Life is very funny. It mostly unfolds the next moment as if 'we' are the subject watching the unfolding of life or as a ‘me’ that is negotiating the
world of objects, separate from 'me' in the unfolding.
Within the activities of the play of life, our 'personal' life can be played out in two versions. One as if with a 'me' sense to the body and another, as if 'no' me -sense to the body. In version 1, one feels like a 'person' to the body, like all of us generally feel and in version 2, there is no such a feel of being a person to the body. Nothing can be said about the 'person' that does feels or does not feel in version 2, because such a 'personal' sense itself is not felt and life seems to be just happening there, moment to moment, without a sense of fear, that normally helps in maintaining the status of the person. The action in version 2, is more happening from intuition than from reason or judgement. The action here is not provoked by thoughts as to a ‘person’. Their act is spontaneous and are not backed by a 'why' to such action. Here mind or reasoning did not have a chance to intrude on the action or mind was too late to come into that act. We say the act came out of sheer intuition or from the heart.
So life plays out ‘us’ with reason or with 'mind' i.e, as if a ‘me’ was acting via a choice centre or spontaneously from the heart, as if without a doer or a doing that is impersonal. The play of life intuitively, is usually more successful, not in terms of the feedback from the world, but from the prospect of feeling good about the act or not being guilty about such acts, in all future. Its a peaceful in life to act without doubts or without ‘mind’ or let's say 'from the heart'.
Within the activities of the play of life, our 'personal' life can be played out in two versions. One as if with a 'me' sense to the body and another, as if 'no' me -sense to the body. In version 1, one feels like a 'person' to the body, like all of us generally feel and in version 2, there is no such a feel of being a person to the body. Nothing can be said about the 'person' that does feels or does not feel in version 2, because such a 'personal' sense itself is not felt and life seems to be just happening there, moment to moment, without a sense of fear, that normally helps in maintaining the status of the person. The action in version 2, is more happening from intuition than from reason or judgement. The action here is not provoked by thoughts as to a ‘person’. Their act is spontaneous and are not backed by a 'why' to such action. Here mind or reasoning did not have a chance to intrude on the action or mind was too late to come into that act. We say the act came out of sheer intuition or from the heart.
So life plays out ‘us’ with reason or with 'mind' i.e, as if a ‘me’ was acting via a choice centre or spontaneously from the heart, as if without a doer or a doing that is impersonal. The play of life intuitively, is usually more successful, not in terms of the feedback from the world, but from the prospect of feeling good about the act or not being guilty about such acts, in all future. Its a peaceful in life to act without doubts or without ‘mind’ or let's say 'from the heart'.
The Mind, when acting 'personal', is very polluted with opinions or judgements or points of view. It behaves like an entity that can
handle problems. In fact Mind is the one that makes up these problems and then reasons itself to act on a problem, which has been its own creation.The only basis that a personal mind can act is - of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain.This is its format of functioning in broader terms. Very rarely can one act without judgemental thoughts and that would be only for basic survival. Hence all outcome of actions that are happening associated with a personal sense, would be on the premise that the subject is right and the world is wrong or to move away from pains to the personal self. The judgement based on reason having a premise that there is a solid living separate entity of freewill and choice, creates a mental notional entity as if solid and living. Its a mind game and its 'Life's Leela.
All dualistic knowledge is based on subject -object approach of the mind and every word and action interpreted in subject- object format strengthens the belief of an individual man, separate from the objective world. There is no knowledge other than in dualistic terms. All knowledge therefore, including nondual knowledge lies in the realm, of dualistic format, simply because language and words are a design of dualistic thinking.
Life plays out the sensory world in a dualistic manner. Its a light play.The Mind picks up this trick of converting one object in perception to be conceived as a subject and rest conceived as 'its' objects. It is a crazy game and life enjoys its play with all the variety. There is no other than life to deal with life and its crazyness. So all is well.
