This is an email I sent Jason last week. His response was helpful, but I was curious to hear what others might have to say, or if you have any words of guidance...
Jason,
Firstly, I’m sorry. I’m sure you’re a busy guy and answer hundreds of questions from hundreds of people every day, but I can barely function so I hope you can give me a little bit of your time. I left work today because I needed to ask these things!
In the Unteaching document Letting Go, you state the directions on how to let go of perception. You say number 1 is to “disregard everything you see, at all times, as just an image in a mind… Make it so everything that is perceivable is meaningless to you.” This I can do. And can do without effort. (Perhaps this has been easy for me for quite some time because I am currently working a Groundhog-Day-type of job, have no friends or lovers to attach to, and cannot relate to my family. Then when I take away any sense of myself, there really is nothing for me to even let go of. So number 1 is done.)
My question is, if letting go is part of the script, and I have let go, then is my realizing that I’ve let go part of the script as well? And then is my awareness that I’ve realized that I’ve let go and that that’s part of script part of script as well? (And on and on and on?)
You then go on to say that to understand One, you have to “remind yourself that every opportunity presented to you every single day, is how you see yourself.” This I can do as well. Hitler? Doesn’t shake me. The death of my friend from middle-school? Didn’t faze me. (But I’ll say that the fact that it didn’t faze me did bother me.) Watching my friend walk down the aisle? Felt nothing, only acted like it did because that’s what everyone else was doing.
You continue: “When you view each and every ‘event’, no matter how small, as an opportunity to see yourself more fully, it changes the entire perception of experience.” I’ll say. My question to this one is this: If every event, no matter how small, is an opportunity to see myself more fully, then what could, say, a passing car mean as I’m walking down the street? How would that event reflect the “inner” me?
Then of course the big one that you state in countless documents and forums and on and on is that this is not real. We are “living” in a dream. We are Mario and Luigi dodging bad guys and making leaps and bounds to get to the next level, but it is not really happening. Nothing is really/physically there while you’re seeing it. So then Jason please tell me, if this computer screen is not really here in front of me then what am I looking at?
And another one: “Everything that can be conceived happened all at once. The Mego chopped it up in sequential events in order to convince the perceiver of the lie of time. “ It’s ALREADY happened, right? “the goal is ALREADY achieved, and now you’re just acting it out in the movie.”
So my question to that one is this: If the goal has already been achieved, how did I get there? How do I get there now? What do I do? Do I just go around doing what I feel the instinct to do and know that I’ll reach whatever I had already reached, no matter what? How do I “live”? What the hell am I supposed to do with this knowledge? What am I supposed to do with the knowledge that I have the knowledge that nothing is real, and that that’s all part of the script?
And finally, if you could answer just one last question so I may get some sleep tonight, what should I do as a career? If I come to know Truth and know that I know It, will I know what to do with It? Will I know what to do with that knowledge? What COULD I do with that knowledge, every day, and for the rest of my life?
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