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.