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“THE MIND (EGO) CANNOT PURIFY ITSELF OR BE ENLIGHTENED.”

Spiritual awakening requires the purification of the mind (ego), but this cannot be achieved by disciplining or controlling the mind (ego) while keeping it at the center.

Instead, the moment one sees through with the clarity of innermost stillness the baselessness of the mind’s (ego’s) preconceptions and beliefs, the mind (ego, illusion) is inevitably purified without efforts.

At that point, the “personal me” or “my” in that part no longer exists.

In this way, the illusion is revealed, and through the egolessness, where that ego disappears, essential humility can be naturally emerged.

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The mind (ego) is obsessed with doing things and being correct, and this attachment creates the illusion (deception) that one is accomplishing something, thereby ensuring the survival of the mind (ego).

This reaction arises from the mind’s (ego’s) sense of inadequacy, loneliness, suffering, and fear of death. However, self-awareness of one’s own words and reactions is essential for spiritual awakening.

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To come to this self-awareness, one needs first voluntarily have fundamental question toward one’s own words and reactions. At that moment, one can begin to dig deep into oneself toward innermost stillness.

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Such self-awareness arises from the impersonal clarity of the innermost stillness, free from the mind (ego). From there, if one can see through baselessness of one’s own words and reactions becomes apparent through continuous observation each one of matters and deepening self-inquiry, the reaction (doership, identification with the mind (ego)) inevitably disappears, and as a result, the mind (ego) can be sublimated (purified, dismantled).

This clarity leads us to the wisdom of consciousness itself, which is never personal but inseparable from the entire universe.

This is how transformation occurs.

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Conversely, without this self-awareness, no amount of spiritual knowledge or practice will deepen our spiritual awakening.

No matter how much time we spend or how much knowledge we have, due to such an achievement, it’s always our mind (ego) that deceives to reassure us. At that point, the mind’s (ego’s) biases that come from deep-rooted sense of inadequacy and lack unavoidably influence to distort reality, even without us realizing it.

Furthermore, when we are obsessed with knowledge or practicing, its motivations are actually driven by the mind’s (ego’s) desires—such as wanting to increase self-esteem or escape suffering—born out of self-denial and resistance to the present moment. And thereby it unknowingly keeps us place emphasis on comparison, analysis, and judgment, and thus, it becomes difficult to reach the innermost stillness.

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Resistance of what is comes from beliefs of the mind (ego) about how things should be, and from attachment to those beliefs.

These “beliefs” are so deeply ingrained that we can hardly be aware of them and can’t even remember the cause of them, which are often the result of repeated or intense experience.

In fact, these have the very spiritual challenge that each individual must face in this lifetime as opportunities to deepen spiritual awakening.

Rather than thinking that this resistance is bad and should be stopped, or trying to change it, it is important to see through that it stems from the mind’s (ego’s) beliefs.

If, through self-inquiry with clarity in the innermost stillness, one can clealy see through that these are biased assumptions or beliefs, one will inevitably no longer hold on to them, which means that one actually surrenders resistance of what is.

In this way, one is liberated from the spell of the “personal me” and “my.”

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Truth and self-awareness are not intellectual understanding of spiritual teachings, nor views by the “personal me”, nor even interpretations.

If we are obsessed with correctness, we will keep missing the profound depth of truth.

This is because truth and self-awareness are always directly grasped by the impersonal essence, transcending linguistic comprehension and without the presence of the mind (ego) or “I” that we mistakenly believe to be our subject.