Photo by Takuin Minamoto
Wanting to become, hides the true essence of being.
One sees the apparent result; the ecstasy, the pure emptiness of liberation; and wants it completely. But can you know it before it comes? Can you have it when nothing can take it?
What can you do?
This natural expression of the organism is seen as something to get, something to attain. But there is nothing here to have, and no one can give it to you.
When an image is believed into existence and built into a system to be followed, there is the illusion of something.
Do you really want to be free? What will you do with your freedom? Use it to improve your station? Use it to further your authority? Have you ever asked?
Can liberation be used? Can it be had?
I hear your frustration, but there is no frustration. I see your pain, but there is no pain. You scream, “This pain is real!” but you are a liar.
You are not lying to me. You are only lying to yourself.
I have the image of someone being fooled in the back of my mind. It could have been someone from the past; someone in possession of this body. But I cannot be sure.
This image is the darting movement from the corner of my eye. I turn to look, but nothing is really there.
Nothing was ever there.
Life ruled by the image is a life without sight. And all the playful beauties of liberation will forever dance beyond your eyes.
Wanting to become, destroys what is.
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Love how you describe ’someone from the past’. Sometimes, I struggle to remember how it “was”. And then, I see someone in the throws of drama and I can say ah - there it is. It’s like trying to remember how it was to be 4 years old.
“Can liberation be used?” Indeed. When all the drivers of the person fall away, who is there to use? What is there to drive doing or having? The adaptation is the most curious part as all the rules of the past are gone. One by one the pillars of our truth crumble. And we are left with? What is real. Peace. Happiness almost beyond what can be.
“Wanting to become, destroys what is.” hmmm - there is a paradox in that. What you say is true. Yet, without wanting who would turn to look? Who would open to being?
It’s like we have to want, then release, want then release. The want turns our attention but prevents us from seeing. The release allows us to see.
Davidya,
Exactly. Who would turn or who would open? When one looks - really looks - there are openings everywhere. But who is going to see them? It is the who that resists, cowers, and rests behind what it believes. What can it do, other than go to where it is already comfortable?
It may very well be true what you say; want then release, want then release. But it is interesting to see the many places where we hide. That very movement, although it may seem complete, might be as fragmented as everything else. Haha.
It seems this is just the thing; inquiry exposes belief. It reveals the greatest lessons. But it is difficult for human beings to do, as belief is so tightly held, it is not seen as the aggressor (if that is the right word to use).