mind is difference

Sri Samana

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Mind is difference. No mind is no difference, no difference is no mind. To dream a life of apparent difference is to live as constant calculation. To live as constant calculation is to be determined by and as negotiation. This notion of constantness is the illusion of linear sequence which asserts the life. The myth of survival is the lie of profit. All effort supports delusion. No good or better coat can hide nakedness. You appear with nothing, you leave with nothing. From where did you come, and to where do you go? There is neither coming nor going, as there is no difference.

The self asserts difference as the calculation of between. Every act and action of this i is to claim position and the very activity is the self. This is good this is bad, this is right this is wrong, is the constantness as assertion, the survival of the i and its imagined position as profit and loss. The very notion of constantness is the illusory by-product of assertion as the assumption of and as a linear sequence of a subject and the event-object as experience and experiencer. All calculation is measure, measure is to and from, which is the assertion of between, and the notion of between is difference, of which there is none. That which is changeless is neither linear, sequential, imperishable, and not of time.

Good thought bad thought is simply thought. Greatness is not determined by numbers. A million hammers remain simply hammers. The delusion of self is indeed exemplified as group delusion. A hammer is simply a hammer. A life of insight is an ordinary life. There is no becoming someone or something else. There is in fact no becoming and the concept of elseness is a self-serving dream. Comparison is doomed as the very activity of assertion is futile. Unbecome the lie and becoming comes to rest. If the question arises the mind is aroused. For this there is no cure. This is the selfless way and the selfless way is the end of self and the way.

Thoughts are not the problem, simply one is now aware of thoughts. When one is the thought there is no awareness of the play. When one is dancing there are no thoughts. There is no practice for enlightenment, it is enlightenment which maintains practice. The seeker is the sought. Where can you go? How do you get there from here? The one who claims enlightenment is the coat and flesh of self-possession. This is the great illusion which asserts the lie of pride. Enlightenment is a thief which breaks into an empty house with no one to be satisfied.

The perfect Master is also imperfect. The direct recognition of the perfect Master simply means following as perfectly as possible. To follow the Master is to follow the Self. To fall into good and bad as measure is to fall into delusion. Assertion is fundamentally arrogance rooted in the play of the conditioned rejection of authority, and isolation as self-reliance. This is the means of serving and following mind and the illness of the protection of the ghost relationship with and as mind. The mind then seeks to liberate itself, and is bound to calculation and difference. That which appears to be the whole life must be brought to bear as true insight and practice as wholeness. The task remains at hand. There is neither being in nor out. Beingness is transparent. Transparency is to depart group delusion. To have no clue, all there is is clue.

To you who are bound by and as time, use this time well, knowing there is neither profit nor loss. There is no result. You will never learn to be a better person, you can only learn how to stop being a person. It always rains in the middle of a disagreement with the rain. That which is called a problem is never about the story, and always a disagreement with what simply is. Look back upon the world from the point of view of the grave. Everyone wears a uniform, and one skull is not better than another. There is neither stain nor purity, birth nor death. That which simply is, is Self-evident, and will never satisfy the person.