THE TRANSITORY PLEASURES

If there is anything wrong with the movies and any kind of pleasures what is it? It's that they end, right? Every thing ends. One meets some friends or has a love affair, or has a candy bar and it all has to end. We can't wait holidays to come and when they end it means disappointment. Everything in time ends with sorrow and there's also the fear of the end lurking in the shadow. The end of a pleasure, the end of comfort.

But does it have to be like that? Maybe it's only like that when we try to seize the movement, control it, choose what we want and evade that fragments we don't want. That means we identify fragments in the movement that is really unbroken. So it's only an illusion. Nothing can be seized. Everything is moving, transforming, changing. That means that if the brain is stuck, wants to grab and hold something from the movement, it does not completely reflect it as it is, all that's happening exactly as it is, but some imaginary product of thought, at least to some extent, right?

Is UP, Dhjana, Channa, Yoga, etc. simply observing the brain doing whatever it is doing, without any control, choice, purpose, effort, expectation, knowledge, a pattern to adhere to? A perception not directed towards any goal, is that possible? 

There is such a perception and it's urgent and necessary. This perception is not started by "you", it's a freedom from "you". It's a freedom from the human condition of fear and sorrow. It's not mechanic, it's there because of understanding of what happens, the brain and the mechanism of the META process of thought.

If we observe all what's happening like that, without any obstruction of the flow of reality, it implies no horizontal conflict of subject - object that is produced by thought, because in this kind of perception thought does not pursue any goal and does not work to complete any task.(in time). So there is no perceiver/observer/self in it, right?

This new kind of perception is not pursuing any sensations, experiences, fleeting and disappointing pleasures because that false movement is the movement of the self, gathering, choosing, trying to ascertain security and comfort, having preferences. This over that. But reality is one unbroken flow that cannot be divided into good and bad, it's all unitary undivided universal one. That is the reality, irrespective if we want it to be like that or not. That is the truth. We can either live the truth or struggle with it and trying to exert our control over it, choose this or that. My will. Isn't that futile?

 SEAMLESS UP

What if you can't "sustain" UP/Yoha/Dhjana because you want to sustain "it", so you're trying to sustain it - some imaginary ideal state, according to some definition, some pattern you hold?

Is the false movement the problem, the blockage, the noise?

You want to gain Freedom, another goal, another trophy, another some thing more. And apparently it cannot be gained, perhaps it doesn't need to be gained for it's never lost?

The fact is that Reality, the Universe cannot be lost, there is only the Universe and nothing separate from It. All problems with UP are imaginary (in thought) only. So let it go. Let the chips fall where they may, for you don't control anything, so don't try to control anything. Don't try to choose, for you don't even exist.

 IN THE WORLD OF MONKS

I am not "Arek", come on.. :) Certainly not the Arek from the secondary school :) I am not. I do not exist. There is no "me". "Arek" is a false illusory imaginary product of thought (although sometimes functional in the society).

Some pray "Oh please my Lord, tell me what to do. Manage my life. I'm sure it will work out for the best" :) That is a fictional duality produced by thought. Who do you pray to?

But if we say that in Reality there is no duality, no "me" that can say: "I am the Universe", therefore this identification (and all identification) is a mistake. 

The one unitary movement of the Universe has nothing to do with any identification with it.

Only the Universe Itself could say: "I AM", but it doesn't say. Who says that is not (one with) the Universe (anymore).

REALITY 

If you blindly follow anyone, you will fall in a hole. There are no gurus and no one is infallible. Even Einstein was wrong many times. Being mistaken is not bad, it's bad to just accept and believe anything without doubting and investigating from the ground up, which means learning.

For reality to be reflected in the human brain, all knowledge, all symbol, pattern, every object and every goal has to be let go/transcended.

THE PERSISTENT ILLUSION 

The only "decision" thought/ the "me"/ the self can make regarding UP/Yoga/Dhjana/Zazen which it does not know, cannot "know", and will never "know" (thought can "know" only a description, a definition, words and symbols), is not to even be silent (which thought cannot decide upon obviously) but to not re-act, let go, suspend doing anything at all, and suspend language. THAT means an all-inclusive observation and silence. But it's not that the self that starts it (its supposed "last decision to start UP"). 

If UP should not be just more of the thought-hypnosis, the observation naturally MUST be all-inclusive and unbroken, flowing. There cannot be any sense of a division in it (the horizontal conflict of subject-object), no sense of control, expectation or effort, which is all again the "self", produced by thought.

So yes, the observation IS indeed "all" inclusive (as one unitary movement) but it's NOT more effort, expectation and it's not another (positive) goal that is set by thought to pursue.

UP is not a "leap" (a positive action), it's a negation of the whole mechanism of thought.

The "me" cannot "leap" anywhere, including to UP because there is no "me", it's an illusory product of thought. 

Nothing per se is "started" or "leaped to". The Universe is always already here, no need to make any jumps! Where would be the jumping to? That what is is all there is. David Bohm said, quite correctly that "all that can be is what is". Nothing is separated from It.

This need to pursue a goal (what is - the Reality vs "what should be" - an ideal) is a persistent illusion/hypnosis/conflict produced by thought - the Horizontal Conflict, time and the "self".

So what really happens is that in the Simplicity, the One unitary Reality, thought produces the persistent ILLUSION of separation and the need to "do something" to "return to reality", which means a pursuit of just another goal, the horizontal conflict, hypnosis and the "self" with its fragmentary perception.

 NOT KNOWING

Can UP/Dhjana/Channa/Samandhi/Yoga, etc. be positively initiated as a positive movement (with effort) or every positive movement is a pursuit of a goal (in time, with the horizontal conflict), so concentration, a perception directed towards some object, so re-action (based on knowledge/thought) and concentration?

Can then UP be a different kind of action, a negative discipline, the negation of that what is false. Not pursuing any goal with expectation, not controlling anything, not concentrating, not knowing, not re-acting according to any pattern or definition?

When that what is false is negated (by intelligent observation and thorough understanding), the real movement is that's what is left here. 

 THE FALSE MOVEMENT

The false movement of thought of self-aggrandizement (seeking power, prestige, profit) must be thoroughly understood. The other side of it is of course fear and sorrow. Suffering is the expression of the self.

This false imaginary illusory movement is in "time" (horizontal), gathering things that are supposed to bring "me" safety, pleasure and comfort. But what's more important, it brings anxiety, fear and sorrow.

Pleasure (desire, preferences) = fear and sorrow, they're like two sides of the same coin.

No control and wanting nothing is that what is, the true movement of Reality and the only liberation from the persistent illusion produced by thought, called the horizontal conflict (subject - object) and the self.

Not wanting anything includes "God", "zen", "yoga", "Unitary Perception", etc. and it means a close observation of the whole false movement of thought, that persistent illusion coming and going, trying to produce unnecessary tasks and goals, attempting hypnosis. It means letting things flow without controlling anything, letting go everything that is so called "my will".

The pure negative observation of UP neutralizes the false movement, the memories trying to create the false continuity, desires, etc.),

The brain is a product of the unitary movement of Reality, it is one with the movement.

The movement is at the same time in the brain and the movement creates the brain. UP = The Universe.