271. Death reveals life, which means it is life. They are the same.
272. A tree is completely unaffected and totally unmoved by the affairs of man. Watch a tree, how steadfast it stands, gives shade, and gently moves in a wind. None of that, and none of what is a tree and what it does, is affected by anything that anyone does or by anything that may happen to others. There may be a calamity that causes horrific human anguish and sorrow, however none of that sorrow touches the tree. The tree is completely unaffected by any and all human sorrow. Intelligence is like that. Intelligence is a movement independent of human anguish and sorrow. It is independent of everything, man, the earth, the stars. It is a field of independence itself, which means nothing affects or moves it. It is immovable, untouchable, and invulnerable. It is a sacred thing.
273. To live without attachment to ideas means to no longer be affiliated to any particular political party, organized religion, or belief of any kind. Life without attachment means living without jealousy, fear, stress, struggle, ambition, loneliness, depression, and every form of inner discontent. It means living in freedom. It is the simplest and most natural thing to be free. It is simple and natural because you are born that way.
274. The end of psychological time means the end of inward confinement. It means a mind that is not stationary or local. It means coming upon that which is non-local. The mind that comes upon that which is non-local discovers a field of non-locality that permeates mankind, nature, the earth, the stars, and all that is. Non-locality is not an idea, but a movement outside the field of time and space. The mind that comes upon it, and enters into it, is not separate from it. They are the same.
275. When you come across tremendous energy, you feel it. It is not an idea, but it is real, palpable. Love is energy. They are the same.
276. Intelligence has nothing to do with knowledge, because knowledge is restricted to time. Intelligence is not restricted, or in any way bound to time. What is the action for someone who has come upon such intelligence? What does one do to live in this world, earn a livelihood, and all that? One may point it out to people, if people have interest and will listen. One may write books, put up a web site, and give talks about it. One may do all that. However, all that is still a movement of thought. It may be intelligent thought, but it is still thought, and therefore it is restricted. It is terribly limited and confined. That means all such activities are rather small compared to the enormity of intelligence. There is, however, another action for the person who has come upon that vast, unlimited other that is not small or confined in any way. It is an action that is unconfined, and therefore it is an action that touches everything, the whole of mankind. That action is to be with intelligence, move with it, have it occupy the brain, and be in-separate from it. Such a person may live a simple life, be a gardener, baker, or carpenter. One may do most anything for a livelihood. The action is not the livelihood. It is to follow and be in that movement. In order to be in that movement, the movement of intelligence, one must learn what is meditation. Meditation does not refer to a practice in which one trains the mind to induce a particular state of consciousness. It is not any sort of mental technique designed to invite a hopeful feeling or particular state of being. It has nothing to do with any form of mental analysis or sustained single-pointed concentration. It also does not involve internal effort, desire, or any ritual objects, and there are no repetitive words or mantra. All of that implies thought, and meditation, the meditation that is the action of intelligence, has nothing to do with thought. Anything that involves thought is not it. Meditation is not an activity of thought, which means it is attention. Attention is not thought. Thought is memory. It is the past or projection of the future which is still memory. Attention has no relation to the past or any projection of the future. It has no connection to the playback of memory. Attention is meditation. They are the same. Therefore attention is the greatest action. It is the action, the movement, and the work of intelligence. If an activity of thought is considered to be an action, even if thought is intelligent, then the greatest action is no action at all. To understand this brings about a sense of immense peace, tremendous contentment. It means there is no need to go out of ones way to talk, to write, to educate, or do any of that. However, one can do that for a livelihood, out of compassion, and so on. It is simply not required, because intelligence requires nothing. It requires nothing because it is a movement of independence itself. It is freedom, which means it needs nothing from you or anyone. It needs nothing at all.
