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"Suchness" is a term for the nature of things as-they-are. To see things as-they-are is so very difficult because of the great mass of detail that beclouds our vision. The purpose of insight is to penetrate in to this suchness with the help of a simple program like:-
‘In the seen there will be to you just the seen, in the heard just the heard, in the smelt just the smelt, in the tasted just the tasted in the touched just the touched, in the thought just the thought. That way sense-objects’ simply becomes object lessons for understanding the event called seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching, and thinking. When that event is understood one comes to know that there is nothing substantial that everything is circumstantial. That every specific event is such and not otherwise. The Buddha compared perception to a mirage. Throughout Samsara for countless aeons we have been running after this mirage, in search of something substantial. All what we got was stress and distress. So the Buddha asked us to ‘STOP’ and cleanse our vision to see the mirage for what it is. |