The Link #23 - To See The False As The False

More important than understanding the past is to understand very clearly the mechanism of consciousness. The word, any word, triggers a search into the past to look for any related information and a whole heap of experience is then brought to the surface. This is the good side of the story. But the mind then judges, condemns or justifies what it sees, makes a new experience of it, and stores it back into memory. This is the reaction of the past to the present.

This process has to be seen and understood in every relationship. There are not only first reactions, but reactions to reactions to reactions ...No book can make us understand this process clearly. If one does not understand it, it will only lead to further self-deception and confusion.

We might have a vague idea about this change. Pursuing an idea does not bring about clarity. Without understanding confusion, trying to bring about change is a futile activity.

When we actually see the complex workings of the mind and that nobody can help us to understand it, the mind has nowhere to turn. Seeing the false as the false, the false falls away by itself.

This is the beginning of a voyage into the unknown. Here words and books are of very little help.

Prem Kumar Balaji
March 2003