The Trick

The trick

Today was my first day on Schiermonnikoog. I come there since I was born , my mother was born there. Schiermonnikoog is the island of love and  emptiness.

Today I experienced a great sense of happiness when I cycled across the island and enjoyed the beautiful surreal colors.

And therefore this: What I want you to know  is that every experience is SEEN. By you! The trick is, you identify with the witness, the spectator and STAY THERE.

I say "trick" because identification with whatever is a trick. It has to do with the focus of attention. Focusing your attention on your body is very easy,  because you're used to it. You are used to identify yourself with your body. You can focus attention on a math problem or at work, or anything.

 But ... how can you focus your attention on consciousness?  On that which by definition cannot see itself? It actually cannot. It cannot because you are essentially Attention  yourself. Attention focuses attention on attention, consciousness itself is conscious ... Very strange...

It seems that you still can DO something with this (I deliberately say 'seems' at this level). Therefore, there are teachers, gurus (and someone like me) who feel that they have to point to something you can’t see..because this is what your ARE.  They want to tell others about the assumption that the other person does not know about. But actually that's totally unnecessary. Why? Because everyone - you too - knows who or what he is by nature. You can shout loud that you know nothing and so you are right, actually that’s the whole point: you know nothing, I know nothing, and that’s what you really are. On the other side you can think / believe that you can perfect pay your attention to   Nothing, Consciousness, Attention.

This think or believe is a pose, it's a ploy to take yourself to that attention. That is what many people during meditation practice. Practicing in just LOOK at you sensations you experience. This exercise or meditation, you do to not only fit while meditating on those special times with your meditation club. You can always apply it, every moment of your existence.

What I want you to know today is that every sensation, every experience is SEEN. By you! I want you to know that every experience of joy and happiness during meditative moments is taken… that's not what you really are. What you really are is THAT what sees   these experiences come and go.

Let me add here some comments on. A beautiful TRICK is, if you're looking for the truth about yourself:  take everything you experience as positive, as a true fact.   Everything that you experience as negative, you can take immediately this as  FALSE. Throw it away. It's not true. I do not mean that you need to go to deny negative feelings, but that which makes you feel bad you can reject it. Stop believing in all those thoughts which make you feel bad.  

Finally, I want to emphasize again that every sensation, every thought or feelings about truth or falsity (as in the paragraph above) in fact always happens IN you. The experiences are not YOU. You are that what is aware of the experiences. It’s awareness what you are.