small percentage left is mainly
indefinable so what is it that recognizes appearances of form so called solid matter
and yet we know at fundamental levels there is no such thing as solid---it
appears to be many pieces of nothing gathered together to make something.
So those who examine the atom are
examining themselves and since one is the subject and object of the
observation there can never be a definitive conclusion, it will just be make
believe for ever and what ever the observer, the awareness which is the observed,
the consciousness which is the witness to its own creation creates through its
belief system then it will be so and unpicking it and disbelieving one's own
beliefs is merely a deep change of mind. So we become the creator and created
by and with our minds---this makes us the Creator. Holds on you say I am not
God; perhaps we are God's in the making?
Studying ancient Sanskrit there is a word
'vikalpa' which is the equivalent to intellect which means to undo, divide,
sever, break apart and that is what the intellect, which is a part of the mind,
a splinter part, does, its sees in a jig saw puzzle the parts, and in another
word from Sanskrit there is a root word 'ma' meaning the illusions which is now
commonly known as Maya and comes to the English as matter, and so the
ancients knew that form was an illusion and in some way so are atoms.
It is the intellect which divides up
and looks at the parts and makes these parts, these divisions appear as
separate and therefore solid bits that fits and make up the puzzle whereas
another view in wholeness sees the complete picture and perceives its essence.
Here my Sensei and Sifu came to show me
the following and the difference between Western and Eastern thought; We
look at an animal or anything we see its texture, its movement and it color, its
smell and we know this from our past experiences which hold the emotions and
feelings in a box called ego memory and somehow that feeling and memory can
'hold or pause' the real life of the plant or animal and so on which has now moved
on, Life has moved the experiences on to a film a video of constant change
whilst our memories may halt the video and remember what that first
experience was and color the now of the experience.
Then if consciousness is who we really are
and we an awareness which is a witness consciousness, conscious of itself as
itself, then could we really know consciousness, who would do the knowing if we
are the knowing? Can a subject be the object of its own knowing?
'Alan Watts quote ---Can a sword cut itself, can an eye see itself'?'.
Please as Sensei / Sifu would say 'don't be a clever smart ass and say
yes the eye can see itself in a mirror, for if you say this you have not got
the essence, you are in the past and not moved on, in fact you are a dumb
critter'.
Some other
interesting things between Western and Eastern ways of observation; when I was
in Forensic training at the Met Police College for a while before moving to a
college up north I had a clash with an Instructor; a person was shot with a
crossbow arrow and questions were asked about ‘who did it, where did it come
from, what was the motive, did anyone see it and so on, this is fine
Forensically. Say this was not a
Forensic situation then the first priority would be to get the arrow out
safely, attend the victim and ask questions later, so it was a question of
priorities and the intellect does play a part here, the instructor thought the
questions were more important to find the perpetrator and I felt the persons
need was the priority. I was coming from
a different angle and not thinking forensically but from compassion and need.
We were both right in our own way. However attending the person is the first need in Forensics and if they are deceased then the evidence is crucial, the trick is to preserve life and yet retains evidence, so the mind of logic is the priority here.
So where are
we now?; It seems that when we abide in our true essence which I feel is
consciousness we view things as they are when Life has moved the situation on
and we are in the moment, when we are in ego intellect we see things
conditioned by the net of conditioning and the view no matter how we feel we
are unbiased, it is tainted and colored by the experience of the past, be it film,
books or first seen.
Perhaps we
could say when we see the now- ness of Life we see it pristine through
childlike eyes, we see it for the first time and it is as it is without spices
and flavors added to it.
SHACK
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