The false cannot stand up to investigation - Bob Adamson

The investigation, we talk about investigation today, you'll find that when you do investigate, you'll find that the false cannot stand up to that investigation. So a lot of these erroneous beliefs we've carried around fall away in investigation because you see the false and you can no longer believe them. If you no longer believe them, then you're free of these. And what are you left with then? You're left with the natural state. And this is what this is all about, the natural state. And what is the natural state? Well just have a look out in nature and you'll see the natural state. The earth going around the sun, planets revolving around each other or whatever they're doing out there, the seasons coming and going, the tides coming in and out.

All that implies that there is a natural intelligence suffusing everything to enable that to happen. That's why I call it intelligence energy, rather than using the term intelligence. Intelligence energy. Intelligence energy is the term God. If we use that term God or spirit, we've got our concepts about this and we all come from different backgrounds. Some of us may be Christians, some Buddhists, some Hindus, some Muslims, some Atheists, some Agnostics or whatever. And if we start talking about God, it'll be referred to that concept you have about God. I use a concept, and this is a concept also, and some people can get confused with this.

Intelligence energy. Looking at intelligence energy, I'm not talking about your intelligence. I'm talking about intelligence. I'm talking about that same intelligence that's functioning in this universe. To see the way it's functioning implies that it's suffused with an innate intelligence. A tree, a pattern, shape and form the way it is. A butterfly, an insect, a bird, this human pattern implies that it is suffused with an innate intelligence. And it's that same intelligence that's reading you right now. It's beating your heart, growing your hair and your fingernails, digesting your food, replacing cells in your body. Have a look at that function that's going on right where you are right now.

Is there any entity there saying I've got to take my next breath? I've got to make sure my heart beats. I've got to make sure there's a few cells replaced in the liver or somewhere else in the body. I want to digest my food. We don't have to think about those things at all. They're happening naturally. What is this entity that I believe myself to be, which is the cause of all my problems? It's that idea of a separate entity. If there's that idea or concept and belief in a separate entity, we're immediately in dualism. What the ancients tell us, and all the traditions you'll find it if you look class enough, that it's non-dual.

It's one without a second. So my friend, in dualism, how can duality ever understand or grasp non-duality? Don't you see, it's impossible. It's impossible. So that's another thing we say, you'll never find the answer in the mind. Ever. Because if you look at your mind, you'll see that the mind is dualism. This thing we call mind, if you can show me such a thing as mind, there is no such thing as mind really, apart from thinking. If thinking is mind, which particular thought am I? Am I this I am thought, which I believe myself to be? But you know you don't have to go around all day saying I am, I am, I am, to confirm your being.

I can't just be in my mind. I can't just be in my mind. I can't just be in a thought, and think that I am, and think, I am, and think. I can't even think about that. I can't even think of it. That knowing that you are is there, before it's translated into the thought I am. And that thought I am is not there when you're in deep sleep, or under an anesthetic, and you don't fall apart, you don't disappear without constantly reminding yourself. You don't have to constantly remind yourself. Don't fall apart, don't disappear. The seeing, the hearing, the functioning is still happening. The body digesting is still happening without that thought.

So you see, I can't really be that thought. And if you don't know that thought, I can't really be that thought. And that's the question. yourself you don't have to constantly remind yourself don't fall apart don't disappear the seeing the hearing the functioning is still happening the food digesting is still happening without that thought so you see i can't really be that thought and if you look at as i say look at your mind and see how it's functioning you'll see at the very very subtle level of thinking it's a very very subtle vibration when it comes out as word which is sound this is where these words coming out now just sound sound is a vibration and what is the vibration of vibration is a movement of energy so it's that same intelligence happening as thoughts or words and there's no one speaking here for that point of view just these words sounds coming out which are translated or interpreted and the word is never the thing that's another thing you will understand that the word can never be the thing you say water water for the water for the rest of your life and the word will never quench your thirst and say fire fire fire fire but does the word burn your mouth when it's coming out so you see the thing the word is not the thing and all these words and labels we've got about ourselves and everything else are not the actuality they're just translation mental translations descriptions the description can never be as a scribe and what we try to describe right now is not the thing you get the taste get the taste of it and realize it oh let's look at the back because if you're asking me to write this question you ask how and how i the way you answer for the question how are you where's the question do you ask that question a list of the things to ask who are you who am i so if you say ask the question that's the question And where does that lead?

If you've done that and had a look, has anyone stopped being aware? Has anyone stopped being present without the concept? That's another thing that in the dog chen teachings, they call it, dog chen translated means the great perfection. And they give it in one sentence. The great perfection is non-conceptual awareness.