All the sitting, all the attention devoted to the dharma, all the talk, talk, talk… is not doing it the way the Buddha did it.
The Buddha saw what he looked at and did what was called for in each situation as it arose. Without consulting a manual of how to do it.
Seeing what we look at entails seeing HOW we are looking at it and HOW we have to get outside our own eyes/brain/experience in order to SEE what we are looking at without all of our expectations, assumptions, presumptions, judgments, etc., getting in the way.
Sitting is just sitting/reflecting/realizing/reflecting… There is nothing to know/understand beyond the eternal work of knowing/understanding. And that is nothing more than sitting/seeing/reflecting… Because of the projecting/denying/self-delusion/etc. that goes on within us 24/6/12.
And Buddhism continues the nonsense of projecting answers. There is no end to suffering, but Buddhism is always talk-talk-talking about “liberation” and “the end of suffering.”
There is only growing up and doing what is called for in each situation as it arises, where and how it is called for.
Then, sitting/seeing/realizing only to arise and do, only to sit and see, arise and do forever.
Buddhism ought to come clear about this and stop all of the rigamarole regarding how to sit, and how to think, and how to act like a proper Buddhist.
The Buddha never though about how to act like a proper Buddhist.
Just as Jesus never thought about how to act like a proper Christian.
Sit-see-arise-do-sit-see-arise-do… See?
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