The Most Insane Thing Anyone Can Believe
The Absurd Notion of One, by Tim Freke
(What's the most insane thing that anyone can believe..... that we know what's going on'. Tim Freke says that life is not what it seems, that maybe we are not who we think we are, and that life is a mystery that cannot be totally and rationally solved)
They put the Hubbell Telescope at a random point in the northern sky, the size of a pinhead, and it looked like there was nothing there, but then they found 14 galaxies, each one containing millions of stars, all hidden within a mere pinpoint. You have only 4000 weeks to work this out, if you live to be 80 years old.
What’s the most insane thing one can believe? That they know what is going on.
Most of us are so unconscious that we don’t even notice the most obvious thing about our human predicament, which is that it is profoundly mysterious, and yet nearly everyone spends their time as if it wasn’t. Most people get up in the morning, rush around all day as if they know exactly who they are and what needs to be done. And yet the reality is no one knows what they are doing.
I used to work with people at the time of death and bereavement, and I saw that when people meet death, all of that “I know what is happening” jus suddenly breaks down and they are catapulted face to face with this awesome mystery. Do you have a sense of absolute wonder about life?
I have this sense that there is one idea which if it were taken seriously and really understood, and especially if it was actually experienced, would change everything. Its an incredibly simple idea: the absurd notion of oneness.
When you have a dream, you have two identities. On the one hand, you are a distinct person in the dream, the person that you appear to be, and its seems very real, but its not who you really are. Who you really are is the dreamer. You are the awareness within which the whole dream is arising. Now you have two identities. On the one hand you are the person you appear to be in the flow of experiences called life: I am Tim. But what I really am is what is witnessing that, the awareness in which the whole scenario is arising. My identity has a polar nature. You’re in the movie, but not of it. You’re in the dream but not of it. In the dream we are each playing definite characters, but if you step back, there is just one of us witnessing the whole thing. Maybe you are playing a part in the movie of life, and at the same time you are watching it.
So what do you want? Loads of things? I want more money. I want more stuff. But if I keep tracing it back. Why do I want what I want? I want more money so I will have a nicer life, more holidays. But why? I keep on tracing it back. I find eventually I want to enjoy living. In everything I do, I want to feel good. Something is pushing me to want to feel good and if I try to understand that, I see that I’m Tim, and I want to selfishly feel good. I ask: what’s in it for Tim?
But if I step back behind that and recognize that “I” isn’t Tim, that “I” is everyone and everything, it turns into love because I want everyone to feel good, I want everything to be right for everyone, for everyone to enjoy this dream of love.
What is it then that you want? You wake up suddenly, and there you are. You have the knowledge that you exist, and yet you don’t know why. That moment when you break out of your cultural conditioning, when you break through the ideas and opinions with which you arm yourself against the mystery, that is the beginning of waking from the dream of separateness.
What are you in this mystery of life?
(What's the most insane thing that anyone can believe..... that we know what's going on'. Tim Freke says that life is not what it seems, that maybe we are not who we think we are, and that life is a mystery that cannot be totally and rationally solved)
They put the Hubbell Telescope at a random point in the northern sky, the size of a pinhead, and it looked like there was nothing there, but then they found 14 galaxies, each one containing millions of stars, all hidden within a mere pinpoint. You have only 4000 weeks to work this out, if you live to be 80 years old.
What’s the most insane thing one can believe? That they know what is going on.
Most of us are so unconscious that we don’t even notice the most obvious thing about our human predicament, which is that it is profoundly mysterious, and yet nearly everyone spends their time as if it wasn’t. Most people get up in the morning, rush around all day as if they know exactly who they are and what needs to be done. And yet the reality is no one knows what they are doing.
I used to work with people at the time of death and bereavement, and I saw that when people meet death, all of that “I know what is happening” jus suddenly breaks down and they are catapulted face to face with this awesome mystery. Do you have a sense of absolute wonder about life?
I have this sense that there is one idea which if it were taken seriously and really understood, and especially if it was actually experienced, would change everything. Its an incredibly simple idea: the absurd notion of oneness.
When you have a dream, you have two identities. On the one hand, you are a distinct person in the dream, the person that you appear to be, and its seems very real, but its not who you really are. Who you really are is the dreamer. You are the awareness within which the whole dream is arising. Now you have two identities. On the one hand you are the person you appear to be in the flow of experiences called life: I am Tim. But what I really am is what is witnessing that, the awareness in which the whole scenario is arising. My identity has a polar nature. You’re in the movie, but not of it. You’re in the dream but not of it. In the dream we are each playing definite characters, but if you step back, there is just one of us witnessing the whole thing. Maybe you are playing a part in the movie of life, and at the same time you are watching it.
So what do you want? Loads of things? I want more money. I want more stuff. But if I keep tracing it back. Why do I want what I want? I want more money so I will have a nicer life, more holidays. But why? I keep on tracing it back. I find eventually I want to enjoy living. In everything I do, I want to feel good. Something is pushing me to want to feel good and if I try to understand that, I see that I’m Tim, and I want to selfishly feel good. I ask: what’s in it for Tim?
But if I step back behind that and recognize that “I” isn’t Tim, that “I” is everyone and everything, it turns into love because I want everyone to feel good, I want everything to be right for everyone, for everyone to enjoy this dream of love.
What is it then that you want? You wake up suddenly, and there you are. You have the knowledge that you exist, and yet you don’t know why. That moment when you break out of your cultural conditioning, when you break through the ideas and opinions with which you arm yourself against the mystery, that is the beginning of waking from the dream of separateness.
What are you in this mystery of life?
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