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500. The body was resting after a long day of chores and busy work. It was on its back with eyes open, watchful, alert. The windows were open and there was a soft murmur of distant traffic. The space in the small room seemed vast, infinite. The brain was quiet, silent, and absent of all forms of mental effort and will. Suddenly it manifested. A sense of indescribable oneness unfolded. It was undivided, and therefore whole, complete, and perfect in every way. The perfection of it made one humble before it. Nothing could touch, move, or corrupt it. At the same time it was here and not here. It was on this side and another. The other side is not in a distant place or time. It is not something that is far away or takes time to show itself. It is a oneness and wholeness that is here now. One must end the division within. Only then can the oneness, sacred other, or whatever you want to call it, show itself. Learn what it is to end the inward division in one's life, the fear, anxiety, tension, struggle, ambition, and every hint of mental effort. Only then can the door open to it. Only then can that untouchable, incorruptible, and sacred other come out. 501. Love is not the product of time. Love is something that takes place instantaneously. It happens in the blink of an eye. One may be deeply psychologically attached and conditioned to a particular set of ideals, opinions, and beliefs, which means a mental slant and therefore confusion, conflict, and inner torment. In the midst of this confusion and all the torment of mistrust, jealousy, fear, irritation, resentment, and all the rest of it, there exists the possibility to come upon a love that is outside the field of time. Love is incredibly near. It is at hand for anyone willing to face it. Find out what it is to stop the whole activity of psychological time that exists as attachment to mental images and the conditioning of personal belief. If you do that, then unexpectedly a new dimension to life appears in which time is no longer a factor. A new aspect to daily living reveals itself in which time plays no part. Only when one actually brings an end to the whole structure and mechanism of psychological time, does that timeless and unconditional other field of life show itself. Love is that field. They are one and the same thing. 502. An ignorant person is a lost person. 503. The way to have intelligence operate in the brain is to make room for it. The clutter of thought as personal opinion and belief must be completely discarded for intelligence to work. Personal opinion and belief are bias. Intelligence is not bias. Bias is the personal identification and embrace of mental images, as the images of an organized religion, political party, work, culture, society, group, club, system of thought, or any object or person. Every form of mental identification and inner embrace to mental images brings about bias. It does that. It biases the brain. That bias is the psychological clutter that must be removed in order for intelligence to operate. It is this clutter that must be thrown out and internally disowned. Only when every form of bias as personal opinion and belief is purged from the brain can room be made for intelligence. Simply discard all of that clutter and see what happens. Be open and play with it. Find alone time and explore it. Test it out for yourself. If you do that, if you go deep enough into it, then something quite extraordinary occurs to the brain. What takes place is indescribable. 504. A person who is mentally programmed, indoctrinated, or in any way psychologically conditioned, does not love. Love has no conditions. If the brain is conditioned, then that conditioning denies love from manifesting. It prevents love from operating. People are conditioned to believe in all sorts of thing. They are conditioned to believe in a particular organized religion, political party, system of government, race, culture, ideology, philosophy, and so on. The particular form of conditioning is irrelevant. What is important is to face the fact that the brain is conditioned, bias, and therefore ignorant. An ignorant person is not intelligent. Ignorance denies intelligence. Therefore love and intelligence have the same character. They have the same essence. It means love and intelligence not only go together, but they are the same. 505. It was early evening and the sky was a beautiful, clear, dark blue. The bay tide was high, and small waves splashed on the rocky beach by the walkway. The narrow path meandered through towering elm trees, over a hill, and then down to a marina. The trail circled around an outcropping with expansive views of the bay. The sun was slowly setting over the horizon, and sunlight glittered on the water. The small park was empty of people, and the walking path snaked through a small cluster of trees and bushes. Suddenly it was there. It was massive, flawless. It was an unblemished thing. It was in the trees, bushes, leaves, and air. It was in the cracks in the walkway, blades of grass, grains of sand, rock, and dirt. It was the earth, the bay waters, the vast open sky and setting sun. It penetrated everything. It was inside and outside of everything, both different and the same. It was perfect. It was perfection itself. It was a realm to life that was extraordinarily intimate with a level of warmth, affection, and gentleness that was without measure or limitation. Thought could not touch or get near it. No desire or ambition could approach or in any way corrupt it. It was unapproachable, untouchable. It was an incorruptible thing. There was no effort to try to grasp or capture the moment. Every sense of effort, will, and desire was gone. The brain was only recording and erasing. The brain was a cup without a bottom, open, and vacant. It was continuously filling and emptying. It was as if there was nothing to record or discard, but instead there was only the movement, flow, and stream of the infinite and intimate other. The body stepped out from under the shadows of the trees, and instantly it vanished. The unmeasurable, gentle intimacy, whatever it was, disappeared completely. Afterwards the brain felt a sense of absolute awe, wonder, and amazement. The whole body felt clean and free. It felt massively alive. The sun was setting over the horizon, and cast long shadows across the narrow sidewalk. The air was cool, refreshing. The body felt strong and supple as it walked back to the small house. The brain remained watchful, highly alert. The alertness went on throughout the night and continued into the next morning. 506. A conditioned mind is biased, prejudiced, which means it is a mind with blemishes. It is a mind with scars. All forms of conditioning exist as thought, and thought is memory. It is the past. Therefore a conditioned mind is a mind that is scarred from the past, which is why it is hurt, lonely, fearful, ambitious, and greedy. It is a mind that cannot come upon that extraordinary dimension to life that exists outside the field of its own conditioning. It cannot come upon that field of life without scars or any blemishes at all. It cannot come upon that which is flawless, and therefore perfect in every way. This flawless other dimension has nothing to do with anything biased or partial, which means a conditioned mind cannot approach it. It cannot get near it, because a conditioned mind is slanted, fragmented. It is caught up in a constant state of mental disconnection, duality, and therefore it is divided between what it is and what it wants, between what it does and what it seeks to do. A mind that wants peace but fights, is a mind that is divided. A mind that desires to be free, but lives with attachment, is split. It is internally separated. It lives in a psychological state of separation and division. Division means conflict. It means violence and all the anguish that goes with it. This other dimension is not divided. It has no division in terms of time as the past, present, or future. The past is fixed and stagnant. The future is a projection of thought, and therefore it is limited. This other dimension is not limited. It is not bound by thought, the past, or any aspect of time. It is something that is entirely and wholly contained within the present. It is the present. Only the mind that empties itself of all conditioning, which includes the conditioning of personal upbringing, culture, tradition, attitudes about right and wrong, good and bad, love and hate, and every other sense of duality, every sense of time, can open the door to that unconditioned, perfect, and therefore timeless other. 507. Learn about what is the nature of knowledge, and all knowledge reveals itself. 