Oblivious to facts

25/10/2022 - another ramble about emptiness

We chase facts, truth, knowledge. For entire lifetimes. We have done so for millennia and it seems that only a few have understood the incredibly obvious flaw in all this. Why do we keep wanting to predict the future? Why do we insist in dwelling in the past? We claim to be rational, intelligent, superior... but are we?

Our brains intellectualize so much that we have become completely oblivious to the actual truth, one that is actually undeniable as well as inexplicable. And yes, I sense those scientific minds doubting every word that is about to come. But this is why we fail to get there... I was one of them, lost, in my mind, in my ideas, in my goals... not realizing how much this was actually moving me backwards or slowing me down. Then emptiness came, and the world was never the same again. Because the real only exists in the moment. It does not care for concepts, it does not care for emotions, it does not care at all. These are just words we have come up with to communicate with one another and to represent real things that we cannot fully explain. The thinker, the one I once claimed to be, does not actually exist. It is a figment of the mind, a creation, a useful one at times, but mostly a flawed one that eternally breeds conflict and duality, the good, the bad, the rich, the poor. Once we allow ourselves to see behind the curtain, the world will reveal itself to be "what is" and the beauty of it all will surface. Where does that subconscious come from? I cannot possibly answer, I am confined to merely experiencing it. The Buddha, God, the Effortless state, Quality, and many other names have been used interchangeably to try and explain this. But it is ineffable, and that is the entire point of it. Such a simple realization, if we only accept the world as we know it is nothing more than a conceptual representation of what lies underneath.

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