As it is: A little book on life, reality, and freedom
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The writings that follow describe many issues in life in this age. Modern life has its own peculiar issues compared to the past. However, these issues are only reiterations. Like history that repeats itself, the problems of life have only worn new clothes. What is beneath the surface is timeless. Human consciousness has not progressed deeply, as no progress is possible at the depth. Progress can only occur superficially, and this has manifested into the tremendous accumulation of knowledge through religion and science. Caught in the illusion of progress, the deep-rooted problems of life have been ignored. This is ignorance. Insight must be at the depth of being. That which is unchanging is deep, and that which changes is superficial. Therefore, insight is to understand the fundamental reality of life. Only this understanding can bring about what is beautiful, real, and free.
The phrase "as it is" is profound. Its profundity cannot be comprehended by thought. Insight is not thought. Insight is the perception of what is without time. Thought is time, as thought takes time, and thought creates time. Without a time interval, the beauty and freedom of reality are self-apparent. The phrase "as it is" means to observe without any process, any objective, any desire. There are no steps to freedom. There are no steps to truth. This is the beauty of truth. It is present at all times, undisturbed, tranquil, inexhaustible. The presence of truth is obvious to a naked mind. It is not any sensation, experience, or object, as all these are transient. To the writer, truth dissolves all problems in life, as all problems are merely the fluttering of the mind. In the deep and abiding tranquility of truth, life is freedom, like a river that flows.
The writer invites the reader to read what follows without the accumulated conclusions of the past. Only a mind empty of the noise of the past can be open to the silent profundity of reality.
May there be peace in the world.
The phrase "as it is" is profound. Its profundity cannot be comprehended by thought. Insight is not thought. Insight is the perception of what is without time. Thought is time, as thought takes time, and thought creates time. Without a time interval, the beauty and freedom of reality are self-apparent. The phrase "as it is" means to observe without any process, any objective, any desire. There are no steps to freedom. There are no steps to truth. This is the beauty of truth. It is present at all times, undisturbed, tranquil, inexhaustible. The presence of truth is obvious to a naked mind. It is not any sensation, experience, or object, as all these are transient. To the writer, truth dissolves all problems in life, as all problems are merely the fluttering of the mind. In the deep and abiding tranquility of truth, life is freedom, like a river that flows.
The writer invites the reader to read what follows without the accumulated conclusions of the past. Only a mind empty of the noise of the past can be open to the silent profundity of reality.
May there be peace in the world.