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“THERE IS NO NEED TO SILENCE THE MIND. HOWEVER…”

It is said that the mind thinks about 12,000 to 60,000 times in a day. Of these, about 80% are negative, and furthermore, about 95% of the day of total are the same repetitions as the day before.

Thus, the mind is such a noisy thing that it is nonsense to try to silence it.

Also, changing negative thoughts, which account for about 80% of the day’s thoughts, to positive ones is necessary to some extent while we are in identification with the mind (ego), but even this becomes unnecessary once detachment from the mind has progressed enough.

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In meditation, self-observation, and self-inquiry, it is sufficient to let thoughts and feelings appear and disappear within, and to concentrate only on what one is observing and inquiring, without leaving from the observer’s awareness.

That is, we may observe them as they appear and disappear and inquire their depths, but we do not get ourselves involved in their emotional drama, nor do we take them too seriously.

But we do not treat them as meaningless, but only accept the facts, always with compassion.

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Thus, as our own spiritual awakening deepens and our awareness as consciousness itself becomes clearer, we inevitably come to no longer be swayed by them, and it becomes easier as well to merely observe them as they appear and disappear within.

Furthermore, once this detachment from the mind (ego) is established, we can be no longer affected in any way by any thoughts and feelings, whether they are negative or positive.

In other words, as the observer of all things, since their content has no meaning for the Self, which is consciousness itself, in the first place, there is no longer any need for any interpretation of thoughts and feelings, even of any phenomena at all.

Thus, as spiritual awakening deepens, reactions towards outside naturally disappear.

This, like everything else, is simply the outward manifestation of what happens inside, and there is no doership of the mind anywhere in the action of not reacting.

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Depending on which stage of spiritual awakening we ourselves are in, what we need will vary, but the content will always be able to be known exactly by inner guidance (never by thought of the mind).

Until this inner guidance is clearly discerned, we will often be swayed by our mind’s judgments and interpretations without realizing it.

For instance, if we are to actually deepen our spiritual awakening, it is imperative that we believe not in the words themselves of the sages, but in our Higher Self, who is guiding us now to the metaphysical place their words represent, to that higher place.

On the contrary, if we are trying to believe only the words themselves of the sages, or if we are trying to figure out which sage is right, we will never be able to reach that height their words represent ourselves.

Because it is the mind that believes the words of the sages or tries to judge them, and although this doership of the mind may make us deceive into the illusion as if we understand what sages are talking, but actually its unaware content will always remain an interpretation based on what is already known.

In other words, we need to be humbly aware of the simple fact that it is impossible to comprehend the height when we ourselves have not yet reached that height.

Think about the following.

Who can know what it is like during climbing a mountain when we have never climbed it ourselves?

Isn’t it just a matter of imagining what we have seen and heard and being applying it into what is already known?

The “climbing the mountain” metaphor refers to the end of self-inquiry, beyond the realm of mind (ego), transcending duality altogether, at beyond complete innermost stillness, to find within the only one consciousness which is beyond individual, the divinity, that is connected to all.

And this is the most significant reason why we were born.

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There is such a thing as the “law of action and non-action.” It is the law that says that if we “act and regret” and we “do nothing and regret,” the latter tends to cause more regret.

Since it is always the mind (ego) that regrets, it is not exact for spiritual awakening, but if one does nothing to actually take spiritual action to realize the Self, such as self-observation and self-inquiry, then none of us will actually deepen our spiritual awakening or reach the transcendence of duality or further liberation, and it means that it will all end up as a pictorial illusion.

In other words, it is only when we are able to listen to the guidance of consciousness itself through the innermost stillness, or through the words of sages, but not the words themselves of the sages, that we can actually be guided to higher levels, and we can then trust our Higher Self, our inner guidance, and surrender to the unknown, even if there are no guarantees, and thereby our spiritual awakening will inevitably deepen.

Only then, true confidence and faith in Higher Self, the Self (God) itself, which is far beyond the personal mind (ego), will naturally arise within, and supported by that faith, we will eventually be able to find the Self, which is the only one consciousness itself.

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The two most significant things to do are to listen to the guidance of Higher Self instead of thinking of the mind, and to observe the facts as they are, without any judgment, as consciousness itself.

When we focus on these two things, we don’t have to worry about the noise of the mind (ego) at all.

And before we know it, we will be deepening our self-observation and self-inquiry in complete stillness towards transcendence and further Nirvana.

What we must be careful of is always the voice of the mind (ego) and unknowing identification with that mind (ego). Because the mind is always trying to become a better person somehow out of fear of being insufficient, and so even if we unknowingly do that, then it will eventually only come to deepen our identification with it further.

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Whether we worship someone or despite or hate someone, all existences, without exception, are actually ourselves.

None of us can realize about the mountain without us ourselves entering into its heights, through self-observation and self-inquiry, toward a metaphysical and spiritual noblest world beyond the death of the physical body.

It is the mind (ego) that fears something always.

And it is all an illusion.

Therefore, we can acknowledge the existence of that fear but not listen to it, but to go beyond it ourselves and to deepen our self-observation and self-inquiry one by one are our primary purpose of the life as the only one consciousness. (OM 🙏)

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