“The seeker is the belief that this shift in perspective is somehow a gain, that it will be something wonderful that he or she will get. There is often the belief that there will be a great gain in peace, happiness, wisdom and knowledge about the workings of the universe and or of god, or that you will simply be a better more special you…..nothing could be further from the truth. Nobody really wants this, as it’s the striping down of everything that is thought to be your reality….it’s an unimaginable loss. It’s the loss of anyone who has or wants knowledge or wisdom or even happiness and peace. It’s the loss of you, the you who would or could be anything or any non-thing. It’s the loss of everything…..your world……your universe….your life. What’s left? Just the simplicity of whatever is “apparently” happening….no knowing of what’s happening, yet seeming knowing can be what’s happening. What’s (apparently) happening is seen to be more like a flowing dreamscape that belongs to no one…..empty beyond empty, yet still quite ordinary. No inside, outside or other, just this complete, intimate, timeless immediacy. The concepts or conceptual overlay that make up the world of seeming separation, of real and solid things, or non-things, are seen to be just that, completely empty concepts with not even nothing underneath. Amazingly though, this conceptual overlay is now seen to be quite a beautiful treasure, as without it there are no stories, no you or I, no beauty, no love….it’s the only place we can ever exist…it’s what we are.”

Antonia Lovejoy