Spiritual Seeing Into The Heart Of Life

Question:  What do you mean by seeing clearly into life?

Adonis:  To see clearly into your life and what I am trying to convey, you may use any subject or object, it is simply the seeing of life and its entire phenomenon without a perceiver.  What I mean is to observe without the conscious perceiver in which you think you are.  Whether you perceive the sunset, the moon, a person, an animal, fear or whatever.  It is the art of looking without discrimination and the registering of thought.  You see, as long as you are confined to thinking, there is no perception.  The thinker prevents the fullness of perception.  The ‘me’ is the thinker, perceiving the sunset or fear which prevents the oneness of perception. 

For most of us, we divide life between the spiritual and non-spiritual, good and bad, high and low, rich and poor; what is paramount is to see the wholeness of life, all-inclusively.  When there is the totality of perception, which includes all things, there is no division, no separation, no conflict, and no duality.  It is to discover that the entire universe is consciousness.  To be told this has very little meaning, if any at all.  It is up to you to look deep into this so that you may have self-knowledge and not mere words of another.

So I ask you, can thought, think about perception, or is perception beyond the field of thought?  Thought contains its own limited perception, which is rather simple to realize.  Understand that the perception of the senses is not the perception that I am pointing to.  The perception that I am referencing is beyond the field of time, unlike the limitations of the senses, thoughts and its partials perception. 

Question:   Are you saying that the moment I look at the sunset with thought, psychological distance comes into being and I am creating a perception of duality? 

Adonis:  That is all we are saying.  Why is it we do not observe the phenomenon and leave it at that?  The moment you try to define and give perception meaning, you are back in time, which is distance.  The distance I am speaking of is mental and inward distance that is formed between the thinker and the sunset. 

Question:  I am sorry for asking so many questions.

Adonis:  It is all right, that is why I have come.  Never underestimate the power of asking!  If you continue to ask, I must answer.  I must share.  Who knows, you may become completely open and the immortal presence may enter your very being, here and now.

Question:  What was it like when you first began to awaken?

Adonis:  What you are asking is what the turning point to my own awakening was like.  Well, I simply asked to see for myself what is real.  I refused to believe and accept anything.  I wanted to come face-to-face with the truth and life answered.  I simply knocked and the unlocked door of eternity was open, there was no fear, I simply entered without looking back. 

I was never a believer of anything and that is why no religion ever appealed to me.  Unlike the so-called religious advocates of the world, I could never accept a mediator between the truth and me.   Therefore, I began to look deep within my own consciousness.  I wanted to understand myself.  What you must understand is that as long as there is this 'thinker,' that is born out of ignorance, there is no perception of the truth.  No one can free you of this darkness.  You must face it and the chains of ignorance dissolves.  It is to realize that the thinker is the very impasse that prevents the clarity of perception and truth.

Now listen deeply and watch this so you may understand.  Although, words can never convey this experience from one person to another, I will share with you what it is like within me.  My head is completely empty.  There are no thoughts on it at all.  It is completely vacant.  Now let me show you what I mean of what it is like when I observe a flower.  As I look at this flower in front of me, there is no conscious being as a perceiver looking at the flower.  There is this complete relationship of oneness.  There is no me and the flower.  There is only the phenomenon of the flower.  There is no distance within me.  There is nothing outside of me.  I am all things.  To see this for yourself is the skill of looking within, the doorway into the sacred.

Question:  The other day you said that the self, because of ignorance, breeds chaos.  Can you please elaborate on that?

Adonis:  The chaos in which the self breeds comes out of its own darkness and division.  To understand how thought comes into being you must go into the formulation of thought and the thinker.  Through contact of the senses, our reactions of thoughts are formed.  Therefore, the forming of thought is the reaction of the senses, naming and recognition.  Now at first we experience a sensation and that sensation becomes an experience and is then stored as memory. Then out of memory the self as thinker, reacts.  Our actions, born of thought becomes the latest experiences.  In fact, our thoughts are the reactive processes of the brain, which means our actions are never new.  We do not see the event in the present moment, we have an idea of what we think is taking place and from there we act.  So, instead of living, we are merely doing something 'about' life.

As long as thought is functioning as indirect movement, all our actions are tainted and distorted by experiences.  Our actions are never new, whole and complete.  Thought is a mental phenomenon of content and mental time that prevents the totality of action.  Only in the ending of thought and its interference is there complete action born of holistic perception.  In the totality of perception, there is righteousness in all ones actions.  To be righteous is to be holy.  Not shallow and phony like those who belong to the various religions of the world.  It is to be free of all superficiality.   What is paramount is to live ones life not as a sanctimonious human being but one who is living in the here and now, devoid of inner and outer conflict.  As long as the thinker as thought is present, realize that conflict, chaos and disharmony with all ones surrounding is imminent.

Question:  The flow of the sacred energy is awakened within as long as the thinker is neutralized, am I correct?  Because I would say that, the self interferes and distracts us from the flow of energy and the perception of the present moment here and now, yes?  I understand more and more when you say that in quietude we gain the wisdom, power, consciousness and awareness that our being is seeking.  Even our fundamental questions are answered.  Now I understand why you are so quite.  In this silence is where all is revealed, correct?

Adonis:  In silence all is.  Just realize, thought cannot see this, it requires pure insight.  There is no 'you' to realize anything.  I am just pointing this out for clarity so that you may discover the truth of what I am saying.  What is important is to repose in the silence; repose in the nothingness.  In stillness, in quietude, the self is not there.  The self is noise and utter confusion.  The self is nothing more than dead ashes left behind from incomplete actions and experiences.  When you see that you are the noise, the power of seeing this awakens the transformation.  There is nothing for you to do.  You cannot of your own accord drop the self, because you are the self.  The living water of perception dissolves you away, effortlessly. The very seeing, the total perception is the complete action, which has the power of transformation that affects your whole being. 

The fact is; the illusion of self-identity came into being because of ignorance, which means 'to ignore,' so now we must understand this fact, which is a lack of perception, a deficiency of seeing.  To comprehend the root of ignorance, the self must wither.  So please realize the fact that the self cannot stand when there is the fullness of perception.  When there is the richness of perception, there is no separative conscious self. 

As long as I am localized in thought as the thinker, I am blind and trapped in ignorance.  Thought has its place but not in the realm of perception.  When thought is needed, then there is the movement of thought.  When there is no need of thought, it simply drops away and the brain is quiet, perfectly still. Therefore, when there is effortless perception, your head does not make a sound.

SPIRITUAL PERCEPTIONS OF ADONIS

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