dancing in the dark (was: Bill's No Self.)

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>Bill: So how does a no-mind communicate to a mind?

> Or does it even make sense to communicate to a mind?

>

> I guess we just keep saying, " Not this, not that " , which

> is the essence of your message, as I see it.

>

 

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P:Bill, this is a very important question that you asked, maybe 'Da

Question' for some here.

 

No-Mind doesn't communicate with mind, and this drives mind

into a frenzy. Confronted with this 'utter simplicity', this

'monolithic incomprehensibility', the discursive mind goes into

a frenzy of speculation. It reminds me, of the Zen story of

the hungry dog who finds a boiling cauldron of fat. It can

not lick it up, and it can not leave it alone. For the dog,

this is a problem with no acceptable solution. The only

answer is to leave the cauldron alone until it cools, but

that's precisely what the dog, and the mind can't do.

 

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When in sheer exhaustion, the discursive mind stops its

spinning and becomes quiet and attentive, a deeper mind,

as it were, begins to intuitively move with No-Mind. This

is like dancing in the dark. A dance in which the mind

doesn't see its partner, but unerringly follows. It's a

mysterious infallibility of action and feelings. An

infallibility which doesn't mean that, the results are always

what the mind wanted or expected, but rather that what had

to happen gets done without fear, regret, or

self-congratulations.

To live, act, and feel without understanding, or assurances

takes a lot of getting used to, the discursive mind hates

to abandon control to an unseen presence.

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This is fabulous stuff, Pete.

 

The " dancing in the dark " image is great.

And...

It's a mysterious infallibility of action and feelings.

An infallibility which doesn't mean that, the results are

always what the mind wanted or expected, but rather that

what had to happen gets done without fear, regret, or

self- congratulations.

 

whew!

Hear hear everyone, look at what he's said here!

 

In a way it is like a perpetual out-of-the-body experience

in that any sense of gravity, or the *burden* of a body

struggling in a world, is gone. The term " comfortably numb "

comes to mind, even though the senses are exquisitely alive.

 

Is that me and you, Pete?

Numb-er and Numb-est?

 

Bill