I am wondering, is the universe, the universe beyond the individual, in relationship to anything at all? In the universe, does the disorder, of the individual, disappear, and so there is a mindful state of a selfless human being? Otherwise what is the outcome but pointless hypothesising? Is in fact, that outcome, while I don't want to be taken to be criticising intelligent inquiry, is it the cause of not acting immediately upon the disorder, or the false, and the like? So where is that urgency of action? This is where I can talk about the mind. If I leave it up to the individual, the self, then nothing will come from that. The mind is the action, and is without the self. The disorder is in the individual, and the individual is limited in what it can see or think. I understand that each of the individuals is perceived as where we normally think from, and the mind is just another word. That is the order of the individual, which is dis-order. Individuals as we know them in the ordinary world are not much help in this regard. Mind in action is selfless. Mindfulness is the only real action.

When there is a sudden loud noise, what happens? My heart jumps, or I am startled aren't I? Have you ever had a frightening moment? You are stunned and there is a wave of feeling, isn't there? It only lasts a second, and it is over, gone. The intense feeling consumes the whole body. So there is a complete sense of being with no separation in time, place or event. The physical, intellectual, emotional and the self, and the human are not there. That is, not taking part in separate bits. Only a complete reality. Can you live this way? Always alert?

Relationship to what?

I write something, and it sounds like words and ideas maybe you have heard or thought about before. Is it the truth or is it false? The reader answers this question for them selves. Is the truth familiar, like some others words, or is it simply truth? When I read some books or hear someone speak and I sense there is insight in those words, that insight is what I have. The words, the writer or the speaker become irrelevant. I don't want to hear more, or want to have it clearer, or want it said differently, because the insight is what I love. Now if this is not happening, then just leave it. The writer, the speaker, doesn't want to lecture you with words you have read before, or some thing that is obvious. But observing the world at large and simply speaking and writing in a common language does produce some basic similarities, or disagreements. Listening, listening with insight, is insight. It is not what I write or say that brings you to listen attentively.

What I am questioning is the notion that there is a relationship. Of course there are the ordinary affairs of life. But for the inner life can there be connections? Is it just the words that are the problem? For a truly religious person, free of conditioning, and free of knowledge, what inner connections are there? With the awareness that is seeing, then the facts, are all that there are, and this is not knowledge. By relationship do I mean connections between others, this and that, and what is connected to me? It's me that is lacking and wants fulfillment. Is something called awareness the relationship I have formed as an informed companion? Is the emptiness, the aloneness, too much to see, too hard to relate to? Well, yes, it is. The inner life that is unconditioned, un-formed, without relationships - is this terrible or natural like the relationships of oxygen atoms, or drops of water in the sea?

You are talking about an awakening mind, and a sleepy mind. What is the mind? Not using words, what is the mind? There is a whole aspect of experience, the total comprehension of your momentary life, the words, the thoughts, the feelings, emotions, seeing, listening, and so on, in the brain, which is your mind. This is a fact. You can see that. No words, no agreement, no conversion, no persuasion- you can see that. The mind sees through the eyes, listens through the ears, feels with the senses, has memories, and you can use language, follow routines, go to work, discuss, and so on. Looking at life wholly, fully, you see the mind, it is a fact. There is also a fragmented condition, which is the content of the mind, the sum of all the parts. Words are particularly important in the mind for attending to this fragmentation. Watch the words, the thoughts, the desires, the wants, as they arise. Just listen, don't act. Listen to them and let them run their course. A thought about some attractive woman arises- you have imaginings-listen to the inner thoughts, the inner dialogue, the inner story. Some of the words, the feelings, and emotions, may be leading you to some course of action, or plan. Don't take them up as instructions to act, or what ever, just listen. As they pass by , that action, of listening with attention, has brought about a different mind.

Is knowledge what you think?

Knowledge is powerful and influential. You can use the words, the language, the vocabulary and take a prominent place in the world. You can make questions and give answers quite specifically, with correctness and be fair and generous in response. But fundamentally do you speak a knowledge which is not coming deep from clarity of mind, and so is only the knowledge you know? When I have knowledge I might call something a fact. Seeing a fact, there is only the fact. Not a fact called self, or knowledge. Seeing a fact there is no knowing the fact - No consciousness which provides information for commentary. Self-knowledge that is not a fact but merely knowledge of the self, is not the self-knowledge of the kind found in meditation. Don't be deterred from knowledge. Give attention to knowledge and pursue it to its end. Or see the fact.

All of the great teachings are taken to be words of instruction and that following in the path of this message provides results. This is a mechanical approach to life. I have seen a speaker addressing an audience about progress, development, improvement, and prompting people to a realisation. As I watched I saw the speaker become more and more intense, and inspiring. The aspects of the speaker changed into a powerful and dynamic looking entity, with a plastic and metallic look, squared and molded features, shiny and cold colors. The sound of the voice became electronic, digital, until it was like listening to some inhuman broadcast. I sat entranced, looking at a robot deity.

Is the known what you know and the unknown what you don't know? We say I know, I know there is the unknown, the future, further afield, more to know, to learn, and so on. This is all within time, measurement and comparison. It is all the known. When I see that known which is me, my thoughts, my life, its limits, it's center, and all of that where there is nothing more you can do freely, where nothing is new, then in that complete terrible containment, then there is a possibility of an unknown, the only unknown. There is no unknown to know, to speak of.