277. It has been said by notable scientists that inside a small particle of matter there is tremendous energy. For example, when a small piece of matter reaches the speed of light, something happens to it. It changes. It changes from matter to energy. The change that takes place is immediate. It is instant. A similar change happens when ignorance ends in the brain. Thought as the ego is a field of ignorance. It is ignorance because the ego is partial, bias, and psychological bias means ignorance. They are the same. If thought as the ego ends, then a transformation takes place in the mind. The mind mutates. It instantly transforms. It changes into something entirely different in which the ego plays no part, which means the mind is purged of all forms of bias, partiality, and therefore ignorance. The end of ignorance is intelligence. The intelligence that comes does not happen over time. It is not a slow process that is the product of study, hard work, knowledge, or any form of thought. All of that implies memory, and memory is grounded in the past. It is the past, the past means time. Therefore when the ego leaves the mind, it leaves in a sudden flash, explosive burst, and unbelievable explosion. It does that, because the leaving of ignorance is the entering of intelligence. They are the same. This is important to understand. Intelligence is not a planned or premeditated thing. It is not laid-back or passive, which means it is fiery, spontaneous, filled with tremendous energy. Intelligence is energy. The energy that comes imbues the mind. It fills the mind, but the energy has nothing to do with any idea, concept, or thought. Concepts are dead things. Thoughts are fixations stored in memory. They are dead and lifeless things. Energy is not lifeless. It is not something that is fixed, but instead it is alive and moving. It is an eruption that takes place in the mind. What happens cannot be conveyed with any system of words or vocabulary. There is nothing in the human language that can pass on or transmit to another person what happens. What happens is beyond words. That means the person must go into it. You must go into it. You must find out what it means to erase the ego from the mind. Only then can what happens be understood. There is no other way.
278. The cost for love is your personal religious beliefs, your political affiliations, your philosophical opinions, and every hope, wish, and dream that is important to you. Only when you let go of every mental attachment to every idea and thought in memory, will you be free, and only in freedom does love show itself.
279. The mind that is trapped in thought is a prisoner of time. Time means memory. It means the constant reliving of the past, and therefore routine, boredom, stress, jealousy, anger, ambition, struggle, disappointment, confusion, and all the insanity that goes with it. The mind that breaks free from living in time, discovers what it means to be free. It comes upon freedom. Freedom is not a thought. It has nothing to do with anything grounded in memory. Only when the mind sees the fallacy of thought does it learn what it means to be free. It is the seeing of the fallacy of thought that ends thought. They are the same.
280. Thought as the self originates from the emptiness that exists between thoughts. It arises from, and falls back into, the emptiness. The emptiness is not thought, which means it is not a movement in time. It is timeless and eternal. It is a sacred thing.
281. The emptiness in consciousness contains all that is. It is the gateway to everything.
282. As one stepped out the front door, the early morning sun and blue sky seemed to take the breath away. The air felt fresh and invigorating. The array of colors of the flowers along the sidewalk were vibrant, with morning dew still resting on the petals. The town streets were quiet. Only the coffee and bake shops were open. The bakers were putting out freshly baked breads and warm rolls inside wicker baskets. The smell of bread and coffee filled the air. Walking along the empty sidewalk an unknown presence unexpectedly revealed itself. It bathed everything, the sky, the trees, the buildings, the road, the cement sidewalk, the cracks in the sidewalk. It penetrated the body, the brain, and all that is, through and through. It was not a movement in time and had nothing to do with the playback of memory. It was not an idea, but something moving, thriving, and ever revealing itself in the present. It had a quality about it that was outside the locality of time and space. It was not local or fixed to any area. It was placeless, and therefore embraced the whole of life. One may, or may not, come upon that infinite, timeless other that is love. Decades may pass without it to reveal itself. Whether or not it comes is irrelevant. What is important is that the door for it remain open. If it comes, then it comes, however if it does not come, then it must have absolutely no affect. One must be completely indifferent about it. There must be no hint of hope, want, or expectation. Love is not something that comes as a result of prayer or desire. All of that implies a mental image, memory, and therefore limitation. Love is not limited. End the limitation within and love reveals itself. It comes, because the end of limitation means the end of time. It means that which is timeless comes into being. Love is that timeless other. They are the same.
