The What-Is-Not

[Hazard]

Sigh.

Gentlemen... ladies... let go of your ideas. Let go of your beliefs. Let go. Just gaze at the flame.

Ask yourself... what am I seeing? You think you see the flame, but it's not the flame you see. What is it that you see? What is it that you are looking at, which you don't see? Why can't you see what you're looking at, which you think you see but don't?

This isn't some mumbo jumbo everything is nothing nihilistic "if I say it confusingly enough people will think it's deep" stuff. It's a point so simple, so obvious, that we completely miss it on a daily, hourly and minute by minute and second by second basis. But by understanding this point, you can begin to see the matrix itself.

I want you to tell me, what is a flame, if not what you see when you look at it? Why and how can you see what it is not, and not what it is? The flame is not what you see. How can that be?

I didn't do the experiment but I wanted to just chime in. Not really guessing be relating to my own knowledge of things and questions I had.

Your mind is simply producing an illusion. You look at a flame and think "that is a flame" but what is it really? An image in your head. Your world is simply like a television going on in your head with responses that allow you to interpret the things going on.

The world is in your head. Not the other way around.

Ryan