Everything we know outlines what thought has been creating. So, throughout life, every contact you have is a contact with some mind creation, which is part of the mind itself. The contact with Reality or with the Truth is the contact with the Unknown.
Everything the mind can explore is a part of itself and you are too involved in this "thinking" stuff. The Unknown is this Reality presented moment by moment, but unable to be caught by the thought. Therefore, you have no means to access That through the habit of thinking, of making conclusions, of deducing, of imagining, and that is why Meditation is the foremost factor. Meditation is this break, this breach of mental representation of current happenings.
Therefore, you got to go beyond the thought. This sense of "person" you carry with you, this personality, is entirely settled in the thought, in the known and in the experiences you keep in your memory. Personality means thought! The mind cannot think beyond the personality, that embraces all your knowledge about yourself and the world around you. Here is the prison!
The mind cannot succeed without the personality, which can only exist on the basis of the thought. Therefore, thoughts ultimately represent memory. Notice how things work: thought itself is memory, and memory lays the groundwork for your personality. The mind cannot succeed without this personality, thereby resulting you are in a vicious circle, where you have the thought, that ultimately is memory, personality, mind. So, you spend your entire life within this cycle, referred by Indian Sages as "maya," the illusion. This creates this false center, this false identity, which you believe you are.
Any and all relationships you have in your life are bolstered this way: by the illusion of the known, by the illusion of memory, by the experience of this so-called "someone." Everyone around you is part of that movement. There are no "strangers," because they lay within that "knowned" boundaries, there are no "others," because "others" are embeded by that sense of the "me."
The situation may worsen when this personality projects and looks for assurance in its relationships, thereby envisioning the perfect world to live in! You got to understand this personality is delusion! "Your world" is delusion! Whenever you identify with the personality, memory, experience, knowledge, identity, these relationships, you will engage in delusion. So, now you understand that when we apply the term "ego," we mean delusion. I have been reinforcing this by saying, "You are a fraud!" Realize the value of what you call as "person": this has zero value! It has not even a negative value, but zero value!
When you give up the personality, no more pain or effort remains. When you realize how delusive this personality is, you are then working on this abandonment and you have no more reason to fight (you are constantly fighting, striving all the time to be "someone," to attain, to reach, to accomplish, to do something). I know how demotivating these words seem to you. Everybody wants to reach something, that's why people are working: they aim to change the world, to save themselves, to protect themselves, to defend themselves; they want to go somewhere ... you want to go somewhere! The mind ignores its boundaries. The ego resists its ignorance, frivolity, uselessness, confusion ... Ego only brings confusion with it! You have never done anything right because you have always been there, messing with God's business and affairs, always striving to do on your own will, as if you were a skillful present entity!
I am inviting you to engage in a new perception, a new dimension, to the Consciousness of Reality! In this new dimension, you give up this fight, this pursuit, this search for something outside yourself in worldly relations. You are pursuing peace, freedom and happiness in the world, and you want to attain it in relationships with other egos. Ego is the problem, "your ego" is the problem; others are only an expression, an extension of yourself.
When you discover the beauty of living this openness, in this new dimension, surrender and abandonment follow as a consequence. Likewise two fighters in the arena, when one of the opponents resigns, gives up the fight. When by an action of Grace, the mind realizes how unproductive, vain and stupid this fight is, naturally its functions and its desire to dream vanish! So, you can Awake!
Within this new dimension, the mind, the "person" is no longer appreciated. You have been valuing the "person" too much, but that becomes different now. So, the mind weakens and go to the "grave." It dies of hunger, because it is no longer provided for, fed by this ignorance. Then there is a chance to go beyond the personality, beyond the egoic mind. In this new dimension, there is no one, no ego, no "person".
Whenever you believe you are a person, you will feel unsafe, seeking reassurance in relationships. When you give up the illusion of the desire to be a person, you stop seeking reassurance in relationships, thus, you welcome the fact existence is complete without "you" and assurance poses no issue at all. You are beyond reassurance and the lack of it; you are beyond duality!
We are here to walk you through all the directions, all the paths and trails you have been building, everything the mind has been crafting over the course of time. So, the question is, "Who am I?" Only when you explore all these directions and when you thoroughly abandon the memory, the personality, the mind with its relationships in the pursuit of assurance, only by doing so, the mind is able to acknowledge its boundaries and to give up, allowing this new dimension to arise.
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