Suchness
Suchness
In sanskrit its called “tathata”.
tathata does not mean “truth”. It means suchness. It means reality. Truth implies something opposite of false. Tathata does not mean truth, it may mean “The Truth”, “The absolute”,”The infinite”. But these descriptions aren’t very difficult to grasp. But thats not what truth is. Truth is difficult to grasp. Difficult to approximate. Difficult to put in words. Hence the word “suchness” sounds more right. It cant be understood. Cant be compared to anything else we know. Cant be known. Thats the nature of truth. this word describes it best.
Eastern Philosophy
tathata
Mahayana Buddhist notion of ultimate reality which designates existence as it is in itself, as opposed to how it appears to us; the term is functionally the same as nirvana, Buddha-nature, emptiness, and the Eternal Buddha.
Does not make sense rationally. The words seem to have no congruity at all. What does the definition mean? Dont try to question. Dont try to rationalise. Close your mind, and open ur “SELF” and experience it. The truth can only be experienced. Speaking about it is just an approximation of what it really is. You cant communicate it to anyone. You cant impose it on anyone. All you can do is prepare a person to be ready for it. Its not the end of a journey. Neither is it the path. Its just there. Its what exists. Or rather , it tells you what “exist” means.
“ready for it”. Its not something you really need to be ready for. Its not an impending calamity. Nor is it an incident. Its just that Man has lost truth in the clouds of rationality. Facts are not the truth. What you see, touch, smell, hear … are those truth? No judgements, just questions. Any way of knowing what truth is? Our foundation for facts is not based on any absoluteness. Its all relative. All we percieve is recorded against something we have previously percieved. There is no absolute quantity from which life springs forth. All facts to not point to a smallest indivisible part of matter which we have been trying to reach at since years.
facts point to a big interdependant network, where each “object” derives its existence from the existence of others. There is nothing which has an absolute existence. And man is an observor. without man, there is no world. when u die, you dont leave the world, you take it with you. Since you are not there to experience it the way others do, the world no longer exists for you. And thats all that matters. You wont be unhappy when you die. Your intimate ones will be. They ought to. They need not.
Take solace in the fact that one day we will come to know.
but the truth is, to know it, you should want to know nothing.
I was unable to still my mind, remove all thoghts from it and just exist. I dont know if I can still do it. Maybe i have done it. TIme doesnt matter in such stages. Actually i am insane. I have no sense of time. And my perceptions are different from others. I am “abnormal”. But maybe its my rational intelligence which keeps me “in this world”. Maybe its a good thing. till death frees me from it. No hurry. Let it take its own course.
koan.
short riddles which are devised to stop ones mind. Stop ur mind. and it all comes to you. it doesnt come. you just become aware of it. its already there.
Matrix comes close to speaking about suchness, without ever mentioning it ever.
It says that the men inside the matrix can touch, see, smell etc. But its all their illusion. IF they could just snap out of it, they could see the wires plugged into them which gives them this illusion. BUt they are unable to, until someone comes and shows them the path. Thats what messiahs are. its just that you cannot be sure whether they are real or not.
only part where matrix differs from my perception of truth. It says that once you snap out of it, you lose the illusionarry senses, and start sensing the real world. But these senses are again sight, sound smell etc. But when we come out of the “maya” of life and experience the truth, there are no sensory organs. there is no perception. just an awareness of It.
It. thats all i can call it.
It. Suchness. Tathata.
