Misunderstanding All We See

We look and interpret, speculate and judge, and this affects the way we think and behave. It doesn’t matter in what part of the infinite universe a sentient being dwells, it survives by its likes and dislikes, by what attracts it and what repels it. This is what keeps us busy. What we do not recognise, we ignore, and that keeps us in ignorance. We are no different from any ‘alien’ which is just trying to survive, billions of light years away, in a multi-dimensional universe.

Misunderstanding all we see, we remain confused and suffer, believing in what we believe to be real without realising that everything – every idea – is only a temporary fixture which is constantly transforming, and therefore has no permanent reality. Our brains are too small to take this in, so we sit in our dark corner and hold on to our limited ideas, waiting for …?

We misunderstand all we see because we ignore that which sees – consciousness – while stupidly thinking that consciousness is the same as seeing, and that’s all. This is a tremendous misunderstanding, perpetuating ignorance.

We are not the seeing that judges; we are consciousness that sees. It is here where we can still misunderstand the essential nature of consciousness because we are so involved in judging.

It is only in meditation – and dropping the meditation – that consciousness is realised as pure emptiness, uncontaminated by thoughts and judgements of what it sees.

Our original state is pure consciousness beyond thoughts.
The mind cannot understand this, because it’s too small. 🙂

If we refuse to use Occam’s razor and see the simplest solution, and we refuse to meditate and see with an undistracted mind, we will remain in our dark corner, contemplating a roundabout.