Hello, this is three minutes with reality.
Today, we're going to begin with a facebook comment that reads as follow:
"Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills. "
This comment requires active participation on the part of the reader in order to be understood.
and reveals something quite profound
that transcends the scope of words
that is to say, on one hand I can understand my freedom to act on things
and my relationship with my desires
but there’s a question that transcends that system of relationships
that is...
"Who is the person who desires?”
from where the desires comes?
“Is it possible to choose to desire?”
“Am I free from my desires?”
“Am I free to choose them?”
This comment, that shows up routinely,
but that nevertheless opens the door
to a question...
...without an answer
rides on that which diverse thinkers throughout history have been pointing toward.
As Chuck Rice puts it:
once again, consciousness is shown to be an illusion
the illusion of interlocking parts that present themselves as unified
but it’s when one observes that in reality, there isn’t “something” here
aside from the systematic configuration of parts working organically
it’s in that moment when we can see clearly the illusion of time, which is the illusion of words
It is then, perhaps, that the door opens to what the Hindus call “Samadhi”
that, among so many others, Nisargadatta Maharaj spoke about
The door is open to “Nirvana” as is spoken of in the Buddhist tradition
The door is open to the Heideggerian Da-Sein,
the Da-Sein that is “That which I am every time myself"
The door is open to the atemporality that Mooji spoke of
that is to say, this theme, passion-invoking, profound, interesting
is at the same time paradoxical
because it can only become clear
when words are set aside
it is what is meant by the Taoist axiom:
“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao”
That is to say, the proper response to the question that we are dealing with now
can only be to stop searching for the answer to that question.
and it is from there that an interesting theme comes, indicated by Zen Buddhism primarily,
that insists on the idea that the buddhist method of achieving enlightenment
is like a raft
like an instrument
a tool to travel from one side to the other
once you have reached your objective with this raft
then the raft can be left behind
the method can be put aside
and the funniest thing of all is that the other side, so sought after,
in reality was always there
the trick is that that other far-off shore,
in reality was always here
so close as to be invisible.
This has been 3 minutes with reality
and if we proceed in the temporal world we must say, “We’ll see you next video."
but if we live constantly in the present, then, from here I greet you warmly
and I say goodbye forever, and I greet your forever also. Nos vemos.
