On Formlessness
- We called it "manifest" when we look with our human senses and when we look with our inner eye we call it "unmanifest".
We call it "form" when we look with our human senses and we call it "formless" when we look with our inner eye.
We call it "object" when we look with our human senses and we call it "subject" when we look with our inner eye.
Yet "it" is beyond both these category and yet includes them. How can the manifest be in the same space as the unmanifest? It cannot because that would be duality-two things occupying the same space.
The startling conclusion is that they must be the same thing but perceived in different ways only. When you use your human faculties to look we say "world", "tangible" "object" and "form" and when we look with our inner eye we see "nothingness", "formlessness" or "subjective experiencer" but these must be one and the same.
This is not new to you. If you look at ice cubes with your eyes it looks solid and cold and hard. If you look through a powerful microscope it looks like molecules vibrating slowly in a lattice. If you look with your inner eye it looks like you!
Difference is sameness. Sameness is difference.
We call it "form" when we look with our human senses and we call it "formless" when we look with our inner eye.
We call it "object" when we look with our human senses and we call it "subject" when we look with our inner eye.
Yet "it" is beyond both these category and yet includes them. How can the manifest be in the same space as the unmanifest? It cannot because that would be duality-two things occupying the same space.
The startling conclusion is that they must be the same thing but perceived in different ways only. When you use your human faculties to look we say "world", "tangible" "object" and "form" and when we look with our inner eye we see "nothingness", "formlessness" or "subjective experiencer" but these must be one and the same.
This is not new to you. If you look at ice cubes with your eyes it looks solid and cold and hard. If you look through a powerful microscope it looks like molecules vibrating slowly in a lattice. If you look with your inner eye it looks like you!
Difference is sameness. Sameness is difference.
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- Only in a human body can you, the formless awareness, recognise and contemplate the difference between form and formlessness with your left brain analytical abilities.Only in a human body can you also know yourself as both form and formlessness with your right brain holistic seeing qualities. In no other species can you do this and yet you are all forms.
- When we look at ourselves and try to actually see what we are we will not find a person or a solid object. Of course we find a body is present in our awareness. Thoughts may also be present as well as emotions and other sensations in the body. There is a feeling of “I” that is aware of the body, thoughts and sensations but what is this “I” actually? All of our lives we have been encouraged to believe that we are this body and that we are this mind but this simply cannot be true because you are aware of them. Whatever you can perceive or observe you cannot be it. |
- You are the answer to every question you have!
The very first time you wondered what the purpose of life is and who you really are you got the answer. Immediately upon asking the question you got the answer; the great Silence and all that arises from it.
As soon as you wanted to know (and even before) the answer has been continously presenting itself. Even right now if you look and see what you are you find nothing and emptiness.
The spiritual pathway ends when we can finally understand the answer that we have always been receiving, for when you ask it is always given.
The great Silence can only hear and recognise itself through a human body. You ARE the answer to your question.
- The idea of the manifest and the unmanifest being different is the last and only idea to see through. There will be a sense that they are opposites, two different states and that when things manifest they are changed somehow. All this must be seen through.
- Nothing is really solid. There is no solid objects like your body. If it were solid how would an x-ray work? If your house was solid how would you be able to pick up your WIFI from outside the house? And how can you lock your car after you forgot from inside your "solid" house? These things are everywhere if you want to see the world isn't real.
Helen Hamilton
The very first time you wondered what the purpose of life is and who you really are you got the answer. Immediately upon asking the question you got the answer; the great Silence and all that arises from it.
As soon as you wanted to know (and even before) the answer has been continously presenting itself. Even right now if you look and see what you are you find nothing and emptiness.
The spiritual pathway ends when we can finally understand the answer that we have always been receiving, for when you ask it is always given.
The great Silence can only hear and recognise itself through a human body. You ARE the answer to your question.
- The idea of the manifest and the unmanifest being different is the last and only idea to see through. There will be a sense that they are opposites, two different states and that when things manifest they are changed somehow. All this must be seen through.
- Nothing is really solid. There is no solid objects like your body. If it were solid how would an x-ray work? If your house was solid how would you be able to pick up your WIFI from outside the house? And how can you lock your car after you forgot from inside your "solid" house? These things are everywhere if you want to see the world isn't real.
Helen Hamilton