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#MIND_CLASHES_

I don’t truly know who’s fighting whom. Everyone seems to be at odds: friends against friends, neighbors against neighbors, mothers against daughters, fathers against sons—even my mind against my own being. The enemy isn’t any one person; the enemy is the ignorance embedded in individual minds. This is a war of clashing minds, a conflict born because we have allowed the mind to take the lead, to take charge. We have handed over responsibilities to the mind that it was never capable of fulfilling.

If I am to find reconciliation and peace, I must first seek it within myself. Only by achieving inner harmony can I reflect the peace, love, and light I have come to understand. This reconciliation is about mastering the mind—developing the ability to quiet and surrender it. Through this, one becomes united with the divine, aligned with universal consciousnesses.

#NO_SELF

When you say “myself”—who is that? When you seek to please yourself, who exactly are you pleasing? In truth, you’re simply satisfying the body, the ego, the mind, and your desires. But recognize that these are the only parts of you that seek pleasure: the body and the mind.

Emptiness is the true nature of existence. From this emptiness arise the body and all that it contains—mind, senses, emotions, and more. If life and death emerge from emptiness, then emptiness can be understood as a source, a fundamental origin of our being. By connecting with this source, we gain insight into the workings of life and death, body and mind. If you want to know yourself deeply, start with the mind. The mind is the bridge. Then, take a step back—withdraw from the mind and step into a state of quiet.

Knowing oneself is also a process of understanding the mind. You may be familiar with the phrase, “know thyself,” but here, I suggest a different approach: know the mind. After all, there is no real “self” to know. Understanding the mind is, in a sense, understanding yourself. It’s like the difference between a sky full of clouds and a clear, cloudless sky. If you understand clouds, you understand the cloudless sky as well. The mind is like the clouded sky, while your true self is like the clear sky. The mind is activity; your essence, or “thyself,” is in the stillness.

In fact, the word “thyself” is misleading, as it still implies an individual personality. When true meditation occurs, you realize there is nothing to hold onto as “myself.” Existence belongs to itself; you are simply part of it.

Silence is #WITHDRAWAL. While SOMETHING implies an object or a personality, people often describe seeing various things in meditation—they say they've visited places or projected themselves into other realms. While this can be intriguing, true meditation reveals that there is nowhere to go and no one to meet; these projections are products of your mind, not of pure existence. Instead of fighting the mind, understand it, and use it.

ONENESS IN THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE,

Is man God? Man is God, but it may be more accurate to say that God is man, as well as every other form in which energy manifests. It is one and the same energy appearing in different forms. The mind and ego, however, can create confusion, preventing us from seeing this truth.

#WAKE STATE – In the waking state, we have an identity, which is necessary for social interactions.

#DREAM STATE – In the dream state, one can also have an identity, though it doesn’t have to be the same as in the waking state; it varies depending on the dream.

#DEEP SLEEP STATE – In this state, the mind’s activities are silent and completely inactive, so nothing related to the mind is experienced. You exist and are alive, but it may feel as if you aren’t, simply because the individual mind is in sleep mode.

#SUPERHUMAN

A human being is inherently magical, psychic, and superhuman—just as all manifestations possess unique qualities in their own way. We have a body, emotions, thoughts, and mental activity, which are the components and actions of the mind. The body serves as a vessel, while the mind functions as a tool for survival and interaction within the physical world.

The challenge is that mental activity is often too loud, causing disharmony between our outer and inner worlds. When our chakras become blocked, our psychic abilities are obstructed as well. We struggle to quiet the mind; even when the body is asleep, the mind continues some of its activities.

If we manage to reduce this mental noise and maintain a calm, centered state, gradually these disturbances dissolve, and we become exposed to our true nature—like a clear sky without clouds.

### DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MIND EGO, AND CLOUDS

The mind projects various distractions to keep us occupied within the mental and physical realms. In a state of no-mind (meditation), an empty screen opens up, allowing us to experience reality purely, without the clouds of ego or distortion. I am a clear sky, free from clouds. Different clouds of various colors, shapes, and sizes may come and go, but I remain aware and unburdened by past data or the need to process it. I exist simply, without the recollection or analysis of accumulated data.

Thoughts and emotions are information-based processes that construct the ego-self; all data-based experience is inherently ego-driven. Without giving attention to thoughts, there is no foundation to sustain them within our awareness.

The mind only reveals what it can logically piece together. To truly understand life, we must move beyond the mind.

#Silence – Silence is the dissolution of matter. In silence, we witness the dance of creator and creation, subtly observing the illusions. Silence is zero—the only true number, representing emptiness. Existence, then, is like realizing that "one" is simply an invented number, yet we continue creating more numbers to keep counting.

Projection belongs to the mind, but it is energy that makes it possible.

--There is a person I am not, yet I identify with. Whenever I am intellectually engaged and aware, I find myself connecting with this person. #MY_BODY, MY_MIND.

