Nothing Left to Say "I Got It!"

Q: I have but ONE question: From where is this understanding understood FROM for you? I asked [---] this question in person and he gave me a strange look and said, "Uh-oh," and smiled. Then he said he didn't know.

I only have "me" here to perceive with. And it's ALL bullshit. Where is this understanding known FROM. How is it known? Can you explain to me where "you" are knowing from, please?

Anything perceived from "in here" seems second-hand and no longer very important. The only tool I have isn't the right tool. Where is the tool you use to "know" or understand?

A: You go partway there with your question, but not all the way. You’ve actually answered it yourself; you just stop short, that’s all.

You said, “It’s ALL bullshit.” Then, is “where understanding is understood from” not bullshit as well?

You stop short because it’s hard to believe that it’s really ALL bullshit, not just the “self” and its wants and needs, but every single thing that appears to happen. All of it is just movement in mind, and as such, has no reality.

So yes, this means your desire to know where understanding is understood from is just a desire like any other – an imprisoning thought. Yes, this means that knowing this is not possible. Understanding itself if not possible. Nothing at all is happening. Nothing at all is ever happening.

There are not some things that are real – like “my understanding” – and other things that are not. NONE of it is real. [---], in his answer to you, gave implicit validity to the idea that there is an understanding. There is not.

What understands that nothing at all is happening? Nothing understands that.

When I say nothing is happening, it’s absolute. It’s total. It’s perfect. Nothing happens. Nothing is moving. Nothing is an event except by your mind’s label of it.

But now you are wishing you could understand this, and wondering how you are going to gain from understanding what I have written. This is the point: There is nothing to gain.

So if nothing is happening, and there is noting to be gained, what is there, and who understands it?

When I look right now, all that is here is consciousness. It has no understanding, because nothing is happening in consciousness to be understood. It is totally still.

Do “I” understand that consciousness is totally still? Well, let’s see, I’m looking around inside consciousness, and I can’t find a thing; that question has no reality.

Consciousness itself is conscious of what it is. It does not “see” this; it is not a seeing thing. It does not “understand” this; it is not an understanding thing. It – consciousness – doesn’t do anything.

Consciousness knows no activity, no events, no phenomena, no objects, no atoms, no sub-atomic particles. It is total, perfect, and not moving. When the mind’s activity is seen (by the mind) for the insignificant dust-storm that it is, consciousness is, as always. Nothing was ever created  by the mind’s activity, and nothing is being created by the mind’s activity now.

How do “we” stop believing in the mind’s activity – believing there is an “understanding” that we need, for some reason? Look into the mind and see if you can find its trick. That’s how to do it. The home page of my website has an outline of suggestions for how to do that.

Who will see the mind’s tricks?
The mind.
What remains then?
Nothing.
Who understands that nothing remains?

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Nothing remains. There is nothing to understand that. When nothing remains, nothing remains! Nothing remains to understand anything. 

“Nothing” is total. Understanding belongs to the mental world of things and events. Understanding is not real. Nothing can be understood.

>Anything perceived from "in here" seems second-hand and no longer very important.

You’re right. It’s second-hand, and it’s not important. So even the perception of the question “Where is this understood from?” is not important. It’s a passing cloud.

>The only tool I have isn't the right tool.

Actually, no. You have the exact right tool for that. You have the mind to discover the trickery of the mind. That’s all you need. That tool is the perfect tool to discover that it (that tool) has no actual reality. It disappears under its own inquiry. Then there is no part of it left to say, “Ah! I understand!” Just absolutely none left. It discovers its own non-existence, and along with that, the non-existence of everything.

>Where is the tool you use to "know" or understand?

It’s gone! It discovered its own non-existence. Nothing is understood.

The need to understand appears in the world of events and phenomena. Remove yourself from that world and all is clear. When the mind discovers its own non-existence, the world is gone, and nothing remains to understand or to be understood. 

I give a good outline of how this can be done (how the mind can discover its own non-existence) on my home page. I can help you through that process if you’d like.