The Art of Seeing
A message from Satya Ji:
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Appreciation is the key.
Appreciation makes you exist.
That is why we love love so much, because somebody sees you as you are and you feel for the first time that you exist. Not as a thought but as a being.
Love is the flow of your presence.
You exist when you love.
You exist when you are loved.
The highest state is when you both are not there, and love is.
Appreciation is energy and awareness.
Appreciation is totality and wisdom.
In appreciation, you expand your boundaries and let in more life.
"Ok baba Ji it's all great poetic stuff but what can I do to feel that"
Yes yes coming to that, I got carried away, sounded so cool to write these things. 😁😜
A line by Leonardo da Vinci impacted me in my youth.
To develop a complete mind:
Study the science of art;
Study the art of science
Learn how to see.
Realize that everything
Connects to everything else.
~ Leonardo da Vinci.
Appreciation is to see.
No no, hold on, no you don't know appreciation. Almost all the great words like acceptance, let go, love, surrender, self, soul, cosmos etc. We assume that we know what they mean because we know the dictionary meaning. But the word sweet is not the experience of sweet. These words are pointers towards an experiential connection with life, not an academic meaning. This is the fallacy of our life which creates dark shadows of words.
Let me clarify what I mean in context to what I’m saying about appreciation, and why great advices do not work in your life.
A master, a guru, a guide, a teacher can show you the map which is like words and you can assume now you know the way about in your life.
All spiritual teachings are maps.
Now, what will be needed to use the map? Your legs to walk on the path described. Right?
Wrong!
Maps are not life. Maps cannot predict the path and its challenges. No guru can because each path is a unique phenomenon. It is created when you walk. It does not exist in life other than your mind.
Lao Tzu went as far as to say that life is a way not a goal.
Celebration of life is enjoying the walk that's how we see Vishnu in a reclining posture enjoying the show of life.
But we walk to get somewhere but there is only a walk, nowhere to go really. This ambitious mind is your bastard, slave, greed and fear in one.
So coming back to the basic point that legs, horses, cars, or planes are not enough to walk, to ride, to fly on the path.
Now listen carefully.
Every teaching, every map, every guru, every vehicle is useless if you do not have what is needed to move. This tool is the spark of master within you. This tool is your freedom. This tool is your wisdom. This tool is the most misused or unused. This tool consumes and consists 80% of your energy and life. This tool is, where you let in life to respond.
THIS TOOL IS YOUR EYES.
THIS TOOL IS TO SEE.
You do not know how to see, you only think. You see a tree for split second then your thoughts start and all you see is your thoughts about the tree. You don't feel the green, the form, the play of light shadows on the tree.
You can know the science of your being if you know how to look like a scientist.
You can know the art of your being if you know how to look like an artist.
But in both, you need to know how to look
WE ALL ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BUT NEVER LOOK.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO SEEK IN SPIRITUAL, YOU JUST NEED TO SEE. BECAUSE SPIRITUAL IS, ALL AROUND INSIDE OUT, EVERYTHING AND YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.
TO SEE, TO LOOK, IS TO APPRECIATE. TO SEE AS IT IS. IN THAT APPRECIATION WHILE LOOKING AT THE TREE YOU BECOME AWARE OF YOURSELF LOOKING. A LIVE ENERGY CONNECTION IS FORMED BETWEEN YOU AND THE TREE.
THIS CONNECTION IS THE SOURCE OF WISDOM, LOVE AND INVENTION.
THIS CONNECTION MADE ARTISTS MAKE ART, MUSICIANS MAKE MUSIC.
TO LOOK, TO TOUCH, TO TASTE, TO SMELL, TO LISTEN THEY ALL ARE ART AND SCIENCE OF LIVING.
SPIRITUALITY IS NOT A MAP, A TECHNIQUE, BUT A SCIENCE AND ART OF YOUR BEING AND IT'S CONNECTION TO THIS LIFE.
First, be humble. Drop great words, plans, and supersonic jet fighter planes of your bastard ego. Become the only son of Divine and....
LEARN TO LOOK LIKE A CHILD.
Have you seen into child's eyes? That is SHIVA, pure awareness, appreciation looking at you. You are moved by it because the child is seeing you, not your definitions.
SHIVA is called bholey meaning innocent one.
In Bharat the word for philosophy is DARSHAN which means to see, unlike the western meaning - to intellectualize.
All insights and inspirations, they all are seen not thought about. Because life is beyond words - a live being - it can only be experienced or seen not thought about.
When you see, you exist along with the tree - that is the glimpse of yourself through the tree. That is, possible if you are not mind fucking about self-realisation, eightenment etc.
How do you know tree exists?
Is it really tree which exsists or it exists with you as you exsist?
When you really see and become aware you are reflected back by life, then you become aware of yourself as the one who is seeing. This is dialogue.
This is relating - not what we call relationship.
To see is to relate, to reflect, to be reflected back, to love.
Please contemplate on this.
I am sharing a series of writings and practices on the Art of Seeing, you can download it below. We will take this journey together and you will see that your issue is not what is real or true but your issue is: we are afraid to see, we are trained not to see.
And to see is the death of a slave and bastard.
TO see is the legitimate birth of your innocence, a pure mirror which reflects life as it is.
Don't think it is one-sided. If you give this gift of pure reflection of innocence to life, whole cosmos, appreciates it and reflects back.
This dialogue is bhakti, devotion, wisdom, meditation, art and science.
See to see, that is love.
See to seek, that is manipulation.
Look, don't look for.
Look here don't go far.
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Aum namaha Shivaya.