508. If you are mentally attached to the image of a person, and then suddenly that person leaves you, then you may feel a great shock, sense of loss, depravity, and go through tremendous stress and conflict. Psychological attachment to an image means conflict, and the conflict that happens may take the form of feelings of anger, despair, jealousy, loneliness, or fear. The particular type of conflict that occurs is not the point. The point is conflict exists, and if conflict is present in the brain, then love is not. The conflicted brain does not love, which is obvious if you look at it. If a person loves, then that love removes every sense of conflict and internal struggle. It clears away all coveting for anything and anyone. It halts the whole activity of psychological possessiveness and entire process of mental attachment. It does that. Therefore, in order to find out what is love, one must learn what it is to psychologically possess nothing. One must learn what it is to not give importance to any mental images whatsoever. Any image of a person, job, religious belief, and so on, that the brain gives value, means attachment. Any thought that the brain assigns worth brings about attachment, and attachment means conflict. They go hand in hand. Therefore, explore and figure out what it is to mentally possess no image or thought in any form. If you cease to possess, covet, and embrace the whole of thought, then you cannot be hurt. You cannot be hurt because there is nothing within that can be touched, attacked, or taken away. To find out what it is to inwardly possess nothing is the key to ending the conflict within. It is the thing that makes love possible. Only when one brings an end to whole mechanism of psychological attachment and all the mental conflict that goes with it, which means anger, jealousy, fear, boredom, frustration, discontent, and all the rest of it, can love show itself. Only then can the discovery of a lifetime take place. 509. If you feel disconnected from others, nature, and the world in which you live, then find out what it is to bring an end to living in the world of psychological attachment to ideas, thoughts, and mental images. That's all. There is nothing else to do. 510. Memory is limited. Belief is stored in memory, which means it is also limited. That which is limited cannot have a relationship with that which is unlimited. That means it is a myth and complete fantasy to think that any form of belief can be used to come upon that which is unlimited, infinite, and therefore holy. Find out what it means to stamp out, destroy, and totally obliterate every form of limitation that exists in the brain. Only then can the door open to that holy other. There is no other way. 511. If there is any hint of psychological disorder in your life, which means the internal disorder that shows itself as anger, jealousy, heartache, anxiety, fear, loneliness, sadness, depression, or any other form of mental disturbance, then find out what ends it. Find out what ends the disturbance and conflict within. Discover what it is to live without a trace of inner conflict in daily living, and that discovery will be greater than anything that has ever been created by man. It will be greater than any invention ever made, any book ever written, and any sermon ever spoken. To discover what ends conflict, and to live that discovery, is the greatest thing a human being can ever do. 512. What happens in the present does not cause inner pain, hurt, or sorrow. It is the thought about it that causes sorrow. If you wash dishes, collect garbage, or clean toilets to earn a livelihood, then it is not the work that causes frustration or discontent. It is the thought or mental image you have about it. If a mental image exists that a certain type of work is beneath oneself, then that image is what creates the frustration, anger, embarrassment, and all the rest of it. Similarly, if you are a president, a king, or the CEO of a big company, then it is not the work that brings about worry, struggle, fear, greed, or any other form of internal conflict. It is the mental image of a goal, belief, or personal ambition that causes it. Rich or poor, they are both in the same situation. They are in the same boat. They are in the same mess, which means they are all slaves to mental images, and as a result their lives are filled with problem after problem. They tolerate a life of constant problems with all of the struggle, anxiety, worry, and discontent that goes with it. Learn what it means to not embrace any mental image, or give any particular idea any importance. When that happens, there is a complete and instant halt to the entire psychological process of owning and defending mental images. As a result all mental images that take the form of personal opinions, beliefs, and ideals lose their meaning. There are no longer any personal beliefs and ideals to defend. There is nothing to defend. When that happens the whole of discontent comes to a stop. The root cause of every mental hurt and sorrow is eradicated, and one thereby comes upon a new way of living that is completely free of every frustration, discontent, and sorrow that exists or has ever existed. 513. Encounters with people have infinite meaning. 514. If you feel lost, confused, and without any answers to a question about life, then do this. Be clear about the question, and then look at it. Carefully look at each word in the question. The answer is there. The answer is in the question. 515. Ask yourself "What is God?", "What is love?", and "What is sacred?", and you can only look for an answer to those questions in memory. Memory is local, confined, and limited. God, love, and that which is sacred, are not local. They are not limited. That means the answer to those questions cannot be found in memory. Therefore the only honest response to those questions is "I do not know". To honestly feel, realize, and be deeply aware of the fact that God is not knowable, love cannot be known, and that what is sacred cannot exist as any form of knowledge that resides in memory, brings freedom from knowledge. It brings freedom from the known, and as a result it brings freedom from the whole field of human memory. Freedom from memory is not an idea. It is not a dream, fantastic hope, or philosophical concept. It has nothing to do with any of that. Any dream or concept of any kind is still bound to memory and therefore it is confined. It is limited. Freedom means the end of limitation. It means the end of the limitation within. Find out what it is to actually bring an end to every sense of limitation within, and that which is unlimited, unmeasurable, and therefore sacred bursts out. It happens. What happens is impossible to communicate. It simply cannot be adequately expressed with words. It is a totally inexpressible thing. 516. When you learn what is love, a love that eliminates all psychological conflict, has absolutely no conditions whatsoever, and thereby brings indescribable meaning to life, which is nothing like all the nonsense about what is love that one learns from television movies, talk shows, psychology books, and all that nonsense, then everything changes. The world is not the same place as the world you leave behind. Nobody may understand it, and your neighbors and co-workers may think you odd, unsociable, or plain crazy. Your friends and family may abandon you. You may be outcast, jailed, or even killed. However, if you come upon that love which is unconditional, and therefore sacred, then nothing else matters or has any real meaning. Nothing compares to that love, because it is a love that has no equal of any kind. It is an unequaled thing. 517. Watch what mental image pops into the brain when the word "God" is heard. Do it now. The image that enters the brain may be an image of Jesus, Allah, Krishna or Buddha. It may be an image of light, love, energy, or an old man with a white beard. Whatever mental image appears in the brain, see that it is merely an image, an idea, a thought. See that thought is memory, that memory is limited, and that as long as memory occupies the brain, then that which is unlimited, infinite, can never reveal itself. Find out what ends the occupation of thought and clears the brain of all mental images. Only then can that which is infinite show itself. Only then can the door open to an entirely new and different dimension to existence that is infinite, and therefore divine. 