When
Doubts Arise
When
the truth of this is seen clearly, and it has been clearly
pointed out what your are is this empty living nowness,
this luminous witnessing, and once you are have seen
clearly that it is impossible to separate from it – it is
the beginning and the end.
Doubts will arise in the mind, the story will continue and
thoughts and judgements will happen. When these doubts
arise it can be useful to chat to someone who has seen this
clearly to help clarify these doubts.
It is also important to realise that doubting is a
spontaneous function of the mind, a thought in the story.
These thoughts and all kinds of thinking, feeling and
experiencing arise spontaneously and are out of your
control – you never had any control, because no-one is
'doing' the thinking. Thinking just happens, like weather.
Doubts cannot change what you are , they are simply
thoughts – imagination. Doubts and conceptual thinking
happens in imaginary time. A temporal sequence created in
the imagination. Where is this future and past? Can you
show these times to yourself other than with your
imagination?
What is now is Reality. Reality is alive and knowing itself
as you.
More importantly, you have never had a single thought that
took you away from Reality, just as nothing that happens on
cinema screen could ever physically take you out of the
cinema. Moreover, who are the doubts happening to?
Investigate who is having these doubts. You will find that
all there is, is this empty witnessing. Doubts happen but
to no one.