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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---aka --- GEOFF
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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.
SHACK aka GEOFF
