Remember? I asked you, a couple of posts back, "what comes with personal attachment?" You recall? Did you "think on it"?
Personal attachment isn't natural, for sure it's normal, but don't confuse the two. What is natural? Being or presence certainly is, in fact they're one and the same - they're two words that attempt to describe that indescribable essence within each of us.
What is the highest truth? Hm, that word truth is maybe not one that sits well here, however I'll use it, but with a licence to decant it at any time! The highest truth is . . . nothing. And that essence, which we can all recognise within us, is that very nothingness unfolding as this.
This is being, this is presence - but it isn't my presence, or your presence, no - presence is not personal - presence simply is.
Personality is the normal condition of Man, but presence is Man's nature (and by Man I mean man and woman (let us not be too pedantic here (not that I ever would be (ahem)))).
Man, when born is naturally present, who'd have thought it? At birth there is just the immediateness of this, or what is. Life is immediate because the baby is simply being what is, without any interference. Then one day the baby, now a young child, recognises itself as an individual - usually because the adults and other children around it are already possessed by individuality - and within the child a personality begins to take shape.
With time here in existence the child grows into adulthood, going through puberty which is where the personality completely rapes the unfolding being - and by the time the child becomes an adult the possession is complete. The adult believes it is an individual person - is convinced it is the personality - is possessed by something quite alien to its true nature as being/presence.
Being/presence is always - present (how could it be otherwise?), but personality becomes the norm, and one often mistakes it as being natural; the truth is - it isn't - although there is nothing wrong about any of this . . .
What is, is what is - even the rape of being by the personality; we can all recognise the truth when described as above. We may run away from it, yes, but to deny it? Also nothing is right or wrong about this, and it isn't good or bad - only the personality would judge it so. All that is happening is that nothingness (for want of a better description) is playing the game of life. Nothing is playing at being something - it has taken on form and is experiencing the duality of individuality - and here you are playing the game.
Nothing can be done by the individual/personality to change any of this - why?
The personality is the add on, it sits on top of Man's true nature, which is being/presence. It is the personality that begins to dissipate once this message is heard often enough. Sometimes, at some point, an individual may crumble completely to reveal the reality it once knew at birth - a return to being or presence.
What comes with personal attachment? Ah, well now, only the person, the individual, can be attached to anything. When an individual becomes attached to anyone, or anything else for that matter (such as a particular sport), they engage in the pain game. Attachment involves swinging between polarities such as likes and dislikes, positivity and negativity etc. It appears to be a little known fact that you can't have one without the other; polarities work in pairs, so those individuals seeking happiness (for example) will also discover unhappiness in abundance - why? I've just answered that one . . .
Being simply is, you can't come to know it - you are already this, it is reality; not your reality, you have none. Knock, knock . . .
Personal attachment isn't natural, for sure it's normal, but don't confuse the two. What is natural? Being or presence certainly is, in fact they're one and the same - they're two words that attempt to describe that indescribable essence within each of us.
What is the highest truth? Hm, that word truth is maybe not one that sits well here, however I'll use it, but with a licence to decant it at any time! The highest truth is . . . nothing. And that essence, which we can all recognise within us, is that very nothingness unfolding as this.
This is being, this is presence - but it isn't my presence, or your presence, no - presence is not personal - presence simply is.
Personality is the normal condition of Man, but presence is Man's nature (and by Man I mean man and woman (let us not be too pedantic here (not that I ever would be (ahem)))).
Man, when born is naturally present, who'd have thought it? At birth there is just the immediateness of this, or what is. Life is immediate because the baby is simply being what is, without any interference. Then one day the baby, now a young child, recognises itself as an individual - usually because the adults and other children around it are already possessed by individuality - and within the child a personality begins to take shape.
With time here in existence the child grows into adulthood, going through puberty which is where the personality completely rapes the unfolding being - and by the time the child becomes an adult the possession is complete. The adult believes it is an individual person - is convinced it is the personality - is possessed by something quite alien to its true nature as being/presence.
Being/presence is always - present (how could it be otherwise?), but personality becomes the norm, and one often mistakes it as being natural; the truth is - it isn't - although there is nothing wrong about any of this . . .
What is, is what is - even the rape of being by the personality; we can all recognise the truth when described as above. We may run away from it, yes, but to deny it? Also nothing is right or wrong about this, and it isn't good or bad - only the personality would judge it so. All that is happening is that nothingness (for want of a better description) is playing the game of life. Nothing is playing at being something - it has taken on form and is experiencing the duality of individuality - and here you are playing the game.
Nothing can be done by the individual/personality to change any of this - why?
The personality is the add on, it sits on top of Man's true nature, which is being/presence. It is the personality that begins to dissipate once this message is heard often enough. Sometimes, at some point, an individual may crumble completely to reveal the reality it once knew at birth - a return to being or presence.
What comes with personal attachment? Ah, well now, only the person, the individual, can be attached to anything. When an individual becomes attached to anyone, or anything else for that matter (such as a particular sport), they engage in the pain game. Attachment involves swinging between polarities such as likes and dislikes, positivity and negativity etc. It appears to be a little known fact that you can't have one without the other; polarities work in pairs, so those individuals seeking happiness (for example) will also discover unhappiness in abundance - why? I've just answered that one . . .
Being simply is, you can't come to know it - you are already this, it is reality; not your reality, you have none. Knock, knock . . .
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