| Why do we as human beings choose to utilize the | | | | ourselves through clarity and the wholeness of |
| mind in order to discover if there is anything beyond | | | | perception. Only then will we discover a way of life |
| the mind? Is there something truly sacred beyond | | | | that is in harmony with all life, with all of nature. This |
| the mind? To be clear, all the religious as well as the | | | | is the necessity of spirituality. |
| so-called spiritual people tend to resist and live in | | | | If we are truly concerned with discovering if there is |
| conflict with the things of the mind in an attempt to | | | | life beyond this mortality, we must learn to live in |
| discover if there is the sacred. We struggle aimlessly | | | | death. Death being the ending of all of yesterday and |
| to discover if there is anything beyond this life that | | | | the history of man. Can you do that? Can you live |
| can correct and prevent our destructive lives. So I | | | | each moment of your life without the slightest desire |
| am wondering, why not simply drop the mind all | | | | to look back and be trapped in memory? To live in |
| together. If the mind is the cause, the chaos and the | | | | the moment of the here and now is devoid of all |
| destruction of this world, why do we insist on utilizing | | | | traditions. The contamination of the ego-self cannot |
| it as our means of problem-solving? Is it out of habit | | | | enter the present moment. It is the essence of |
| that for millions of years, man throughout history has | | | | freedom and the purity of all life. The present |
| reached into his mental faculties to solve his endless | | | | moment is without any conflict and sorrow. |
| problems that seem to escalate instead of | | | | Only when we as human beings learn to live in |
| dissipating? | | | | freedom through death will we create a beautiful |
| This inquiry has to be dealt with great clarity and the | | | | world not only for ourselves but for our children. Let |
| fullness of perception. Perhaps, in the wholeness of | | | | us look deep into this so we may awaken to a new |
| perception that transcends mind, there lies the | | | | life free of all conflict. So that when we look within |
| answer to all our problems. This is something we | | | | our self for the intelligence that can solve all our |
| must find out for ourselves. Not through ideologies of | | | | problems, the mind as thought must come to an end. |
| philosophy or any of the dogma of all the various | | | | And that ending is not a movement of |
| world religions that have been formulated by the | | | | self-deception, delusion or imagination but a living |
| mind. Realize the fact; the mind of man has | | | | death that breathes life. Then you will awaken to the |
| formulated all the religions of the world. That is rather | | | | splendor of the eternal that transcends this obscure |
| obvious, is it not? This mind, this very instrument has | | | | life in which the mind of man has built. |
| created the problems and has entangled itself so | | | | Realize that, spirituality is not a matter of denying or |
| deeply it can not find its way out of its own misery | | | | accepting the mind and the things of the mind. One |
| and sorrow. | | | | simply transcends it. What is paramount is to live in |
| So we are questioning and probing such a | | | | wholeness and not be trapped in the limitations of |
| fundamental issue that warrants deep insight. | | | | the mind. What one is pointing out is; can we drop |
| Through politics and reform, we attempt to unite the | | | | the mind all together? Not as a figment of ones |
| division that is apparent in this world with great | | | | imagination or any form of delusional reaction, but as |
| failure. All the politicians, religions and leaders of the | | | | an actuality. |
| world, categorically attempt to bridge the dissipation, | | | | The mind, with all its contamination of the past, can |
| discord and hatred that they themselves have | | | | not solve our problems on any fundamental level. So |
| caused and failed. We, as human beings, have caused | | | | when one see this clearly, not as a theory but an |
| all this destructiveness throughout the whole world. | | | | actual fact, the whole thing is dropped. Through deep |
| Not the animals, not the trees, but the ego of man, | | | | insight, the realization of this comes and wipes out all |
| past and present. The mind of man, through his own | | | | the darkness of the idea of mind as thought, |
| making created the darkness of this world and can | | | | emotion and ideation. |
| see no way out. Even our aim to change the world is | | | | When there is the awakening within, ones whole life |
| without meaning. We are pressed by the urgency to | | | | is complete order. And in this order, there is love, |
| find the solution but the more we try the more the | | | | unconditional love. This love, if you are truly listening |
| mind simply creates greater chaos. | | | | so far, is the wholeness of perception. This |
| As human beings on this beautiful planet, we are | | | | perception is absolute clarity beyond the field of mind |
| doomed by our own destruction. Is this our inherent | | | | as knowledge. This totality of all energy is life. To call |
| nature to disintegrate and destroy all that we touch? | | | | it God or Allah or whatever is to reach back into the |
| Is it because we lack sensitivity and compassion? Is | | | | mind and all its idiocy. So when at once the mind is |
| this why we live such meaningless and passionless | | | | dropped, why would one ever want to pick it back |
| lives? All such questions must be probed, deeply. | | | | up? Simply live in this awareness, this wholeness of |
| If we, as human beings, are at all serious to discover | | | | perception in which mind as time and thought can not |
| a new life, a new course for our existence, surely | | | | enter. This effortless movement of love transcends |
| we can no longer depend on anyone. For if you look | | | | the idea of mind and no-mind. Then there is freedom |
| at all the various religions of the world, it is rather | | | | without measure. Only then you realize you are no |
| obvious they do not know. They have all failed | | | | longer a mere mental entity in life, you discover you |
| humanity. So, it is up to each of us to look within | | | | are life, eternal. |