283. It is consciousness that determines perception. If the content of consciousness as memory is the observer, then perception is distorted. It is distorted because memory is limited, partial, and therefore bias. Bias implies distortion. However if the observer is not memory, then there is observation without the content of consciousness to distort the observation. Observation without distortion can only occur when the content of consciousness as memory becomes quiet. Only the quiet mind can perceive what is real, true, without any trace or hint of distortion. To come upon that mental state of quietness requires meditation. It is a meditation that does not involve thought or the repetition of any pattern of ideas, which means it has nothing to do with time. Psychological time implies memory, the past, and therefore limitation. Meditation is not limited. It is unlimited, which means it is a timeless and infinite thing.
284. No mental image can end a life of struggle, stress, jealousy, and sorrow. All inner conflict implies an image, which means an ego. It means a self. Therefore no words, book, or teaching can be used to end the self. See that fact. Internalize it. Realize the fallacy of using any image to end sorrow, and suddenly there is freedom from all images, books, and teachings of the world. There is freedom.
285. Read these things, and think through them carefully. Step back from it all, and from every direction examine it. Examine it up, down, right, left, inside, and outside. Be alone with yourself, and explore it. Do that, and see what happens. However, arrive at a conclusion and you will be lost. Come to an opinion or belief, and that is not it. None of this has anything to do with conclusions, opinions, or beliefs. See the danger, stupidity, and absolute insanity of personal opinions and beliefs, and drop them all. Drop every opinion and belief known to man, and thereby live in that field of life that is doubt, mystery, wonder, and all that is unknown. Live in the field of the unknown, and something extraordinary takes place in the brain. The brain begins to spark and light up. It starts to see things as never before. It becomes aware, and in that awareness every sense of inward division comes to a sudden stop. Psychological division ends which means every inner hurt and mental torment suddenly vanish. It all disappears. What takes its place is something new, fresh, and hugely alive. That is what life in the unknown does. It brings immense aliveness to the brain. What happens is astonishing.
286. The simplicity of all this boggles the mind. It makes it all seem unfathomable.
287. He was an elderly man with grey hair and sunburned wrinkled face. He wore tattered clothing, and an old, dirty back pack was draped behind his shoulder. He walked quickly with long strides, talking, and cursing to himself as he crossed the busy intersection. His face appeared angry, hateful, and absorbed in thought. The mind absorbed in the movement of thought falls into isolation, becomes separated internally in the mind, and externally from other people, the world, and all of life. Mental alertness ends this separation. It wipes away the separation between the thinker and thought. It brings a stop to the whole of psychological isolation, and thereby removes the inner conflict of struggle, hate, anger, loneliness, depression, fear, and all the misery that goes with it. Do not believe this, but test it for yourself. Play with it.
288. The moment desire enters the brain, the self comes into play. The self means deception and illusion. It means ignorance. Learn what it means to watch without desire, judgment, or any sense of like or dislike. Learn to equally watch the things that occur outside the brain and also inside the brain. In other words allow a watchfulness to operate that does not differentiate between inside and outside, good and bad, pretty or ugly. Let a quality of sharp watchfulness, mental alertness, and sensitivity occupy the brain. Notice how in that state of watchfulness, the whole mechanism of embracing of psychological images stops, which means the self ends. Watchfulness is the factor that negates the self, and with it the whole of deception, illusion, and therefore ignorance. Experiment with it. Test it. Test it. Test it.
289. Consciousness contains every past experience, memory and thought. It also contains the emptiness that exists between thoughts. Thought is grounded in the past, which makes it a limited thing. The emptiness is not limited. The end of thought means the end of limitation. It means when the movement of thought ends, that which is unlimited comes into being. Meditation is what reveals that unlimited other. This is a meditation that is not scheduled, in any way planned, deliberate, or takes place at specified times. It must come naturally, without warning, and without any sense of expectation or desire. It may take place while waiting in line at a store checkout counter, sitting on a park bench, or upon waking from sleep. Whenever or wherever it happens, it must come on its own. When it comes, it brings an inner cleansing and renewal. It renews the brain, gives it strength, energy, and indescribable passion to meet the day. It is something that when it happens you feel it.