At times, life plays out human forms as impersonal or direct living. This appears to be more entertaining, natural and satisfying to the soul, as if life is tasting itself in its own play. It just cognises what arises rather than recognise the objective world as separate from itself. Every sound, visual and action is pleasing to the soul rather than to the mind or reasoning. Its more like the person is functioning from the level of the heart rather than from level of personal thinking, that has selfishness to the core. This games appears selfless. There is no fear of losing, as there is no desire of acquiring. Its a more peaceful way of living a life, until dying the death.
All dualistic knowledge is based on subject -object approach of the mind and every word and action interpreted in subject- object format strengthens the belief of an individual man, separate from the objective world. There is no knowledge other than in dualistic terms. All knowledge therefore, including nondual knowledge lies in the realm, of dualistic format, simply because language and words are a design of dualistic thinking.
Life plays out the sensory world in a dualistic manner. Its a light play.The Mind picks up this trick of converting one object in perception to be conceived as a subject and rest conceived as 'its' objects. It is a crazy game and life enjoys its play with all the variety. There is no other than life to deal with life and its crazyness. So all is well.
At times, life plays out human forms as impersonal or direct living. This appears to be more entertaining, natural and satisfying to the soul, as if life is tasting itself in its own play. It just cognises what arises rather than recognise the objective world as separate from itself. Every sound, visual and action is pleasing to the soul rather than to the mind or reasoning. Its more like the person is functioning from the level of the heart rather than from level of personal thinking, that has selfishness to the core. This games appears selfless. There is no fear of losing, as there is no desire of acquiring. Its a more peaceful way of living a life, until dying the death.
Mind is a conceptual space that deals with reason. Reason or
logic is not only in the sphere of knowledge of opposites or cause and effect,
but also in the sphere of desire and fear. Mind always functions in the belief of its own survival and even
more, with seeking of more pleasure and avoid pain. To
conclude through mind, is to conclude with a desire for less pain. It is a programmed conclusion rather than a logical conclusion. In fact logic is based on such desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain. So all logic is biased logic, as far as functioning of a mind is concerned through reason. Reason can only support mechanical structures and falls down under its own weight when dealing with mental structures.
Knowledge of gravity, loading, strengths etc, could be the basis when applied to build a stronger house that could last for a while.
Adding more reason of earthquake, fire and tsunami hazards, can make the house stronger
and better to cater to eventuality. It seems to work. However when dealing with 'people' or oneself on a mental level, knowledge has a high rate of failure. One cant have knowledge of mind. Mind is the source of all knowledge other than of itself. One cannot treat a mind because there are no mind. Its just life playing itself out as 'split minds'. It is like treating oneself to be happy. It is bound to fail. Either you are happy and or unhappy and just cant find what it is that makes one so.
Reasoning works well on the level of objects. Mind, that has a personal interest, is not a pure reasoning tool. In fact all reason, when applied to 'people' is based on 'personal' interest. On the other hand, there is no
other reasoning tool other than personal mind. There is nothing like a pure
mind or an impersonal mind unless you become a ‘sage’, where in the mind sees all as one source and not separate form one another. Applying
‘personal’ mind or reasoning to subject or ‘life itself’ is not a good idea.
One mind reasoning the reasoning of another mind, is quite complex. Mind
reasoning the actions of one’s own mind is also bound to fail. The biased tool
that is used to analyse objects cannot be used to analyse the analyser. The analyser is the mind. The mind cannot be used to know the mind, because it cant find such a mind that can be made into its own object for self study. There is no mind per say. This becomes worst. We are
still attempting to use it here, but just to show the paradox or failure rate
in using the wrong tool for this operation. Analysing the mind to show that its
a reasoning tool, meant to succeed only for mindless objects is a good result
of such analysis. However its wise to know that one has to go beyond the mind
to deal with the mind. Going beyond the mind means to simply discarding this
tool to ‘know’ or even more, to act. You cant think of a better tool, because
it is still in the level of the mind. You cant use thoughts to know the
thinker. You can get to a point that a thinker of thoughts is a myth and leave
it at that. So the burden of a thinker, dealing with life situations becomes a
myth. Once the habit falls away, its like keeping the luggage on the floor
rather than on the head, when not moving. While moving, better to still find a
floor that moves with you, like a train or any other vehicle. When burdened,
use a vehicle, it will carry your luggage and you also.
