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 ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

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Om Namah Shivaya

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