36. Mind – The Individual Entity.

As we grow, we have many questions in life. We get answers. Some are accepted and some are rejected. So a knowledge bank builds up. This bank is nothing but understanding the world in terms of subject object world, in order to survive avoiding pain and seeking pleasure. In fact it is amusing to note that the answers are mostly known because we accept them or reject them. To reject the answers, one must have an idea of what the real answer seems like. Similarly, to accept an answer, one must be ready with a view of an acceptable answer. Some logic there, seems to tell him that this answer is acceptable. He knows this logic. He knows when the answer is acceptable. This can’t be so unless there is surety of the answer even before the answer hits him. So we know, before we know. Strange. 

The questioner  is mind or thought. There is only knowledge that seems to be operating the mind. There cant be any other mechanism involved to operate the mind. The way, mind keeps itself active or alive, or seemingly ‘is there’,  by keeping itself busy seeking all type of knowledge to maintain separation as an individual mind. This cycle of creating questions from knowledge that is already there, ( which is nothing but a collection of answers that it already has), and finding answers for such questions thus arising, is what is maintaining the continuity of the mind. The mind is also providing the sense of an individual entity that seems to have these questions and seeking these answers. So mind provides the sense of an individual entity. So in its opposite version, No-mind means no individual entity. No mind or no thought means, the thinker is absent. No thinking means, answers are not required. So one who is not seeking answers, has no requirement of questions and does not need the feel of an individual entity. So, the individual entity is nothing but the questioner or mind and these questions arise only due to knowledge already fed in there in the past, which is now seeking more knowledge to keeps itself modified due to the changing nature of 'what is' or what is happening. Once some basic knowledge has been gained for survival, just to avoid being targeted by society as 'not fitting into the norms of social culture' more knowledge is actually an hindrance, as it strengthens the nature of being separate of making a strong sense of person ( ego) 
Life, that we actually are, at the core of our 'being' can then experience the world directly, when the sense of 'individuality' is at the minimum or has dissolved. Seeking to know why , why, why, of all appearances comes to an end and it is known that the sense of an entity was purely notional in thoughts and had no reality of its own. Life becomes much lighter without the sense of separate person and life goes on just the same with a very light sense of 'being'. 
It feels very light and very funny and very peaceful, as if that was what one was always seeking. An absence of being 'one'. 

35. Enlightenment in 3 steps.

This is just a way of writing as if realisation is an achievement that can be done stepwise. However, once there is a resonance in what is written, a clarity sets in, followed by some belief or frame of mind, that starts questioning the very belief of believing all that seemed to be true and this could lead to removal of ignorance.

Realisation, is just a dropping of the sense of ‘me’ or a individual entity, that was till then, seemed to be manipulating one's life as individual body mind with freewill and choice. This dissolving of the 'me-sense' to the body, also drops all the ‘you’s' and the ‘others’ feel to other bodies and there is a clarity in knowing that knowing of life is all there is and life operates by itself, as if this creation is a 'single' Being. We can say, all there is  -"Life" or God, or Aliveness or Awareness or THIS or 'what is happening'.

So here it goes :

First step : Understand that one's life is not limited to one’s body. How and why? Because seeing, smelling and hearing is happening outside the instrument of the body. If the body is an instrument of seeing or hearing, it has to be sensed within the frame of this instrument. Also -Touch and taste are happening at the skin level, emotions seemingly happens inside the body and finally thoughts - in an totally unknown area. Could be in cyber, but totally unknowable area.  So it is clear that body is directly not involved in the seeing and hearing. But seeing and hearing is happening and done by 'life'. Life as we know is a ‘no-one’ or no-thing and exist everywhere and nowhere in particular, doing the sensing as if centred around a body.

Second step : In the absence of an entity to a body, any relationship of things and people as 'mine' has only a notional meaning and has no physical reality to it. So my body, my car, my wife, my nation and my etcs are just a way of talking to enforce a notional 'me -sense' and has no other purpose. It is use only to poke an ego that doesn't have a 'real' existence but only an apparent one.  This means ownership ( or attachment ) has no deep meaning other than in the mental realm or unreal space.

Third step : To realise that if the above makes sense, then the meaning of all ‘me’s, you’s and other’s, as an attachment to respective bodies or life’s, fall away and seem to exist only as a figure of speech used by life when it speaks various bodies..

Conclusion : All there is  - is life. Life is playing all bodies and showing up as objects and also life is the one knowing them as content to the knowing.

Its ‘life’ that sees, hears, thinks, feel, cries, laughs etc and doesn't need a owner called ‘me’ to take credit of all seeing, hearing etc.  Also thoughts, created by life, seem to suggest that a person in charge is at the centre of all such knowing, that is separate from life. Thoughts are not true in this aspect. Their role is to generate a 'me -sense' while also interpreting the world of sensation as a world of real separate objects.

