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IN SEARCH OF TRUTH---THE HIDDEN SECRET

Friday, February 14, 2014 4:38

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According to the New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionarythe Hawaiian word huna means, among other things, ‘hidden secret,’ or that which is ‘secret’ or ‘hidden,’ in other words that which is not obvious or readily discernible. And what might that be? Well, as I see it, it is what we sometimes refer to as Truth. But what is Truth? Is it not reality? Life? I think so.

Now, how can life or reality be said to be hidden or not obvious? When we fail to see it as it really is, which is more often the case than not. We look for Truth in all sorts of places—in churches, temples, self-help groups, and so on. In one sense, Truth is everywhere, so it can be found in the places just mentioned and elsewhere as well. The trouble is that we think we need to believe this teaching or that teaching, or follow this guru or that guru, or accept this person or some other one as our savior. That’s when we go horribly astray, because Truth is not to be found in someone else—not even if that someone be a supposed deity.

Here’s another shocker. I have come to realize that our conscious, rational, thinking mind, important though it is for problem-solving and the like, cannot directly lead us to Truth. Why might that be the case? Well, when we are thinking, analyzing, and judging we are no longer in direct and immediate contact with life as it unfolds from one moment to the next. I have often spoken of that.

Now, I have problems with the notion of there being different levels of orders or reality. In fact, I am more than comfortably satisfied that there is only one order or level of reality, and all things exist on that one order or level of reality, and on the same plane of observability. However, even the ordinary, everyday things of life are not obvious or readily discernible when we are mindlessly unaware of them. Truth will remain a hidden secret for us until the person each one of us is learns—I am not talking about book-knowledge—to be mindfully aware of the action, both internal and external, of the present moment as it progressively unfolds from one moment to the next.

There is another Hawaiian word manawa which means time, turn, and season. It can also mean a space between two events—and that could even be the ‘space’ between one’s inbreath and outbreath, or one heartbeat and the next. That space is the now, including that now that we sometimes refer to as the ‘Eternal Now.’ If we want to experience life, truth, reality in all its directness and immediacy—and uninterrupted by any intermediaries—we must find it now, that is, in the context and flow of manawa. Why? Because everything—and I mean everything—is contained within ‘the Now.’ All duration—or time, as well as season—is total and complete in the Now. There is an ‘eternal’ quality about the Now. It is forever new. The present moment has its unfolding in the Now. The only ‘time’—in a very profound sense what I am talking about is beyond time—we have is the present moment. We can only experience life from one moment to the next.

Truth is indeed concealed from us until we learn to live and act mindfully. Truth can only be found, that is, experienced and known, ‘in’ the Eternal Now, that is, in the actual living of life, from one moment to the next, with choiceless awareness of what is. And that particular truth or teaching is no hidden secret even though it is not all that widely known. That’s why I am telling you about it … now!

Source: http://ianellis-jones.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-search-of-truth-hidden-secret.html

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