John Veen - A Tether Tied to Space: Epigrams and Subversions

a tether tied to space Epigrams and subversions John Veen Non-Duality Press For Vickie, Cassandra, Pinky, and Lawrence, in that order. A TETHER TIED TO SPACE First English edition published December 2013
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United Kingdom Just simply say when doubt arises,
Not two. in mad trance strike with our spirits knife / Invulnerable nothings. P. B. B.

Shelley Since everything is without substance, sustain the joke of the absurd. Longchenpa Luminous mind is the actual
condition of everything. Longchenpa Foreword Reality is timeless so the question When? can never be answered. If you cant say when something arises you cant claim to know that it arises. You might speculate that birth and death happen now , simultaneouslybut timelessness erases even that. Now thoughts, whether of time or timelessness or anything else, have no actual extension in space or time, and therefore no content.

We might reflect or meta-reflect on thoughts as objects or containers of objects but that near-process is an extinct, dimensionless memory. Memories, thoughts and other karmic burdens are like flames and water streams: formless forms apparent only to the timeless non-form in question. Reality is ? The epigrams and subversions that follow are a squence of primitive objections to form, most of which also object to their own forms vainly, solipsistically. They step foolishly into the dream. And while they are not light, they are bathed in it. They thank you for it.

I Look straight at the seeking itself. Theres your devil. Your teacher. It requires nothing no belief no conversion no breakthrough no need to bore down no need to dig deep See the resistance to what is to what is right in front of your face . See the inversion, the contraction,
the avoidance, the rejection of the real
in favor of some phantom ideal. You become aware of your own tendencies
and resistances.

Seeking (seeking answers, seeking comfort...)
is seen or felt as uncomfortable,
even painful, contraction. Compulsive, instinctive, automatic desires
and fears are exposed. And the peace of not clinging, not grasping,
not cowering is somehow exposed. Chronic self-knotting, caught in the act,
is itself the key.
(The key to what? Who the fuck knows?) See the contraction in action
without trying to fix it... Now its as if theres a microscopic (infinite) distance between you and suffering.
That distance is healthy detachment.
Simple, accidental renunciation.
Breathable space. The yes hidden in the no...
release masquerading as obstruction. Bodymind contracts, both predator and prey.
Salvation? Love?
The breath that comes and goes... Bodymind contracts, both predator and prey.
Salvation? Love?
The breath that comes and goes...

II Ponder the inconceivable.
Stop!! The presumption of separation
the fear of separation
the desire for non-separation
are all non-separate forms of natural perfection. Separation into discrete problem-units
is barred by reality. Bodymind sense is life-cling-death-fear.
It is immune to facts like emptiness and its own absence. When the apparent dilemma
(object, dream-tangent...) presents itself
it is spontaneously recognized as light. When light rediscovers omnipresent light
it drops the post-threat post-lust tendency
to linger in fear-desire-fight-flight
hate-love-anger-greed
or any other sticky form of light. Moment to moment resistance
is divine pressure,
a tactile hint,
a gift. The release button was pushed forever ago.
Nothing to do! III The simplicity of no-path-no-self
precedes trying
trying to understand,
trying to do. Try to get to the point where
the trying stops
when you see the trying. Stop digging
your hands are insane. Why struggle with the struggle?
Look up. Why struggle with the struggle?
Look up.

Face the world. Free seeing brings free breathing?
What is it that sees? What is it that breathes? Instantaneous: your passage to the next moment (the next life).
Without you. If youve got time to waste
get into process.
If youve got no time
dont. Timelessness is the briefest therapy. Timeless reality asks one question
when? Surrender is redundant. Every limitation transcends itself
against its will. Nothing has time to gather itself. Nothing has time to gather itself.

IV Thought-echo
from thought-inception
to thought-recollection
is void
or ask yourself: When does it occur? Thought creates continuity, yet thought is discontinuous.
Thought creates difference, yet thought is undifferentiated. Thought is not thought. Total freedom: from notions, views, states...