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Inescapable Seeing – Bentinho Massaro

What is it that is seeing right now ? Is it you ? Is the you that you believe to be, is it seeing right now ? As an act ? As a doing ?

Or, is seeing our natural state, our natural condition. Our uninterrupted, effortless presence.

And I don’t mean like seeing through the eyes (pointing to his eyes). That, as a perception, is included as well. However, if you close your eyes, if you just close your eyes right now for, let’s say ten seconds, then something still sees, something sees that you’ve got your eyes closed, something knows that you’ve got your eyes closed. And all kinds of images and colors might still appear. But even without that, even if you go totally blank, something still perceives. Something would perceive the blackness or the non-vision.

And it’s that same perceiving which perceives all the sounds and all the sensations in the body, and all the emotions. »Read More