518. All past experience has no value when it comes to finding out what it means to love. One may have read many books about love, met with many so-called experts, or had what one describes as an encounter with spirits, angels, or God. Whatever the case may be, none of that has meaning if you put that experience on a pedestal, idolize it, and make it all important. The moment a past experience is given personal importance, worshipped, or glorified at all, then a form of psychological identification takes place. The identification to any past experience, which means to memory, causes psychological isolation. The identification to memory implies isolation. Memory is the past, which means the importance given to any past experience isolates the brain. It isolates it in the past. As a result an internal and psychological separation takes place. A separation occurs between what is happening and what has happened. What happens is the present, and the present is alive and moving. It has a pulse. It is vibrant and filled with immense energy. It may be the sound of crickets in an evening air, a cloudless night sky filled with stars, or the sun as it slowly descends over the silhouette of a dark horizon. Regardless what happens, the present has nothing to do with what has happened. It has nothing to do with the past. The brain that is caught up in the past, inwardly attached to a past experience, a memory, and looks at a night sky, cannot truly connect to it. The brain cannot penetrate into the extraordinary beauty that exists. A brain stuck in the past is isolated, and therefore disconnected. As long as there is any form of mental disconnect, love cannot show itself. Love only exists in relationship, and relationship means connection. It means a person who is mentally disconnected, inwardly isolated in the past, bound to memory, or crazy over a personal experience that took place a year, a month, a day ago, does not love. That person cannot see the vast and immense beauty of a night sky, a bird in flight, a tree, a flower, because the brain is trapped in the past. It is caught up in memory. No past experience can penetrate into the beauty and absolute hugeness of the present. The present is where there is love. That is why the present is so huge and immense. Test this out for yourself. Carefully observe something, anything, a cloud, an animal, or a tree. If you look at a tree, you may recall learning about the name of the tree in school, and as a result you identify the tree as an oak, a birch, a coastal redwood, or whatever. The experience of that learning is recorded in memory, and that memory is played back in the form of an image. That image is used to name the tree. In the naming of the tree there is no true connection to the vibrant color, the shape, and curve of the leaves, the gentle swaying of the branches, or the stillness of the trunk. Observation is happening through the filter of the past, a past experience, which is memory. As a result there is no real connection made to the tree. There is observation taking place but there is distortion in the observation. That is what happens when people meet life through the filter of the past. Distortion takes place. A type of mental isolation happens, which means there is an inward separation between the observer and the observed. It is this inner separation that denies love from coming into being. It is the thing that prevents love from unfolding. Love is not isolation. Love has nothing to do with anything that is separative. Only when every form of past experience that one psychologically treasures is released can this whole process of psychological separation, estrangement, and isolation come to an end. Only then can the enormity of the present show itself. The present is not an idea. It has nothing to do with memory, which means it has no connection to any past experience at all. Love exists in the present. Love and the present go and belong together. If the present leaves the room, then love goes with it. It flies out the window. Find out what it means to discard every past experience one has ever known. Do that and the beauty, intimacy, and sacredness that is love, which can only exist in the present, reveals itself. It happens. 519. The end of the self is salvation. 520. Humility is the discovery of the limitation within, and that no effort, deed, or exercise of will, can bring about, invite, or in any way entice that which is unlimited and infinite to reveal itself. All forms of will are a movement of the ego, and the ego covers up this unlimited other. It covers it up like a wet blanket. However, this humility does more then brush aside the ego. It has the ability to bring about an extraordinary sense of freedom. It brings freedom to the brain. It casts out the limitation within, and makes possible to explore the whole of life in a way that is fresh, alive, and ever new. Only then can that infinite, and therefore holy other, come out. That which is infinite is holy. They are the same. 521. The self is established by all of the choicest mental images the brain has recorded in memory. These choicest images create the self. They are maintained and protected by the self because they are what provide it with the greatest sense of security. However, this security is not real. It is an illusion. The self is inherently divisive, and as a result it is the cause of every form of conflict and violence that exists in the world. That means the self is what denies security. The only real and true security is love. There is nothing in existence more secure, powerful, or indestructible. Love is indestructible. That means nothing can destroy, hurt, or in any way scar it. The self is covered with blemishes and scars, the scars of past hurts, the struggles to achieve, the endless desires to become happy, powerful, enlightened, or whatever the case may be. Love has no scars. It has no flaws of any kind. Love is flawless. It is perfect in every way. Find out what it is to come upon such a love, which means a love that takes the place of every choicest image in the brain, and thereby brings about a tremendous sense of freedom. It brings freedom because any image the self embraces and protects implies attachment, which means if all such images are let go, then attachment goes with it. When attachment leaves, then freedom enters. Find out what it is to completely supplant every sense of self, and all forms of psychological attachment to images, memories, beliefs, and all the rest of it, with freedom, because only when the brain is totally free can that flawless, indestructible, and infinitely secure other, which is love, come about. 522. The sky was a clear and perfect blue. A worker was using an electric power saw to cut away pieces of concrete in a driveway. The grinding noise from the saw was loud and nearly drowned out the sound of passing cars and people talking next door. The windows were open and the air in the room was fresh, invigorating. The body was comfortably sitting on a small cushioned chair. The brain was alert and sensitive. It was carefully watching what was going on outside and also inside of it. Without warning a vast emptiness filled the room and the contents of the room. It was immense and overflowing. It seemed to have a quality of infinite depth and gentleness. It made the whole of time come to a stand still. There was no yesterday or tomorrow. The past, present, and future were all entangled and merged together. They were absorbed and contained within the emptiness. Only the emptiness existed. It was unsullied, pure, and outside the field of time. It purified the room, air, and brain. It was everything and everything was it. It was endless and timeless. It was a holy thing. It is a subtle trap to say that a timeless and infinite dimension to life always exists. The word "always" implies time. It implies an image, which means the mind that says it, is fooling itself. It is living in a world that is completely unreal. Either that infinite other exists or it does not. Either an actual and real sense of that timeless other is present in the mind, heart, and ones entire being, or it is not. The idea of something that always exists is a mistake. It is a deception because the mind forms a hope, belief, or conclusion, which as a result creates division between the observer and the observed. The instant this inward division occurs, the mind veers off-track. It gets lost. The mind loses itself in its own petty little fantasy world of mental images, which means bias, and therefore ignorance. The entire process of the labeling and naming of it needs to stop. To name it creates an image, and an image means time. That which is timeless is outside the field of time. It is not an image, and it is not bound to memory in any manner at all. Only with the complete and total end of psychological attachment to memory and all mental images, can that which is timeless show itself. There is not other way. 523. If you try to organize, worship, or give a prayer to that which is infinite, unmeasurable, and therefore sacred, then that which you think is sacred inevitably takes the shape of a thought. It takes the form of a mental picture or concept. It means you are making a mistake. You are making a mistake because the thought or concept of a thing is never the actual thing. 