Don’t Eat the Menu|Savoring the Indescribable and the Unavoidable.

My friend Charlie Hayes like to say:

“The bad news is you will never get this, the good news is you will never get this”

Sounds a bit confusing, doesn’t it? And even in my feeble attempt to explain it results in more the confusion. The mind is incapable of getting this. The you that you think you are is simply a product of the mind. A collection of past and future thoughts occurring right now. Outside of thought, do you even exist?

The mind will try desperately to figure all of this “nobody”, “self-realization”, “enlightenment” stuff out. But it never will. And that is the frustrating part, the bad news. . Ultimately, it will give up, the good news. And in that giving up, that exhausting of the mind, there is only liberation.

The mind that you think you own is merely a thought.

How can a thought produce thoughts?

Words are used to point to our true nature, which is nonconceptual. Unfortunately, words and concepts is all we have to point us back to our true nature when it has been overlooked.

You will continue to overlook your own true nature if you embrace any words as truth.

Words have their usefulness, just like the map for the journey, the menu for the meal, but they can never replace the actuality of what is being pointed too.

The lines on a map make for a poor substitute for the view from the train, the menu just can’t satisfy the palette like the morsel of food.

You don’t need the map to enjoy the trek, you don’t need the menu to savor the meal and you don’t need these words to know what you are.

Don’t read this blog to get something, to learn something.

I have nothing to  give you that you don’t already have.

I’m just reminding you to look and see.

Your thoughts.

You aren’t responsible for them.

(even most horrid thoughts you wish to bury)

Who would bury them? Even that person is a thought.

A thought can never touch what you are.