Transcending the mind
Consciousness is the core reality, the substratum that abides eternal at the source of mind and of all manifest phenomena.
The human mind is a sophisticated creation that is programed by divine consciousness to function within limited parameters. The mind does not have the capacity to know its own source.
Mind spins the illusory web of maya that filters and interprets all experience. The human mind is addicted to concepts and dreams and cannot know the true nature of consciousness. The lower cannot know the higher.
Hence skilful teachers insist that consciousness can be known only by non-conceptual immersion in its silent mystery. Exploring any concept brings you back into the limited realm of mind where legions of dreamers languish in illusion and suffering for lives - thinking about consciousness.
The way to know silent consciousness is to merge with it in no-mind. You have been a dreamer for many lives, following the seductive pull of mind into its endless labyrinths. There is no fruit down that dead-end path. The fruits of freedom are not so readily available.
Freedom requires a total commitment to no-mind, an unequivocal renunciation of conceptual addiction. One day you will be given the longing and ability to transcend your mind and to know what you really are.
Such transcendence is not just a semi-blissful state on the edge of Being. Transcendence is an exhilarating journey that requires the conscious surrender of the ego-mind to its arcane source - transcendental awareness.
Only the ultimate mystery of God-the-beyond is eternal. Your soul is born and thus will die. When a fully enlightened buddha leaves the body for the last time, the soul dissolves in mahaparanirvana - God’s ultimate mystery where all trace of individuality disappears forever.
Transcending the limitations of mind is not possible for dreamers who are addicted to concepts and intellectual abstractions - only to warriors and lovers of truth who are ready to merge with the ecstatic fire of Now.
Maitreya
The human mind is a sophisticated creation that is programed by divine consciousness to function within limited parameters. The mind does not have the capacity to know its own source.
Mind spins the illusory web of maya that filters and interprets all experience. The human mind is addicted to concepts and dreams and cannot know the true nature of consciousness. The lower cannot know the higher.
Hence skilful teachers insist that consciousness can be known only by non-conceptual immersion in its silent mystery. Exploring any concept brings you back into the limited realm of mind where legions of dreamers languish in illusion and suffering for lives - thinking about consciousness.
The way to know silent consciousness is to merge with it in no-mind. You have been a dreamer for many lives, following the seductive pull of mind into its endless labyrinths. There is no fruit down that dead-end path. The fruits of freedom are not so readily available.
Freedom requires a total commitment to no-mind, an unequivocal renunciation of conceptual addiction. One day you will be given the longing and ability to transcend your mind and to know what you really are.
Such transcendence is not just a semi-blissful state on the edge of Being. Transcendence is an exhilarating journey that requires the conscious surrender of the ego-mind to its arcane source - transcendental awareness.
Only the ultimate mystery of God-the-beyond is eternal. Your soul is born and thus will die. When a fully enlightened buddha leaves the body for the last time, the soul dissolves in mahaparanirvana - God’s ultimate mystery where all trace of individuality disappears forever.
Transcending the limitations of mind is not possible for dreamers who are addicted to concepts and intellectual abstractions - only to warriors and lovers of truth who are ready to merge with the ecstatic fire of Now.
Maitreya
