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“THE MIND NEVER KNOWS…”

The mind never knows what it does not know; on the contrary, it thinks that it knows everything. Yet, the mind cannot know itself, for it is merely “thought” and cannot directly see itself.

Awareness, however, is capable of this. Furthermore, since time is merely a concept and the awareness is beyond time and space, ever-present and observes everything as it is, even while it is identified with the mind.
Thus, whenever the awareness turns its attention inward, it is always “now,” so it can see through anything as it is.

This is entirely different from the mind tracing memories and repeatedly reinforcing the same interpretation and projection.

Although it unconsciously sustains a projected reality, due to unaccepted or unsublimated pain that came from overhelmed experiences, but it is a mere natural and unconscious form of self-defense mechanism.

That is precisely why it is necessary for any of us to see through facts exactly as they are, through the clarity of the innermost stillness as the awareness—uninfluenced by judgment or comparison.

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Do you understand the mechanics of how consumption and supply operate?

When the supply side appeals to a consumer’s latent sense of “lack”—a misperceived lack that the consumer does not yet recognize it as misperception (meaning they can not naturally let go of the obsession)—this translates into actual consumption behavior.

This happens because it generates the expectation that the misperceived lack will be fulfilled.

Consequently, even though we are aware of the detrimental impact our insatiable consumption, that is not aware of as insatiable, has on the environment, we are unable to stop it.

However, this is by no means that “insatiable consumption is bad and should be stopped.”

In reality, the act of consumption is also simply another form of natural self-defense mechanism arising from our unconscious identification with the mind.

Therefore, truly letting go of such consumption is not achieved through intellectual understanding or effort; it becomes possible only when—through the clarity of the innermost stillness—the awareness sees through the illusion of lack and realize that such consumption is unnecessary.

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One truth often overlooked is that the world—reality—is always exactly as it is.

What is meant to happen always happens; the flow of change—as impermanence—is the very raw reality.

Thus, the question of “what happens” in reality is not what matters most. When we make “what experience occurs inside through it and how we handle that experience” a lifelong pursuit—rather than life is filled with fleeting problems of obstacle—awareness can finally utilize every experience as opportunities to realize itself as The Self.

In this way, through contemplating experiences without becoming attached to or claiming ownership of any single one, without any judgment, awareness comes to realize that it had merely been using the mind as a player of manifestation of various possibilities.

Ultimately, reality does not represent some form of distortion or deficiency, as the mind often judges it to be. In fact, reality requires absolutely no interference from the mind.

It functions by manifesting perfectly and spontaneously, within the field of awareness, as various phenomena through the exquisite interplay of various conditions (such as assumptions, beliefs, and identifications) of which we are not yet aware of.

That is the manifestation of interconnectedness.

Thus, everything is inevitable; there is nothing that must be removed or changed.

Indeed, just as the both sides of relativity, such as good and bad, are inseparable as one coin in relative duality, Truth (non-duality/oneness) and relative duality exist in a relationship where they are two sides of the same whole—utterly indivisible.

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True you is the awareness, openness itself, that means you are unconditional love itself.

The mind harbors anxiety and, driven by the emptiness born of separation, is constantly seeking something. Yet, what’s there is a “misidentification” with the mind, thoughts, emotions, or memories. Indeed, not only this misidentification but all assumptions and beliefs stem from the misperception of “separation.”

Then, a fundamental question arises here: how does it need to change or improve yourself, which is already perfect? Or, Is it truly possible for the “true you”—which is already the very “wholeness as openness”—to become “that” through effort?

In that way, has doership ever actually enabled awareness to realize “The Self”?

Never.

In reality, there is only one way that the truth is revealed: to directly see through the “false self” by the awareness and thereby cause the illusion to collapse. (OM 🙏)