What No Effort Can Reach
Lo que ningún esfuerzo puede alcanzar
A reflection on how practices and techniques serve us at certain levels, but eventually give way to a seeing that requires no doing at all.
What No Effort Can Reach
A reflection on how practices and techniques serve us at certain levels, but eventually give way to a seeing that requires no doing at all.
This work, in a sense, always goes into the same thing: what is here now, what reality is. And it is like a layer, and then another layer, and another layer of ideas, stories, and illusions. We can find something that works and then think that is the thing that will keep working, that it will be permanent. But it only worked at that level, at that layer. Then there is a place where nothing is going to work, because it is a relating with what is, and there is no particular thing that "is."
Working with habit versus seeing what is
So if we are dealing with a habit, we can find a way to work with that habit. But at a deeper level, it is no longer around anything we can do. One side of this has to do with putting energy, attention, and focus into practice. For people who find that hard to do, it is an appropriate practice. But there is another aspect, which is not doing, or rather, what cannot be done.
Seeing needs no technique
This has to do with what is. And to see what is, you cannot do it. It is not a doing; it is just seeing what is. It is something that you do not need any practice or method or technique for. A form of attention is a manipulation of what is, and in a sense, a distraction.
We can come to realize something that needs no effort for it to be constantly, permanently known as true. We do not need to reconfirm it. We do not need to find a way to it. We do not need to get back to it, because it is always here.