Is attending to functional matters different to abiding in stillness?

Is attending to functional matters different to abiding in stillness?

Hello Rupert,

Thanks for your clarity in attempting to shed some light on ‘direct perception’. Rings true generally.

What is evident here is that there are moments of deep relaxation into a peaceful space when one doesn’t know what one’s looking at! Usually this happens in solitude, when understanding dawns about the true nature of things. By extension, there is less involvement and concern about things, as if they are peripheral or surface events. They are like transparent, holographic images, with colours, patterns and shades similar to a mysterious but delightful display from moment to moment.

Then someone enters the scene and communication resumes, causing memory, thought and knowledge to function once more. However, the peace and silence simply recede into the background and a kind of bi-functioning occurs in the being, like a surface being attending to functional matters while the background abides in stillness. One lives a dual life for the time being. Comments appreciated.

In delight,
Dave

 

Dear Dave,

At some point it will become obvious, when ‘someone enters the scene and communication resumes, causing memory, thought and knowledge to function once more’, that this occurrence is simply one more ‘peripheral or surface event…like transparent, holographic images, with colours, patterns and shades similar to a mysterious but delightful display from moment to moment’.

In due course, no matter how demanding or engaging these intrusions seem to be, it becomes clear in an experiential way that the ‘peaceful space’ is never truly veiled or obscured by any such appearance. In time, the apparent split between the peace in the background and the appearance in the foreground will be reconciled and neither will be compromised by the other.

In other words, the apparent division between the peaceful observer in the background and the agitated appearances in the foreground dissolves, leaving all appearances saturated with the peace of our own presence. We come to know ourself as love and peace at the heart of all experience.

With kind regards,
Rupert

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