' What does not real mean? '...

Just that.

Upon turning deep within, a different world of light, space, and attending awareness emerges as predominant, and the external world fades in importance.

As consciousness becomes steady through inquiry or meditation, close observation of the external world, reveals its changeableness, fragility, and hollowness.

It only appears when we awaken, and disappears in sleep.

It depends on us.

It disappears behind us as we move from room to room, only to become memory.

Then memory itself is forgotten, and not reclaimed until we enter that room again.

Out of emptiness, arises form; into emptiness it disappears.

Nisargadatta called this the Causal Body of forgetfullness.

Dogen Zengi said:

To study the Way is to study the self.

To study the self is to forget the self.

When the self is forgotten, is to be actualized by myriad things.

When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away.

No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.


-Edward Muzika