We usually identify ourselves with the body and mind and all their activities. Generations before us have done so, and generations after will continue. However, for the individual who gains a sense of awareness beyond this identification, freedom emerges—a liberation from all superficial identities.

#THERE IS THIS PERSON THAT I AM NOT BUT CLAIM TO BE.

Over time, even my negative emotions became part of this identity—an identity that haunted and tormented me. Yet this person, this “identity,” is nothing more than an illusion created by my mind.

We often engage compulsively with our thoughts, pouring life energy into them until they gain power and manifest within our minds. But when we dwell on negative thoughts, holding on and reflecting on them repeatedly, we are effectively poisoning ourselves.

#EMOTION_PLAY

This play of emotion appears in black and white, a display of negative and positive. My mind is 100% aware of both. When comparing them, we inevitably tag negativity as "unpleasant" and positivity as "pleasant."

Naturally, nothing painful is pleasant; it’s logical to distinguish pain and pleasure as separate sensations. However, once we recognize positivity as #PLEASING, we are bound to view negativity as #DISPLEASING. My emotional landscape is a yin-yang; I cannot have black without white, but I can still choose to be a skillful dancer in this dynamic.

A dancer who celebrates both rain and sunshine, I observe my mind’s potency while recognizing its limitations. Although the mind is powerful, it cannot penetrate deeper dimensions of existence. I remain active but only as a witness to these ongoing mental functions, refusing to empower either the pleasant or unpleasant, allowing myself to exist without labeling.

    

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I AM THE PERFECT DANCER because I do not complain about the music that plays. I dance without ego, without a sense of separation; I move as one who flows seamlessly with all rhythms. Without labeling, there is no barrier to this flow. I don’t think about the song playing now, nor do I expect or predict the next. I have no favorite to be pleased or displeased with—I am simply in love with the act of dancing. I am just a dancer.

As a dancer and a witness, meditation has become a natural flow for me; it is my meditation:

A state of watchfulness and alertness,

A dance with the universe,

A state of detachment,

A state of spontaneity,

A state of observing without judgment,

A state of functioning without data,

A state of stillness—a pure experience beyond intellectual activity,

A state of here and now.

#Being present means my experience in the here and now isn’t based on recording current events or recollecting data; it’s about being here, consciously living and experiencing each moment as new.

To be present is to be in a state of mental inactivity, where the mind's activity—the data—is suspended. In this state, even my darkest fears lose their power over me. I’ve come to know an experience beyond physicality; transcendence has happened to me. For me, this is the realization that I am not simply the emotional workings of my mind but something higher, beyond my emotional and intellectual functions.

TRANSPARENT ME—what do I know, what do I see? Nothing. I am not deceived by intellect, which sees, knows, and imagines so much. There is nothing here to accumulate or recall later—just data. But there is always something new to experience, fresh in each moment of flow. This experience does not arise from thought or imagination, nor from the mind or data. It is pure consciousness, beyond the intellect’s ability to analyze or dissect—a data-free experience, thus the name “NO MIND.”

I know my thought processes and keep them contained within their place. First, sensory engagement must go inward. Ego creates a data-driven reality, one defined by forms, concepts, words, and thoughts, all of which are mental activities.

May you come to know a dimension of consciousness that goes beyond the mind and its activities.

MIND / NO_MIND

When doing goes wrong, when activity goes wrong, when the mind itself goes wrong—remember, there is a place of non-doing, a place of no activity, a place of no mind. But I don’t wait for things to go wrong to recognize this. One who doesn’t know how to be cannot engage in doing without becoming entangled in the process.

#MEDITATION

People who practice meditation with mobile apps or learn from roadside gurus often hear things like “introspection is meditation,” “focus is meditation,” or “listening to music is meditation.” They’re told that imagination is meditation, that meditation involves an object. But true meditation dissolves all objects, dissolves the mind itself and its pursuits. So, I cannot agree with these definitions. What is often referred to as meditation is actually mindfulness—a term used by practitioners themselves. If that’s the case, let’s call it mindfulness or perhaps visual meditation, but let’s not merge these terms.

In mindfulness, you may come close to the bridge between mind and no-mind, yet you end up circling around it. The mind is that bridge between the physical and the non-physical, and by engaging in mindfulness, you may begin to recognize the clouds within your awareness. But then, instead of crossing the bridge, you start playing with these clouds, clinging to data, and calling it meditation.

If these practices bring you some calm or tranquility, then gradually, answers may begin to unfold. Bit by bit, the mind starts to dissolve. When you finally cross the bridge—when you drop the mind completely—meditation happens. Meditation is not something you make happen; it occurs naturally when you no longer find interest in the clouds and let go of the mind.

#CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness is a pure state of awareness. The mind, in contrast, is a collection of data that can be illuminated by this awareness. Like an empty computer screen, consciousness itself is clear and open, displaying only what you choose to project onto it.