Sorry, you're too late!
No, seriously, it takes time to perceive anything, it takes time to
think, so whatever we 'get' has already passed.
Yet we seem to be standing still, winessing this perpetual movement.
So are we standing still, or are we the movement, or both?
As long as there's a 'subject' that is looking, a dichotomy persists.
If the 'subject' identifies itself somehow with the movement (object),
how can there be awareness of movement?
Now we have a self to see the movement, but when the separate subject
surrenders itself (as being an object itself) to the total object as
being part and parcel, one and the same (an object)........... - no
longer any such thing as subject and object, no movement, no-thing.
Thought you might enjoy this from The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment:
"“Virtuous man, all illusory projections of sentient beings arise from
the wondrous mind of the Tathagata’s Complete Enlightenment, just like
flowers in the sky which come into existence from out of the sky. When
the illusory flower vanishes, the nature of the sky is not marred.
Likewise, the illusory mind of sentient beings relies on illusory
[cultivation] for its extinction. When all illusions are extinguished,
the enlightened mind remains unmoved. Speaking of enlightenment in
contrast to illusion is itself an illusion. To say that enlightenment
exists is to not have left illusion yet. [However], to say that
enlightenment does not exist is also no different. Therefore, the
extinction of illusion is called the unmoving [mind of enlightenment].
“Virtuous man, all bodhisattvas and sentient beings in the”Dharma
Ending Age" should separate [themselves] from all illusory projections
and deluded realms. [However], when one clings firmly to the mind that
separates [from all illusory projections and deluded realms], this
mind [should also be taken as] an illusion, and one should separate
oneself from it. Because this separation is an illusion, it should
also be separated. One should then be free from even this ‘separating
from the illusion of separation!’ When there remains nothing to be
seperated from, all illusions are eliminated. It is like rubbing two
pieces of wood together to obtain fire. When the fire ignites and the
wood completely burns, the ashes fly away and the smoke vanishes.
Using illusion to remedy illusion is just like this. Yet even though
illusions are exhausted, one does not enter annihilation.
“Virtuous man, to know illusion is to depart from it; there is no
[need to] contrive expedient means! To depart from illusion is to be
enlightened; there are no gradual steps!
.........interesting, - we usually think of 'separating' as leaving
alone or somehow discarding, which of course perpetuates the idea of
separation. When you 'think about it', the only way to make separation
go away is to *join* whatever appears separate and let it all be one.
"All the same shit", seems to be an appropriate description of both
the individual self and everything it perceives, as long as we view
the present set-up as unsatisfactory.
Neti, neti - not this, not this, may well be true in regard to the
self (and its apparently separate objects), but as long as it's there,
it IS THIS and nothing else, with no distinctions to be made. If any
witness of this totality remains, it's the otherwise empty Self.
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