राम
Awareness & Attention

Let Go Of Your Meaning Making

2021-07-02|2:21:52-2:26:20|Watch on YouTube

Ananta invites us to release the mind's constant meaning-making and return to the direct, uninterpreted experience of reality.

I hear about this Korean Zen… one form of Korean Zen is where you sit in front of the white wall and you just ask ‘What is this? What is this?’ No explanation is given as to what is this we are talking about. Just ‘What is this? What happens?’ You let go of your meaning-making and the presumption that, what you have in your heads is a true representation of what is. And as you let go of that, the deeper place where it is already apparent becomes clear to you. [Silence] Because inherent in that question, ‘What does it all mean’ is the unstated notion what does it all mean for ‘me’? And that is again a spiritual question wrongly framed to get you trapped in the ‘me’ either way. And it’s strange because there is hardly any other aspect in this world which is as strange as spirituality. Like what is the question we ask? So, once I see that there is no ‘me’ what’s in it for ‘me’? Of course we will say what will happen or something. But we actually want to know what’s in it for ‘me.’ Once I see that there is no ‘me’ what’s in it for ‘me’? We are the most absurd of all no? [Smile] I saw that there is no ‘me’ and then I realized ‘I am not the doer.’ But ‘you’ who is not the doer? Who is the ego which is not the doer? It’s such a popular notion is spirituality ‘I am not the doer.’ Who, who, who is the not the doer? Yeah, yeah, there is no ‘me.’ Then who is not the doer? [Smile]

Key Teachings

  • The mind's habit of creating meaning and interpretation separates us from direct experience of reality
  • True freedom comes from letting go of the mind's need to label, interpret, and construct meaning from experience
  • What we call 'experience' is often just the mind's commentary rather than the raw, unfiltered perception of what is
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From: What Is It That We Can Confirm, Without Perception? - 2nd July 2021