I like that word – delicate. Dangerous is also apt, if there is movement toward what we think it should be.

The danger is in reaching for the ‘idea’ of freedom, thinking it is in any way real. A guru may tell us it is all bliss, all love, all this or that, and all we can do is imagine what that apparent state is. Then we begin our search by looking for the state we have imagined, which is not the actual thing.

Such a dangerously subtle trick.

If only first class flights were available to everyone.

Let mind by mind
Let thought be thought
Let ideas be ideas
Let dreams be dreams
Let memory be memory
Let wanting be wanting
Then you can let you be you

People may describe the silence of the mind and dissolving of self, but these are effects or experiences, not techniques. They tell you what they saw as it’s so hard to describe what they became.

If only I could have that one thought that would end all thought.

If only I could correct the idea that I need to correct anything.

If only I could awaken from the dream of needing to awaken.

If only I could remember that there is nothing to remember.

If only my wanting not to want would bear fruit.

If only I could dissolve into the permanence of being…………….

We sit with our greed, for example, but we never sit in order to change the greed into non-greed,or some other silly-ness like that.

In order to desire to change, we must have an idea of what we hope to change into. And this is huge stumbling block for many, as this is still the image in operation. It is a projection of what we hope to become.

But we do not sit in order to become; we sit in order to see. Not what we want to see, and not to get the “right” answer, whatever the hell that might be, but simply to see.

We sit to see, and not to change.

This particular post is written for the doer, the act-er; a person that believes they can somehow control or wrangle the truth. An image living within an image.

I think we mean to say the same thing, Davidya, with different words. Truth may be strong, as you have said. It is also impotent, and without power. It may seem strong to one that believes they can somehow know it, or otherwise use it to gain their greatest happiness. It is the source of the infinite enigma, and the doer thinks and ponders and builds it up into an image of what they hope it will be, and this image-breeding-image process destroys truth, but only as far as the person seeking it.

Of course, we can never touch it in that way. It has nothing to do with what we might want or hope for it to be.

So maybe it is good to say, the image destroys the “truth” within the image.

Whether there is any truth in an image is the next question.

“An image can override…” This is the mechanics of maya, the illusion or mask. Last night in an after-movie discussion, I was surprised by the large, complex and strange worldview one of the participants held. Us vs Them. His truth was out there (laughs)

Your closing is perfect. It speaks to the mind’s desire to ‘know truth’. Yet liberation requires liberation even from truth. (laughs)