Look head on at the one FACT that is absolute and beyond any dispute. Existence IS. Call it Being, Timelessness-Spacelessness, Awareness, or Living Presence, Consciousness, Knowing-Sans-Knower; call it by any name you like, whatever you call it, IT IS. HERE. NOW. Prior to time or language, IT IS......
This that IS does not change and cannot be avoided. This that IS is not in time (not even ‘now’), not located any where (even ‘here’), yet, IT IS.
Enlightenment is simply seeing what IS as It Is. But a linguistic appearance or assumed ‘entity’ CANNOT know or see this; why? There is no separate entity in FACT (Reality!) to know or see what IS.
What is, IS. What ain’t, ain’t.
So any effort to “get to” what IS already must be finally recognized by no one as futile for someone still seeking enlightenment.
To repeat a simple pointer, what is REAL just IS and THAT is nowhere-at-all.
So yes, the search is hopeless. When that is recognized by you there is frustration and despair; but all that jazz is driven by hope! As a good friend said once, "Hope is icing on a turd". The abandonment of hope (as in "all ye who enter here") is NOT under the seeker's control. So any admonishment to "abandon hope would merely reinforce the false notion of a separate "me" that could accomplish such a patently impossible feat. Isn't that obvious, if the seeking has been going on a while now? Living in hope (or fear or any other notion of a future which NEVER arrives) brings suffering, doesn't it?
The hapless seeker (I speak from much experience, over 30 years worth) is doomed to seek and fail until the seeker's time of seeking expires (always at physical demise, and for some, before that event, as an event that leaves a body body-ing and mind mind-ing but sans any trace of an "owner".)
When ALL OF THAT is recognized (as Sailor Bob Adamson says,RE Cognized", i.e. as seeing the Original that always is rather than It's reflections), meaning,see-ING of and by the No One That IS, the game is over. WHAT IS LEFT? WHAT NEVER CHANGED. AS RAMANA MAHARSHI POINTED TO IT, ALL THAT IS AND ALWAYS IS IS CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH HE DUBBED "I"I".
This that IS does not change and cannot be avoided. This that IS is not in time (not even ‘now’), not located any where (even ‘here’), yet, IT IS.
Enlightenment is simply seeing what IS as It Is. But a linguistic appearance or assumed ‘entity’ CANNOT know or see this; why? There is no separate entity in FACT (Reality!) to know or see what IS.
What is, IS. What ain’t, ain’t.
So any effort to “get to” what IS already must be finally recognized by no one as futile for someone still seeking enlightenment.
To repeat a simple pointer, what is REAL just IS and THAT is nowhere-at-all.
So yes, the search is hopeless. When that is recognized by you there is frustration and despair; but all that jazz is driven by hope! As a good friend said once, "Hope is icing on a turd". The abandonment of hope (as in "all ye who enter here") is NOT under the seeker's control. So any admonishment to "abandon hope would merely reinforce the false notion of a separate "me" that could accomplish such a patently impossible feat. Isn't that obvious, if the seeking has been going on a while now? Living in hope (or fear or any other notion of a future which NEVER arrives) brings suffering, doesn't it?
The hapless seeker (I speak from much experience, over 30 years worth) is doomed to seek and fail until the seeker's time of seeking expires (always at physical demise, and for some, before that event, as an event that leaves a body body-ing and mind mind-ing but sans any trace of an "owner".)
When ALL OF THAT is recognized (as Sailor Bob Adamson says,RE Cognized", i.e. as seeing the Original that always is rather than It's reflections), meaning,see-ING of and by the No One That IS, the game is over. WHAT IS LEFT? WHAT NEVER CHANGED. AS RAMANA MAHARSHI POINTED TO IT, ALL THAT IS AND ALWAYS IS IS CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH HE DUBBED "I"I".
What IS, IS. And THAT is a FACT, not the imagination of dreamlike time and space!
PS: As the great Sage Ramesh Balsekar powerfully pointed out, "Seeking must continue until final frustration results in the surrender and disappearance of the seeker himself."
