38. Conceptualising the 'Mind'.

• The observation of a flower is happening 'at' the flower itself. It cannot happen anywhere else. Who is it that is 'at' the flower doing the observation? - there is nobody there, other than a so called observer who cannot be observed as an object. So the subject cannot be an object of observation. Since there is no observation of observer, there is no objective observer, other than an object of observation. So there are only objects and no subject other than object itself. What is there at the flower is only the flower itself.

• The observer is the observing itself. Lets presume what we observe is observed by mind or consciousness. Is there anything else other than what is observed called the mind? How would we know, if we would know, it would come under the heading observed. Has the mind any other function, other than observing?. None what so ever. So if this is the only function and all observed is this function, then the mind is nothing but the totality of what is observed as it is nothing else as knowable and has no other function.

• The object of knowing -is the knowing of object itself. There is no other object and no other knowing outside of this 'knowing' of the object as the object of knowing. All there is - is knowing.

• The existence of an object is known in Time. So objects seems have a temporal quality other than length or area or volume. Anything that doesn’t have a duration doesn’t exist. So time is the existence provider to objects. So time is mind because mind has the same function of time. What is not existing in time or mind - does not exist. So the essence of time or source of time is same as that of mind. So time is the observer which is also the mind and this seems to give the feel or duration to objects to give its objectively 'existing' quality.

• When we say, time is mind, It just means 'now' or present moment or just presence - because presence is awareness and doesn’t have an objective quality to be conceptualised.

• Mind is time. Time is 'now'. Now is the present moment or presence. Presence is consciousness. Consciousness is awareness. Awareness is Beingness. Beingness is 'I am'. 'I am' is timeless and has time and space as its content that is ever changing. The looks of now is ever changing to make feel that time and space are reality, even though it is supported as its source by aliveness or Life itself.