On the Nature of Mind

Often, I do not say nor write things that I expect people to figure out nor come to a conclusion with regard to their veracity. What I write, more often than say these days, is what I would like my readers to experience directly and see the truth of. Now, what do I mean by truth? Well, I would like the reader to actually observe what the writings point to because in so executing the same or similar exercises in the type of observation I propose here, one may come to realize the manner in which our common human experience works to generate unnecessary difficulties and open a door to the much-vaunted peace that many have already realized in their navigation of human life on the sea of vast and sentient emptiness. This emptiness is actually brimming with a past that is vectorial in nature, i.e., it is headed somewhere and some time--always in an evanescent present. This present is one that is arising as much as it is dissolving, beginning as much as it is ending, emerging from as it is headed toward, coming as it is going.

With the above in mind, let's look at our use of the word mind in this context, meaningful experience as mind and mind as meaningful experience. Let's take a close inspection of thought as thinking. Mind is always minding. There is no mind; there is minding, in the specific sense that we here and now are conducting this exercise. Through it, we intend to cultivate an attitude of simplicity in watching. At the end of honest observing, i.e., one that is not meant to harvest any theory or general conclusion about anything but to simply observe and by this observation alone free us--in a manner of speaking--from a set of narratives regarding mind that will allow us to simply watch. I know, why should we do that?

Because in doing this, in simply watching, we find release from sticky narratives that cause trouble, which are trouble itself. In seeing narratives for what they are, just narratives, there is release from their gripping effect. So, for the moment, at the very least, while performing this exercise, even if you have to play along, just watch the rising and falling of thinking or feelings or even both.

Mind is desire. 

Unedited and incomplete but still worth your attention if you are the observing type or just plain dissatisfied with life itself. This exercise has another dimension that will be added when I can find the time and situation that elicits it from my life and yours.