Efforts to quiet the mind or to ignore thoughts cannot succeed with any
consistency. Only when Full Realization strikes, only when the "Oh my
gosh!" moment happens--only then does the mind dissolve. What to
consider meanwhile? It is true that, if you are instructed to "avoid
thinking about an elephant," the only thing that you can think of is an
elephant. So, what is the answer? The answer is not to try to be rid of a
disturbing thought. The answer is to ask when a thought is interrupting
the peace, "WHO is thinking that thought?" Only by relinquishing belief
in the false identities that inspire thoughts can the thoughts come to
an end. Only by abandoning the "this" and "that" in such beliefs as "I
am this" (role) or "I am that" (role) will the peace and quiet of only
the "I Am" ever happen.
The "mind" is the instrument that supports your personality with
thoughts, and those thoughts are the instruments that will forever
prevent "peace of mind"; in fact, there is no such thing as "peace of
mind." There is only peace if freed of the "mind."
Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the
elements. The `mind' is rooted in wrong programming and faulty
conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and
falsehoods.
You are in a play, playing a role, and believing that the role and the
play are both real. Why would you believe such nonsense? Because "your
mind" is the playwright, the author of every scene.
When Maharaj said, "You are not in the world...the world is in you,"
what did he mean? He meant, "You are not in the world," that is, there
is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means
that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of
your programming- and-conditioning -induced imaginings.
Everything that is said here is to be used to get rid of another false
belief until all ideas and emotional intoxication and beliefs are gone
and nothing remains but the unstated understanding. Only then can the
constant churning and re-churning of the false beliefs of the corrupted
"mind" finally cease.
What is that inner resource, that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure
consciousness that remains, deeply buried beneath the waste called "your
mind." "Your mind" obscures the consciousness because that "mind" is so
marred with its belief in lies and superstitions and all of its
"knowledge," all that learned ignorance, that it leaves you insane…so
insane that you don't know Your Self and so insane that you believe the
lies and dreams of the planet.
If your body has disappeared, how can any person remain? And if no
person remains, how can a mind remain?
In order to know (the great) Reality, you must be sane. In order to be
sane, you must be out of your mind.
For their suffering to end, persons must understand the functioning of
the totality; must see that all suffering is rooted in the assumption of
ego-states as false identities; must realize that they have no "mind"
but instead are being driven by the "minds" of others (which they now
think is their own "mind"); must be aware of the fact that a "mind" is
nothing more than the storehouse of all the lies and beliefs and ideas
and concepts that must be cast aside in order to end human suffering;
and must see the limitations of doingness but the timelessness and
limitless nature of beingness... and non-beingness as well........ FLOYD
HENDERSON