Sailor Bob's teaching

[Nathan]

Here is a good example of Sailor Bob's teaching:

Q: So what we're seeing appears real, but we know it isn't. Now, is the intellectual knowing of this significant or important?
Sailor Bob: It's not an "intellectual" knowing. An intellectual knowing is some thing. What's the only sure thing you can possibly say about yourself?
Q: I am. I exist.
Sailor Bob: There is a knowing that you are. You can't negate that. Pure knowingness is going on. Now, who or what is knowing that? Pure emptiness, or no thing, is knowing that. There's no entity there. That knowing is the cognizing emptiness. That's pure intelligence.
Q: It's knowing itself?
Sailor Bob: No. There's no discrimination of itself in there. It's one without a second. It's pure knowing.
Q: So, when I'm seeing nothing...
Sailor Bob: No thing. There's no object. Pure subjectivity.
Q: So, this is an understanding.
Sailor Bob: Yes. Understanding is all. Now that you understand, you get back into life. You've seen through the illusion. You don't have to get into concepts about all this.



(Bron: http://www.spiritualteachers.org/bob_adamson.htm)