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?
15. Persons want to use the “mind” to “heal the mind” or to “attain peace of mind.” That cannot be done.
16. Only after a discarding of the concepts of the “mind” (which inhibit the natural functioning of pure consciousness) can the pure consciousness become aware of itSelf. In the process, the unreasonable, insane, and illogical thoughts, words and deeds that were being generated via the “mind” will cease.
17. The “treatment” for what ails the non-Realized is the removal of misconceptions and erroneous beliefs which are blocking access to the pure consciousness.
18. Neither the addition of more concepts into the “mind” nor the use of concepts that are already present in the “mind” can provide the light that is required to remove erroneous beliefs and false impressions. The “Advaita Teachings” are really “non-teachings” and “un-teachings.”
19. Once Full Realization happens, no who remains as a do-er.
20. Most who think they have reached that “spiritual mind” stage also think that they have arrived at the place of high noon, of the brightest level of enlightenment; yet they mistake the dawn for the
21. Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The “mind” is rooted in programming, conditioning, lies, concepts, ideas, superstitions, myths, falsehoods, enculturation, and domestication.
22. See that mirages are mirages. One cannot “eliminate” illusions. One can only see them for what they are.
23. The “source” is not characterized by a “purified mind” or “re-purified mind.” The source was, is, and shall forever be…mindless. It is, in fact, Awareness with no awareness of awareness.
24. Persons can spend a lifetime “working on the mind,” but their labors in that regard will avail them nothing. What could it possibly avail persons traveling across a desert if they were to undertake the task of trying to eliminate all of the mirages that seem to appear along their path? Why not see illusions as illusions and be done with it all in one fell swoop?
25. That is the invitation here: to Realize fully and thereafter witness all as it happens nisarga-ly, functioning naturally without a mind—or multiple minds—that generate either (1) a non-stop whirlwind that churns up an unending cyclone of thoughts that eliminate any opportunity for stillness to manifest, or (2) subconscious motives that drive persons without their having the slightest awareness that they are being driven rather than making conscious decisions.
26. So-called "intelligence" is nothing more than the “mind’s” reflection of the real…not the real at all.
27. While phenomenal perceiving ("mis-perceiving") is made possible via that intellect, the “mind” hasn’t a clue regarding phenomenal mis-perceptions and noumenal reality.
28. If that buddhi continues to operate via the auspices of “the mind,” then pure consciousness will remain blocked. You Are the Self, but the “mind” prevents persons from realizing that; therefore, the non-Realized will never be free of the relative effects that plague their relative existence since the pure consciousness is not known.
29. The “mind” can become such a source of deception that it will convince persons to believe that the relative is the real, blocking them from ever being in touch with reality.
30. The “mind” can generate such delusion that it will ignore the fact that the cause of all is all and will thereafter be convinced that the cause of all is…providential.
31. It is humans—having been exposed to processes that have warped or blocked the originally pure consciousness—that must take certain steps if they would return the consciousness to its original condition during early manifestation. That is the exact (and continuous) condition of the consciousness manifested via birds and animals so long as that consciousness is not subjected to domestication and human influence.
Finally, the non-duality poet Shakespeare reported through the words of his character Hamlet, “…there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
It is indeed thinking that generates duality; duality produces a desire to judge and label “others” as “good” or “bad”; judging generates a sense of separation and the resulting egotism; and separation and egotism spawn fluctuations of being happy and unhappy.
Fluctuations in being happy and unhappy insure not only turmoil and chaos but all other relative misery…even including wars; and the widespread delusion of the masses insures that they will continue to fail to see that—in regards to all of the relative mess referenced above—it is the “mind’s” thinking that makes it so. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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