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Come to a True Intuitive Vision of What Reality Actually Is

2020-05-01|37:00-39:10|Watch on YouTube

Reality must be perceived intuitively rather than conceived mentally - the true nature of existence reveals itself beyond thought.

It’s A Unique Seeing We are only talking about right now. We don’t have to go to any past or future. Like you are perceiving this voice, isn’t it? This voice is being heard, you are aware of this perception. That which ‘you’ which is aware of this perception is that perceived? And yet it’s not a lie, isn’t it? If I said that ‘There is a yellow cat on this couch.’ You will say ‘I don’t perceive it, it’s a lie.’ We say “I am aware of all of this perception including the perception of this voice. I don’t perceive this ‘I’ that is Aware” and yet it is not a lie. So it’s a unique seeing. It’s strangeness. I don’t see it and yet it’s clear that I am aware of this perception. So this absurd seeing is called ‘intuition.’ [Ananta Sangha Smiles] It is so absurd because of our way of our habit and our conditioning. Because we are used to taking only true that which we perceive. And yet we take true to be true this Awareness which we don’t perceive and in fact we see that it is myself. We cannot deny this - You are aware of the perception of this hand, undeniable. This ‘you’ itself which is aware of the perception of this hand cannot be perceived and yet we give it this stroke of ‘I.’ Isn’t that strange? Usually in the world, we deny everything that we don’t perceive. They say ‘Seeing is believing’ but our own Self we can never see and it is beyond even belief. It is just. If I say to you ‘It is not you that is aware of the perception of the hand.’ You will say ‘What a strange place I have come to.’ [Sangha Smile] It's like ‘What is he saying? Of course, it is ‘I’ who else? So its non-figure-out-able in your head but it is very simple otherwise. So the bain of the spiritual seeker is that we got… we started to think that ‘Through our thinking we will resolve this.’ Like she was saying the other day. It is not resolvable that way. So it’s not resolvable through your thinking. It is not going to be a perception because perception comes and goes. Then that which remains, which is more natural, more original completely effortless, completely effortless that we call intuitive insight, Self-knowledge, Atma-jnana.

Key Teachings

  • True reality can only be known through intuitive vision, not through mental concepts or intellectual understanding
  • The mind's interpretation of reality is not reality itself - we must go beyond thought to perceive what is
  • Direct perception reveals the nature of existence beyond appearances
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From: Come to a True Intuitive Vision of What Reality Actually Is - 1st May 2020