Descriptions and Descriptionlessness

http://livingrealization.org/

"A common way of introducing people to the view of awareness is to invite them to relax all descriptions. Similar to relaxing describing, we invite others to relax all the conceptual frameworks, relax all knowledge, and rest in not-knowing, rest in the impossibility of ever really being able to describe anything, the impossibility of ever being able to contain the here-and-now in any kind of descriptive framework or point of view."

"But another insight that begins to arise is the impossibility of ever not describing. We can speak about what life is like free of descriptive frameworks, but that too is a descriptive framework. We can speak of the view, free of all points of view, but that of course is another point of view. We can proclaim that nothing can be known, that all is unknowable, but that of course is very much, a knowing!"

"We could never know we'd realized something beyond all descriptions unless in some, even subtle way, that experience or insight took on the form of a description. We could never touch something called the unknowability of things without this capacity to know."

"So, we invite others to experience life without description but I find myself wondering, is that ever really totally possible? For it seems here that wherever there is what we would call experience, there remains some level of description, even if it is quite subtle... there is no pure, descriptionless experience that is completely free of description, no pure view of awareness without a point of view, no freedom from thought without some thought of that freedom... which itself is quite freeing!"

~John Astin

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[dionysius33]

Thanks for posting.. great doorway into the ever present "this". Also liked how Scott explained his process of just being and watching throughout the day.

[kimlaicongphuoc]

Thank you Scott.

[ebutnoekim]

you helped me today Scott

thank you

mikeg

[marjorielard]

I needed this today. Thank you.

[Jimsterr]

I think it, therefore it must be true. To start seeing through this is amazing. It's an invitation to peace...a decrease in the inner and outer war.

Since 1994 I've worked as a therapist with the HIV population. This emerging dialogue has been exceptionally helpful for clients. It's been my own work as well. It could be, in many ways, the new psychotherapy.