A Hare Has No Horns
Looking through appearances:
questions and answers
'A Hare Has No Horns' is a metaphor for the attitude we need to take to look through appearances.The world we see with our six senses (the mind is the sixth) is not the real world. The world we perceive with the senses is a cover up, a wall around the real world.
"What is the difference between the real world and the world we perceive with our senses?" you may ask. The real world is unchanging, always the same, one with you, your innermost reality.
'Being in this world' is totally satisfying, not a shadow of doubt left.
This world is true, blissful, and pure undivided Consciousness. The world of appearances—the manifest world—is changing, moving. It seems to be there but looking deeper you don't find anything of lasting reality. This world is transient and impermanent. The East calls it maya (the great wall of reality).
Being this world is pain and suffering. It is a feeling of alienation and separation. The real world is hidden in the world of appearances. As the metaphor, 'A Hare has no Horns' indicates, we must look deeper, pierce through the wall of maya.
How to do this? By discriminating between the appear-ance and the real. This discrimination is to 'see with the Heart'. It is to experience without labels and concepts. That is why I call it to see with the Heart because the Heart knows no words; it knows only intimacy.
The Heart is the fourth dimension. When you perceive experience from this dimension, it is a feeling of oneness with what is perceived because there is no separation and the three dimensional world is contained in the fourth.
It is totally satisfying and complete to perceive this way. It is literally as living on the inside of what is perceived. In this dimension all worries are absent and it is experi-enced as a marvellous absence. Marvellous because it can-not be explained; no words can describe it. It is the mystic!
Even though there is no word for it, we can still point at it and it is important that we look for where it is.
And another thing, even though the mind looks for it all the time, it cannot in the very nature of things understand it, but the mind becomes silent the moment it comes close to the real.
We are already what we are looking for. We are already whole and perfect. That is our Natural State but we are not in touch with it because we are lost in maya. A word point-ing at the Truth can resonate so deeply in us that we wake up to what we have always been, so to say. That is called a moment of clarity and it can last a blink of an eye, for hours, days, or the rest of our physical existence in this particular body.
The questions and answers in this little book try to point at the Truth, so that you look for where it can be found. You may also suddenly experience that your mind becomes silent just by reading a particular passage! That is called transmission. Transmissions are resonance effects.
Nukunu was asked the questions in this book during satsangs 2009 - 2011.
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