Inspirational Perspectives, Part 3

This article offers various perspectives on Consciousness, Ultimate Truth, The Source, The Absolute, God, whatever you may choose to call it. There is a longer introduction to what that refers to, and what the title of these articles refers to, in Inspirational Perspectives, Part 1. I definitely suggest that you read Part 1 before you start reading this one.

Here is the truth that the mind cannot grasp; there is consciousness, but nothing that is conscious.

Even saying that consciousness is conscious is misleading, because that already introduces the dualistic split; that there is something, some kind of entity, that possesses the phenomenon called consciousness.

There is no such thing as matter.
There is only experiencing.

We overlook the seeing for the seen.

With the seen comes the seer.
But the seeing is overlooked.

There is no such thing as consciousness. THIS is conscious. THIS is experiencing ITSELF.

Conceptualisation of the experience leads to objectification, which is how everything “becomes” what it appears to be.

THIS is subjective to ITSELF, yet everything experienced is an object.

The term “consciousness’ is an attempt to objectify that which can never be an object.

And so is the term “I”.

As soon as you objectify “awareness”, you are on the wrong track to know what that word points to.

For conversation, words are needed. For contemplation, words are obstacles.

Awareness is purely subjective. It can’t be separated from the subjective.

If there were a subject, it would simply be awareness. But then that would also require “subject” to be objectified, which is contradictory.

As awareness, i.e. subject, i.e. “I”, can’t be objectified in any meaningful/sensible way, we can say that there is no such thing as awareness/subject/”I”; it is not a thing of any kind, because it can’t be an object.

It is nothing; it is what is left when all ‘somethings’ are removed. It is not even nothing.

This – the world around you and your experience of being (in) it – is the answer.

It feels unsatisfying, only because the question has been lost; “who/what am I?”

This question is never asked by anyone. It naturally appears with the moment of “I am” appearance.

This, is what the answer looks like there, in your perspective. In other perspectives it looks different.

The Universe is the totality of all perspectives.

I…but without even one word, one letter, to represent it.

Absolute subjectivity, without any trace of objectification. Not as a concept, therefore, nor experience, even of being.

All experience – “starting” with I am – is reflection of that absolute subjectivity.

This wordless subjectivity is everywhere. Yet, appears in objectified form as the infinite Universe. In every point of the Universe there is absolute subjectivity. Or rather, the Universe, seen from any perspective within itself, is seen from the absolute subjective, as itself reflected and thus appearing as “other” in relation to the objectified “self” resulting from identification/objectification.

Does the Universe need liberating? Surely not! What could it possibly be liberated from?!

Perhaps parts of the Universe need liberating? But no, there are no parts in the Universe. The Universe is one seamless whole.

Only perception and conceptualisation give the impression of parts and entities. Expand the range of the senses, and pause conceptualisation, and no parts are found.

Nor is the Universe, for that matter.

What remains is what is. And its idea of itself is absent; i.e. not even “I” is present, only absolutely subjective awareness. With no object.

Being and Awareness are the same.

These are two words, that typically are understood as two different things, two different concepts.

But actually, they are two words that point to one and the same phenomenon; aware being.

To refer to what All-That-Is is up to, I think we need a new word;
Let’s call it “intraflection.”

Imagination is creation.

Imagination is the principle behind all that exists.

Imagination takes place in Consciousness, and is not separate from Consciousness, as Consciousness is nothing other than imagination.

Imagination is the Principle that is Consciousness where all that is occurs.

This is I. This I am. I imagine!

I am Infinity, appearing as finite.

I am Nothing, appearing as everything.

At the root of this experience, of every experience, there is peace.

No need for seeking a different experience.

At the root of all movement – which generates phenomenal appearance – there is stillness.

This peace and stillness can only be known by being it.

No need for seeking it, as it is already what and where you are.

At the root, as the root.

Nothing; nothing at all, not even nothing. Absence, even of absence.

No time, no space. Yet time and space show up never-always within-without, in/as the manifest Universe(s). Like a dream.

The word “I”, in its most profound meaning, does not refer to the individual or anything personal.

The word “I” refers to a Universal subjective; the experiencer of all experience.

The word “I” refers to that which remains when all references have been abandoned, when all identifications have been dismissed.

The word “I” stands for nothing identifiable, the absolute subject which lacks all objectivity, and hence is Nothing.

The All-There-Is is an experience. An experience experiencing itself.

Experiencing is all there is, no separate experiencer required.

Here, in this mode of the experiencing, the experience is what appears as “you”, a “you” surrounded by a Universe.

In this experience it seems that you are separate from the Universe, as the experiencer of it.

But you are not an entity independent or autonomous from the Universe around you.

You are but experience; Experience experiencing itself.

All there is, is experience. Nothing exists “outside of” experience. Other than as potential – potential experience – without limit or quality or attribute.

Pure Nothing, void even of nothingness.

It is all Imagination! All of it!

Nothing outside of it, nothing before it, nothing after it.

No exceptions. Not even imagination itself. Imagination itself is also imagination.

Nothing imagining. All being imagined, but not by anything.

It is all imagination. All of it. Everything.

Nothing is and has always been.

“It” never began and will never end.

How could it? It is Nothing!

And yet aware!

Notice that you are conscious, that there is awareness. It may seem as if “I am conscious”, that awareness is attributed to an “I”. But is it really? Check carefully.

Is the attribution part of the experience of being conscious, or is it habitually being added as a construct, by the ordering/organising mind?

When you are aware of being aware, there is no sense of being someone who is aware.

There is only being aware.

Energy is self-aware, it is aware of itself.

The whole Universe consists of energy.

Manifestation is self-aware.

It springs out of its non-self-aware state; Absolute Nothing.

Absolute Nothing is the potential for everything, unavoidably.

Absolute Nothing cannot other than be potential for everything.

Because of its absolute-ness, Absolute Nothing is devoid of everything, including itself.

Time and space are tools for mapping experience, that’s all.

The world of time and space is a map.

Reality does not happen in/on the map.

Reality is as accessible (at least) as the map. It is the experience without description. It can’t be described, because any description is just another map.

Can it be reached?

No, and yes, because you are already there. It is what you are.

Each moment, one after the other, the Universe flows through a “point” called “me.”

All the impressions, sensations, that make up the experience called the Universe, take place as experiencing only. All of them.

The “person” having the experience is an idea, a construct that came about early in life.

The sense of incompleteness, which is the root of all seeking, comes from the actual experience that something is missing. Because, yes, the “person” is missing.

Yet, the reality is that the “person” has always been missing, because it never existed, except as an idea. It isn’t missing any more than a bolgaxmacoque is missing.

Nothing is missing. Each moment the experience is complete. No experiencer is required.

There is no such thing as awareness.

There is no such thing as unconditioned awareness.

There is no such thing as conditioned awareness.

How does one turn into the other?

How does one spring out of the other?

How does nothing turn into or spring out of nothing?

There is nothing to understand.

If you haven’t already visited, perhaps also visit Inspirational Perspectives, part 2

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