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Without seeing
searching_samsara
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in Meditation
Straight ahead
In front of your eyes
Without seeing
Without connection to words or deeds
Under your feet
Without feet
To obvious to be see when a seer is looking
Without seeing
In front of your eyes
Without seeing
Without connection to words or deeds
Under your feet
Without feet
To obvious to be see when a seer is looking
Without seeing
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Mean words Nothing more
No Seeing with 'I's'
Is seeing?
Perceive NOW.
Unfettered from this conceptual mind
The sun shines on my face
My children argue with each other.
For others they are useful tools.
I see what's in front of me-trees, a blue sky, my house.
What I don't see are the concepts of trees, a blue sky or my house.
Everything must interbe.
But let us only see the sky made of houses, the trees made of sky, and the houses made from the sun and not the conceptual parsing and packing of things into objects out there.
~Chuang Tzu
^highly recommend this writer if you like the tao te ching.... He's from very long time ago
Toodle pip.
Straight ahead without seeing = you dont need to 'see' it for it to be there, for it is always there whether you can see it or not! Its all around us, when you wake up, shower, brush teeth, make breakfast = all this, is 'it' - enlightenment - Tao - truth - reality !
"Without connection to words" = One of the problems in explaining the Tao or enlightenment is that we have to use words. Words are only symbols and dont give real understanding.
If you were blind could you understand color through just words? Can you describe music to someone using only words? Can you describe the emotion of love only using the symbols of words? Words are only effective at communicating experience if the experience is 'already' known.
"Too obvious to see when the seer is looking" = because its all just 'this' in front of you! And people dont like that or want to accept that!
Its right 'here' - what you are doing right now - thats it! ... But people really believe that its something 'magical and special' they rely on 'scriptures' (that were written by 'god knows who' - we dont know who wrote them. We only assume that the scriptures must be right, but its all just passed on words)
Enlightenment doesnt come with words! It just 'is' .... Here and now!
When you realize it, you'll laugh because its all so mundane and 'right now' !!!!!
The way to 'act' becomes common sense, the 5 precepts become 'laughable' because its all obvious..
The 8fold path becomes wrong, so you change things, add things, do this, do that!!
You create 'your' way! Which is the real way! (Which is what buddha might have done - but the problem was nothing was writtem until 'after his death' so alot of chinese whispers happened!!!