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by
Christopher Wynter
 The
eye can see,
but
cannot see itself ..
The
fire can burn,
but
cannot burn itself ..
How can the mind think it can
change its mind ..?
No-Mind
. People are obsessed with
the behaviour of moving into the dichotomy of
the silence of the still
mind - because this is what they have been taught
- a behaviour learned as children - that they should be silent -
"Children should be seen but not heard"
By its very
nature, the mind cannot be still - cannot be silent. Thus the dichotomy -
and the frustration - the creation of another self inflicting weapon of
inadequacy.
The
Metamorphosis of Eastern and Western Mind
The Western Mind
sees things from an opposite perspective to the Eastern Orientated Mind -
on which the basic tenets of Transpersonal Psychology are based.
The traditional languages of the East are kinesthetic - they are feeling
and knowing - not emotive and expressive - where the resonance of the
phonetics are the sounds which make up the whispering sounds of the flow
of soundlessness.
The English Language has become reactionary where the diphthongs become explosive
in an expression of emotionally charged attachment to thought - especially
where the language is a learned behaviour of expression - as is taught in
most schools - often under threat and duress.
Thus the Eastern mind responds to the resonance and the Western Mind is
reactionary. Thus, the Western orientated "Left Brain" sees
things personally according to how it perceives an unconscious or
subconscious personality may have been triggered into a self-defense
(survival) reaction according to its attachment to an identity.
Ego
People talk about
the ego - forgetting that within the Psyche of Psychology there exists
both polarities of Negative and Positive Ego. The linear left brain of the
Western Mind is logical in sequence and can only process one
"bit" of information at a time.
Compared to the
linear Left Brain, the Oriental Mind is a multiple processor able to
process multiple data streams simultaneously - something that happens
within the first 10 milliseconds of its impetus to action.
The Left Brain -
which has become to be called the Mind grasps onto the single most
reactionary thing it sees in this data stream and deals with it according
to learned behaviour - an "if-then" loop - forgetting, as it
does so, that the signal it is reacting to is the inversion of the
information packet it has received - created by the medulla existing
between the cerebrum and the cerebellum.
Psychology
People dive deeply
into the Psychology of the Transpersonal in a hope that it may provide a
mystical panacea to resolve their inner conflicts - so taking on another
personality as they seek to prop up their experience or justify their
learning according to the dis-information provided by some other entity
who they take on as their authority .. thus living life by proxy.
Transpersonal or
"No-Mind" is the evolutionary stepping stone beyond the
Psychologies of the Ego, the Behaviour, the Existential, the Humanistic
etc .. etc .. and only happens when the mind is either totally exhausted
from the struggle - or otherwise decides not to fight the futility of a
seeming endless stream of "ologies" - more of which are invented
every day as the patented, trademarked, greatest and best solution the the
personality condition that the mind creates through the conditioned
thinking process that "the more I know, the more I will be
respected/accepted" ..
When - in
fact, Enlightenment is nothing more than having the words to express what
you already know in a language that can be heard and understood without
creating a reaction from anyone's shadow.
For me, it is
quite funny to "see" these learned people walking around with
disembodied heads under their armpits as they hold on so tightly to the
"wisdom of some guru".
Its even funnier when one also realises that many of these heads have
metamorphosed into dust centuries before. Thus, the knowledgeable have, as
the authority for their pseudo-beingness, the words of people who have
been dead for a very long time.
How many
times can we read that "so-and-so said ....." - when the reality
is that "so-and-so" never spoke English - a language which may
not have even existed during the epoch we try to re-invent in the present
as the model for our existence.
Thus, under the layers of conditioned thought and behavior, that which
you are looking for, you already are - and were as a child new born into
this world.
What you are
looking for is that which is looking - the seeker is the sought in the act
of seeking - and the tree falling in the forest does not make a sound
unless there is someone there to first hear the tree falling and then
interpret the change in the flow of air movement according to what it has
learned.
When you go
for a walk in the forest, you place one foot in front of the other -and
you place one foot on the ground after the other one.
Time is how long it takes for
you to react when you see the grizzly standing in front of you ..
Survival is how much distance you can place between yourself and the
grizzly in the shortest time possible.
The Transpersonal is knowing that there was a grizzly on that track and
not being there in the first place. This is the awareness of
"no-mind".
Christopher Wynter
and his partner Fiona Tulk are the owners and developers of
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