Fwd: [bramhandnayaka] No Substance is 'Out There'... !!!

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No Substantial Object exists 'Out There' nor any Subject 'In Here'!

The Blessed Buddha once said:In the seen is merely the process of seeing...In

the heard is merely the process of hearing...In the sensed is merely the

process of sensing...In the thought is merely the process of thinking...So

knowing, you will not be connected 'with that'...So disconnected you will not

be absorbed 'into that'...So neither 'with that' nor 'into that' You Are! not

'by that' sensation!!!When there is no 'You' inferred or conjectured by that

very sensation,then 'You' are neither 'here', 'there', 'both', 'beyond' nor 'in

between'...On realizing the importance of this incident the Blessed One

exclaimed:Where neither solidity, fluidity, heat nor motion find any

footing,there no sun, moon nor star ever shines. There is neither any light,yet

nor is there any darkness! When the Noble, through stilling ofall construction,

through quieting of all mental formation, directlyexperiences this, then is he

freed from both form & formlessness,then is he released from both pleasure & pain ...

Source: The Udana - Inspirations by the Buddha: I -

10http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404214http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/udana/index.html

Comments:There is no-one who senses, nor substance sensed, even though the

process of sensing occurs!Seeing is just a selfless event of contact between

the eye, the object & visual consciousness.Neither any 'person' nor any

'observer' is involved nor can be inferred just by photographing! No subject or

'I' is thereby created, just because there is an object, or just because there

occurs the process of sensing... Sensing itself, thus neither create any object

nor any subject,just as a camera - though making an image - do neither create

the object, nor the photographer!Neither can any 'substance' nor 'reality' per

se be ascribed to neither object nor subject:Just because there is a picture,

one cannot by that in itself infer or ascribe any existenceto neither the

object, nor the picture-maker! Both may be artificial and of past

existence...The fact that there is an image projected, does per se imply, in or

by itself, that

any-one actually is 'looking in' or 'is behind' the camera 'By that' perception

no 'perceiver' is thereby present or created... So the 'personal entity' we

assume, suppose, deduce, expect & believe to enjoy the experience, is merely a

mental construct, an habitual idea, a concept, & not a reality...The passive

impersonal process of sensing, perception & experiencing cannot thereby be

'instrumental' for neither creating nor inferring any 'being in existence'. The

fact of this fundamental 'selflessness' is far the most essential core of the

unique Buddha-Dhamma...Outmost important to grasp, yet subtle, counterintuitive

& thereby difficult & somewhat 'nasty' to comprehend. Keep trying, since this

central Anatta doctrine is the opener, releaser & freer of any mind. Being

hopelessly in love with an imagined idea of 'I' & 'World' is both fatal, tragic

& sardonically comic... Hehehe ;-)

Warmest Regards,

 

O. Prakash Ram

 

Om Namah Shivaya

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