Recently I have been writing about my inquiry into the movement from mind to no-mind and I have posted some links below. But this morning I spent time investigating the nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty of that movement.
So first to recap:
Our first responsibility on the road from mind to no-mind is to create the watcher. All meditation begins with this creation. We begin to pay attention to our surroundings — we watch others. This is the easiest place to begin and the easiest place to watch. With this bit of watchingness, we move to watching the activities of our body — our own actions. With this increased strength of the watcher, we can now move to watch the movement of mind and the moods of the heart. In my experience, this is the stickiest.
It is important when watching the mind and heart to watch with a kind of indifferent watching, a watching without involvement, a watching without judging and also without analyzing. Now this watcher is beginning to gather some autonomy from the objects being watched.
Here is where we get into the nitty-gritty of this fabulous exploration into self inquiry.
The next step is quite a bit more subtle, and this gathered autonomy is a necessary prerequisite in order to be able to realize it. We move from watching the objects of awareness – the thoughts of mind and the feelings of the heart — to seeing the watching itself. It is in this seeing the watching that the objects move from the foreground to the background and then with lack of attention begin to dissipate. All of our watchingness is in seeing watching until there is no longer anything that is being watched and we are left only with seeing. A seeing that is relaxed and at ease because there is no longer any conflict or separation. A seeing that is totally conscious because no energy is being lost in objects. This is no-mind.
With this map from mind to no-mind we are free to move into mind; and free to move out of mind. That is not to say that the map is always at hand. Sometimes we misplace the map and can’t find our way home.
My own experience is that we have to make the journey many times and from different directions and still sometimes home is elusive and sometimes it is as present as the midday sun. Love.
-purushottama
For more on this topic, you may wish to explore:
Watching and also Forgetting the Content
The Awakening of the Double-Pointed Arrow
Yes, a process that almost all of us have to go through unless perhaps one has done the work in a previous incarnation or are blessed with a lucky ‘accident.’
so far so good…
‘A seeing that is totally conscious because no energy is being lost in objects. This is no-mind.’
Because for me, no ID into the thing world, as fulcrum, as external anchor my moments rotate around.
Even or perhaps especially, seeing how I ID into relating with people the same way, as screen of all loves, birth separation, conception, as if a ‘my’ of unity is graspable, or else is felt as loss…
Have never felt out of that ID except a few seconds, and now a dancing teasing deva cannot be held, has shown where the strings are tied on to my puppet, Yeemz.cello minimal words max presence, https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1G5QWxTuEd/