The Point II

     You can only appreciate things fully when you recognize their emptiness. When you recognize the emptiness of form the point is everywhere. Everywhere is the point. Everything is the point. Nothing is outside of the point. The point is that everything is. Everything is exactly as it is. This is the point.
     It doesn't matter if there is a point or if their is no point. The point is that things are as they are. It doesn't matter whether or not you see the point because the point is everything as it is right now regardless of how much we know or don't know. The point is that it doesn't need for there to be a point for their to be a point. The point doesn't need to exist forever. The point is simply what we experience now. We think that their's a point to life and that we aren't grasping it, but we are in the sense that we are the point. We are right now and this is all there is to it. Whether or not we can see the point or whether or not there is a point this is the point. The point does not need defining, the point doesn't need locating, the point doesn't need knowing. The point is being. The point is being conscious now. The point is life now. The point is that we are. The point is what we are. Whatever it is. Or isn't. The point doesn't depend on anything. The point doesn't depend on anything at all. This is why it doesn't matter if we are aware of it or not. This is why it doesn't matter if it exists or not. It is the background of our awareness and it is our awareness. It doesn't need to be and it doesn't need not to be. This isn't a matter of ideas.
     This goes beyond knowing and thinking and being. This goes beyond all that we are. This is why it is all that we are. Our roots come from a place beyond what we are. So truth and meaning are made of things that go beyond who we are. They go beyond being. And in this sense we go beyond being. For the ground and the end and forever stretching of who we are is beyond being. Yet being is no different than this. We see being, and we see life through a small window. Being and life are not the image we see through the window, but they are the entirety what is outside. I don't know who on this Earth can see everything exactly how it is. We see life as it is because we are this entirety of what is outside. We live and are blinded by delusion, we are stuck in the room in the house with the window looking outside, but the reality is that we are no different than the outside. We are the outside. We are the outside from the inside looking through the window at the outside. We are looking at ourselves.         We live in a strange place where we are aware that we are God, yet we still are deluded. This maybe the limit of human experience. We are somehow omniscient and omnipotent, yet partially disabled and limited in our awareness. We are the universe being partially aware of itself. We intuit this, but we still can't overcome the limits of our faculties.
     This is the point. The point doesn't have to be perfect in form or being. The point is seeing without the filter of our deluded mind. The point is simply seeing through the delusion of our knowing-conceiving mind. It doesn't have to be free of delusion or ignorance. The point is just seeing without delusion. And a part of us is always this. This is why we are awake, fully awake right now.
     We try and find a truth that is concrete and eternal. We think this is awakening. We think this is enlightenment. We think enlightenment is finding our permanent self. I do not know whether or not we have a permanent self. I do know that this is not important. And that this is not necessary for enlightenment. Enlightenment is seeing things as they are, not necessarily reaching or discovering any permanent place or thing. We think that truth is seeing something that is here. We think that truth is something that is. Truth maybe a thing, but it isn't necessarily a thing. Being present maybe not being anything at all. The truth isn't bound to being, it is not being deluded in the mind. This does not mean freeing ourselves from all delusion. It does not mean that we see everything perfectly clearly. It means that we see through the delusion, we see completely outside of our thinking mind. We don't need to erase all delusion to see this. we don't need to erase all delusion to be awakened, to be enlightened. Enlightenment is seeing through the delusions of conceptualizing. It is discovering the universe outside the frame of the conceptualizing mind.
     Enlightenment, if we can call it such a thing, is what is going on right now regardless of the particular orientation of this moment. Their is no waking up, at least in an absolute sense. Their is just waking up happening right now. I think waking up means the subjective experience of waking up to truth. It seems to me that waking up is simply realizing something that already is. And not in the sense that it already is a reality outside of an unawake persons mind, being, or experience; but in the sense that it is what you are experiencing now. Not even that you don't see it. You do see it. You just don't believe you do. There's nothing you can do to see it because you see it now. The point is here and now. It is everything as it is right now: no ifs, ands, or buts. You don't need to wake up because you are awake. You don't need to stop trying to be awake because this is apart of being awake. It's apart of being alive. We think their is something wrong with us, but their isn't. Not in an absolute sense. We think we need to achieve something perfect to be enlightened or awake. We think we need to be free of sin, delusion, or weakness. We think this because we feel separate from the world. We are not separate and these ideas are just ideas, fantasies and imaginations: ungrounded extrapolations on intuitions we have of what is really going on. Perhaps someone who is awake merely sees this. This is the truth that is missing. The truth that nothing is missing. I don't need to stop you from searching for the point, because you are the point searching for yourself. The point is not just basking in awareness of itself, it is being deluded, suffering, being born and dying. No exceptions for what we don't like. Perhaps this is why the Buddha said that life is suffering. Because it is. The point is everything and I mean everything. No escape or change from that which is now. This is it.