290. One must have a total and global approach to questions in order to resolve them in a complete manner. There must be no desire, effort, or will to come upon the answer, but instead allow the energy present in the brain to explore the question, and then simply follow the truth wherever it may lead.
291. The mind without “the me” lives in the present, and therefore it is highly attentive and alert. It does not embrace any mental image, puts no importance on any form of thought, and gives no weight to any particular set of ideas, opinions, or beliefs. It does not identify to any particular religion, country, political party, or culture. It identifies to nothing. As a result the watchfulness that occurs does not compare or judge. In that state of watchfulness, there is no sense of division, which means there is no inner conflict. The whole of psychological conflict, including fear, anger, loneliness, anxiety, greed, envy, and all the rest of it, does not exist. It is completely absent. In that state of mental alertness there is no interference of any image. No image means no me, no I, no self. It means the key to end every form of psychological conflict has been discovered. The beauty of this key is that it not only ends the conflict in you, but it ends the conflict in your children, your neighbor, and every human being on earth. This is a huge realization and revolutionary discovery. It is the discovery of a lifetime.
292. Knowledge takes the shape of ideas, which are snapshots of experience. These snapshots are recorded in memory, which makes the character of memory limited and fragmented. Love is not limited. It is not something that is fragmented or in any way partial. That means the whole of human knowledge cannot be used to come upon what is love. It means no idea, thought, or mental image in any form can be used to come upon love, including opinion, belief, knowledge, or any form of memory. To see this fact brings freedom from knowledge. It puts memory in its place, and thereby brings freedom from memory. Only when one is inwardly free, free from the illusion of the capabilities of human knowledge and memory, can a love that has no limits of any kind show itself. Only then can a person come upon that unlimited, eternal, and therefore sacred other.
293. Thoughts are rigid, stiff, dead things. The emptiness between thoughts is a movement, ever new, alive, and filled with enormous energy. It is an energy unlike anything else. It is vast, immense, and outside the field of space and time. Everything one has ever needed or will ever need is contained within this emptiness. It can be found within the energy. It must only be tapped. Thought is the barrier that prevents access to it. Remove thought and the energy releases. The removal of thought is the release of the energy. They are the same. When the energy is released and accessed, every form of inward conflict dissipates. The totality of conflict, which means fear, anger, stress, frustration, anxiety, loneliness, and so on, all come to an instant stop. The whole of it disappears. It disappears completely. When conflict ends, when it actually takes place, something extraordinary is uncovered. What is revealed is a love that was seemingly suppressed, hidden, and waiting to get out. It is unlike anything one can ever imagine. It is not a mental image. It is not a thought, but it is the empty space between thoughts. It is a love that is pure, powerful, and unconditional. It is powerful because it is the only thing one needs, has ever needed, or will ever need in life. Bring an end to every opinion, belief, and mode of thought that one inwardly clings to, and see what happens. Discard every stiff, old, dead thought, and suddenly it comes. Don’t take my word it. Don’t blindly believe or accept it. Do it. Find out for yourself whether or not there is any truth to any of this at all.
294. Discard every form of human knowledge, and be mentally alert and awake. Do that and you will see as you have never seen before.