So, as mentioned in the scriptures, Life or God or Brahma is reality. World when seen in separation of God is unreal and when seen as expression of Life or God is Real. So Brahma is real, World is Unreal and Brahma is the world. Unreal, as seen in separation and real when seen as 'no-separation'.

34. God – Creation and Consciousness

God is the Potential that plays itself out as Consciousness or Awareness or Knowing, to make feel that knowing is happening to one of the content of knowing about the rest of the content of knowing. So knowing is displayed as contents to knowing, or Creation, that gives a feel of individuality in diversity.

God is all there is as Life, by being the knowing of all there is, the knowing is the being of it and being is the knowing of It.

God is everywhere, is a possibility only if God is everything, in which case God is all there is, as creation and its knowing. This leaves no room for any other than God, that can be known for a 'me' or a 'you'. The feel of separation of a 'me' or 'you' is just notional in the play the God offers as this display of the creation, as if fooling itself in a funny way.

So feel yourself as only the knowing aspect of Being that there is, and thats the only way that life animating itself through a 'knowing' mechanism, keeps itself in place. So all there is, is Knowing, as if knowing of being is being itself. Like knowing of pain is pain itself and not an objective pain outside the knowing of it. Such a knowing capacity of all there is -is what we are, but are made to believe that we exist and individual 'person' to the body, that we are not.

So God, as Potential of Knowing is also God as the Knowing mechanism, that plays out as God the creation, to the knowing, as if objective to the knowing. Its knowing, knowing knowing, as God.

33. Relationship.

Relationships play a very important role in the so called human and animal life. Human beings are meant to perform as a group and not as individuals. The body movements of human structure, so as to say, can work wonders. Like hands can be multiplied to lift weights etc, people can stand on one another to increase heights etc. So human forms evolved to work in singular and also in plural to achieve a given end result.

Relationship became a key word to achieve the best from human species to the evolving world. The grasping structure of the human mind has made language a possibility to grasp and devolop and language in turn is able to maintain knowledge that can be passed on down to generations outside of the 'gene' structure or memory. Books take on an important place in human living. In fact we read books like scriptures and learn to live in a disciplined manner. Discipline include formations of relationships to improve the quality of living. The relationship formats generate enough separation starting from a simple 'I' and a 'you' to mine and not mine, there by creating enough differences in separation like religion, country etc. Ownership in thought leads to a relation of the other with a 'me' and this game of owning people, religion and things leads to attachments and its loss or suffering.
Thought structure kick starts to make so many substories based on human relations and these would finally lead to circumstances that cannot maintain relationships and lead to disputes or fights and even mass loos of lives.
Relationship starts with near and dear ones and spreads to one's property, religion, territory and what not. While it forms the basis of unity based on similarities, it also forms the basis of disintegration based on differences which are simply the finer unseen aspects of giving in to the same context of similarities. We try to maintain friendship and when we start seeing differences, we hate the same relation and convert it to a new relation called enemy. Now they are related to me as enemies.
Human form in all its structure of creation are unique so as not to have a duplication. There is no one as the other. In fact this is true of the whole creation. No part is same as the other. Within this whole difference, we still try to put some sense of similarities and try to maintain a balance in our relationship. However it doesnt take long to find how life can poke back to dismantle our idea's of maintain control in order to use the other for 'personal' benefit.  
Relations can be maintained when life can be known fully. Life is the animator and life is all there is. This sense of a 'me' and other is thought generated differences only to make feel a centre of operation to an individual form. Identifying with form can mislead the general functioning of life, to feel like individual functioning of persons. This ignorance ends in seeking for pleasure in relationships of people and things. Finally when it can be concluded that seeking has no measurements and limitations, the basis of relationship is put to question.
People try to find the root cause of unhappiness and seek many medical and spiritual advisers and finally conclude that one can only be happy when differences with others are not judged or all relationship is put to an end. This brings about the relation of the person to his own body, when such a notional person is seen as not to be solid and all clarity dawns on the idea of separation being a farce. 
Maintaining the veil of separation is the play of life and is a light play. It loves the game of hide and seek and spends time in uniting and separating relationships, while all the time pointing to the futility of holding on to attachments or relationships or being personal about it. The person itself is a pseudo entity and does not have an independent existence. So all relationship built around oneself to be an entity, falls through only to reveal the magnificent play of life as one entity that the whole creation was.  
So be related to one another, including people and things, only to play the game of separation that life wants to play and at the same time have a clarity that all people and things are just an expression of life, playing out as people and things only to bring divergence or variety to the play that Life loves to play by Itself.

32. Mind –the only Dictionary.

We use the Oxford Dictionary or some more technical dictionary and Google or such other sites to infer meaning of unknown words and sentences. However there is a basic flaw here. We think words should have meanings that are only formed on agreement with some of the human race, and thats all there is to any meaning.. This is taken for granted. To imagine a word without meaning is to imagine a body without the person or entity inside. So it seems odd that words should remain words without meaning.