524. The moment the brain identifies to a form of thought, a psychological separation occurs between the thinker and thought. Subsequently conflict occurs in the brain. That is the nature of mental separation. It is conflict. As a result the brain succumbs to feelings of fear, anger, loneliness, anxiety, jealousy, despair, and the whole world of inner hurt and misery. This world of misery remains until the process of mental identification to thoughts, ideas, beliefs, concepts, and all forms of mental imagery, ends. If that happens, then every sense of inner separation comes to a halt. The separation between the thinker and thought is no more, and thereby conflict stops. It stops completely. Suddenly an entirely new dimension to life begins that does not involve any form of psychological conflict, feelings of fear, anxiety, and all the mental mess and misery that goes with it. Misery itself ends, which means the brain comes upon what ends misery. It comes upon love. Love is what ends the separation within. Love ends all feelings of inner conflict and misery. It does that. The brain that realizes this fact makes a tremendous discovery. It makes the discovery of a lifetime, because it is a truth that never goes out of date. It never becomes obsolete. There is no need to accept any of this. Instead investigate it for yourself. Carefully scrutinize it. Test it. Only by testing it in a deeply serious, genuine, and honest manner, can you find out the truth about it. Only by actually doing it for yourself, which means having no help from any book, person, or anything else, can you find out what it is to capture a love that ends all hurt, conflict, and all the misery of man. 525. The end of the ego brings about an indescribable sense of blessing and grace. It reveals a significance, depth, and sanctity to life that only comes when the ego is not. 526. When you come upon what it is to love without any sense of psychological possessiveness, and therefore without jealousy, fear, or all the rest of that nonsense, then organized religion, politics, television news, talk shows, the everyday repetitive conversations people have about work, money, so-called relationships, and all that, will no longer be of deepest interest. None of that will touch you as before. Life will take on an entirely new and different meaning. Suddenly new and other things will take on incredible significance. One will find and have great interest, fascination, and wonder in a lone blade of grass pushing up through a cement sidewalk, the soft rustle of leaves blowing in a breeze, the stillness of a great redwood tree, a solitary bird in flight, a cloud moving across an open sky, or the simple fragrance of a flower. These apparently little things will have tremendous meaning. The physical senses will awaken as never before. The color, shape, and texture of all things become vibrant, alive. The body feels things as if for the very first time, the clothes on the back, softness and hardness of things, the feel of fresh water, the coolness of air, the warmth of the sun. There is a keen sense of the beauty of things and the whole of life. Suddenly the natural world will be everything to you. Very few people, if any, will likely see or understand the profound change that takes place within you. They will probably not feel the same awe, wonder and majesty for nature, what it means to live without possessiveness, and therefore with no feelings of fear, jealousy, anxiety, anger, and all the inner hurt and frustration that goes with it. You may be totally alone, however in that aloneness you will have a freedom unlike anything else. The freedom that comes cannot be described. It is indescribable. 527. People are continually seduced by whatever belief they are taught by the society in which live. They are fooled to follow others, repeat what is told to them, and fit in to whatever sick, violent, and ignorant social network they find themselves. As a result people are ensnared by the world of thought, which means mental partiality, bias, and therefore division. Thought as belief, any belief, is an act of division, which is obvious if you look all the political, religious, and nationalistic divisions that exist in the world today. Thought is the root cause of all the division and conflict that goes on throughout the world. It is not only the cause of all social conflict, it is the cause of all psychological conflict. All of the inner problems of anger, greed, envy, fear, despair, jealousy, loneliness, frustration, and all the sorrow that goes with it, are fundamentally caused by thought. Thought is the culprit. Thought is the root of sorrow, which means it can never be used to end sorrow. The realization of this fact, and the danger that thought presents to the brain, brings freedom from thought. It brings freedom from all forms of thought that are divisive, including all organized religions, political parties, philosophies, and the psychological identification to country, flag, and culture. Find out what it means to discard the whole of thought as your personal religious beliefs and all the traditions that go with it. Learn what it is to identify to no aspect of thought as a political party, a country, a flag, or any such thing. It does not take time to do this or take this step. That is the beauty of it. The first step to identify to nothing is the last step. They are the same. 528. Memory is a partial and fragmented mechanism. Love is not fragmented, which means it is something that thought cannot conceive, imagine, or in any way fathom. Love cannot be fathomed by thought. Love is unfathomable. 529. A terrorist who commits an act of cruelty and kills another because of a particular set of personal beliefs is mentally conditioned, psychologically brainwashed, and therefore ignorant. The same can be said for any person who is conditioned to mentally embrace and identify with any form of belief or idea. If you embrace any religious belief, political ideal, or mental image of any kind, then you are conditioned, and therefore ignorant. It means you and the terrorist share a common condition. You have a similar affliction. It means the ignorance that causes a terrorist to kill another person, is the same ignorance that lies within you. The outward expression of ignorance differs from person to person, however the fundamental nature of ignorance is the same. Find out what it means to bring an end to every form of mental brainwashing and conditioning in one's life, and one will discover what it is to bring an end to the ignorance within. The end of ignorance is intelligence. Learn what it is to live without the mental conditioning of nationalism, organized religion, politics, and all the images that define who you are, then and only then, is intelligence possible. Only when people learn what it means to be intelligent can the insanity of terrorism, violence, and war end. Nothing else can do it. 530. When the brain empties itself of mental conditioning, the conditioning of personal culture, belief, faith, and all the rest of it, then a mental emptiness takes place. The brain finds itself empty of conditioning, and as a result it comes upon that which is unconditional. The emptiness that occupies the brain and that which is unconditional are the same. The emptiness is pure nothingness, which means it has no limits or boundary of any kind. Therefore it is that which is never created or destroyed. It is never born or dies. If the mind empties itself of all mental conditioning, then the brain comes upon that boundless, deathless, and unconditional other. It comes upon love. 531. Love destroys every form of regret, remorse, and wrongdoing. It wipes out any and all feelings of guilt and shame. Nothing else can do that. Any idea, belief, or mental image cannot do that. An image means memory, and memory is partial. Therefore memory cannot end a problem completely. Only love can end the whole of a problem. Love does that, because love is not partial. Love is whole and complete. Only when one ends the partiality within does every form of remorse, guilt, inner hurt, and sorrow come to a stop. It stops wholly and completely. 532. The end of the ego cleans the brain. It surprises, jolts, and shocks the brain. As a result the brain changes. It changes entirely. It is both a shock and a cleansing at the same time. 533. If you learn what it is to have a love that knows no anger, no fear, no jealousy, and no sorrow of any kind, and live it, then there is nothing else to learn. There is nothing else to do. 534. Psychological death is an inward transformation that wipes away the ego, and as a result reveals an ageless, timeless, and therefore sacred realm. The beauty of this other realm is that it is not something far off. The body does not need to end to come upon it. It does not require time to discover, which means it is readily at hand. Find out what it means to bring a complete and total end to the ego, which means every form of mental dependence to any mental image that exists in the brain. Do that, and the door to the sacred other comes out. It appears instantly. 535. Love is a dimension without constraint, limitation, or boundary of any kind. If love has no boundary, then it must surround the ignorant, violent, and insane. It surrounds the ignorant and insane, but they are unaware of it. 536. Psychologically the ego is thought. It is the same for everyone. That means I am thought. You are thought. It means you are me, and I am you. We are the same. Therefore when the body dies, the ego does not. The ego continues. It continues in other people. 537. Live in the stream of the present. Only the present is real, true, and therefore with unimaginable meaning. 