SANE: Getting Real with Reality by Clare Dimond

Author:Clare Dimond [Dimond, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: Clare Dimond
Published: 2020-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty

Who we are

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent — the truth of who you are.

Enza Vita

Oh the decades of working on this self. Of trying to have more self belief. More self confidence. More self esteem. The thousands of self help books and courses.

Of trying to be more. And trying to be less.

Trying to shape this self so that it matches up with this received idea of what and who this self should be.

What impossibility. What futility.

How could that even happen?

All it ever was was belief working on belief. Thought trying to pull up thought by its boot straps. An illusion trying to make of itself a more definite illusion.

All of it fuelling the search for the existence that is obscured by the arising of the self.

This is the fundamental misunderstanding of our time.

We believe that who we are is this body, mind and self. There is total identification of self with the physical and conceptual form.

There is so much meaning, so much judgement and attachment in this false identification. So much self blame. So much attempt to push away or deny what is apparently happening and so much attempt to address issues with fixes that only acerbate the problem.

This is not to deny that there are physical, biological, genetic and emotional aspects to this body and mind. Of course there are.

The understanding we are looking at in this book does not deny those. It simply allows them to arise in the sanity of what they really are. It takes from them the confusion that they say something objective, permanent or true about a self identity. It dissolves the idea that how they appear, the meaning they seem to have is anything other than a creation of perception.

In this sanity, life will continue to move the body, just as breathing continues - without delusion.

Believing that this mind and body is who we are is deluded. They are fixed as entities through the confusion and folded into all the other beliefs. In other words they become an extension of the self identity.

The realisation that we are life in an apparent form moving through a world of apparent form is sane. The mind and body are known for what they are - the miracle of life, being and unconditional love.

Sanity.

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