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About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 16, 2020, 3:51 am
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Dear Forum Member:
Respectfully submitted for your consideration.
I trust by now that many students have reviewed the written or
audio version of the Ashtavakra Gita. I wouldn’t be arrogant
enough to think I could submit anything better or more poetic.
However, I would like to submit something in a modern context in
an effort to make what has been pointed to a little more real.
Not that it needs to be or could be made more real than it
already is. It’s all that is real, the REAL YOU.
Let’s see how this works. You are reading this from some kind of
LCD display, so we will work with what you have in front of you.
What are some of the qualities of your display? Nothing
appearing on the screen changes the screen, it’s always
functioning as a display and that is its sole (and soul)
purpose. It doesn’t get involved in changing the picture. Its
there to present a story line to you through pictures and
sounds.
All LCDs need a ‘feed’ which comes from some complicated and
obscure combination of transistors, resisters and capacitors. To
most of us, this is pretty mysterious, so let’s call it ‘The
Mystery’.
While the screen is filled with action and characters, it
doesn’t jump up and down on your table. It remains completely
still and unchanged, only images appear to move. This is an
important point. It is the display that is real and not what
arises on it. Nothing on the screen is real, nothing at all.
There is only one screen in all of this universe (the One
Screen). In the case of humans, it displays human scenes while
in a butterfly, it displays butterfly scenes.
Humans are only concerned with what arises on the screen. Loves
and hates, tastes, like and dislikes, judgement, struggles,
successes. and all of those are additional illusions and
distortions added by ego/Maya/personality. While absorbing and
entertaining, that doesn’t change the fact that they are
illusory. You can know this because all of them have a beginning
and an end, they are continually changing. The screen itself is
always there and dispassionately displaying whatever calls to be
displayed… i.e. whatever signal arises from The Mystery.
Remember, a picture is just a picture. In and of itself it has
no ‘qualities’ and is beyond any concept such as ‘good’ or
‘bad’. Ego/Maya/personality do that job and do it pervasively.
An enlightened one never pays unnecessary heed to what is on the
One Screen, because he or she realize the transient nature of
pictures and sound. The unenlightened take the pictures and
sound to be the real things. This is as foolish as modelling
your life on a soap-opera.How can
it matter what arises on a screen? How can a picture or sound
be important? Can anything on a screen be better than anything
else? Granted some arisings might appear be more fun, more
seductive or more beautiful than others… but can any arising be
more real than another? Is any picture anything ‘more’ than any
other picture?
Maya/ego/personality is the discriminator, the one that tells
you something is better than something else, but the catch is
that this discriminator is only another illusion, another
picture arising on the One Screen. It’s there to give you a
sense of control over what arises, and that too is illusion.
Your True Nature is that of the LCD but you are caught up on
what the screen displays. How can that be anything more than
illusion? Through the hypnotic effectiveness of those pictures
there has arisen in the human a kind of filter or sub-routine
called ego/Maya/personality.
The life you think you are living, with all its drama, is just
that, drama. Nothing arising on the screen is the screen itself,
which is the REAL YOU, it’s just an experience.
Knowing/realizing that it’s all only continually changing images
arising on this One Screen is liberation from the yoke of
illusions.
O.K., so what is the human body for? The human body is also an
arising on the screen. Its purpose is that of an interface. It
facilitates and interprets the arisings on the One Screen. A
human interface, using its brain, interprets through the
spectrum and qualities of humanness. Likewise, a butterfly
interprets the screen, but through the spectrum and qualities of
butterflyness. Remember, there is only One Screen, but almost
infinite interpretations. One substantial difference is the
human has the unique capacity to realize what is going on and
thus wake up. The human has the ‘self-awareness’ or ‘awareness
of awareness’ capacity, lacking in almost all other animals. I
suspect some large sea creatures and mammals might possess it as
well, but that’s just my hallucination.
Imagine two different people watch the same movie on the same
screen. They come away with one saying ‘Wow, I really enjoyed
blah, blah.’ while the other says, ‘No, no, you missed the whole
point of the show’. The show itself was the same for each
person, but their ego/Maya/personalities, through their brains,
led them to different interpretations of what was going on. In
this process, ego/Maya/personality has very cleverly lead them
both away from the real point of it all, that they were both
watching the same One Screen. Any good show is going to draw you
in. That’s the purpose of a show. But, from the perspective of
the screen, nothing is different from anything else. Pictures
arising on the screen of awareness will always be illusions and
the only real unchanging things is the One Screen.
