Part IV

There is no separation between your mind and your whole world of experience. Looking out through those eyes your mind is out here. Your brain is in there. But your mind, your consciousness, your world of experience is out here. As consciousness looks out through those eyes and listens through those ears its listening to itself, you’re looking at your mind your hearing your mind your sensing your own mind through your body, your smelling and tasting your own mind. Your own mind is 3 dimensional space and time.  Your brain is inside that head but your mind is 3 dimensional space and time. Your mind is inside and outside its everywhere consciousness is everywhere. Awareness that’s looking through the eyes or pure consciousness is like a light shining through those eyes and its seeing what you believe you know everywhere you look and everything you here, everything you think, you will experience as real and true as you believe you know. You’re looking out into your mind. You’re looking at your mind right now. I’m looking at my mind. I’m experiencing you as I believe I know you. I have no other way to experience you. Are you objectively good or evil, Right or wrong? Do you have any independent existence apart from my own mind?  I have no way to experience you apart from what I believe I know about you, so I’m not experiencing you; my mind is experiencing my own knowledge and beliefs about you. Therefore you are my own mind you are not separate from my own mind. My mind is you.

Self Knowledge; The Light of the tiger Part III

Even this present moment of experience is a projection of the past there’s no way for you to experience anything here and now, your only experiencing the past. You will never experience here now, you will only experience there then. This is the nature of mind so even to try to stay in the present moment is an impossibility because you’re projecting the past. There is no time, we are timeless. The realization is the reality which is timeless spaceless, formless. What can be experienced that is timeless spaceless and formless?  That’s the fundamental truth that you are no thing that can be experienced and yet you are this aware presence that’s here now. It’s not in the world of relative knowledge, its absolute Knowledge. Right here right now there is beingness, consciousness, or awareness that I am.  I have no way to experience myself because I’m one.  If I’m to experience myself then there is something aware of an experience of myself, so I can’t be the experience.   I’m the witnessing, the watching, the consciousness, or awareness but I can’t experience this witnessing presence.  I only know it exists because of the experience of an object, but I am not the object. I’m not an object of experience, all objects of experience are projections of mind that are in time, space, and form which are not the fundamental truth.  I have no way to experience myself , I have no way to directly know myself. This is what this freedom is, its freedom from the world of experience. Your whole world of experience is a projection of what you believe you know and there is no separation from the world of experience and mind. So you would no longer blame anyone for your problems because you have projected the whole world of experience. As a child we didn’t know this and we believed that the world of experience was separate from us. We blamed others for our thoughts feelings and our experiences, but when we grow up and realize that all experience is a projection of what my mind believes it knows ,we can question what we believe we know. I am the creator; my own mind is the creator of all my experiences.Whatever I’m experiencing is a projection of what this mind believes it knows. Now that this mind realizes this, it has the power to question its experience. When the mind questions what it believes it knows it has the power for its beliefs to change.

Self Knowledge: The Light of the Tiger part two (a talk givin by Sri Sri Chimpanzee)

 Self-realization is not an experience. You are prior to experience right here right now and you have no way to know yourself, I have no way to know I’ve discovered myself. The way it’s known is through negation because everything that’s known or experienced is not true, not true, not true, and not true. What’s left after everything has been negated? There’s awareness here now. You can ask, is this awareness that’s here now good or evil? Is it right or wrong? Is it happy or sad? Is it me or you? Is it us or them? Is it up or down? None of the above because it’s not in duality, it’s not an experience, it can’t be known.  It can be put in negative terms, like formless, timeless, spaceless. It can be put in terms like beyond the mind, beyond time, beyond space or prior to mind. It negates all relative experience and that’s Self-realization. It is radical and it’s the ultimate simplicity because it’s prior to the mind.

Confusion, difficulty and challenges come once were in the mind. Easy or difficult is in the mind. The ultimate simplicity is prior to the mind. Is there consciousness here now? Yes I am.

I could listen to that over a hundred times and didn’t realize that this awareness that’s here now is what’s being pointed out. I would put it in terms of yes the truth of what I am is this awareness and I’ll get it someday; someday it will sink in. When you realize it’s looking out through those eyes and listening through those ears, it applies to you personally.  This Awareness here now is the fundamental truth.

