FROM A SITE VISITOR: I finally understand your pointer that even if arms and legs and organs are ‘lost’ I Am still Me. But now, how to be free of my racing mind, once and for all?
F.: Continuing with a review of some earlier, relevant pointers:
8. But no, a “mind” is not needed to Realize. How could a conglomeration of lies reveal the Truth of singularity? A multitude of erroneous concepts, which is what the content of the “mind” is, cannot possibly reveal the authentic unicity beyond all those perceived multiplicities.
In fact, it is belief in the conceptualized, dualistic content of the “mind” that blocks the consciousness from being aware of the Truth of Oneness. Though that Truth has been known, the awareness of it has been blocked as a result of programming, conditioning, domestication, and enculturation. Just as THAT Which I Am is beyond the beingness and the non-beingness, so Truth is beyond “the mind” and its conceptualizations.
What “the mind” generates is not unlike what is generated when 100% relative humidity occurs along with the presence of pollutants: when those combinations occur, a miasma—a fog that blocks all clear perceiving—follows. The “mind” is 100% relative, its content is a collection of pollutants, and those two together create a fog that prevents clear witnessing.
9. Are “intuition” and “reason” vehicles that can be employed during the “journey”? Yes.
10. Can consciousness be corrupted in animals? Yes, if they are domesticated or conditioned by humans. Look at Pavlov’s dogs, subjected to his conditioning procedures.
His dogs reached a most unnatural state of (warped) consciousness by which sound, rather than smell, became a stimulus for salivation. Similarly, it is after humans domesticate and condition humans that the corruption of, or the blocking of, pure consciousness happens.
Dennis Waite points out in his upcoming eBook, ENLIGHTENMENT: The Path through the Jungle, that “Ignorance is a condition of the mind (specifically the buddhi or intellect)….” He notes that the teacher must first guide protégés to “remove misconceptions” and only then point “toward our real nature.”
[NOTE: It is necessary to know thyself before You can know ThySelf; that is, everything you are not must be Realized—and eliminated as possible identities—before You can Realize THAT Which You Are.]
The first misconception to be removed is that “I am my body.” The next misconceptions to be addressed are those which form the content of “the concept-filled mind” and the belief in personality…the belief that assumed personas define the True Self.
As long as an animal has not been subjected to domestication or conditioning by a human, then it needs nothing other than the most basic food and shelter; thus, animals are firmly fixed where many seekers would be: in the I AM—knowing that they exist, behaving automatically in a manner that would extend the manifestation, and functioning with the unencumbered freedom that can happen only in the absence of body-mind-personality identification.
Understand that there is no contradiction in the pointer that THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There Is Only Peace If You’re Out of Your Mind) and the pointer that “logic and reason are thorns that can be used to remove thorns.” [All pointers are “level appropriate” and are offered according to the teacher’s assessment of “where” the seeker is on “the path.”]
Ultimately, the Original Understanding is present and can be accessed via the inner guru if, as Dennis notes, the “removal of misconceptions” happens first. The task of the guru is merely to guide each seeker to the inner guru, and that which can be revealed via that inner resource has nothing to do with either “taught knowledge” or “learned ignorance.” Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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