Don’t we all like a good movie, one that grabs our attention and
seduces us into losing sight that it’s just a movie? Good
entertain is… well, good, but it would be delusional to think it
was real. Watching the One Screen, it is easy to perceive motion
but motion never actually happens. The One Screen never moves.
All movement happens in the human brain, never on the screen.
So we have The Mystery sending a signal which is displayed on
the One Screen. Ego/Maya/personality then take the story, and
based on memories and various personal interpretations. We, as
final observer, get a story of a story, in other words, a
distortion of a distortion. At the same time, we wonder why we
are confused and miserable. Humans lead lives of quiet
desperation and lie to themselves pretty much all the time. Your
brain is the source of all movement, and it doesn’t exist. Just
another arising on the screen. At the level of the One Screen,
nothing ever happened, so, what’s all the (human) excitement
about?
Alright Mr. Smarty-pants Jed… what is one to do?
At the level of One Screen there is absolutely nothing you can
do, it has been there for an eternity and will continue for an
eternity. It is never changing, infinitely big, lucid and
transparent beyond anything, invisible and indivisible… and,
it’s the Real You. Ahh.. but don’t give up, because you as human
can do something. You can start looking in the right place.
You can unhook yourself from the illusion by looking inward.
Seek what all ‘this’ arises on. The Real You is not the
personality, not the body, not even the ‘soul’. The real you is
that on which this whole universe has arisen. For the time
being, I’ll stick with calling it the One Screen, but that will
probably change after I have lunch… just the way the human side
of me works. Today’s prime directive, seek the Once Screen and
comment as you see fit.
Be well.... Love ya, Jed.
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: dopo Date: August 16, 2020, 7:49 am
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When I look at the computer screen there is the screen, easy to
look beyond the edge, there is the wall I am not looking at the
screen. Therefore is easy to see the screen isnt real.
When I look at "the one screen" it contains everything my senses
could see or feel or think so there is no wall to look at, only
infinite screen, no point in going outward - my senses can't see
anything else than is shown.
I decided to go inward.
Who decided to to go inward?
Me?
I closed my eyes, there is really dark inside.
I hear music, well not quite, the ears hear the music, me sees
that ears hear the music.
Who is me?
That is the guy who is breathing that is me.
Airs goes thought the nose inside I feel it, lungs expand I
feel, just there is missing the sense of control, It is like the
breathing is done by itself?
Oh right me is the whole body, I mean the me controls everything
it doesn't need to control each single process, I mean managers
don't know how is the job at lowest rank performed since is not
needed to know if everything works.
So I investigate the me-body, I feel tight muscles in legs,
tired muscles in hands, heavy muscles on the scalp and around
the eyes of my head. Some feeling I can not describe in my belly
area (I would defend the sour cream with crunchy peanut butter
any day).
Where I focus there comes relaxation. Suddenly I found I is in
the chest area.
I focus there, oh nevermind it is just the heart beating. No me
there.
I sit in the dark, there is no me, there is no I, there are no
problems or desires. Only the breathing exists and my ears are
pulsating when as the music waves are hitting them.
Only calmness is, no watcher, thoughts arise here and there but
don't hold or influence anything just fade away...
I open my eyes.
Nothing changed I am in the same room, sitting on the same chair
- I swear this world didn't exist just a while ago. Here I am
back. Nothing changed. Sense of I as watcher is back, sense of
me living is back. Tomorrow I am going to work, all the problems
are still my problems not "just problems" the screen or not
everything seems real to me as "mine." Even thou I cant find the
me.
I have no idea how to escape screen if everything is screen. I
can temporarily suspend the screen but I am back any time I open
my eyes.
What if when looking inside I am also only looking at the screen
since everything is the screen. If everything is the screen then
there is nobody who can go look at the screen.
Who is there to check if there does a screen exist?
Who is there to believe what is the truth if there is nobody who
can confirm is true.
Does it make any sense, I don't know what makes sense anymore.
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 17, 2020, 1:10 am
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Hi there:
Responding to your post would take me quite a long time.
Virtually each sentence begs a response and this guy is pretty
busy right now. So, my abbreviated response is this: count how
many times you used 'I' and 'me' and then reflect on who or what
that really is.