Self Knowledge: The Light of the Tiger Part 1 (a talk givin by Sri Sri Chimpanzee)

This is what needs to be realized, if you don’t get this you’re wasting your time. This is radical. If you do get this then you get everything, this is all or none.  Freedom is when the tiger can attack you and pounce on you but you know it’s not real. You know it’s all a projected world of mind And this is fundamental. If you get this you get everything if you don’t get this you get nothing. Self-knowledge is radical on one hand and it’s the ultimate simplicity on the other. A common theme that you’ll hear is the importance of understanding  the nature of your experience and the reason he’s saying make no effort over and over again is because whatever  effort your making  is in your world of experience which is your projected world of knowledge and belief.  It’s your imaginary world. Whatever effort you’re making is in your imaginary projected world of experience.  So a common theme in the various traditions is understanding the nature of experience, understanding the nature of mind, and that what we’re seeking is prior to the mind or beyond the mind or not in the world of experience.  That’s really the one point that if you get you get everything else. It doesn’t matter if you make an effort or make no effort because you know it’s in the world of experience and what’s being pointed out is what’s aware of the world of experience right here right now. It can’t be experienced its right here right now so your search is done.   You’re free of it, that’s it and once you discern between the world of experience which is everything that you experience and that which is aware right here right now, this aware presence that’s always with you as you, then you can no longer be fooled by the mind no matter what its saying. Freedom is not in the mind its prior to the mind it’s that which is aware of the projected world of mind.  It’s not freedom to have a nice mind or to have a nice story or to have a nice tiger that leaves you alone. Freedom is when the tiger can attack you and pounce on you but you know it’s not real, you know it’s all a projected world of mind.  That’s it there’s nothing more to do or stop doing, there’s no more effort to make and no need to stop any effort. All experience including effort or no effort is in the world of mind. What is aware of that world of mind? On one hand it’s the ultimate simplicity on the other it’s the ultimate radical realization because it’s all-inclusive there are no exceptions its solid black or its solid white, there are no exceptions. There is no part of the world of mind that is absolutely real or absolutely true it has relative truth and it’s all a projection of mind. What we are seeking cannot be experienced; this is why waiting for an experience is a waste of time. What we are is not an experience its prior to experience.  It’s the ultimate simplicity because all you have to do is realize all you are experiencing is not the fundamental truth, it’s not the realization of the spiritual teachings. Whatever you are experiencing you can negate it as this is not what I am seeking, this is not the truth of what I am, this is a projection of mind. I am prior to this mind, I am aware of this mind here and now. I’m the witnessing presence, the consciousness, the awareness right here right now. I’m watching this dream world that’s projected. He says don’t make any effort because any effort is in the world of the mind. If you’re trying to turn a mean ugly nasty tiger into a nice sweet tiger you’re still dreaming, Wake up from the dream.  So I tell them there dreaming a tiger is pouncing on them Wake up your dreaming there’s no tiger pouncing on you. Wake up from the dream. This is a radical realization because it applies to every moment of experience is not the truth of who you are. It’s a dream world. You will find this in all of the spiritual traditions repeated over and over again that your world of experience is a projection of mind, it’s not the truth and it has no reality, and this is what you need to understand. It doesn’t matter what spiritual philosophy is being used because they are saying the same thing. This is what needs to be realized; negate every moment of your experience because it’s a projection of your own mind. Even if you have an idea of awakening or enlightenment it’s a projection of your own mind, it’s not the truth. If you’re waiting for an experience of awakening or enlightenment it will be another illusion and you’ll still be asleep in your dream. You’ll go from dreaming that you’re suffering and seeking to a dream that you’re awake now. You have always been watching the dream so you didn’t wake up, you watched one dream change into another dream but you never changed.  This is why nothing ever happened, nothing ever happened because nothing is happening absolutely, it’s all a projection of mind. You have to understand this if you don’t understand this you’ve not understood anything and you’ve wasted your time. This is the foundation of the spiritual teachings; to be able to discern between the world of experience as a relative truth or an illusion and the fundamental truth the absolute truth the absolute reality that I am aware here and now. If you get this you understand everything and if you don’t get this you understand nothing, it’s as simple as that. If you don’t get this, you’re wasting your time trying to get something because you’re diddling around in the world of experience and diddling around in the mind trying to turn a mean tiger into a nice tiger. The tiger has no independent existence; the tiger has no reality apart from my knowledge and belief in this projected tiger. There’s no good and evil, no right and wrong, no birth and death, no me or you, no us or them, no suffering, no freedom from suffering, no ignorance, no enlightenment, as I am. It’s the ultimate simplicity and the ultimate radical Realization too because there is no experience that you can have that is the truth of who you are, ZERO, NONE.  Self-realization is not an experience you cannot experience yourself because you’re alive, your one and one cannot experience itself. All experience is a projection of mind creating an experience of duality me and you, us and them, good and evil, right and wrong, ignorance and enlightenment, all a projection of mind. It’s the ultimate simplicity because it excludes all experience. All knowledge and experience is negated. The only truth is I am aware here and now, consciousness is, and I am that. What is aware right now? There is awareness here now, this is the only truth.