We Think Up Problems To Avoid Our Reality

"Spirituality, philosophies etc. are inventions of the mind, and the mind is its own invention."

You are an organism - the body - and this body doesn't require any learning. Left to itself it has natural and tremendous intelligence born every instant. The so-called 'intelligence of the mind' is artificial; it is the substance of memory and experience, all of which are obsolete in the face of real life. Such intelligence is the attempt to understanding life without actually living it as it is now.

The body does not lie, but the lies of the mind numb us, deafen us to the expression of the body. The expression of our body is the direct sense or feeling of itself, which the mind denies. Denial is the lie of the mind.

Through our thinking, we can make a problem of absolutely anything, eating, sleeping, exercising etc. These problems are all the result of thought. Why do we think up problems? It is because we are at odds with how we feel, so we think of something or someone to blame. In doing this we escape ourselves, losing ourselves in projections and stories. Refuse such thoughts and stay with the feeling of yourself in and as the flesh.

Without relating the feeling of yourself to any outside or previous cause or reason, just feel the immediate sense of yourself. Feel it in the body and the myth of the mind will come to its own end.

Do not try to satisfy your mind, this will result in more thinking, more disturbances, and more displacement. The body is not interested in the searching of the mind. In itself it is already satisfied - at one with 'what is'.

You think there is a mind because you do not understand the function of the body.

If you want to find out if there is such a thing as the mind, you have a problem, for this very question is born out of the assumption that there is a mind there. In looking for a mind, the very act of looking is, thinking there is a mind. You cannot separate what you seek from the act of seeking. Hence, as you seek you find. However, all you will find is 'thought about' mind, not mind itself. For there isn't one. It is a myth, keeping you removed from the raw reality of living, within which, all things are clear and obvious in the following way.

As part of its natural function the body has endless responses going off within it, in its connection with all things as long as it lives. What we call thought, or mind or what causes us to assume thought or mind exists is the endless ripples, waves or vibrations that emanate from the body's sensations in its living responses to life. The ripples eventuating as structured thoughts are the outcome of their origin as bodily sensation. Dividing this single continuous movement into two, we believe we think as a separate function from the physical body. (Thereby all confusion, ignorance and seeking begins.) However all that is there is emanating vibrations originating within the molecules of the body, which are an interactive part of all the molecules of the entire physical world.

This so-called mind or thought is not the instrument for understanding or experiencing what actually exists. These thoughts appear only in the descriptive form of 'about something' and often as an alternative to the facts we choose to deny.

When the reality of this hits you then all confusion and seeking ends. What further dawns upon you is that whatever is apparent to you (at any given moment) is all you have and need. The need for more than that has gone. It is all there, in what is apparent to you now. It is not out there or back there in what you 'think about' or in what you can't yet see. Seeking 'the more' ceases and what hits you over and over is the significance in whatever remains.

However without the quiet felt sense of yourself in the flesh you will be floundering in 'thoughts about' all this, unable to comprehend. In life, there will be no basis from which to realize the felt origin of your thinking. You will remain unable to sense the difference between reaction out of your accumulated knowledge and experience, and the felt sense in the body that is an untainted factual response to life.

Without this physical sense of yourself you will continue to be thrown around in the conflict and uncertainty caused by a way of thinking that is removed from all sense of its origins as a sensation in the body.