What Can Be Known More Deeply Than Anything Else
Lo que puede conocerse más profundamente que cualquier otra cosa
The teacher describes how direct experiential knowing surpasses all conceptual belief systems, and how deepening intimacy with the present moment reveals a reality more certain than any ordinary perception.
What Can Be Known More Deeply Than Anything Else
The teacher describes how direct experiential knowing surpasses all conceptual belief systems, and how deepening intimacy with the present moment reveals a reality more certain than any ordinary perception.
That is a belief system. I'm not saying you should adopt the other belief system, that we are a soul that reincarnates, and so on. That is also a belief system.
The whole point of everything I'm talking about is that this can be known through your experience, to a degree that you will know it is more true than anything else you can know. You will see that everything else you can know, even that there is a computer or a phone in front of you, that there is a couch you're sitting on, would be less certain to you than what I'm talking about.
It's that radical. That there is a planet, that there is time, will be less certain to you. And that, to me, is the only thing I am really talking about.
The challenge of communicating it
But the question is how to talk about it, how to communicate it, how to transmit it, depending on where each one of us is in the journey.
Sometimes what might be in the way is some life situation, or some feelings that are coming up. It can help to address that, or to change the way we relate to it, so that then we can see more deeply the reality I'm pointing to.
Going deeply into the moment
In a sense, you go so deeply into the moment that there is no longer anything you're avoiding in the present moment. And it pulls you into itself, because it's endless. In that, something can happen.
By contemplating and moving into what can be referred to as the moment, presence, reality, you start to meet things that are on the way: frictions, places where we don't want to be in relationship. So the practice is first to learn to be intimate, which is the opposite of not being in relationship. First we enter into a relationship with what is here, and then we go into deeper intimacy with it.