Re: The Thinking Mind & Shattered Hopes

[Guest guest]

> The function of the mind/brain is to assist in the surivial of the

> bodymind mechanism.

Is this true?

Can you really know that it's true?

etc. etc. etc.

If not - why write it as a statement of fact?

I'm just wondering.

Learning to Love What Is

Marilyn

[Guest guest]

Hi Marilyn ~

> > The function of the mind/brain is to assist in the surivial of

> > the bodymind mechanism.

> Is this true?

For whom?

> Can you really know that it's true?

As much as I can know anything is true.

> If not - why write it as a statement of fact?

> I'm just wondering.

Why was it written? It was thought. The compulsion to articulate it

was great enough so that fingertips were placed to keyboard and

electromagnetic pulses happened. Words appeared. A post was sent.

There was no choice in this matter. If the words don't fit your

belief system, then ignore them. If they provoke thought, examine

them. That is all there is to do. It is really no more complex than

that.

[Guest guest]

Dear Andy,

What is your point?

> The entire search for 'enlightenment' is a futile

> journey to a never-never-land

Are you saying that there is no path to

'enlightement'?

> Since there really aren't any problems (in this

> arena), there can be no solutions.

....

> Where you are, at any moment, is " it " -

> regardless of whether the " it " is joy or grief,

> happiness or sorry, serenity or grief. The

> willingness to not move from exactly where one

> is, regardless of how it feels, is the beginning

> of enlightenment.

Or that we are already were we want to get?

> the thinking mind is concerned with assuring that

> the ego, the " me " will survive. And as such it

> creates problems where there are none.

....

> Another part of the myth is that " you " can do

> something (meditate, pray, chant, do The Work) to

> achieve this 'enlightenment.'

Well - aren't these techniques to 'see' the ego?

And to 'love what is'? Isn't it about

'realization'? To learn, that all we are looking

for is already there.

We are on the search for a goal we do not understand

with our mind. All we want to do is to

come home. At the end of our path we may realize

that we have never left.

> The recognition that you didn't cause the whole

> catastrophe

What about the recognition that there is no catas-

trophe?

....

> You are not dreaming -- you are the dream.

> Anything else just perpetuates the story.

So we are to dismiss the story?

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