interaction!

there was a comment to the scheduling postponement post today by an anonymous writer. i'll respond to what i felt were the central ideas expressed:

"How about discussing what the fundamental truth is. What is life? Or if you prefer what is self ... I would like you to speak more of truth and less of action for discovery."

as i understand it, truth, life, self is existenceness. it's the alive and aware space that holds everything and is everything. it's right there to be experienced as the absolutely present truth of what you are; never increased, never diminished.

because it's always there, it's hard to recognize. it doesn't have a beginning and an end, doesn't stand out against a backdrop. we're accustomed to focusing on things with borders, defined things. this can't be defined or pointed out. it is the backdrop and the things it holds. you can't single it out and and say: "see? this is truth."

but i ask sincerely, not rhetorically, why truth itself should be described? a description won't lead to the experience of it for those who haven't recognized it for themselves, because it can't be grasped and created with the mind.

"Do not waste your effort trying to teach those who are asleep. But instead teach those who are awake and are ready to learn."

those who are asleep are exactly the ones i'm speaking to, if by asleep we take to mean ignorant to one's true nature. i'm obviously not directing these words to those not interested in finding out, but to those who are consciously searching for truth and receptive.

i suppose that those who no longer pay homage to mental ideas of selfhood and have ceased to engage in the constant maintenance involved with such a thing have little or no need for these words.