The mind can't fathom
that there can be a true intelligence,
a transcendent intelligence,
that isn't the product and outcome of
thought and conceptual understanding.
It can't fathom that there could be wisdom that's not
going to come at you in the form of thoughts,
in the form of acquired and accumulated knowledge.
The true spiritual urge or yearning is always an invitation beyond the mind.
That's why it's always been said that if you go to God, you go naked or you don't go at all.
It's the same for everybody. You go in free of your accumulated knowledge,
or you are forever unable to enter.
So an intelligent mind realizes its own limitation,
and it's a beautiful thing when it does.
When you stop holding on to all of the knowledge,
then you start to enter a different state of being.
You start to move into a different dimension.
You move into a dimension where experience inside
gets very quiet.
The mind may still be there chatting in the background,
or it might not,
but consciousness is no longer bothering itself with the mind.
You don't need to stop it. Your awareness just goes
right past that wall of knowledge and moves into a very quiet state.
In this quietness, you realize that you don't know
anything simply because you aren't looking back to the mind
for its acquired knowledge.
This quietness is a mystery to the mind.
It is something unknown.
As you go into depth, you literally go into
a deeper experience of what seems to be a great mystery.
Now the mind might come in and want to know
what's going on and start to define everything,
but that's not going to bring any more depth.
The mystery just keeps opening to itself if you let it -
if you let go of control.
As acquired knowledge is left behind,
what is found is that you have left your
familiar sense of self behind.
That self only existed in the accumulation of knowledge and experience.
Something very interesting happens when you leave it all behind,
because you are literally leaving your memory behind.
You leave behind who you thought you were,
whoever you thought your parents were,
and everything else you thought and believed.
Yesterday is gone.
Then a very interesting thing starts to be noticed:
you can leave all of that behind and still you are -
you are right here and right now.
So what you are becomes even more mysterious.
- Adyashanti
NonDual Highlights 3045
a transcendent intelligence,
that isn't the product and outcome of
thought and conceptual understanding.
It can't fathom that there could be wisdom that's not
going to come at you in the form of thoughts,
in the form of acquired and accumulated knowledge.
The true spiritual urge or yearning is always an invitation beyond the mind.
That's why it's always been said that if you go to God, you go naked or you don't go at all.
It's the same for everybody. You go in free of your accumulated knowledge,
or you are forever unable to enter.
So an intelligent mind realizes its own limitation,
and it's a beautiful thing when it does.
When you stop holding on to all of the knowledge,
then you start to enter a different state of being.
You start to move into a different dimension.
You move into a dimension where experience inside
gets very quiet.
The mind may still be there chatting in the background,
or it might not,
but consciousness is no longer bothering itself with the mind.
You don't need to stop it. Your awareness just goes
right past that wall of knowledge and moves into a very quiet state.
In this quietness, you realize that you don't know
anything simply because you aren't looking back to the mind
for its acquired knowledge.
This quietness is a mystery to the mind.
It is something unknown.
As you go into depth, you literally go into
a deeper experience of what seems to be a great mystery.
Now the mind might come in and want to know
what's going on and start to define everything,
but that's not going to bring any more depth.
The mystery just keeps opening to itself if you let it -
if you let go of control.
As acquired knowledge is left behind,
what is found is that you have left your
familiar sense of self behind.
That self only existed in the accumulation of knowledge and experience.
Something very interesting happens when you leave it all behind,
because you are literally leaving your memory behind.
You leave behind who you thought you were,
whoever you thought your parents were,
and everything else you thought and believed.
Yesterday is gone.
Then a very interesting thing starts to be noticed:
you can leave all of that behind and still you are -
you are right here and right now.
So what you are becomes even more mysterious.
- Adyashanti
NonDual Highlights 3045
