Tell me a claim where you are clear about the claimant.
The seeker's paradox is that the false doesn't exist to be seen while Truth exists but cannot be seen - freedom comes from knowing directly without perception.
I am looking at when you ask that question (when you say) ‘Who sees this hand’? You can’t deny that it’s being seen and it is ‘I’. It is not like a… claim.
Yeah.
But it is not, it is not I cannot say anything about that one. But I can’t also deny that I am the one who is seeing. You know what I am saying.
Yeah.
So, that is not a claim. [Chuckles]
This is the conundrum! The false cannot be seen because it does not exist. The Truth cannot be seen and yet it is all that exists. And this is the dilemma of the spiritual seeker. So till we dropped the idea of trying to find it through our seeing in this way (through our perception) then it can seem like a struggle. What is that you know without having to see or think?
Key Teachings
- In self-inquiry ('Who sees this hand?'), the seeing is undeniable and the 'I' that sees is self-evident - not a claim but direct experience
- The spiritual dilemma: the false cannot be seen because it doesn't exist, while Truth cannot be seen yet is all that exists
- Liberation comes when we stop trying to find truth through perception and instead know directly without seeing or thinking
From: Letting Go of Every Idea about How This Life Should Go - 15th May 2020