538. Awareness takes place when the spell of thought breaks down and ends. The spell of thought means all forms of desire, comparison, frustration, fear, effort, struggle and all the grief it involves. All of that is the activity of the self. It is the labor of the ego. It is the ego that denies awareness. Only when the ego is blasted out of existence is awareness possible. When that happens the awareness that takes place is an extraordinary event, because the end of the ego means death. When the ego dies, then the awareness that results is absent any hint of confinement or partiality. The end of partiality gives rise to wholeness. The mind that comes upon wholeness is not separate from it. They are the same. 539. The emancipation of the ego means the end of inner attachment to all forms of thought and mental imagery. When that occurs a level of freedom comes about unlike anything else. It is a freedom that can never be known, because what is known is memory. There is freedom from memory. It is a freedom of an entirely different order. It is the only freedom that is real and true. Everything else is a charade, a fantasy, a complete and utter hoax. 540. If the beginning of the day does not bring about a deep feeling of awe and adventure, then you are living in a routine, a habit, and therefore time. To live in time means to not be alive inside. It means inwardly you are daydreaming. You are sleepwalking. Alertness is what awakens and brings life to the brain. It is the factor that brings the brain back from the dead. Do it and see what happens. See how habitual behavior and routine are demolished by a brain that is watchful and highly attentive. Attentiveness wipes away habit. It destroys routine. It is the key that opens the door to an extraordinary sense of awe, wonder, and passion for the whole of life. 541. The ego is the cause of every form of grief a person has ever known. Love is not grief. That means love and the ego are not connected. Only when the ego ends can a person come upon a love that ends all grief. The idea that the ego must end to find out what is love, may be the greatest crisis a person can ever face. It may be a crisis, because the idea of ending the ego, and ending the ego, are two different things. The mere idea of it has no value. It has no value because it does nothing to end the grief. If a person finds out what it means to wipe out the ego, to actually do it, then a love emerges which knows no grief, no despair, no unhappiness of any kind. Only when you face this calamity can such a love emerge. Bring an end to the ego, and it will be the greatest thing that can ever happen to a person. There is nothing greater. 542. Words and ideas do not bring people together. Only love does that. Therefore discard every mental attachment to any idea you may have. Throw out every religious, philosophy and psychology book you consider important. Be completely alone with yourself, and find out what it means to live without any form of mental attachment to any remembrance, idea, or thought. Do that and you will discover what it is to live without psychological conflict as jealousy, envy, loneliness, grief, fear, and despair. Only when there is an end to all of the pettiness of such psychological conflict can there be love in relationship. Relationship means connection. It means no separation, and therefore an extraordinary sense of oneness and unity. Discover what it is to love, and a deep, abiding sense of oneness follows. Suddenly a feeling of unparalleled unity arises with the whole of existence, with people, animals, plants, trees, the earth, the sky. This sense of oneness knows no division. That is what love is. It is that which is without division. This love that enters the brain changes it. The brain no longer fights, strains, struggles, or competes. Every form of inner opposition stops. The whole activities of psychological competition, comparison, and judgment vanish. It vanishes because love has no comparison. Love does not judge. When one has that love in which every form, trace, and hint of inner division and conflict no longer have any place, then the change that happens is beyond the imagination. What happens is ineffable. Words cannot describe it. Go into it. Explore it. Find out all this for yourself. Nothing else matters. 543. There is no evil in anyone. There is only ignorance. 544. Nothingness is not an idea, which means it is not a movement in time. That means it is something that is without beginning or end. It has no birth or death. The brain can come upon it, however the brain must empty itself. It must empty itself of everything that makes up the me, the ego, which is every mental image it gives value. When that happens, then an inner field of nothingness occupies the brain. The significance of this field is unfathomable. It is a field of nothingness, however it is not nothing. It is something. It is something outside and totally unrelated to ideas and memory, and therefore time, which makes it timeless, and therefore holy, sacred. That is the dimension of nothingness. It is a dimension that is sacred. 545. The brain has the capacity to let go of the totality of psychological bias as personal opinion, belief, faith, and every attachment to every mental image within it. Bias means ignorance. When all forms of inner bias cease to operate in the brain, then ignorance unplugs. It turns off. Ignorance turns off, which means intelligence turns on. The turning off of one, is the turning on of the other. The brain has the capacity to have the ignorance within it turned off, which means it is wired for intelligence. It is intelligence that ends the mental attachment to all forms of ideas, thoughts, and mental images in the brain. It makes it possible for the brain to be free. That means the brain is not only wired for intelligence, but it is built for freedom. It is made to be free. 546. People have different interests and passions. Find out what is your deepest interest and greatest passion, and then take steps to learn it. Learn it beautifully. 547. The morning was filled with household chores, baking bread, cooking, and cleaning. There was no sense of effort, resistance, or any sense of complication. It was all done so naturally in the course of everyday living. Later in the afternoon the body rested in the quiet of an empty house. An unusual warmth enveloped the body. There was a sense of being gently held, protected, watched over with immense love and affection. There was nothing visible to the eyes, but it was there. It was in the emptiness of the room. It contained the furniture, plants, and walls. It was vast and gentle at the same time. It had an infinite nature about it. The gentleness of it made the body freeze in utter humility. It demanded humility. The whole movement of time itself vanished. It stopped altogether. The gentle, infinite other, whatever it was, cleaned and purified everything in and around the room, air, brain, and body. It was palpable. It seemed to plug into the body, and as a result the body rejuvenated, became electric, more alive than ever before. As suddenly as the thing appeared, it disappeared. It simply evaporated. A deep humility remained and permeated the brain, the body, and entire physical being. The humility remained for a long time. The sun descended over the town, and a light, faint orange haze appeared on the horizon. Bright rays of sunlight covered the tips of trees and roof tops of the nearby homes. The sound of passing cars, birds, and leaves rustling in the soft breeze slowly subsided. The sidewalks became empty of people and an enormous silence spread over the town, the trees, and across the sky. 548. Inside every single moment there is meaning. There is unimaginable significance. 549. The self is memory and therefore time. When the self dies and time ends, a timeless realm is revealed that is more real and true than any world one has ever known. The transition to this other realm is easy, effortless, and completely natural. It is as though it has happened thousands of times before. 550. To discard the self means to let go of all attachment to the mental images of family, work, money, knowledge, opinion, belief, faith, God, and most of all, the images you have about yourself. All attachment to images must end so that there is nothing left. When the whole of image-making comes to a stop, then all anxiety, bitterness, struggle, distress, fear, and every other form of inner duality vanishes. It vanishes, because the self is no more. The self means psychological division that takes the form of bitterness, distress, and all the torment and conflict that goes with it. The end of the self means the end of all that. It is the end of conflict. They are the same. 551. Struggle implies a mental image. Without an image every form of inner struggle that takes the form of envy, longing, ambition, and so on, would not exist. There is no difference between the struggle a child has for a toy and the struggle a priest has for God. Both involve an image. That means the struggle of the child and the struggle of the priest are not different. They are one and the same thing. 