How does one go beyond the mind? Simply by discarding the notion of a 'me' to be real. This allows for direct action, without interpretation of logic. Its like applying brakes, when there is danger in front of you, or killing a spider that wants to hurt you. Its done without any thinking or 'doer'. Its natural.
Life is a magical vehicle. When you give up your ideas of mental burden, trying to sort your problems using personal mind or reasoning, life will absorb you and your mind, to make the rest of the journey, light and unmindful of all the beliefs that went into making one’s knowledge. It is then seen how beliefs resting with gain and fear, were the structure, that held down the weight of knowledge, forming the basis of reasoning. It had the power to create a real world with you as a subject, that was negotiating a real objective world out there. There pressures of life were just for the pleasures of life and gave endless challenges to be overcome. You even seemed to manage all challenges the last minute, by tolerating or overcoming these hurdles of life to make your ‘personal’ life seem successful.
How does one go beyond the mind? Simply by discarding the notion of a 'me' to be real. This allows for direct action, without interpretation of logic. Its like applying brakes, when there is danger in front of you, or killing a spider that wants to hurt you. Its done without any thinking or 'doer'. Its natural.
Life is a magical vehicle. When you give up your ideas of mental burden, trying to sort your problems using personal mind or reasoning, life will absorb you and your mind, to make the rest of the journey, light and unmindful of all the beliefs that went into making one’s knowledge. It is then seen how beliefs resting with gain and fear, were the structure, that held down the weight of knowledge, forming the basis of reasoning. It had the power to create a real world with you as a subject, that was negotiating a real objective world out there. There pressures of life were just for the pleasures of life and gave endless challenges to be overcome. You even seemed to manage all challenges the last minute, by tolerating or overcoming these hurdles of life to make your ‘personal’ life seem successful.
In the absence of belief systems, the ‘you’ that seemed so
real and was only the biased mind, becoming your ‘Boss’ or decision maker, even
without your permission, goes out of window -as a another belief also. The ‘you’
is then seen as a ‘mental object’ being burdened by its own mental beliefs of
reality, suffocating life to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Life then on becomes
more and more subjective, with the world like a dream that can’t be touched.
This extensive intelligence called life or consciousness is capable of being
alive, living itself, as this apparent world, unfolding each moment as if new,
young and fresh. It seems to ‘live you’ without a you or without a ‘me-sense’
or without a doer-ship. Life then becomes infinitely valuable rather than a
infinite burden, that was being made to feel ‘real’ with use of logic.
Intuition is day to day living from the ‘heart’ or from the
origin of Love. It’s happening all the time, presently too, being camouflaged or
filtered into ‘actions’ provoked by a personalised mind or by an illusory
independent ‘me-sense’. End of the using such personalised logic, presents pure
thoughts or intuitive knowing to take over one’s life, making a living,
uncovering the paradise that ‘life’ is, as was always, but was ignorantly
blurred with reason to make believe a lot of belief’s, including the belief
that a ‘me’ and ‘other’ had objective reality.
So abide in the heart of intuitive knowing rather than the reasoning
intellectual mind that can cause the paradise to slip away into this horror waking
state, which we think as a real world, weighing us down heavily through mind. The only way to abide in the heart, is to realise that 'our images' of forms are unreal and all reality is 'life' pretending to be multiplicity. So life appears as a beggar and you give him something to survive without thinking too much or sharing what you have. When you have nothing to give, give him a Hugh at least. You know, its is also you, 'pretending' to be the other. Lol.