Feedback welcome.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: John Fox Date: August 17, 2020, 12:39 pm
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Your post is very well timed indeed for this particular human
interface which finds itself looking back and forth from the one
screen to the picture or in other words oscillating from an
eightened state to an unenlightened state and back again. The
war is raging and the interface is tiring. The war is a few
years old now but never has the oscillation moved from one state
to the other so quickly.
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Parsley Date: August 18, 2020, 8:29 am
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This is too deep to deal with quickly.
If I get it right I see 4 entities (or levels):
1.) The One screen (nothing else exists for real)
2.) The appearances on the screen (like the content of DVD
converted into pictured stories)
3.) Maya/ ego/ personality (identification with and
interpretation of the story)
4.) The final observer, influenced more or less by
Maya/ego/personality (filtered, limited and distorted
perceiving, awareness of an interpreted, distorted story that is
taken for real usually)
What can I as a human do? What is the alignment that’s showing
up?
„You as a human can do something. You can start looking in the
right place. You can unhook yourself from the illusion by
looking inward. Seek what all `this´arises on.“
So is the enlightened One just another dreamt character (like
one of trillions in the DVD plays)?
So it’s all about being in the dream world and not to escape
from it?
(I guess this cannot be answered with yes or no, it’s both. In
this world but not from it).
Thank you very much.
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 18, 2020, 8:57 am
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There is no 'enlightened one'. Enlightenment does arise and is
quite real, but never to a person... that would be illusion
seeing Truth. How is that possible? Genuine T/R does not occur
in time or space, it is beyond those, and likewise it doesn't
appear to an 'I'. It doesn't even arise because it is already
the only 'real' thingy and always 'there'. I can't come up with
a profound metaphor to dazzle you with, they usually come to me
at 5:00 am. I will keep you up to date when one appears.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Parsley Date: August 18, 2020, 9:12 am
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Thanks a lot for clarifying. The thought was that a human mind
can be programmed to see truth at one programmed point.
But how can an illusion exist without perceiving or imagining
it? It's not the program that realizes but the watcher or
applier or creator of the program. And that is?
Yes, 5:am is a special time....
All the best
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 19, 2020, 12:37 am
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How can a program see Truth? Illusion can only see illusion and
Truth cannot be seen. However, one can 'know' that it is. Words
drift off to the vast nothingness at this point and are totally
inadequate. Now, further.
Love ya, Jed
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Parsley Date: August 19, 2020, 3:06 am
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I agree, words are inadequate and can lead to confusion. Some
questions arise out of the nothing, they may be silly but who
cares?
If the word seeing is meant like being aware than...
how can an illusion be aware of an illusion?
And if there is no one
how can one know?
If there is nothing but awareness
who is realizing truth?
Can truth be realized without the human interface?
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Re: About the One Screen and your computer display...
By: Jenci Date: August 19, 2020, 3:38 am
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Not sure how this fits in the One Screen metaphore but yesterday
the sun was shining through my window on a crystal candle holder
and a beautiful image was dancing on the wall of a rainbow of
colours.
I saw it as this - sunlight (reality) was hitting a perceiving
instrument (crystal) which refracted (distorted) the sunlight
(reality) and projected a moving image on the wall.
The image was not real. It appeared and later disappeared. While
it was there, it moved and put on a great display of colours. I
preferred some of the colours to the other colours. Some were
more prominent than others. The projected image only existed
because of the perceiving instrument (crystal).
Although it was not real, I know that light is made up of
different colours dependent on the wavelengths. So although it
is not real, the image is a distorted projection of the true
nature of sunlight.
The human body mind/senses is the perceiving instrument for
reality. The senses distort reality and project it as an image
that we call the world. That image actually appears within the 5
senses of the body/mind, rather than outside of it. We know this
from scientific investigation (you posted a video on this
recently) but experientially people believe this image appears
outside of them and therefore they believe the world is 'out
there'.
So T/R is about realising reality for what it is. We can't
remove the perceiving intstument which distorts reality because
without body/mind/senses how can Truth realise itself. Instead
we need to remove the distortion which seems to be a default
program in the operating system of the human body/mind/senses.
Jed, you're on fire lately with your rants, thank you.
Investigations are ongoing here....although that is a Me doing
something to get somewhere.....
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