| Those who study truth as taught by those who | | | | You are the silent formless Awareness that is |
| have become enlightened see the limitations of | | | | aware of the mind, its random babblings, and its |
| conventional psychology quite clearly. Studying the | | | | irrelevant thinking. That thinking is irrelevant |
| works of Freud is one thing, but a Zen master is | | | | because Silence is all-knowing, which explains |
| on an entirely different level and can solve many | | | | perfectly why people experience sudden |
| more problems, and generally with greater ease | | | | epiphanies, insights, and intuition in moments of |
| because their understanding of the mind and | | | | inner quietude. Epiphanies happen in the Silence of |
| reality is much deeper. Freud was still identified | | | | the mind, not because of the mind, but the mind |
| with being the mind, while the enlightened are | | | | likes to mistakenly take credit for those brilliant |
| identified with the Awareness that is able to | | | | ideas that come out of seemingly nowhere. The |
| silently watch the mind from an outside | | | | mind thinks it "knows", but only Silence actually |
| perspective. The first one thinks about what the | | | | does. |
| truth might be, while the other is the Truth (with | | | | As long as one thinks their current physical sense |
| a capital "T"), and therefore truly knows the | | | | and brain perceptions of "reality" are "the truth", |
| Truth. True knowing involves being that which is | | | | one will never come to realize otherwise. |
| to be known, otherwise it's nothing more than | | | | Words, concepts, and perceptions have nothing to |
| mere speculation and intellection. This article is for | | | | do with reality because they are only based on |
| those who are ready to go beyond the intellect. | | | | the interpretations of human anatomy. Every |
| The brain is basically a computer that | | | | different species of animal on the planet perceives |
| automatically plays the programs (society's | | | | their reality differently because their physical |
| beliefs) that are put into it. The neural pathways, | | | | senses and brain work differently. A dog's sense |
| thought processes, and mental associations of the | | | | of smell will give it a completely different sense of |
| brain become ingrained and habitual, thus | | | | "reality" than that of any other species on the |
| perpetuating the same behaviors and thought | | | | planet, an elephant's sense of hearing will give it a |
| processes over and over again. Just as a drop of | | | | completely different sense of reality than that of |
| water will continuously and repetitively flow down | | | | any other kind of animal, and a fly's sense of |
| the same pathway after the first drop originates | | | | vision will be entirely different than that of any |
| the way, the energy flowing through the brain's | | | | other type of animal. Every different dog or |
| neural network will do the same. | | | | human will also sense and perceive things |
| The good news however, is that we can change | | | | differently than every other dog and human as |
| those neural pathways; first, by realizing that we | | | | well. |
| can, second, by wanting to change the brain's | | | | To think that a human's perception, or your |
| thought processes, and third, by choosing to | | | | individual mind's perception, of "reality" is "the |
| adopt different (more positive) ways of | | | | truth" would mean that every other living thing on |
| perceiving "reality". The only way to change those | | | | the planet that has a different perception of |
| repetitive thought processes, and to create new | | | | reality is "false". That simply cannot be true. If it's |
| neural pathways, is to let go of the mental | | | | all relative, all subject to change, and is only based |
| concepts that one currently thinks are "true". In | | | | on one's level of current awareness, then it's all |
| doing so, energy starts flowing throughout the | | | | irrelevant. |
| brain in different directions to different parts of | | | | To think that the mental concepts in one's own |
| the brain, thus contributing to new neural | | | | brain are "the truth" is nothing more than the |
| pathways and new ways of thinking and | | | | mind's egoic wishful thinking. The ego has a |
| perceiving. The more we purposefully think in a | | | | superiority complex. It likes to be "right", and it will |
| different manner, the easier it becomes, and | | | | try to perpetuate that notion in whatever way it |
| eventually that becomes the brain's new way of | | | | can. Individual perceptions, opinions, concepts, and |
| automatically thinking. With this understanding it | | | | thoughts are not at all important, but the ego |
| becomes quite apparent why Buddha said "What | | | | mind/brain/intellect likes to think that they are, |
