Excerpts from 'Searching for This' by Peter Marjason

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Knowledge
When you see that no-one knows
It’s easy to forget to be
Serious
Knowing you don’t know is a start
But when you don’t know
That you don’t know
Then the burden is lifted
In your total not knowing
You are free
Even to seek
You can’t see yourself from here
Maybe if you walk over there
You can see yourself
From there
The mystery shrouds itself
In logic
That which you are trying to
Transcend
Is it
You can know nothing
Intentionally
Or you can know nothing
Unintentionally
Either way there was
Nothing to know
A concept lasting a paragraph
Is fraught with danger
A line or two is safer
Silence is faultless
If you scoff because Advaita
Is used to sell vacuum cleaners
Think again
Selling is it
And think again
Scoffing is it
Nothing cannot be said
Understanding
Destroys the mystery
Every good concept
Renders itself
Immediately unnecessary
Maybe bad wrong silly naughty concepts
Point to non-conceptual oneness
More accurately than
Good clear believable concepts
How many years of seeking
Before nothing is finally learnt
Look at the branches swaying
in the wind
At what point
Can you reach a conclusion
For perfection to be running smoothly
Your understanding is not required
The one thing you know about
The unknown
Is that it can’t be
Known
Silence is a word
Pretending to describe
What it is not
You read this
And think you understand it
And weigh it up
But you don’t even know
From where a thought comes
Truth cannot be seen
Because truth is what is looking
Right now
Here suggests there
Now suggests then
This suggests that
The mystery is safe
Beliefs have to be remembered
True knowledge is unrecorded
And unknown
If you tick off
Everything you know
This will be emptiness
Neti Neti
Not this not this
Also applies to itself
Not-knowing
Doesn’t take years of practice
You can’t know what it is
You don’t know
Which really means
You know everything
It’s easy to be a seagull
Because all you have to do
Is squawk in the right way
And any squawk
Is it
To say that truth can’t be spoken
Is only true
When not said
Freedom
Life is perfect as it is
Trying to do better is
Not even a mistake
It’s no use putting off realization
Till tomorrow
It’s too late for that
You’re already free
There is lots to do about
Getting liberated
But freedom lies before that
Freedom is the freedom to do as you do
Completely freely with ease
With clarity and awareness
Or with resistance
Or with confusion and ignorance
“What is is all that is”
Is not a statement of the obvious
It points to total freedom
If you don’t know what’s
Going on
And yet it still happens
Maybe your understanding
Isn’t required
Realization is of
Non-enlightenment
To be instantly free
Forever
Is not a bad offer
When you realize everything said
Is said by God
You are liable to say anything
You must try harder
To find freedom
Or give up trying
Depending on what happens
For true freedom
Lack of understanding
Must be total
Freedom is when
No-one knows nothing
And that’s always
Before enlightenment
Chop wood carry water
After enlightenment
Carry wood chop water
Thinking you are enlightened
Is a big mistake
As big as thinking
You are unenlightened
It’s not that you should
Realize something
You are already what you
Would realize
The idea of enlightenment and
The idea of ignorance are
The same idea
The idea that
The writer of this concept
Is unenlightened
Is not true at all
This is written and read
By consciousness
When a freight train rumbles past
What can be done about that?
When you burn the toast
And toss it in the bin
What can be done about that?
Life is already completely
Full of what’s happening
There are no imperfect mistakes
Once the truth is revealed
It will soon be eclipsed
And all within oneness
True acceptance is
Acceptance of non-acceptance
And if that’s not possible
Then it’s acceptance of that
What is has already been accepted
True freedom is freedom
From freedom
Before you can blink
You are free
Freedom appears to be
A worry
The leaves are free to blow
Where the wind moves them
Owning up to ignorance
Is bliss
Oneness is liberation
Because you are no longer
Necessary
Unfortunately you're late for
Your appointment with freedom
Because it just commenced
Taking control of your life
You lose your freedom
Luckily it’s just an idea
If you misunderstand a concept
How will you know?
If you want peace beyond
Understanding
Don’t try to understand
Seeking
After years of searching
The mystery deepens
The idea of waking up
Is dreaming
Seek and you shall seek
Even your seeking
Doesn’t prevent freedom
The seeker is the sought
Means consciousness went off
Looking for itself
First there is truth
Then there is the search for it
Only when you try and catch it
Does truth disappear
You can’t be a fly on the wall
Because the perceiver is the perceived
A brilliant spiritual concept
Destroys itself
Taking others with it
You pick up a book and
The written message
Changes you forever
But you have nothing to do
With that process
You must either accept your acceptance
Or lack of acceptance
Or
Accept your non-acceptance of your
Acceptance or lack of acceptance
Or not
Some good and responsible gurus
Say you misinterpret Advaita
For your own selfish purposes
Just so you can do what you like
And blame God
But Advaita is not two
Meaning
The above situation is
Perfectly God in action
On the spiritual search
You can have
Misunderstanding
And as the search progresses
You experience deeper and deeper
Misunderstandings
Eventually the idea that all is
Misunderstanding
Is perfectly misunderstood
Advaita non-duality or oneness
Are not pointing to what should be
They describe what is
Here’s the hint
“No hint is needed”
Acceptance comes before
Any thing to be accepted
Whether you accept
Or reject these concepts
Doesn’t matter
They are all of equal value
In the fruitless search for
What already is
The seeker is the sought
Even before beginning seeking
Advaita isn’t confusing
It’s just unknowable
You can’t see behind a tree
Because what you’re seeing
Is the tree
You can’t ponder the current thought
Because what you’re thinking
Is the current thought
The spiritual search
Has nothing to do with
Finding anything
Enlightenment is an idea
Creating unenlightenment
Truth can’t be described
Let alone remembered
Consciousness is a
Miserable seeker
Searching for the truth
Is the truth
Toying with enlightenment is
Toying with the idea that you’re
Not enlightened
If you feel you’re beginning
To understand
You’re on the wrong path
The idea that truth needs
To be pursued
Is part of the illusion
When you weigh up the
Pros and cons
Of a particular teaching
Or a particular guru
That’s all you’re doing
Meanwhile the truth
In which those thoughts arise
Is steadily present
As a seeker
You can only hope to
Find yourself
Lost in freedom
Seeking is trying to know
Freedom is not knowing
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