The Seer

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When contemplating the shift in consciousness, sometimes referred to as awakening or enlightenment, the Danish mystic, Sunyata Emanuel, thought of it as “the movement from understanding to innerstanding“.

Understanding something, the dual state, is separation. The subject is separated from the object. In Innerstanding there is no separation. You simply innnerstand every experience.

It is a deep impersonal intimacy with everything. The mystics have, through the ages, called it “the experience of oneness with everything”, “Unio Mystica”.

How can we bring about this shift in consciousness so that we become awareness (the reality that makes up both the subject and the object)? How do we move from understanding to innerstanding?

By entering every form and name, realize the formless and nameless.

Practising this little way in (to being present) is very simple. You just don´t separate yourself from anything that arises in the mind. The habit of the mind is to separate itself from itself.

That is what is happening when we analyse, grasp or reject. These tendencies of the mind are incredibly deeply rooted. They belong to our basic conditioning. This old habit splits the mind in two: the subject and the object!

In this practice, you just enter every experience — good or bad, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly — right away. Above all, don’t wobble, don’t hesitate. In doing this, there will be no space left for the subject, so in this way you leave the man and keep the object.

Just enter every experience and the innerstanding will happen by itself. If there is sadness, just enter it totally, become one with sadness. Don’t leave any place for a separated me. In this way, there will come about a realization of the formless and nameless (we are).

Nukunu