295. To learn about yourself, you can look back at the earliest memories of your life, and observe the particular environment where you were raised, your upbringing, the types of foods that were prepared for you, the clothes you were given to wear, the languages you were taught, the parents and family you were born into, the relationships you had with people, animals, nature, and all that. Also you can see what subjects you studied, the skills you developed, the knowledge you acquired, the religious beliefs and traditions you were taught, as well as feelings and thoughts that occurred in your everyday life. If you do that and look deeply into memory, then you learn about yourself. You learn how you are physically conditioned by the body you have, by how you walk, how you sit, the activities you perform, and the exercises you do, or do not do. More importantly, you learn how you have been psychologically conditioned. Psychological conditioning includes all of the opinions and beliefs handed down to you by your parents and the society in which you lived. It is upbringing, culture, education, tradition, and all the rest of it. Throughout life this conditioning is under constant modification. Opinions and beliefs are continually being added and subtracted. It is an internal mental mold and pattern of thinking, which is based on all the things you have accepted, been lead to believe, and have used to formulate your personal opinions and beliefs. You may be conditioned to think like a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist. When you think about God, then it is the conditioning of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or whatever, that comes to mind. You may be conditioned to think like a Republican or Democrat, North Korean or South Korean, Sunni or Shiite. You may be conditioned in many other ways and not realize it. Also you may be conditioned to live with conflict, such as the conflict of stress, anxiety, loneliness, jealousy, fear, and every other form of inner struggle and mental hurt that so many people have in life. You may inwardly accept war and social violence as normal human behavior and that all of the conflict that goes on throughout the world is unavoidable, inevitable, and a part of being human. Mental conditioning is expressed in thousands of ways. Look carefully at your earliest memories, and you can see your particular conditioning, how you have been mentally indoctrinated, and thereby molded to fit into a particular pattern of behavior. All of that is the result of the narrow, particular, and conditioned environment in which you were born, raised, and educated. When you realize that you have been conditioned, essentially brainwashed to think in a particular manner, then the possibility to bring an end to that conditioning suddenly takes place. The awareness that you conditioned is the beginning of the end of conditioning. Awareness is what ends it. When the whole foundation and structure of psychological conditioning ends, then the door opens for the mind to come upon an entirely new dimension to life which is inwardly, psychologically free. It is free from conditioning. This is important to understand. The end of psychological conditioning makes possible for the mind to come upon that which is unconditional. That which is unconditional is not an ideal, concept, or belief. It has nothing to do with any form of thought. Thought is limited. That which is unconditional is not limited. Love is not a limited thing. Love has no conditions, and it has nothing to do with any pattern of behavior. There is nothing more important than love, which is why learning about yourself is so important. Only when one learns about oneself, when one sees the conditioning that exists within, and finds out what it means to bring it to an end, can one come upon a love that is unconditional. It is the greatest thing a human being can ever come upon.
296. When you learn about yourself, do not let a single thought get away without understanding it. If you fail to understand a single thought, then it remains. It continues. Understanding is what ends thought. It is the event that puts thought in its proper place.
297. Do not blindly follow any of this. Follow nothing. Follow nobody. To follow nothing and nobody, means not be a follower of images, ideas, and thoughts. It means to discard every form of thought as personal belief. It means to end the attachment to mental images, which include images of the spouse, the job, money, politics, religion, God, and all that. It means to discard every mental image one treasures and holds dear. When one does that, when the whole of every form of mental attachment is discarded, one suddenly comes upon the present. One comes upon an “is-ness”. Is-ness is not an idea, but it is a flowing movement and ever changing action. It is a spectacular new and different dimension where the dependence to images has no place. The end of dependence is freedom. When one discovers what it means to be free, which means inwardly attached to no image whatsoever, then suddenly that other dimension to life appears which otherwise remains completely hidden. Words are too shallow and inept to convey the immensity of what takes place. Explore for yourself what it means to come upon that sense of is-ness, and move with it. What takes place is indescribable.
298. Physical death is not the end of the ego. The ego is limited, which means it has an end. The ego may last a hundred, thousand, or million years, but it eventually ends. It must.
299. The brain was quiet, sensitive, and listening to the sounds of the night. Unexpectedly a feeling of death spread throughout the brain. There was a sense that physical death was near. There was no anxiety or fear. At the same time the brain was dying to the moment. There was letting go of all yesterdays and tomorrows. Only the present remained, alive, moving, breathing. A cool breeze gently entered the room from the open window. The air was fresh and clean. There was a distant rumbling of a plane, soft, and yet powerful. The brain was highly alert, and in that alertness there was emptiness. The emptiness extended beyond time. The whole movement of time stood still, and in the stillness there was energy. There was unlimited and unfathomable energy.
300. You cannot look outside yourself to find out what it is to bring an end to the conflict that exists in you. You must go to where the conflict is to resolve it. That means you must look inwardly. You must turn within.
