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Jean Klein from Transmission of the Flame


Dr. Klein, could you say something more about everything we see being a projection?




Generally we think that an object exists outside ourselves, that it has an independent existence, but that is only a belief. It is not based on experience or fact. The so-called object outside of us needs consciousness to be perceived. Consciousness and its object are one, so you create, you project, the world from moment to moment. When the body first wakes up in the morning, at the same moment the world wakes up. You project the world; it is you who creates the world from moment to moment.




Do you mean that action creates the world as we see it, so that when I wake up in the morning and I see the room and what is in it, the room only exists when I wake up?




Firstly, when you wake up you don't see the room, you see only your memory. You see a corner of the ceiling and you say, "I'm in a room," but it is only memory which you are projecting and calling the room. Your seeing is only fractional. What you call your environment is certainly 80% memory.

When your listening (Klein uses listening as the equivalent of the natural state, sahaja) is global, every moment is new, otherwise there is only repetition. As long as there is the reflex to take yourself for somebody you will see only fractions, and see your surroundings from a fractional point of view. It is this fractional seeing which creates a problem; otherwise there is no problem. So it is you who creates the problem.




Jean Klein
Transmission of the Flame
Third Millennium Publications
Santa Barbara
1990

p.162-3