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Post by Reefs on Nov 30, 2013 9:01:34 GMT -5
I don't know very much about the belief systems that lead to people proposing that one is enlightened when they let go of mind. It is something I've only read about on internet forums. So I would be interested to hear what is meant by letting go of the mind. Letting go of the mind, to me, basically means to stop deriving your sense of reality from thought. You can't let go of mind any more than you can locate it and remove it. Precisely. Letting go of mind can never be on the seekers to-do list.
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Post by Reefs on Nov 30, 2013 9:06:39 GMT -5
Letting go of the mind, to me, basically means to stop deriving your sense of reality from thought. You can't let go of mind any more than you can locate it and remove it. yes, I agree with this too. However, while the sense of reality is created from unconscious conditioning etc, then thought can be a tool to stop reacting to the unconscious in the first instance... to be let go of in the second. What you are describing there is a never-ending mind game.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 9:21:58 GMT -5
Yet, it is the mind which makes the journey back to wholeness. It's a stunning paradox.
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Post by silence on Nov 30, 2013 23:36:40 GMT -5
Letting go of the mind, to me, basically means to stop deriving your sense of reality from thought. You can't let go of mind any more than you can locate it and remove it. yes, I agree with this too. However, while the sense of reality is created from unconscious conditioning etc, then thought can be a tool to stop reacting to the unconscious in the first instance... to be let go of in the second. It's all the same tool doing all of it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 23:45:58 GMT -5
Yet, it is the mind which makes the journey back to wholeness. It's a stunning paradox. Mind/Body/Spirit The Paradox is that Wholeness is pretending to have lost Wholeness and needs to do something to find Wholeness...
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Post by silence on Dec 1, 2013 11:58:31 GMT -5
Letting go of the mind, to me, basically means to stop deriving your sense of reality from thought. You can't let go of mind any more than you can locate it and remove it. Precisely. Letting go of mind can never be on the seekers to-do list. Yes. I actually like how you describe it as the seeking sickness.
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