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What is always silently looking out your eyes is not a thought. A thought can’t see.
–Michael Jeffreys
What’s being looked for is what is looking.
And what is looking is never not present.
Remove attention from thoughts and remain still.
See if you can silently NOTICE the next thought that arises.
Now notice the next one. And the next. Keep noticing.
Soon it will dawn that ALL thoughts are an appearance.
An appearance in/to what??
Michael Jeffreys
See for yourself… can you have a problem without a thought?
The fuel for seeking is believing the mind’s story that something is presently lacking, or deficient, or wrong, or should be different, or not as good as it could/should be. And the mind claims to know this as a fact with a perfectly straight face!?? Please honey child!
The reason seeking doesn’t work is because what you ALREADY ARE is without limits. Wholeness is your nature and so no word, no particular, no separation, no activity, no action, no ANYTHING has any ability whatsoever to affect, change, alter or modify Your impersonal inherent-Wholeness because it’s not in time.
Michael Jeffreys
If happiness/love/peace were actually in objects, then once you had the desired object, you should always experience those states. But as we’ve all experienced, repeatedly, eventually the object “loses” its ability to make us feel happiness/love/peace.
And so the ego seeks for a new object so that it can regain those feelings that it believes the object will give it. Wash, rinse, repeat. Endlessly.
Q: How do we break the cycle of seeking objects?
First, notice it doesn’t work. Secondly, we can begin to question the underlying assumption that objects have the ability to actually bring us what we truly desire.
Q2: Am I sure that happiness/love/peace actually
comes from ANY object in the first place?
For example, yes, I am happier when I get the new car, but is the happiness/love/peace really located in the car??
Q3: And if it isn’t “in” the object, where does
the happiness/love/peace come from??
Michael Jeffreys
Confusion over our true position in Life brings suffering. Everything is an object to You. If you see a chair, you somehow understand that you are not the chair. Chair is an object to You. Same with a tree, or a mountain, or the sky or a bird or a river. But what is missed (and yet makes ALL the difference!) is that YOUR BODY IS ALSO AN OBJECT TO YOU!!!
If you are your body, then what is observing, aware of, or knows of “your body”??? Is it not the same “thingless thing” that observes, is aware of, or knows of the existence of the chair?
What is it that “knows” ANYTHING???
What “Knows” is not knowable. Why? Because it’s NOT an object.
So now the “cause” of my suffering is finally revealed: I am identifying, taking myself to be my body. And so, when body character wants something, I mistakenly believe I want it!? And when it doesn’t get it, I suffer because I believe I am the body character. And when it does get something it wants, I feel momentary pleasure. But it never lasts.
Become STILL and observe your body and any accompanying thoughts, feelings, memories or sensations that may be presently arising.
Q: If you can see them, be aware of them, know of them, can they REALLY, TRULY be You???
Michael Jeffreys