"It is learned ignorance that spoiled your pure consciousness and resulted in a 'mind.'
(quoted from From the I to the Absolute—A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Continued from 30 September 2005] Karen, I wrote the following in the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality) : Only seek to realize all that is false. That is your beginning. When you eventually come to know The Great Reality—The Absolute—you will Realize that all perceived via the five senses is false and is nothing more than learned ignorance. It is learned ignorance that spoiled your pure consciousness and resulted in a ‘mind.’ The goal is not to stop the chatter of "the mind" for a few minutes of the day. The goal is to see that "the mind" is a compendium of all the lies, myths, superstitions, concepts and beliefs that all cultures perpetuate. If you see the lies, then the illusory, delusional mind dissolves. You could save a fortune in money and time and effort if you could but realize that this body-mind-personality of yours is material, not spiritual…not mystical…not magical…not special. You exist because two people had a moment of fun, followed by a lifetime of suffering and misery for you. How do I know about that misery even as you'd probably deny it? Because you have a racing mind this is so troublesome that you’re going to spend thousands of dollars and travel halfway around the globe to try to find a treatment. You’re in such mental pain that you’re willing to go to those lengths to try to get treatment for your chattering mind when in truth you need go to no length. Save some money: go to New Mexico, drive along an abandoned stretch of highway after the noon hour, and seek to treat a mirage. It would be as effective. Your suffering is in "the mind," and "the mind" is a mirage. You want your mind to be still when in fact there is no “your mind.” There is only “their mind,” and each belief (which they gave you and that you have now adopted) forms one of the bars of the prison that is called "your mind." You want to go to India to make the prison stand still rather than to break out the prison once and for all. Get out of the prison and let it end so you can never be trapped in it again. Since the space called “Karen” arrived with a brain and not with a mind, use of the brain will lead to self-constructive behavior until the consciousness is no longer manifested; the “mind” will always lead to self-destructive behavior for as long as the corrupted consciousness is manifest. The only opportunity for knowing all the false and then knowing all the truth is within. It is not in India. It is not in a church or synagogue or temple or mosque or meeting. Those are the repositories of myths and superstitions and concepts, intended to control people. You want control of a mind that is owned and operated and managed and controlled by them. You cannot change them and you cannot change all the garbage they taught that has formed the “mind.” Only one solution remains: be rid of "the mind." It is as useless as last night's meal. Flush it all from your consciousness. How? By questioning everything you have been told; by questioning everything you hear; by ignoring everything you’ll hear in the future; by seeing every lie; and then by experiencing the realization of truth that comes when a belief in the very last lie goes. You are not that which has a body or mind or personality. Focusing on any one of those three will prevent your knowing Who You Truly Are and What You Truly Are. If you want peace, then find THAT and then let the remainder of the relative existence happen spontaneously in the "Is-ness" alone. Know that You Are the eternal, limitless potentiality after the body returns to dust, after the universal breath rejoins the universal air, and after the consciousness-energy reunites with that limitless, eternal universal field of Consciousness Unmanifest. Either give up "the mind" at what you'll probably call "death" or give it up now. It will end eternally, one way or the other. Why not give up that vehicle of misery now? If you do, you won't need any other vehicle to transport you to India or to conferences or to meetings or to assemblies or to services or to anywhere else other than where You Are. Thanks for writing. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
