who am I ?

"You" cannot get out of

or into

What IS.


So, how can "you"

BE

an independent entity?

what what?

When Nan-yueh visited his teacher

he was asked,

"what is it that has thus come?"


He could not respond,

and was plagued by the question

for years.


Finally it dawned on him,

"Even to say it is anything

doesn't hit the mark."

not two

There was (is) just THIS,

with no way of knowing

anymore

what THIS is.


---Jeff Foster

The Functioning of Totality

The belief that you

are the subject of any object

is mistaken;

it's a "false claim."


The quasi-subject

and quasi-object

"arise together."

Mind Only

"Your actions" are neither yours,

nor are they actions.

Noumenal Living by Wei Wu Wei

BEING (or living noumenally, subjectively) is not ceasing to objectivise (interpret)--- for that is the functional aspect of subject---but ceasing to objectivise oneself, and thereby ceasing to regard one's objects as independent entities, as other than an aspect of oneself as their subject.

That, of course, implies that one is profoundly aware that one is not at all as any conceptual object, even a 'being'.

That integral absence, both phenomenal and noumenal, is the necessary awareness of is-as-it-isness---commonly called Awakening.

interpretation

What does "separation" depend on? What makes perception "indirect"?

The answer, in a word, is interpretation.

Consider that a newborn also receives "sensory data" BUT has not yet learned how to interpret "what it signifies."

There is only "perceiving."

Freedom from suffering simply means not being identified anymore, which means not being separate anymore. We only suffer when we're identified, and we're only identified when we're separate.

When we perceive directly, there is no separation. There is only perceiving.


---Jon Bernie

no Wayne (or Fred) separate from the Whole

Q: Is Wayne, with a body-mind mechanism, aware that he is not the doer?

A: There is no longer a Wayne WITH a body-mind mechanism. There is only the body-mind mechanism with the name Wayne. There is no separate Wayne there to be aware that he (is or) is not the doer, or that the sense of personal doership is gone. The whole issue is gone. There is simply doing.


---Wayne Liquorman

'subject and object' is a game of "Let's pretend."

Our real nature

can never be

asserted or denied.


---Jean Klein

'Liberation'

What is the use of trying

to climb out of a hole

we have never been in?


---Wei Wu Wei

Source-Inconceivable by Wei Wu Wei

WE ARE UNABLE TO CONCEIVE ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT 'LAST', including time itself. Conception, that which is conceived, is in total subjection to the concept of duration.

From this it follows that the act of conceiving must be outside time and that conception itself, therefore, is temporal.

What we are as 'conceiving' is thereby seen to be inconceivable, and inconceivability can be said to be a definition of This-which-we-are.

This-Here-Now, which is I, is inconceivable because it is intemporal and non-finite. 'Conceiving' cannot conceive 'conceiving', therefore since whatever is conceivable cannot be what we are, what is inconceivable must necessarily be the inconceivable that cannot conceive itself.

Therefore our very inability to conceive what we are may be apprehended as a direct expression of what-we-are, and perhaps the only one we can know.

Concepts are merely the results, rendered permanent by language, of a previous process of comparison.---Sir W. Hamilton

Are you still bound

by concepts -

such as believing that

there is a world out there

with you in it?

forget about it

Never can you

make or lose contact with

What IS.

think about it

You don't perceive

what's happening.


"You" are part of "what's happening"

perceiving itself.

an absolutely transparent moment

What we think of

as the present

is really made of the past.


The present is

an absolutely transparent moment

that only great saints

ever see,

occasionally.


---W.S. Merwin

"Know-ing" undivided into knower and known

Where perfect knowledge is,

there is nothing

(dualistically) existent.


---Lankavatara Sutra

Noumenal Godhead has no separate bits.---Wei Wu Wei

How could "Totality" or "What IS"

be some thing

for some one

to refer to?


Who could stand

somewhere apart

even from

the smallest "part"?

release

"grasp-ING"

is

un-

graspable

no boundary

Discovering

that nothing is yours

is Wholeness.


---Jeff Foster

echoes of Ramana

Because 'I', or 'Whole-Mind' - IS "All-Pervading",

'I' does not move.

'I' has no where to go to.

no "where" to go

You stand at the edge
Ready to throw yourself in.

What a shock to discover

There is nowhere to go
And no one to throw.


---Wayne Liquorman (Ram Tzu)

objectivisation is the only obstacle

Phenomena are extended in 'space' and have duration in 'time',

without which they could not be perceived,

and without which there could be no perceiver:

both must 'last' in order that anything can be known at all.


Such is the essential characteristic of phenomenality,

whereas noumenality,

HAVING NO CHARACTERISTICS WHATEVER,

knows no such limitations.


---Wei Wu Wei

genetic inheritance + subsequent conditioning = the "programming" of the body-mind apparatus

Can you find a place,

independent of the programming,

to operate from?


---Wayne Liquorman

there is no PHENOMENAL way out

There's no place to stand

to remove yourself

from this conceptual existence.


---Wayne Liquorman