I know that there is a lot of debate about this -- which is the cart and which is the horse? I don't think it matters. But it seems to me that if we accept some authorship of our own conditions, then we have some possibility beyond the bind we're in right now. We can make some changes to our self and the reality we create. If, on the other hand, we are totally the victims of our conditions, then we're fucked. The debate rages on, and will continue to do so until each of us finds for our self a synthesis of both truths. We are at once both victim and cause.
And this brings me to my point. Synthesis will not be found in the Mind. Mind is the arch proponent of Analysis and the source of all dissection and apparent separation. And I do know this. Synthesis is creative. Analysis, dissection and separation kills the very thing it seeks to understand.
The human mind is finite. It cannot contemplate the eternal. Trying to get the mind to wrap itself around eternity is like trying to park you car in its glovebox. The finity of the Mind is why it cannot be in the here/now, because the here/now is infinite. Here and now never ends. Here and Now is not a point in time. It is endless and simply is as it is.
What happened with the big bang was that Awareness lowered its frequency through thought, light, atoms, molecules, and eventually gross matter, organisms and environment. Everything got artificially and momentarily slowed down, giving us an opportunity to evolve an increasingly more sophisticated, albeit still clunky, ability to notice things and respond creatively with them. Time and distance are artifices we humans invented that help us to measure out this apparent continuum of "time"and "space", this slowed-down experience of Now. The slowing down allows us to experience moments, replay a recollection of them, and even make some predictions about their possible impact. The trade-off to this slowing-down, however, is a loss of clarity. The slower things get, the fuzzier and less accurate they become. My experience of death is of a speeding-up, where things get clearer and clearer, but increasingly more difficult to perceive because my mind is just not fast enough to keep up. Finally I have to give up. There is a "pop", and everything suddenly disappears into a dot that itself fades into blankness -- nothing -- oneness -- serenity that is no longer aware of its serenity. Pure Awareness, that can no longer be aware of itself because the illusion of separation is no longer available to it. The mirror has gone. Nothing happens here. Nothing can be done. Nothing needs to be done. There is no time any more. In the here/now nothing can, or needs to be reasoned out, thought about, felt about or compared...... Mind is no more.
Awareness is first. The advent of Separation gives rise to Consciousness -- Awareness with limitations. With the fall from Grace comes separation, so that Awareness can have a mirror in which to see itself, a way to experience itself and anything it considers itself to be, and a path to come back to itself at the end of the day and know itself for the first time.
The illusions of Time, Space and Separation are divine gifts of the condition of being human.
My mind is the creator of my world. Limited mind = limited world. The same is true for you. And our perceptions of our world reinforce the mindsets that shape them. I say the world is a certain way, the world agrees with me, revealing just enough of itself so that I can be "right" and have the experience of living in my kind of world. The same, again, is true for you. Every creation proves the rightness of its creator. The universe presents different limitations, depending on who is doing the creating. But the limitations are more apparent than real. The universe is so much more than any of us will ever know. This universe is both Heaven and Hell. Which one depends on the consciousness that is doing the creating and perceiving.
But outside of that there is that other reality I referred to a moment ago -- the real universe, the one uncreated by limited minds, is unlimited and infinitely resource-full. As it evolved from the Big Bang, every organism became part of the environment for other organisms. Every organism is inseparable from the environment that sustains it. There is no point where I end and my environment begins. Similarly, where is the dividing line between my environment and you? There is no separation: it is all one organism. Creation is indivisible. If you try to eliminate any part of creation, it no longer works.If you try to excise any part of yourself or your environment, as Mind wants you to do, your life no longer works, and neither does mine. All is in perfect balance. But in Mind, you and I cannot see that, because of our limited view. And we will never be able to see it until we first change our minds. That happens rarely because minds do not take kindly to change. It was a human mind that said "I'll believe it when I see it." That mind knew very well that it can only see what it believes. That's the way minds are. Minds do not see anything they don't first believe. Conversely, minds see everything they believe, no matter how true or false the belief is. Whatever the mind believes and sees is that mind's reality. Period. End of discussion.
CHANGE THE WORLD
When I was younger, I wanted to change the world. I wanted to change the world because I was NOT going to changed my mind -- I was right! Well. guess what? ..... Oh, you guessed! You're right. I had no hope of changing the world without first changing my mind. Neither do you. But along the way I found out something remarkable and miraculous ---
When I change my mind, the world changes -- for everyone.
When you change you mind, the world changes -- for everyone.
Changing the world lies over here with each one of us changing our world
By changing our minds.
We can each make a difference, by becoming the difference.
Regardless of intellectual, emotional or physical capacity
There isn't a person on this earth that does not have the ability to change their mind.
If you cannot live happily in a hovel, you will not live happily in a palace.
A palace is larger, more ornately decorated, and has hot and cold running everything.
So does heaven
And so does hell.
A larger, more ornately decorated and fitted-out hell does not a heaven make.
Even when we are forcibly thrown into Heaven (and we all have been), we manage to turn it into Hell and search frantically, looking for the nearest exit.
Mind is an appearance. There is no thing any surgeon can point to in the body and say "There's his mind." It is like electricity. You can't locate it, touch it, see it, smell it; but you can sure see the evidence of its passing through.
Mind is an interfering, futile effort at making what always was and is designed to work -- work. It is an ingenious, stupid survival mechanism in a game where survival was never the main issue. In trying to make it work, mind throws a spanner into the works. Mind goes on promising, hoping, negotiating and compromising for More, Better and Different. Mind just does not get that More, Better and Different are deserts where nothing much grows, certainly nothing of any beauty or with any nourishment value.
We cannot live without our minds; we have achieved a lot with our minds. But when we come to this point now and look at the bottom line, nothing much remains of enduring consequence. Certainly nothing worth the price of all the struggle, stress, pain and strain.
Now is the time to wake up. There is more, and it is available, but it all lies beyond the mind. Mind is only capable of short-term gratification which is a long way shy of replete satisfaction. Mind cannot create. It's promises are pipe dreams because it cannot be where all creation takes place -- in the here and now. Anything mind gets it has to steal from someone or something else. But please do not believe me on this. Like all knowing, you have to experience the futility of Mind for yourself.
The whole effort of the mind is to sell me a better dream. But a dream is a dream. I can dream of food and drink for a while and fool myself, but for how long? I may sleep all night long on such a dream, but if I am hungry or thirsty, I need real food and water. In the morning I awaken to hunger and thirst. My mind has deceived me, again.
What is your mind promising you that you're hanging in there for? Reality will keep bumping into you and shaking your delirium Wake up!
Living in mind is like living in a glass house. Reality keeps throwing stones, calling us to wake up. The glass shatters, but we keep picking up the pieces and try to put them back together again. Let it go. We have achieved nothing but a mess. It's time to start again with something more substantial than mind. Mind is fine for a certain kind of seeing, but it is not suitable building material for the whole edifice.
Enough is enough
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