Q: Is not all speech just definition or the assigning of a relative meaning based on an imaginary “subject” or “knower” and the “other”, “object” or the “known” and the comparison or contrast of it to the many “others”? When mind compares one concept to another is it not just comparing one dream or story to another – is the mind thinking about thoughts the same as a dreamer dreaming about dreams?) an Eternal State, we assume (we think/imagine without being aware that mind [we] is imagining) all other states and (mind [we] assumes a “someone”, “me” or “separate subject”) someone who can find it (mind imagines a separate “me” that must search for the separate “object” or “experience” of enlightenment rather than realizing what is aware of the seeking IS enlightened and free).
C: There is no mind! All there is, is thoughts coming and going in the Space you are. The apparent problem arises when A) you believe YOU are the thought “I” or “me”, and B) you believe that these passing thoughts are ABOUT this fictional “you”. This is simply a case of mistaken identity. The solution is dirt simple: Stop BELIEVING the thoughts. Take your stand IN and AS the Space-Like Awareness which is NEVER absent! As Nisargadatta pointed out, REFUSE all thought except “I AM” (which is a close as language, thought, can get to the Eternal Isness; and reject any and all questions except “Who Am I”.
It always seems to come back to “WHO OR WHAT” is doing the asking and the answering. And it seems that it is the mind, which we think or assume to be our true Self - that is doing the asking and the answering. If the mind is a total illusion that only thought or assumed itself to be real, then the asking and the question and the answering and the answer are also illusions ….and thus only the Awareness of the asking and answering is real and there are no questions and no answers????.... Fuck!!!!!! said the mind….I am useless except in navigating the temporal world of the created or the known, Damn it!!! – I assumed/thought I was the intelligence of an individual person that could know the absolute truth).
The “individual” is a fiction; a believed thought that has no ACTUAL independent nature or personal power whatsoever. You as an organism are Being-Lived; life is life-ing. YOU are not a noun; you are a verb, world-ing, life-ing. The Livingness is totally alive and nondual. There is NO duality unless you give the energy of belief to the thoughts that arise unbidden in the Space … YOU are SPACE, No Thing, “being dreamed" as a dream character in a play that has no author and no star. Just BE. Simple. You ARE, BEING. No escape. There is no “realization” to get for there is no “individual” to realize. Seeing that, the search ends in the absolution dissolution of belief in a “me”.
Seeking "Wholeness, Completion, Happiness, Love or "Liberation" from “Another”, whether that "revered other" be a "Guru, Guide, Lover, or Friend", is a perfect way to avoid Paradise. Paradise is THIS. Just as it Is and just as it Isn’t. All seeking "out there" is a dream of a “me”, foolishly knocking on the door to Paradise, from inside Paradise. Paradise is only lost in seeking it. This Loving Oneness Cannot Be Known. To “know” Oneness there would have to be a sense of separation FROM Oneness. Who cannot see the fault in that logic?
Ponder John Greven’s pointers:
The below ponderings are just concepts to rattle around in the brain.
See that while this is occurring - you remain - as you always have been.
Present and Aware of the every changing appearance.
Anything in front of the mirror is still something in front of the mirror.
Even if that something is nothing.
Can you identify a single thing that is not an object to the subject that you are?
Is the you, that is attempting to do this, an object as well?
No Mind
In thinking about the mind, there is often a sense that the mind and brain are two different things. The thought may be that the mind is somehow an ethereal private world that is cherished or is perhaps a tormentor - while the brain is often ignored as having anything to do with the mind. As an example, a friend recently made the statement, “I’m going to sell everything I own and move into my mind - since I live there anyway.” The mind gives us a sense of place, whereas the brain just appears to be an idea in the mind.
We know of course that the brain is storing information and carrying on bodily functions. But this is really more of a belief than a true knowing because we can’t see or feel the brain carrying out its functions. There is no sensation of the brain sending a signal to blink the eye, no seeing of the brain storing or retrieving information from memory, or even translating these words. If something is touched with a finger, there is contact with that something, and it is known. But, trying to make contact with the brain seems impossible. Therefore, the idea of a mind receives the attention – contact is possible with thoughts and feelings and they become the focus. The mind appears to be active – in the head- while the brain appears to be silent. Perhaps the two different labels of brain and mind appear to mean something different, but are, in actuality, referring to the same thing. Perhaps if we got square with the facts things would appear differently.
Is there a mind separate from the brain? Is what we refer to as the mind just the thinking process of the brain? Perhaps, if we dropped the label of mind and just saw the brain for what it is, a complex network of cells that make up a limited, habitual, machine type organ, the mind would loose some of its seeming authority. An analogy has been drawn from the computer function of “garbage in garbage out”. The brain is truly no different. In regards to what we refer to as the mind, all the brain is doing is organizing information, combining information, and bringing ideas and behaviors back out. The brain is a conditioned organ. It is nothing but a machine. The conditioning that it has received was started millions of years ago and through a seeming series of events, is what it is, right now, down to the last cell, memory, and thought.
There is no mind.