If words have no meaning, then what are words for.  Imagine an object like a pencil. The word pencil is a name to the object. Like all other names, it only identifies the object in shape and meaning by its use and nothing more. Its mostly the attributes of the object rather than the object itself. So it is only a pointer to reality. The only property that a pencil can have is its pronunciation in different countries. So when we say – Thomas or Karim, it doesn’t mean anything by itself. It only points out to a concept that we hold by that sound.
The ‘human mind’ only seeks out meanings to forms, as if forms could exist in separation to one another, and it manages to separate the whole of creation to be real world of independent objects, existing independently in its own right, as if real. So words start behaving like things, even though thingness to forms is simply a mental projection that has a strong belief around its 'concept making' ability. 
Meaning making to patterns of word design has the same functioning ability in the realm of making meaning to human and animal forms and to the rest of creation.  So meanings are made to all pattern of creation and stored as memory. In fact all of the meanings are learnt meanings either from others or oneself, somehow learnt, and become a database called knowledge. All forms, feelings etc are then seen through the veil of knowledge and coded for belief. So what we percieve in the world of form is our knowledge or belief as if world of separate objects in reality. The feed back on such behaviour can guide the meaning to be reformed and stored as if modifying the memory all the time and keeping it fit for further meaning making. Words are words and meaning is meaning. But to the human mind, words ‘have’ meaning, objects have meaning etc but all they have is their use or misuse. At best meanings serve to be pointers or attributes of what we thinks our perception to be.

Now, once it takes the pointers for granted as if they are not pointers, but objects in themselves , the pointers appear to make meaning by themselves which is the cause of misunderstanding, ( God only knows how it happens). 
Human minds are like dictionaries. It has words on one side and its uses or meanings on the other side. So if the word is ‘tree’, the meaning will be all its uses and not what a tree is. For example if a cup is of steel, cup will only mean a container to hold coffee, as its utility and the steel part will never be reflecting in the word. Similarly tree will mean, it is to be used for shade, furniture, fruits etc etc.

In fact words like Human and Mind, also fall also into this category and one can’t know what humans are or what mind is, other than a concept made out for feeling so.
Mind is a space where thoughts seem to arise, so mind is just space. It has no boundaries to end with a body. Mind by itself as a limited unit never exists. You could call ‘space’ itself as mind and that would lie inside and outside of the so called 'body'. In fact space being the mind is more accurate than mind being space.

So, just like a dictionary can only point to the meaning of a word, as only a pointer, the mind also is a place to find learnt concepts only as pointers of what is happening. In fact, there isn't a human and a mind and only thinking makes it feel so. Its good at pointing to a belief to be believed in and also lived as per one's belief. Reality cpould be anything else and it doesnt care.

So what is clear is that, there isn't any dictionary in the world which gives meaning to words. They just give more words to the original single word to help thought in acheiving at a concept that could be stored as memory to that word.

Mind then learns to function like a dictionary, in always seeking to know what is happening, as if what is happening cannot let us know about itself on its own. When we give up the use of interpreted meaning, we find ourself as that Life itself that expressed its meanings as its creation by being the whole of it. The perception now is different and joyous as the burden of existence in separation dissolves to evolve wholeness function as the Unknown. 

The normal mind has been making a lot of selfish meaning to create a personal self vs an outside world and such meaning  has been passed on through the ages, in language, as if forms mean objects for a subject, that is a separate 'me'. In a way, we are trained to see only meanings when we see forms in separation and this becomes a natural game of life. To play this game, life puts a meaning to our own body and its movements and give us a feel of separate individual. So we think that this body mind has a meaning called ‘me’. Me is just a word which now takes on a meaning as if an entity of intelligence was hiding inside the body.

In replacing this normal mind as a human dictionary, with just perceiving without concepts or meanings, a new meaning of 'wholeness' would seem to appear with intuitions instead of learned concepts that change the perception of what is from a world of objects to simply 'what is' a creation, uncaused and meaningless in separation. The new simple perceiving mind, without the recognition from a memory dictionary, works in a new wonderful way. It throws away lots and lots of words as useless and the rest without its original punch of the old way.. Then what is seen is only the 'naked' expression of life, that is joyful and colurful and perfect in whichever way the expression seems to be.The words 'I am' are now meant to be ' there is an awareness of' and the words - me and mine and others are simply stripped off for all their meaning and just left as labels for communication to live without being sent to an asylum forcefully.

Me and mine are a sense of ownership words. Ownership is is itself is only a concept in separation and heavily misunderstood. parts of creation cannot own other parts of creation. There are no parts in creation. Only the looks of 'now' is simply changing and the 'Now' is what we are, as its cognisor. 

Letting go of the misunderstanding that something can be owned, is the surrender.  

Then you cannot own suffering either. It is not because there is a restriction to own but a simple knowing that life doesn’t need an owner, especially a ‘person’. So once the sense of ownership to body, or life or actions or words is rejected as a non requirement of life to itself, all that remains is the play of life, using animate and in-animate bodies, as its expression. This is 'what is' and This is all there is.