| we think, we become". | | | | and it often sees this kind of information as a |
| When we focus on the negative, we perpetuate | | | | threat even though it's the solution to one's |
| the negative. When we focus on the positive, we | | | | problems. There comes a time when we |
| perpetuate the positive. | | | | eventually realize that thinking is the original |
| When a person says "that's just the way I am" | | | | underlying source of all conflict, hardship, and |
| or "I can't help it, I am what I am", that's not | | | | suffering, and at that point we choose to start |
| quite true. They are who they are because of | | | | letting the thinking process dissipate as it arises, or |
| what they are currently aware of, and because | | | | before it arises. |
| of the way they choose to think and perceive. | | | | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder because of |
| Absolutely everything is a choice, but people don't | | | | the mind's perceptions of, and beliefs about, |
| realize it. The problem is that they simply aren't | | | | so-called "reality". Things are only seductive, |
| aware that they can change the mind's way of | | | | attractive, and tempting out of an automatic |
| thinking, and that's because they identify those | | | | result of biology, anatomy, and unawareness of |
| thoughts as being "me" or "important", when | | | | higher levels of truth. Without the mind interfering, |
| they're not. | | | | everything just IS; nothing more, nothing less, and |
| The heart pumps blood all by itself without you | | | | there's nothing wrong with that. Existence is |
| doing it, the lungs breath air all by themselves | | | | perfect exactly as it is and it doesn't need the |
| without you doing it, and the brain associates | | | | opinions of a faulty neural network running on |
| concepts with other concepts all by itself. The | | | | autopilot to tell it that it is or isn't. |
| mind is thinking completely on its own. It has | | | | The brain/mind is faulty in that it can't decipher |
| nothing to do with "you". If you look inside even | | | | truth from falsehood, but at the same time it's |
| for a brief minute you'll see that words, thoughts | | | | perfect because it is what it wants to be. People |
| and thinking are completely automatic. The brain | | | | think what they do because that's what they |
| works all by itself, which means that you are not | | | | want to be "the truth". Everybody can believe |
| the doer of deeds, nor the thinker of thoughts. | | | | what they want to believe, even if it means their |
| The body is a collective community of individually | | | | own suffering. |
| living cells that are all co-operating together to | | | | "There is nothing either good or bad, but only |
| make a larger whole. The brain's neural network, | | | | thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare, |
| and its thoughts and thinking are just another part | | | | Hamlet |
| of that overall cellular functioning. So if the mind | | | | The only Absolute Reality is that Awareness Is, |
| and body are working all by themselves as a | | | | and as soon as the mind tries to conceptualize |
| result of cells doing work, why do we identify the | | | | that "Is" into a thought form, it's already falling |
| mind's thoughts and the body's actions as being | | | | into error. All words and concepts beside "Is" are |
| "me"? Are we the mind and body, or are we the | | | | a mental distortion of Reality based on fantasy, |
| Energy/Life/Consciousness/Awareness within the | | | | fiction, and the wishful thinking of the mind. |
| body that is simply aware of itself as existing? | | | | Actually, even "Is" is a concept that is best to be |
| Are we the mind and body, or are we the | | | | let go of in order to realize the ultimate in peace |
| Awareness that is watching the body/mind's | | | | of mind. Why? Because silence of mind means |
| automatic functioning? Are we the physical doer | | | | peace of mind. |
| and thinker, or are we the formless Silent | | | | So "what is enlightenment?" you might be asking |
| Observer? | | | | at this point. Well, it's the permanent cessation of |
| Out of being identified with the body/mind, we | | | | all concepts, thoughts, and perceptions of the ego |
| are being controlled by it. We are enslaved by it | | | | mind/brain/intellect, and it's the full-blown |
| because we falsely identify it as being "me". But | | | | realization that one's true identity is actually |
| this is just a part of the evolution of | | | | formless, shapeless, timeless, non-local, |
| consciousness that we all go through. The ultimate | | | | all-encompassing, all-knowing pure Awareness. And |
| goal of life, and really the only one worth pursuing, | | | | don't even think about trying to imagine that with |
| is to set oneself free from this false identification | | | | the mind! |
| that creates suffering. | | | | |