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“SEEING THROUGH ASSUMPTIONS WITHIN”

To see through, without interposing any judgment whatsoever, the nature of the dogmaticalness, self-righteousness, and arrogance inherent in the “cognitive distortion” of the mind (ego, the “I,” mere thought), which is the narrow-mindedness—which points to a mere phenomenon (impermanence), that arises solely through dependent origination, that is, inevitably from the convergence of countless, unfathomable necessities, and insists that it “ought to be something else” or “ought to change.”

However, no matter how much effort the “I” exerts, the illusion of separation—the projection of “cognitive distortions” that makes it seem as though a “self” or others actually exist—is, of course, not reality; nor does impermanence as separation ever transform into permanent as oneness.

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In reality, Awareness can never directly know the truth without the readiness to face all the facts exactly as they are, unflinchingly and head-on.

This is because the truth never conveniently conceals facts that the mind (ego, “I”) finds unbearable to look at.

On the contrary, the truth illuminates—by the light of clarity—the fact, for example, that when the mind (ego)—acting as the “doer”—reacts to save those suffering from poverty or war, it does so not because it embodies a “good person,” but simply because it cannot bear to look directly at pain of its own that it has projected onto those people. In other words, it reveals the fact that unless one faces its own pain, that suffering will never vanish.

“As within, so without.”

That is precisely why the mind (ego) unconsciously resists and continually avoids the raw reality.

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Meanwhile, Awareness sees everything exactly as it is—including such behaviors of the mind (ego), the underlying motives for pretending to be a “good person,” and all other causal relationships that have not yet been recognized.

Without any judgment whatsoever.

And never with any scheme to punish later.

That is precisely why this pure awareness that sees everything as it is without judgment is described—such as the “all-seeing eye.”

However, the role often attributed to it—that of “punishing evil”—is merely an interpretation and its projection by the mind (the ego). This projection arises because the mind never grasps the non-dual truth and views the ego itself as evil to eliminate.

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Therefore, “ignorance” by no means signifies a lack of knowledge regarding “The Self”

Rather, it is referring to a state in which the “I”—is unconsciously identified to be the subject of all perception (including knowledge about The Self)—is ever once being left unexamined and unquestioned, remaining unscrutinized right down to its very source. (OM 🙏)