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for them> at lea t not in thi lifetimeE You used the word Being. Can you explain what you mean by that? #eing i the eternal> ever4pre ent One 8ife ,e/ond the m/riad form of life that are u,Gect to ,irth and deathE 'owever> #eing i not onl/ ,e/ond ,ut al o deep within ever/ form a it innermo t invi i,le and inde tructi,le e enceE Thi mean that it i acce i,le to /ou now a /our own deepe t elf> /our true natureE #ut don0t eek to gra p it with /our mindE 3on0t tr/ to under tand itE %ou can know it onl/ when the mind i tillE $hen /ou are pre ent> when /our attention i full/ and inten el/ in the Now> #eing can ,e felt> ,ut it can never ,e under4 tood mentall/E To regain awarene of #eing and to a,ide in that tate of @feeling4 realiAation@ i enlightenmentE

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When you say Being, are you talking about God? If you are, then why don't you say it? The word 'od ha ,ecome empt/ of meaning through thou and of /ear of mi u eE ! u e it ometime > ,ut ! do o paringl/E #/ mi u e> ! mean that people who have never even glimp ed the realm of the acred> the infinite va tne ,ehind that word> u e it with great con4 viction> a if the/ knew what the/ are talking a,outE Or the/ argue again t it> a if the/ knew what it i that the/ are den/ingE Thi mi u e give ri e to a, urd ,elief > a ertion > and egoic delu ion > uch a @*/ or our God i the onl/ true God> and your 'od i fal e>@ or NietA che0 famou tatement @God i deadE@ The word 'od ha ,ecome a clo ed conceptE The moment the word i uttered> a mental image i created> no longer> perhap > of an old man with a white ,eard> ,ut till a mental repre entation of omeone or omething out ide /ou> and> /e > almo t inevita,l/ a %ale omeone or omethingE Neither 'od nor Being nor an/ other word can define or explain the ineffa,le realit/ ,ehind the word> o the onl/ important Due tion i whether the word i a help or a hindrance in ena,ling /ou to experience That toward which it point E 3oe it point ,e/ond it elf to that tran cendental realit/> or doe it lend it elf too ea il/ to ,ecoming no more than an idea in /our head that /ou ,elieve in> a mental idol= The word Being explain nothing> ,ut nor doe 'od. Being, however> ha the advantage that it i an open conceptE !t doe not reduce the infinite invi i,le to a finite entit/E !t i impo i,le to form a mental image of itE No,od/ can claim exclu ive po e ion of #eingE !t i /our ver/ e ence> and it i immediatel/ acce i,le to /ou a the feeling of /our own pre ence> the realiAation ! a% that i prior to ! am thi or ! am thatE So it i onl/ a mall tep from the word Being to the experience of #eingE

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What is the greatest obstacle to experiencing this reality?

!dentification with /our mind> which cau e thought to ,ecome compul iveE Not to ,e a,le to top thinking i a dreadful affliction> ,ut we don0t realiAe thi ,ecau e almo t ever/,od/

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i uffering from it> o it i con idered normalE Thi ince ant mental noi e prevent /ou from finding that realm of inner tillne that i in epara,le from #eingE !t al o create a fal e mind4made elf that ca t a hadow of fear and ufferingE $e will look at all that in more detail laterE The philo opher 3e carte ,elieved that he had found the mo t fundamental truth when he made hi famou tatement) @! think> therefore ! amE@ 'e had> in fact> given expre ion to the mo t ,a ic error to eDuate thinking with #eing and identit/ with thinkingE The compul ive thinker> which mean almo t ever/one> live in a tate of apparent eparatene > in an in anel/ complex world of continuou pro,lem and conflict> a world that reflect the ever4 increa ing fragmentation of the mindE Enlightenment i a tate of wholene > of ,eing @at one@ and therefore at peaceE At one with life in it manife ted a pect> the world> a well a with /our deepe t elf and life unmanife ted 4 at one with #eingE Enlightenment i not onl/ the end of uffering and of continuou conflict within and without> ,ut al o the end of the dreadful en lavement to ince ant thinkingE $hat an incredi,le li,eration thi i O !dentification with /our mind create an opaDue creen of concept > la,el > image > word > Gudgment > and definition that ,lock all true relation hipE !t come ,etween /ou and /our elf> ,etween /ou and /our fellow man and woman> ,etween /ou and nature> ,etween /ou and GodE !t i thi creen of thought that create the illu ion of eparatene > the illu ion that there i you and a totall/ eparate @otherE@ %ou then forget the e ential fact that> underneath the level of ph/ ical appearance and eparate form > /ou are one with all that i E #/ @forget>@ ! mean that /ou can no longer feel thi onene a elf4evident realit/E %ou ma/ #elieve it to ,e true> ,ut /ou no longer know it to ,e trueE A ,elief ma/ ,e comfortingE Onl/ through /our own experience> however> doe it ,ecome li,eratingE Thinking ha ,ecome a di ea eE 3i ea e happen when thing get out of ,alanceE For example> there i nothing wrong with cell dividing and multipl/ing in the ,od/> ,ut when thi proce continue in di regard of the total organi m> cell proliferate and we have di ea eE The mind i a uper, in trument if u ed rightl/E : ed wrongl/> however> it ,ecome ver/ de tructiveE To put it more accuratel/> it i not o much that /ou u e /our mind wrongl/ 4 /ou u uall/ don0t u e it at allE !t u e you. Thi i the di ea eE %ou ,elieve that /ou are /our mindE Thi i the delu ionE The in trument ha taken /ou overE
I don't uite agree! It is true that I do a lot of aimless thinking, like most people, but I can still choose to use my mind to get and accomplish things, and I do that all the time!

<u t ,ecau e /ou can olve a cro word puAAle or ,uild an atom ,om, doe n0t mean that /ou u e /our mindE <u t a dog love to chew ,one > the mind love to get it teeth into pro,lem E That0 wh/ it doe cro word puAAle and ,uild atom ,om, E %ou have> no inter4 e t in eitherE 8et me a k /ou thi ) can /ou ,e free of /our mind whenever /ou want to= 'ave /ou found the @off@ ,utton=
You mean stop thinking altogether? "o, I can't, except maybe for a moment or two!

Then the mind i u ing /ouE %ou are uncon ciou l/ identified with it> o /ou don0t even know that /ou are it laveE !tL almo t a if /ou were po e ed without knowing it> and o /ou take the po e ing entit/ to ,e /our elfE The ,eginning of freedom i the realiAation that /ou are not the po e ing entit/ 4 the thinkerE 7nowing thi ena,le /ou to o, erve the entit/E The moment /ou tart wat"hing the thinker> a higher level of con ciou ne ,ecome