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Originally Posted by sentient
[But what is “inner space” for you?
- Is it an empty (of thought) head space?
- Is it an open heart? Breathing- chest area?
- Is it an empty head space with an open heart (chest area) together – and sensing one’s beingness there?
- Is is the feeling of openness and emptiness of your Central Channel?
- Is it every cell in the whole of your body as inner space?
Or what?
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For me, it would be none of those things, as all of that is thought.
Thought cannot find the thoughtless.
This thread starts out with the idea it cannot be taught.
Yet, we are still looking to be taught something.
I cannot be taught "it," because I am thought focused.
"It" is being not thought focused.
There is only one way to it.
To give up that which seeks it, which is wholly a delusional self build with thought.
There is nothing to seek, to get, to achieve, to become.
But yea few will ever get to this space.
Too much attachment to ego, to the delusional self.
One cannot let go of the quest.
Because the "one's" attention is wholly in thought.
It looks for freedom there when looking there is the source of bondage.
It creates an image and seeks it, that is how life is.
But we already are enlightened. There is nothing to do to experience it or get it.
We are already experiencing it.
Our attention, however, is fixed somewhere else.
It's like standing in the ocean looking at a tree on shore.
We perceive the tree because that's where our attention is.
We are looking at the tree while seeking to find the ocean we are standing in.
If you ask "How?" you are already lost. You are still looking at thought.
If you ask "Why?" you are already lost. You are still looking at thought.
If you ask "What?" you are already lost. You are still looking at thought.
There is only now and the unlimited potential of what can be experienced now. If any desire is here now, now is experienced through thought. Any conclusions, any one, means one is focusing the attention on thought and creating reality out of it. Things like....
But I am not experiencing enlightenment.....
This is not enlightenment....
Doing nothing is ignorant...
We must practice....
The sutta's are important..
Teachers are important...
This is wrong...
This is right...
I am right...
He or she is wrong...
That is all thought.
Can you be here now and drop everything in your mind?
So even "enlightenment" is dropped?
After all, enlightenment is only a thought.
It is a tree on the shore while you are standing in the ocean you seek.
Even "dropping" is a thought.
This is not difficult. Just be here now awake and aware.
But yea it seems difficult because we only know how to
experience with thought. What happens when we give up the selves that are based on thoughts?
Suddenly the difference between me and you is gone...
There is this empty quiet perfect space...
and individuals making noise in it...
making conflict in it...
making things to seek in it...
We are all the same, there is no higher or lower...
There is nothing more....
There is nothing else...
Just now as it is...
Without judgment, or conflict.
When selfless, one finds the self, one finds the ocean.
It's like this internal pressure is there in the mind...
It wants to become...
It exerts ideas, opinions, beliefs, thoughts.
There is only one solution...
Get off the treadmill...
One less "person" won't matter...
Be no one and nobody...
Seek nothing.
Stop judging yourself.
Stop judging now.
Stop judging others.
Let go of everything you have learned and know.
Be here now free, innocent, without any conditioning,
brand new, empty, re born empty and new in each moment,
Become yourself by losing yourself...
Become an individual by losing your individuality...
The tree may still be seen there on the shore....
So one must stay awake and alert...
And look away when one notices one is focused there again... selfless...and fully oneself.