From a site visitor: “Does the mind need to understand or pass through certain gates of logic to proceed?”
F.: Reflecting on yesterday’s post, the rhetorical question now is this: if you took yesterday’s consideration into the quiet, did that bring any new understanding about “the mind”? Past postings about the fallacious nature of “the mind” have covered that aberration thoroughly (and visitors can use the search feature at the top of this page to search “mind” for details) but the second question received from Ben—dealing with “the mind” and “logic”—will be addressed today. First, it must be understood that any mentioning of “the mind” and “logic” together constitutes a duality (and, therefore, indicates the presence of a lie). The “mind” and “logic” are mutually exclusive. Why? Because of this fact:
F.: Reflecting on yesterday’s post, the rhetorical question now is this: if you took yesterday’s consideration into the quiet, did that bring any new understanding about “the mind”? Past postings about the fallacious nature of “the mind” have covered that aberration thoroughly (and visitors can use the search feature at the top of this page to search “mind” for details) but the second question received from Ben—dealing with “the mind” and “logic”—will be addressed today. First, it must be understood that any mentioning of “the mind” and “logic” together constitutes a duality (and, therefore, indicates the presence of a lie). The “mind” and “logic” are mutually exclusive. Why? Because of this fact:
“The mind” precludes logic; logic precludes “the mind.”
Most seekers who are trying to move beyond the insanity of this relative existence fail to find that which they are seeking because they believe that they must (1) become logical and (2) use the mind to find truth. With that strategy, they are destined to fail because they are only half right: they must be logical, but “the mind” will never allow logic to manifest as long as “the mind” exists. [Some have asked, "What is 'logical,' if not that which is reasoned out via a sane mind?" What is "logical" is intuitive, sixth sense, natural living as opposed to unnatural or supernatural thinking.] "The mind" is an accumulation of lies. "The mind" is the aggregate of false beliefs that have been amassed as a result of enculturation. "The mind" can never "find the truth" because it is the collective of all non-truth. Failure after failure marks the futile efforts of cults, religions, ideologies, spiritual movements, spiritual programs, most philosophies, and all self-help plans...all of which promise “peace of mind.” Why? Because there is no such thing as peace of mind. It is “the mind” that generates all lack of peace. As the storehouse of beliefs, it is “the mind” that promotes religious wars, spiritual debate, relational arguments, and ideological radicalism. Even the most skilled teachers of relaxation meditation can only offer a limited visit to the “no-mind” state for persons who will still suffer the mayhem of “the mind” during their post-meditation hours. It is the body identification (at the first level) that the mind (at the second level) clings to. Body identification, in turn, leads to the belief that all the ego-states being assumed as identities are real; therefore, both body identification and “the mind” must be eradicated for ego-states and emotional intoxication to end, for peace to happen, and for the realized to be able to witness without suffering (and without triggering a chain of insane reactions if peace does not happen). Those are the first two levels that must be transitioned.
Millions and trillions of seekers have been foiled in their efforts to be restored to sanity and to find truth because they thought that the key to being at peace involved discovering some unique use of “the mind” in some fashion in which it had not yet been used. Little did they know that “the mind” was not the tool to use to solve the problem but was, instead, the problem itself. No sought-after understanding by “the mind” will allow the “journey” to “proceed,” to use Ben’s word. It is the elimination of “the mind” that allows the “journey” to proceed. Proceed to where? To Realization…to being in touch with reality…to being restored to sanity…to being out of your mind (which is not your mind at all but is actually their mind).
That shocking suggestion from yesterday might finally be more tolerable as protégés begin to see why it is that that the work done, the books read and the knowledge accumulated will not be useful on the journey at all and must be discarded if the load is to be lightened enough to be able to travel the entire path. The load is “the mind.” “The mind” is the “gate” Ben mentioned—and it is a closed gate that can never be opened in order to allow the journey to continue. It must be eliminated instead. There is no such thing an “an open mind” or “a peaceful mind” or “a right mind,” yet the search for that which does not even exist is the focus of cults, relgions, spiritual programs, etc. No wonder so many fail! No wonder only one in a million will realize and find the bliss! Previous postings can be searched at the top of this page in order to receive the full understanding about the differences in the consciousness, the brain, and “the mind,” but the main pointer for today is this: the brain and consciousness are vehicles to be used to facilitate completion of the "journey." “The mind”—by way of contrast—is a hindrance. Why? Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
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