BEYOND MERE MIND

"We become

Or, at the very least

Powerfully participate in 

What we think we're thinking."

BUT.....

 What if we're not doing the thinking --

What if the thinking is doing us?

Over the years
We've built up patterns of habitual thoughts,
Thoughts that "think us",
And a prevailing mood of habitual feelings,
Feelings that "feels us".
We long ago ceased to think much, if at all, about our prevailing thoughts,
Or feel about our prevailing feelings --
We've uncritically allowed them to dominate our experience of living,
And to rule our behaviour.
We have assumed them as the normal, general climate in which we live.
"This is our lot" is our mantra,
But there is no acceptance in it:
We bitch and rail against our fate,
Unquestioningly convinced
That the thoughts and feelings we've steeped in up until now
Are the only reality available to us,
And that anyone who doesn't think and feel as we do
Is either deluded or lucky.

This barbwire cocoon we've wrapped ourselves in
Sorts and sifts the soup of thoughts and feelings we swim in,
Censoring the perceptions that are available to us
And making bloody sure that nothing filters through to us that doesn't fit
The Programme --
Our idea of The Way It Is.

This condition is a legacy of the unkind mind --
One of the challenges of what it means to be human.
There is nothing wrong.

The narrow spectrum (compared to all that's available)
Of thoughts and feelings we entertain
Are hand-picked by our pre-existing conditioning
Of self-proving thoughts and feeling patterns --
All of them "tried and true".
So we think.

We perceive only that which our existing thoughts and moods allow us to perceive.
We have almost 20/20 D.I.Y.blindness,
And yet we are so sure about the rightness and clarity of our "vision".

Consider this....
Our mind cannot know anything;
It can only think
And one of the things it thinks
Is that it thinks it knows,
Fooling us into a false sense of wisdom.
We'll never, ever know everything
Until we give up all that we think we know
And know nothing.

Therein lies an escape hatch,

A choice to be made --

Whether to continue to passively allow the Mind to use us for its continuing survival,

Or

Whether to take up the talisman of Awareness,

And use the situation for our Transformation.

Breaking out of any circular rut of un-thought thought and un-felt feeling can be difficult.
It is a function of the Mind
To resist any influence that threatens the ramshackle shanty
Of its existing patterns.
Transformation is not, and never will be on your Mind's to-do list!
It doesn't even go into the Mind's too-hard basket
Or "Maybe" file.
Transformation -- the dreaded "T"- word -- is not reason-able......
And is therefore Verbötten!!

Transformation lies beyond mind,
In the silences between the words,
In the gaps between the road-train of thoughts.
No thinking,
No doing,
No more catharting (the process of "doing" feeling),
No more meditating (the process of "doing" not-doing),
Nothing more to do,
Everything to be and have -- be-haviour.
Realisation dawns when nothing is going on.