Occam’s Razor To Find The Nature Of Reality

We may become dissatisfied with the material world – and the spiritual world – as both can become exaggerated, over-elaborated and formulaic. This attachment makes us proud and lazy at the same time, because of information-overload. Buddhism is not immune from this. 🙂

By using Occam’s razor, we can simplify our concerns.
Occam’s razor; the simplest explanation is preferable to one that is more complex.
Simple theories are easier to verify. Simple solutions are easier to execute.

When we look at all the views of life,
they have one thing in common – the seeing.
Seeing without prejudice, judgement and assumptions.
This is what it’s all about.

The eternal mistake we make is wanting to ‘know’ – without actually knowing the knowingness involved in knowing :-). Ignorance of the simple nature of reality makes us obstinate and negative.

This just-seeing is the clear nature of mind; pure consciousness. Nothing is simpler than that as it is emptiness, pure cognisant emptiness, full of empathetic compassion for those who cannot see.

The reality of the experience of seeing without comment is a shock when we realise the way we have been seeing all our life. Because we see through the senses and recognise appearances, we may assume that that is thinking; it’s not. It’s just pure observation, pure consciousness, which isn’t complicated at all. Unfortunately, when we linger too long on appearances, memory kicks in and we start thinking and day-dreaming.

Through testing the Buddha’s words, we now know the simple nature of material and spiritual reality – the gross and subtle laws.

It is this constant simple shock
that is the energy
to ascend the levels of realisation.

When we think we know, we grow lazy, stuck in that thought.
We become unstoppable by dropping what we think we know.