F.: Three e-mails were received last week that all had similar queries. Let the readers determine what the primary question was by seeing what the common response was that was sent to them all:
All ideas or thoughts are products of a "mind." [To the one seeking more “knowledge” about “how the brain works,” forget that nonsense. It matters not how the brain works—it matters only that you realize that the “mind” does not.] Since the “mind” is a composite of false concepts (merely the accumulation of all that your programmers have told you) then all of the ideas and thoughts that are generated by it are also false. (When it is said that Realization leads to de-accumulation, that does not refer only to getting rid of all the extra possessions that end up owning you; it refers even more to getting rid of all ideas and concepts and beliefs...being rid of the "mind" once and for all.) Consider instead what happens when “experiences” stop. The next phase of your “journey” is entered into after it is understood that there is no “one” to have any experiences. YOU are beyond all experiences. Is the energy running through the space of a vacuum cleaner experiencing anything? No, so whatever energy is cycling through any other given space—included that which is taken to be “you”—is not experiencing anything, either. Realizing that, the beingness happens as the doingness ends...when it is seen that there is no “do-er” so there can be no doingness.
Next, notice how far along the "path" the seeker must “journey” before that “beingness” is actually understood and then you'll see which steps have yet to be taken by you. If there is no WHO, WHO is having ideas and thoughts? Only some false identity. The re-purifed consciousness thinks no ideas or thoughts. The next stage is merely witnessing in a subject-object fashion without thoughts or evaluations. After that, the subsequent step allows for the Pure Witnessing of the unicity—of the Oneness. Then, there are neither subjects nor objects and the last trace of duality ends.
Relatedly, from a fourth visitor last week: “How can there be no do-er?”
F.: There can be no do-er via Realization. When the role of “The Teacher” was accepted as an identity, then egomania immediately promoted that persona to “The Super Teacher.” And what does “The Super Teacher” think that it must have in order to exist? (1) Super lessons that are being sought wholeheartedly by (2) “Super Students.” And when students were not doing what “The Super Students” were expected to do, then “The Super Teacher” felt as if he were dying and began to fight for his life by attacking “the not-super-students” who weren’t paying attention. [Such attacks come as often from “The Super Spouse” who is not getting the respect desired, from “The Super Performer” who is not getting the attention that is wanted, or from “The Super Employer” whose employees are not paying adequate attention or “doing” what “Super Employees” are expected to do.]
When that ego-state of “The Teacher” dissolved (post-Realization), a shift resulted after the understanding became, “Teaching might happen today…or not.” No role and no do-er was fighting for its imagined life any longer. A shift in perspective happened as mere witnessing began. Truth was differentiated from the false. Emotional intoxication ended. When the illusion of do-er disappears, then the witness begins to merely observe what happens…or not. Peace manifests alongside that process. Then, the Pure Witness can emerge and see the Oneness and realize the truth of the unicity.
To forfeit the illusion of a do-er with power and control allows You to sit back, to relax, and to take it easy while witnessing all of the insane conduct of personas (embroiled in their “going and doing and zooming”). The witness will not be caught up in their chaos and will not be pulled under by the relative existence maelstroms that the egotism of personas always generates. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
All ideas or thoughts are products of a "mind." [To the one seeking more “knowledge” about “how the brain works,” forget that nonsense. It matters not how the brain works—it matters only that you realize that the “mind” does not.] Since the “mind” is a composite of false concepts (merely the accumulation of all that your programmers have told you) then all of the ideas and thoughts that are generated by it are also false. (When it is said that Realization leads to de-accumulation, that does not refer only to getting rid of all the extra possessions that end up owning you; it refers even more to getting rid of all ideas and concepts and beliefs...being rid of the "mind" once and for all.) Consider instead what happens when “experiences” stop. The next phase of your “journey” is entered into after it is understood that there is no “one” to have any experiences. YOU are beyond all experiences. Is the energy running through the space of a vacuum cleaner experiencing anything? No, so whatever energy is cycling through any other given space—included that which is taken to be “you”—is not experiencing anything, either. Realizing that, the beingness happens as the doingness ends...when it is seen that there is no “do-er” so there can be no doingness.
Next, notice how far along the "path" the seeker must “journey” before that “beingness” is actually understood and then you'll see which steps have yet to be taken by you. If there is no WHO, WHO is having ideas and thoughts? Only some false identity. The re-purifed consciousness thinks no ideas or thoughts. The next stage is merely witnessing in a subject-object fashion without thoughts or evaluations. After that, the subsequent step allows for the Pure Witnessing of the unicity—of the Oneness. Then, there are neither subjects nor objects and the last trace of duality ends.
Relatedly, from a fourth visitor last week: “How can there be no do-er?”
F.: There can be no do-er via Realization. When the role of “The Teacher” was accepted as an identity, then egomania immediately promoted that persona to “The Super Teacher.” And what does “The Super Teacher” think that it must have in order to exist? (1) Super lessons that are being sought wholeheartedly by (2) “Super Students.” And when students were not doing what “The Super Students” were expected to do, then “The Super Teacher” felt as if he were dying and began to fight for his life by attacking “the not-super-students” who weren’t paying attention. [Such attacks come as often from “The Super Spouse” who is not getting the respect desired, from “The Super Performer” who is not getting the attention that is wanted, or from “The Super Employer” whose employees are not paying adequate attention or “doing” what “Super Employees” are expected to do.]
When that ego-state of “The Teacher” dissolved (post-Realization), a shift resulted after the understanding became, “Teaching might happen today…or not.” No role and no do-er was fighting for its imagined life any longer. A shift in perspective happened as mere witnessing began. Truth was differentiated from the false. Emotional intoxication ended. When the illusion of do-er disappears, then the witness begins to merely observe what happens…or not. Peace manifests alongside that process. Then, the Pure Witness can emerge and see the Oneness and realize the truth of the unicity.
To forfeit the illusion of a do-er with power and control allows You to sit back, to relax, and to take it easy while witnessing all of the insane conduct of personas (embroiled in their “going and doing and zooming”). The witness will not be caught up in their chaos and will not be pulled under by the relative existence maelstroms that the egotism of personas always generates. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
