.... in the state of consciousness that most human beings are in, the mind is easily mistaken for something it’s not. The mind is not seen as a tool, but instead as the source of a sense of self. Most people are constantly asking their mind, “Who am I?” What is life?” “What is true?” Their looking to their mind to tell them what should and shouldn’t be. This is ridiculous! You wouldn’t go into your garage and ask your hammer who you are or what’s the right or wrong thing to do. If you did, and your hammer could speak back to you, it would probably say, “What are you asking me for? I’m the wrong tool to be asking these kind of questions.” But we do that with the mind. We’ve forgotten the mind is a tool - a very powerful and useful tool. Everything begins in the mind. Every car you drive, every building you enter, every shopping mall you go into - all of it started as a thought in someone’s mind. That thought was then deemed useful and necessary, and the idea was made manifest through action. So the mind is powerful and useful. But in human consciousness, the mind is not seen simply as a tool. What has happened instead is that the mind has usurped reality. It has become its own reality to such an extent that we human beings find our sense of self - who we think we are, our self-image - in our thinking process. As the light of awakening starts to penetrate on the level of the mind, we see that the mind has no inherent reality to it. It’s a tool that reality can use, but it’s not reality. In and of itself, a thought is just a thought. A thought has no truthfulness to it. you can have the thought of a glass of water, but if you’re thirsty, you can’t drink the thought. You can think about a glass of water until you die, but to actually pick up a physical glass of water is a totally different experience. ..... As we awaken on the level of the mind, we begin to perceive from beyond the mind. ..... When we see that the structure of thought holds no intrinsic reality, we come to see that the world as we perceive it, through the mind, can’t have any reality. Awakening on the level of the mind is the destruction of your entire world. This is something we can never, ever anticipate. What is destroyed is our entire worldview - all the ways we are conditioned, all of our belief structures, all the belief structures of humanity, from the present time to the distant past - all of them go into forming this particular world, this consensus that human beings have agreed upon, this viewing of things as true, literally down to “I’m a human being” or “There is such a thing as a world” or “The world needs to be a particular way.” Awakening on the level of the mind is a complete destruction of all this, and thus our entire world. Adyashanti, "The End of Your World"
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:56:23 +0000
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