DEFINING THE INDEFINABLE (Absolute Truth)

Absolute Truth is:

1.  Beyond knowing that physical pleasure increases stress

2.  Beyond knowing that pleasure and pain were the same a thousand life-times ago

3.  Beyond knowing that pleasure, bliss, tranquility and calm are also states that have a beginning and an end

4.  Beyond knowing that post despair, many hopes flourish just as after darkness, thousands of suns open and start to shine

5.  Beyond knowing that Practice is only a vessel and it must be filled to be brim with earnestness, which is but love in action since nothing can be done without love

6.  Beyond knowing that reason is powerless in the expression of Truth

7.  Beyond knowing that reason is the illusion of reality.

8.  Beyond knowing that seeing a belief/ concept to be illusionary, the energy drops out of it.

9.  Beyond Knowing that seeing that there is no individual does not mean that you disappear, but what vanishes is the assumed reality of the person

10.              Beyond knowing that seeing the desireless lion, the elephants of the senses silently run away, or, if that is impossible, serve him like courtiers

11.              Beyond knowing that seeing the tigers of the senses, the frightened refuge-seekers at once enter the cave in search of cessation of thought and one-pointedness

12.              Beyond knowing that Seeing things as they are but we see them as we are

13.              Beyond knowing that seeing this, the concept of attaining enlightenment drops away

14.              Beyond knowing that sense ‘I am’ to the exclusion of everything else

15.              Beyond knowing that sense of shame and fear of wrong-doing are positive states of mind that lay a foundation for clear conscience and moral integrity

16.              Beyond knowing that sensory experience in the world leaves us very exposed and vulnerable

17.              Beyond knowing that sensual desire which is infatuation that brings no lasting satisfaction

18.              Beyond knowing that sensual pleasures can only bring happiness in the short term at best; and, sooner or later, suffering will follow

19.              Beyond knowing that separation, disappearance, misfortune and ruin act in accordance with impermanence and dissipation in nature

20.              Beyond knowing that shame and fear of blame is the basis of respect for oneself and others

21.              Beyond knowing that shame is motivated by self-respect and inward-looking

22.              Beyond knowing that solids are mostly empty space evolving and moving in time and space

23.              Beyond knowing that space has a name but no form

24.              Beyond knowing that speaking wisdom is much easier than living it

25.              Beyond knowing that spiritual joy is free of distress

26.              Beyond knowing that spiritual practitioner knows not of any other single thing that brings such bliss as the mind that is tamed, controlled, guarded and restrained

27.              Beyond knowing that spiritual practitioner knows not of any other single thing that brings such woe as the untamed, uncontrolled, unguarded and unrestrained

28.              Beyond knowing that spiritual practitioner should associate with those spiritual ones who give what is hard to give and bear

29.              Beyond knowing that strengthening and stabilizing the ‘I am’, we do all sorts of things – all in vain for the ‘I am’ is being rebuilt from moment to moment

30.              Beyond knowing that subtler than ‘I am’ is awareness which alone exists

31.              Beyond knowing that subtler than Bliss is the ‘I

am’

32.              Beyond knowing that subtler than mind is the Bliss

33.              Beyond knowing that subtler than the mind is the intelligence

34.              Beyond knowing that such self-identifications are patently illusionary and the cause of bondage

35.              Beyond knowing that suffering and torment arise out of the false notion that an object of desire belongs to ‘me’ and is ‘myself.’

36.              Beyond Knowing that suffering arises from nothing other than thought

37.              Beyond knowing that suffering can be a condition caused by how we see ourselves in relation to the world

38.              Beyond knowing that suffering can no longer arise within the body when the body is no longer imagined as ‘me’ or ‘mine.’

39.              Beyond Knowing that suffering equals living a lie, a falsehood.

40.              Beyond knowing that suffering is a stern but well-meaning friend which teaches us the lesson of looking at ourselves

41.              Beyond knowing that suffering is an attempted communication with the un-awakened

42.              Beyond knowing that suffering is an incomprehensible retribution

43.              Beyond knowing that suffering is like a greedy insatiable demon continually straining to satisfy an insatiable appetite, and so the cycle continues

44.              Beyond knowing that suffering is the common bond that we all share

45.              Beyond knowing that suffering is to be understood not only as experienced pain and sorrow, but more widely as the wretchedness of everything conditional

46.              Beyond knowing that the concept is false, but you are truth itself

47.              Beyond knowing that the knowledge ‘I am’ is in the body, but it is not the body

48.              Beyond knowing that Truth is certain, the way of all things is uncertain

49.              Beyond knowing that when the knowledge ‘I am’ is not there do you perceive or observe anything?

50.              Beyond knowing to let every action just come and go with the flow

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