 83. Illusion (Sin and Maya) |
The (apparently “objective”) “world” of human “experience” is, itself, the mere process of “experiencing-activity” (itself)—or the very process and the very event that is the psycho-physical “self” (itself), otherwise (conventionally) presumed to be perceiving the “world” (and thinking about the “world”) as “notself”. The “presumed-to-be-objective world” of human perceptual “experience” and conceptual “knowing” is (in and of and as itself) actually, entirely, and only a mind-“world”—or a construct (or “subjective” modification) of the human psycho-physical apparatus of perceptual and conceptual “experiencing-activity”. The “presumed-to-be-objective world” that is “experienced” by human beings “happens” only in and as a process that is not separate from the “point-ofview”- based “subjective experiencing-event”.
The “subjective experiencing-event” of the psycho-physical ego-“I” is a perceiving- and-“knowing” process that (itself) actively and actually “causes”, or “creates”, or “happens” the (conventionally) presumed-to-be “objectively-existing world out there”.
The waking-state mind (which is the actual state and “cause” of the “experientially” perceived “world”) is not aware of an actual “objectively-existing world out there”—and the “perceiving-and-knowing-self” (or waking-state ego-mind) does not egolessly Self-Recognize the “experientially” perceived “world” As Reality (Itself, and As “It” Is). Human beings of the modern era are (“experientially”, intentionally, and inseparably) psycho-physically combined with the conventions of perpetual thinking, verbal conceiving, and all kinds of seeking-efforts to “figure it out”. Thus, human beings of the modern era are wandering in a form of illusory mind, that is filled not with dream-state content but with waking-state perceptual memory, and verbal abstractions of all kinds. Therefore—except in The Transcendental Spiritual Event of egoless Self-Awakening, or “Perfect Knowledge”— human beings of the modern era (or even of any era of bondage to mind and egoity) will not cease to wander, and seek, and suffer within the illusory “space” (or “point-of-view”-illusion) of their own minds. It is the waking-state mind (and its gross secular “worldliness”) that is the binding form of mind (and life) for the modern ego—whereas traditional (or, otherwise, not yet “modern-adapted”) peoples are bound up in the dreamingmind (and the distractions, and the metaphysical illusions, of the dream-"World"). The modern human being thinks that, because the waking-state mind is associated with the conceptualizing and perceiving and remembering characteristic of the waking state, this somehow makes the waking-state mind “real”—or equal to the “real world”, rather than an illusory and merely mental “world”. Therefore, a grossly secularizing (or universally de-sacralizing) global “worldculture” (based on the conventions of secular “realism” and “scientific materialism”) has arisen in the modern era, based on the selective idealization of the physically-based waking-state mind—and the political, social, cultural, and philosophical effort to enforce (even by means of rules and taboos) the “discipline” of intentionally (or willfully) confining the mind to the “dreamless” waking state and to the physical context (and the gross, or “materialistic”, conventions) of life-consciousness. The (as such) modern human being does not understand that the wakingstate mind (and the waking-state “world”) is no more “real” than the dreamingmind (and the dream-“world”). Characteristically, modern human beings think of the dreaming-mind (and, especially, the dream-“world”) as being “primitive”, and “un-real”, and merely brain-made fabrications (or memory-based perceptual and conceptual constructs “invented” by the apparatus of the body-mind itself). However, in fact, modern human beings are merely involved in a different culture of illusion than that of ancient and traditional peoples. Modern cultures are, each and all, variant parts of the general “world-culture” of wakingstate (or physically-based) mind, rather than of dream-state (or psyche-based) mind. And the waking-state mind is equally as binding and illusory—and equally as much of the status of mere fabrication (or of mere brain-based, “point-ofview”- based, and psycho-physically “self-caused” construction)—as the dreamstate mind.
The dream-state mind is the basis for all the (inherently illusory) presumptions of a permanent (or metaphysically-existing and non-“material”) “self” (or egoically personal “psyche”, or “soul”) and a corresponding permanent (or metaphysically-existing and non-“material”) “world” (or “objectively”-existing and eternal “other world”, “after-life”, “heaven”, or “hell”).
The waking-state mind is the basis for all the (inherently illusory) presumptions of an exclusively “material” (or merely gross physical) “self” (or merely mortal ego-“I”) and a corresponding exclusively “material” (or merely gross physical) “world”. When mind—in all its forms and modes—is transcended, then (and only then) Reality Itself Is Self-“Located”.
The Self-“Locating” of Reality Itself is not a matter of doing something “to” the waking-mind or the dreaming-mind. Rather, The Self-“Locating” of Reality Itself is a matter of Tacitly, Directly Self-Awakening to The Transcendental, Spiritual, Perfectly ego-less, and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality Itself—Always Already Prior to all forms and modes of mind.
Reality Itself cannot be Self-“Located” as the result of any kind of seeking— or by means of any action or exercise of any mode or content of mind. Reality Itself Is Self-“Located” only in The Circumstance of Tacit, Direct, “Radical” (or Always Already “At-The-Root”, and, Thus, Priorly egoless) Self-Intuition in The Context of Tacit, Direct, “Radical” (or Always Already “At-The-Root”) Self-Transmission and Self-Revelation of The egoless Divine Transcendental Spiritual Self- Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality Itself. There-fore, “Perfect Knowledge” Is The Only Self-“Location”-Circumstance of Reality.