552. There is a difference between the person who has a near death experience and the person who has a death experience. The person with the near death experience has the experience recorded in memory, and that memory is recounted and played back. They make the memory of the experience all important and afterwards it is repeated over and over. As a result it becomes repetitive. It gets old, dusty. The experience may have been absolutely extraordinary. It may have been completely out of this world. However, if that experience is given worth, any internal value at all, then it creates an ego, a self, which means frustration, depression, boredom, and all the rest of it. As a result people who have such experiences make the exact same mistake as every other human being. They relive the past. They embrace memory. They fail to see the root cause of frustration, depression, and all the internal conflict that goes with it, which means the depression, boredom, and all the rest of it goes on. It continues. However, the person who experiences death, which means the person who comes upon a death in which there is no going back, then there is no past experience to recount. There is no remembrance of any past event which is recorded in memory that has been awarded value. The totality of the past as memory, as the psychological attachment and embrace to mental images, ideas, and thoughts, has come to an end. The person who does that has stepped into and dwells in an entirely different realm. The realm is not in any distant or far away place. It is completely here. It is entirely now. It is a realm that is revealed upon the release of the past. It is this release that opens the door to this other world. The near death experiencer may have opened the door, and stepped into the other side, but what they took with them is merely a memory. The near death experiencer merely embraces a memory of the timeless other, but the death experiencer steps into the other side, and then lives it. Only the death experiencer comes upon that timeless other realm and remains both there and here, living in this world and the other at the same time. It is what the near death experiencer needs to do. It is what every human being needs to do. 553. People are misled into thinking in terms of time. Memories of the past and all the plans, hopes and expectations for the future seem to be the most important and precious things for people. However, time as the past and the future is an illusion. There are no pasts or futures separate from each other. Everything is wrapped up and contained within the present. The person you remember you were yesterday, and the person you hope you will be tomorrow, is the person you are now. Everything you think happened in the past and everything you believe will happen in the future is taking place here. It is happening now. 554. If you feel dissatisfied with your life because you want your life to have purpose and meaning, then it is that mental separation between what you are and what you want to be that is the cause of the dissatisfaction. If you feel you need something in your life to give it meaning, then to think in that way creates psychological division. A division forms between what is happening and what is not happening, between what exists and what you want to exist. Any type of psychological division means conflict. It means anxiety, frustration, fear, worry, struggle, and all the other forms of mental restlessness. Therefore if you struggle to find purpose in your life, then learn what it means to live without struggle. If you do that, then all sense, need, and feeling the need to find a purpose to life stops. It stops completely. It means psychological division comes to an end. The internal division that has been the cause of all the frustration, anxiety, and discontentment in your life suddenly vanishes. It goes. When all of that is gone, when it is really finished, then what emerges is the thing that gives life meaning. It is the thing that makes everyday living meaningful, and thereby gives life extraordinary significance. 555. Knowledge is the result of experience, which makes it a partial, divided, and limited thing. The mind that sees that has an insight into the nature of knowledge. The insight into what is knowledge brings intelligence. An intelligence manifests that is not partial or limited in any way. Intelligence is what sees the whole of something. It is what reveals the totality of that which is known. Intelligence is not partial. It is not limited, which means intelligence and that which is unlimited are one and the same. They are the same thing. Therefore when you find out what it is to have an insight into the nature of knowledge, all that is knowable, the known, and so on, then an extraordinary thing takes place. A vast and incredible field of life that is unlimited, undivided, and therefore holy, comes out. It shows itself. 556. If you are discontented with your life, and you fail to change it, then the same discontent that was in your life stays with you after death. It follows you. 557. The idea of reincarnation, the continuance of a soul, the transfer of the ego to another body after physical death, and all that, are totally irrelevant, because they do nothing to end the attachment to mental images and all the conflict, despair, and misery that go with it. 558. Every form of crippling depression, feelings of utter despair, deep anguish, and sorrow, can all be wiped away instantly, and leave no mark, scar, or wound of any kind. It happens when one finds out what is meditation. It is meditation that brings an end to depression and every other form of inner hurt and sorrow. It destroys all of it in a heart beat. It ends it completely. Learn what it is to meditate without any mental image to interfere in the meditation, and see what happens. Learn what it means to actually do it. This is a meditation that cannot be found in any description, book, or through any other person, which means one must be free of all that in order to learn what it means to meditate. Freedom and meditation are not different. They are the same. Go into this for yourself, and explore it. Experiment with it. Do not stop until you find out what it is to live it. 559. Time has no meaning for the person who loves. 560. When love envelopes you, you know it. You do not know it as knowledge because thought does not exist. All forms of memory and remembrances are totally absent. Instead you know it as a fact. You feel it as a truth. There is no distance or any form of separation between some external thing that you feel you recognize as love and you. There is no separation because there is no you. There is only that timeless, formless, and infinite other. That is what love is. It is all that. To try to describe it is futile. It is blasphemous to reduce the immensity of what is love to mere words. One must come upon it. 561. When one comes upon what is love and moves with it, there is nothing one can do wrong. The realization of this is absolutely extraordinary. 562. The self must be shed for love to show itself. The self is like a wall that prevents relationship. The self is every mental image that the brain gives weight or any bit of worth. The smallest worth given to any image, idea, or thought sustains the self. It maintains the wall that creates the separation which is the self, and as a result it denies relationship. Love only exists in relationship, which means if relationship is prevented, then love cannot exist. It cannot show itself. Find out what it is to shed the self, and thereby let go of every psychological image that has been given worth or value. Only when all such mental images are discarded can the self end. The self ends because the mental images with value are what make up the self. The self is the image maker, and the image maker is the image. They are the same. 563. If you fail to learn what it means to love others without conditions, judgment, or any form of comparison, then you perpetuate psychological conflict, and therefore all of the social division and violence throughout the world. That means by your daily living you sustain crime, terrorism, and all human misery and suffering. 564. Watch your daily actions and all the small, subtle, and deep hidden thoughts. Watch without judgment, effort, or will. When you do that you learn. You learn about yourself. It is the watching that is important. Thought as the ego can be terribly shrewd and cunning. It can easily delude itself, cook up wonderful schemes, and imagine all sorts of nonsense. It will do anything to go on, exist, and survive. Do not trust it. Do not accept anything that thought as the ego, which takes the form of personal opinion, belief, and all that, has to offer. What it offers is bias, and therefore distortion. All personal belief is distortion. It is a complete illusion. However, when the mind is highly alert, sensitive, and watchful, then thought dissipates. The movement of the ego, and all the chicanery that goes with it, comes to a halt. It ends. If that happens, then the mind comes upon a brand new dimension to life. It is a dimension of newness, wonder, and learning. The learning that takes place is an ever changing movement that dies to each and every experience, no matter how wonderful, exciting, or profound. As a result each moment is new and fresh. It is as though each moment is lived as if for the first time. Watch the whole structure and activity of thought, how it appears, what sustains it, why it persists. Do that and you learn what it means to have self knowledge, which is not knowledge as memory, time, and all that, but instead it is an insight into the whole mechanism of the self and everything that goes with it. It is this insight that ends the self, and thereby paves the way for a life absent distortion. It makes for a life that is clear, real, and true. 565. If something does not feel right, then let it go. Do what feels right. 