The Seer

Terrance Gray came from and aristocratic Irish family and was a noted theatre director for many years. Latterly, however, he lived in the south of France and came in contact with a French spiritual teacher who helped Gray discover Who or What he had always been underneath his various roles. Using the pen-name of, Wei Wu Wei, Gray subsequently authored a series of books on the ‘awakened’ life that are now recognized as classics in the field. Ramesh Balsekar was greatly impressed by, as he thought, this mysterious ‘Chinese’ sage. Gray died toward the end of the last century. Here is a selection of quotes from his books …

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a ‘thing’ seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

On the phenomenal plane we seek pleasure and the avoidance of pain. On the noumenal plane we know the absence of both – which is Bliss

We do not possess an ‘ego’. We are possessed by the idea of one.

Wherever there are others there is a self, Wherever there are no others there can be no self, Wherever there is no self there are no others, Because in the absence of self I am all others.

Sudden Enlightenment’ means precisely the immediate apperception of all that in fact we are. ‘Enlightenment’ is ’sudden’ only because it is not in ‘time’ (subject to sequential duration). It is reintegration in intemporality.

Whirling after the tip of its tail … ‘Nearer my tail to thee’, the kitten cried — as with a final desperate leap she overreached herself and fell head-over-heels into the pond.

The Void is not of the nature of a black abyss or a bottomless pit. Rather is its nature ‘vast and expansive like space itself’. It is apprehended as ’serene, marvellous, all-pure, brilliant and all-inclusive’. Above all does it partake of the nature of light.

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. ‘What are you?’ I cried to them as they drifted by. ‘I am a bubble, of course’ nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, ‘We are this stream’, and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.

Let us live gladly! Quite certainly we are free to do it. Perhaps it is our only freedom, but ours it is, and it is only phenomenally a freedom. ‘Living free’ is being ‘as one is’. Can we not do it now? Indeed can we not-do-it? It is not even a ‘doing’: it is beyond doing and not-doing. It is being as-we-are.

Play your part in the comedy, but don’t identify yourself with your role!

The practice of non-meditation is ceasing to be the see-er, hearer or speaker while eyes, ears and mouths are fulfilling their function in daily life.

The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as ‘others’ is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.

Sent in by Mike Graham. Thank you Mike.