Being is Mindless

Knowing can never be enlightened. But Being is already that.

The knowing that we experience – the thinking, the analyzing, the understanding – makes up “mind,” which perceives itself to be separate from the whole. It can’t be any other way. The mind cannot perceive itself to be the whole, because it will always see “the whole” as an object, and it will always set itself apart.

The mind is a useful tool for some things, however, and the only tool at our disposal, so we might as well use it. The mind can understand certain things – for instance, it can detect the falseness of the notion of a separate “I.” The mind can observe that there is no “I” entity there. The mind can notice that it sees, hears, feels, thinks, but that there is no self-center doing those things. The mind can get all of that. In other words, the mind is capable of discerning what is not going on.

But the mind is totally incapable of discerning what is going on, because what is real is in no way objective, and the mind deals only with objects. So there is a point at which the mind reaches the end of its usefulness in trying to understand reality. And this, too, is something the mind can discern: the mind can recognize that it is incapable of knowing the truth. And then it can stop trying. It can stop.

I’m not saying that in order to access truth, you have to stop thinking. The thinking will go on. It is just to be recognized, by the mind, that thinking will never reveal the truth. The truth is not to be found there, because thinking always has an object and subject – that is inherent in its nature – and truth has no such oppositions, no such duality. The truth is One: whole and complete in itself, an infinity of reflection upon reflection of its own perfect totality. This is your own being.

This perfect totality – Being – is not knowable by the mind, but the fact of its unknowability is knowable. And when the mind realizes that it has reached its limitations, and searching for truth is abandoned, Being spontaneously takes over. And it is seen that Being is all there has ever been, all along, and that the mind never was.

Being is all there is, right now, present in this moment as the still, loving, non-discerning background across which all observed phenomena pass. Being is all there is, and all that appears to be “going on” is simply this – Being. In reality, nothing is going on. Especially take note right now that even the very thought you currently have is simply a wisp, appearing in the Unchanging, and then gone. And you thought it was so important! Where is it now?

Being needs no thoughts. Being is already perfect. Being needs no suggestions as to how to do it better. Become acquainted with this generous, comfortable reality that is yours all the time. Allow Being to gently nudge the mind aside.

So go ahead and take the mind as far as it will go, if that’s what you’re doing. It will be clear when you’ve hit the wall and there’s no further the mind can go. So just leave it, to do its daily machinations about practical matters, and don’t look back. Allow Being to run the show. It knows how.

In simply being, all is revealed…but not to the mind. To whom or what, then?

It’s a total mystery.