566. What happens at physical death is a mystery until it takes place. It cannot be a partial, close, or near death experience. It must be an actual death. It must be a death where there is no return. To read about what happens to a person who has gone through a close death encounter or near death experience, and make a mental image of it, and then give that image importance, serves to create an ego. The ego means psychological isolation. It means separation both inwardly as loneliness, frustration, anxiety, boredom, and so on, and also outwardly, which takes the form of social dispute, argument, and conflict. The ego is conflict. They are the same. The problem is not the near death experience, but it is the image that the brain creates and then embraces. Any form of psychological embrace to any past experience, no matter how extraordinary and beautiful, forms a self, and therefore a trap. The whole field of the self is a trap, because it means to be ensnared in thought, which is memory. Psychologically memory is the past, which means it cannot meet life. No remembrance of any experience, and therefore no memory of any thought, idea, or mental image, can penetrate the beauty of a flower, a sunset, an ocean wave as it rolls in and splashes onto a white sandy beach. Everything involved with memory is the past, and the past is what gets in the way of life. In the same way memory and the past get in the way of life, they get in the way of what is death. Death takes place in the present, which means one must go to the present to learn about it. The present is not a mystery. It is with you now. Find out what it is to enter the present, and what is death is made obvious. It is demystified. 567. The self is a mask. It covers what lies within. The mask must be removed to find out what lies within. It must be taken off and thrown away. 568. Love contains no inner hurt of any kind. It has no ambition, struggle, or worry. Love carries no resentment, sadness, envy, or angst. The person who ends all of this conflict in daily living makes possible for love to show itself. At the same time the person comes upon an unexpected reservoir of energy. With the absence of psychological conflict, all the energy that was once being consumed is conserved. It is no longer being expended or wasted, but instead it is being saved. It is being filled. Consequently, there is an abundance of energy. The energy is evident and distinct. It is enormous and one feels it. This vast reservoir of energy is only made possible with love. Love is at the center of this energy. In addition there is a sense that nothing is missing in one's life. There is a feeling of extraordinary wholeness that brings about an inner peace and happiness unlike anything one has ever felt before. One may be a gardener, plumber, taxi driver, or cashier. One may have a family, husband or wife, many friends or none. The inner contentment that comes does not depend on circumstance or any condition, which means it is something that anyone can come upon. One only must be willing to face it. The depth and hugeness of what takes place is impossible to convey with words. Words have no heart, no passion, no fire that are able to ignite and start up this immense energy. The reader must go beyond the mere description of the thing. Any words or description of what is love is not love. They are two utterly different things. 569. Thought is an illusion. Release thought, and live what remains. Live what is revealed when the whole of thought is discarded. 570. Love is not a limited thing, which means it has no start or finish. It has no birth and no death. Love exists within that which is the present, and therefore it is a dimension of life outside the boundary of time. 571. Every form of psychological separation is an illusion. The separation between the thinker and thought is not real. The thinker is thought. They are the same. Examine this for yourself. Be a detective, and carefully investigate this from every angle, top to bottom, inside and out. Do it. Do it today. 572. Death means the end of every mental image you honor, idolize, or glorify. The images may be of your job, family, home, religious belief, opinions about good, evil, life, death, God, or whatever else. It does not matter what mental images are glorified, because when all of that is discarded, then suddenly you become nobody. When you become nobody, then the self ends. When that happens, all partiality, prejudice, and the whole of inner bias, suddenly dissolve. At the same time all forms of mental fragmentation and limitation collapse. It all ends. When the limitation within comes to an end, then the brain comes upon that unlimited other. Death does that. It reveals that which is unlimited. 573. Psychological dependence sustains the ego and all the internal battles that go with it. What happens after physical death, the details of what may or may not happen to the particular ego, the particular struggle, the particular sorrow, and all that, can be guessed or theorized. It can be imagined. If one had a near death experience, then that experience can be remembered, idolized, or even worshipped. However, what happens when the body dies has actually very little meaning. What has meaning is whether or not an ego exists now. If an ego is engaged with the brain, then it is must be given attention. It is the problem that needs to go before anything else. The ego is a torrent of dependence. It is the stream of sorrow and ignorance. That is obvious if you look at it. If the ego, which is a stream of ignorance, is present in the brain at bodily death, then that same stream continues. It persists. It persists because only intelligence ends ignorance. Nothing else does. If the ego exists, and one views life through the filter of that ego, which means personal opinion, belief, and any mental image one considers important, then the observation must be slanted. It must be distorted. It means what one sees is an illusion. Similarly, if the ego exists when the body dies, then what is revealed is also an illusion. What happens may seem real, but as long as the ego survives, there must be distortion, and distortion means illusion. One may have had what one strongly feels is an extraordinary near death experience, gone through a tunnel, talked to God, and all that. However, regardless how beautiful or profound the experience, it is still rooted in the ego. It is still grounded in the me, the self, which means distortion is inevitable. Let us say that at physical death the ego leaves the body. Let us say it does that. What the ego sees may seem totally real and true, however it cannot be complete. It cannot be all there is. It must be slanted, lacking, and therefore incomplete. It is incomplete, which means there is another dimension that goes deeper. To come upon that other dimension, the ego must end. It must be completely wiped out of existence. Find out what it is for that to happen! Find out! Find out! Find out! 574. People struggle to come upon something in life that is truly holy and sacred. They seek that which is infinite, unmeasurable, and they do that by embracing some type of mental image that takes the form of a belief or faith. The mistake people make is that every belief, faith, and form of mental imagery implies memory, and memory is finite. It is finite because it is confined to the past. As a result the mind is confined, and mental confinement is a barrier. It is a wall that must be taken down. Therefore as long as any form of memory is used to approach that which is infinite, it can never work. As long as that wall exists, that which is infinite will forever be out of reach. People worship so-called holy lands, temples, and scriptures. All of such things are finite. All lands, buildings and books are finite things. They are measurable, which means they have no relationship with that which is immeasurable. The fact is people struggle, fight, and go to war in an effort to possess that which is immeasurable and sacred. War is violence, murder, and insane barbarism, which means it has nothing to do with that which is sacred. All struggle is a movement of thought as the self, and the self is partial. It is limited. That means struggle has no relationship to that which is immeasurable. It has no connection with that unlimited other. It cannot. Find out what it is to bring an end to every sense of struggle in your life, which means the whole mental movement of possessiveness must come to an end. The moment one psychologically possesses anything, then one becomes possessed. To be psychologically possessed means struggle. It means conflict. Look at people who are inwardly attached to something. Watch how they act. Watch the fear, jealousy, anger, and all the violence and human suffering that psychological possessiveness creates. The only sane solution to all of that mess and needless sorrow is to learn what it is to inwardly possess nothing, which means to be attached to no mental image at all. Therefore, all belief goes out the window. Every faith is flushed down the toilet. Do that, and something remarkable takes place. An extraordinary thing occurs. Explore it. Find out for yourself what it means to do that, and see what happens. Nobody can do it for you. This is something that can only be done alone. 