“My” mind has been destroyed in the sense that it is no longer
“mine”. Now it is just “the” mind. Many people think enlightenment is
the end of thoughts and they struggle to achieve this goal. That’s
stupid. Just stop believing thoughts and it doesn’t matter how many you
have or what kind they are.
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Ramblings on Self Inquiry
The methods we are dealing with are not questions,
but devices. When you remove all the beliefs which these questions of
“Who am I?” or “What is true?” rest on, the question collapses and you
will realize Truth. There is no answer that can come from the mind to
these questions. You must exhaust all possible answers until the
question seems absolutely stupid. Then the truth can reveal itself.
Ultimately, the question, either “Who
am I?” or “What is true?”, serves for you to realize on the level of
experience that the mind and intellect are useless. Then a
transformation will take place as you surrender your intellect. You will
see where this question arises from and then there will be no more
question at all. Understand that you are working towards a realization,
not an intellectual understanding. The realization comes from the
deepest parts of your being; the question is a device to bring you
there. Once you are there, the question has served its purpose and is
gone.
The methods/devices of self inquiry are not
intellectual exercises, however, one could say they are meant in a way
to exhaust the mind so extremely that it becomes absolutely fed up and
surrenders the question itself into the truth. In that regard, it may be
a very literal exercise. However, there is nothing intellectual about
the truth. Mind is intellectual. Truth cannot come from the mind.
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