575. It was evening and the body was prepared for sleep. The body was lying down in bed, the eyes were closed, and at the same time the eyes were watching. They were observing. In that state of observation a tunnel appeared. It contained what seemed like stars traveling at tremendous speed. At the end of the tunnel there was a pin point of light which began to enlarge, change shape, and spin. The brain was keenly aware of what was happening both outside the body and inside the brain. None of it was imagined or fantasy. It was not a hallucination, because it had nothing to do with the movement of thought, and there was no desire of any kind. There was simply a state of mental watchfulness. It was simple alertness. Suddenly the brain began to experience severe dizziness and pain. There was the real sense that the body could end. Physical death was felt to be nearby. It felt close. There was no fear or resistance of any kind. All at once the terrible pain subsided. It disappeared altogether. The body felt drained and pushed to a limit. It slept long and sound throughout the night. The next morning the eyes opened and the alertness and watchfulness was present. The brain was still, quiet, and highly sensitive to the furniture, space, and shadows in the room. The body felt tremendously alive and refreshed. Later in the morning one took a walk on the trails by the bay. The low tide revealed dark sand and muddy patches of earth. The tall eucalyptus trees swayed in the wind and a seagull soared effortlessly high above. As one walked along the narrow dirt path on a bluff above the bay, suddenly a presence appeared. It was an immense field of energy that touched everything, the water, the path, the trees, the sky. The energy was without form or shape. It seemed to emit and absorb all that is. It encompassed and penetrated the mind, and the mind was not separate from it. The mind was without duality, division, or opposition of any kind. The energy, or whatever it was, brought about a sense of oneness, vast and infinite. It was the source of this sense. The immensity of it forced the body to stand utterly still. It brought about a feeling of awe and complete humility. It made the body feel microscopic, insignificant, and incredibly small. Every sense of time faded and ceased altogether. There was only the formless energy, the infinite presence, the undivided and sacred other. The waves of the bay waters quietly lapped onto the black sandy beach. A huge blanket of dark clouds slowly rolled over the distant hills. Sea birds filled the sky. 576. If each day of your life feels routine, ordinary, and boring, then it can easily change. It can change instantly. The beauty about change is that it does not take time. The whole concept that time is necessary to resolve any feeling of boredom, sadness, or any mental problem for that matter, is a total fallacy. It is a fallacy because if time is needed, then the problem can never be resolved. It can never come to an end in the present. Let’s say I am bored, and you come along and tell me that it takes time to end boredom. You tell me it takes time, and if I accept that, what happens to the boredom? The boredom has not been resolved. It has been put aside. It has been put on hold, and swept under the rug. As a result it is still there. You have given me nothing to bring an end to the boredom in my life. All you have given me is an idea, an opinion, a hope, a concept, and a concept about ending boredom is not the end of boredom. Like the concept of a tree is not the tree, the concept of a thing and the actuality of it, are totally different. Therefore I do not accept that time is the answer. I see the fallacy of time, which means I will have nothing to do with it. I will not follow it. The key to bring an end to boredom, tedium, and all of the monotony of everyday living, which includes anxiety, frustration, depression, loneliness, and any other mental conflict for that matter, cannot be found in time. The key to actually bring all of that to a stop is not a factor of time, which means I must find out what it is to bring an end to living in time. I must find out if a dimension to life exists which is timeless. That which is timeless does not involve time. Timelessness means no time. They are the same. It is also obvious that most people are caught up in time. They have a mindset that involves constant mental comparison and judgment. They mentally form assumptions, opinions, hopes, and expectations, moon over personal beliefs, plans about what would happen if they did this or that, and desires for the acquisition of money, prestige, power, the repetition of pleasure, sex, and how to survive in this dangerous and insane world. All of that involves the activity of thought and mental images, which means memory. Memory means time. It means psychological time. Timelessness has nothing to do with any movement of thought. It has no connection with any mental image, and therefore it is something that cannot be found in memory. This is important to see. It is important to understand and internalize this fact. Timelessness cannot be found in memory, because memory is time. Therefore memory and its contents are what deny timelessness from revealing itself. They are what prevent timelessness from operating in daily life. Find out what it means to live, meet, and observe life without the filter of memory to interfere in the observation. Learn what it means to look at a tree, a sky, or a flower bending back and forth in a cool breeze without naming or calling it anything. Learn to look at a co-worker, neighbor, friend, or family member without any sense of comparison or judgment. If you do that, then you will discover what it is to see without the filter of memory to distort the seeing. You will see the tree as it is, alive, moving, beaming with energy and enormous vitality. You will see the shape of the branches, the color of leaves, the shadows, the height, the breadth, the entire life and movement of the whole tree. Seeing is a movement. It is not a static thing. Seeing is alertness. It is intense watchfulness. If the brain is alert and watchful, then notice how the movement of memory is absent. The absence of memory means the end of time. It means that which is timeless comes into being. Do not blindly accept this. The absolute beauty of this is it has nothing to do with any sort of acceptance, authority, belief, or theory of any kind. Timelessness is not a theory. It has no relationship with belief. Only when one actually experiences the beauty, vastness, and immensity of that which is timeless, does one come upon a dimension to life that brings an end to every sense of tedium, boredom and every other form of internal conflict. It is the event that changes the ordinary routine of daily living with all the struggles, fears, jealousies, insecurities, heartaches, and sorrows into something totally new, different, and extraordinary. It transforms that which is ordinary into extraordinary. That is what timelessness is. It is extraordinary. 577. When thoughts about home, work, and the world you find yourself, are not needed, find out what it means to discard the clock, calendar, and linear time altogether. You may be on a break from your job, in traffic on your way home from work, or waiting in a parking lot to pickup your kids from school. Wherever you are, when thoughts, ideas, and mental images are not required, explore what it means to tap into and connect to that dimension of life outside the field of time. Time is confined to the past, and therefore it is an inherently limited thing. That which is timeless is not limited. It does not take time to come upon that which is timeless. Anything that involves time denies that timeless field of life from manifesting. See what it is to deny anything and everything that involves time. Walk away from all books, television, the internet, and every form of human knowledge. The whole of human knowledge implies thought. It implies memory. Memory is the past, and the past means time. Therefore deny it. Discard all memory, and relinquish the past. Do that, and see what suddenly presents itself in front of your face. See what is within you, and see if there is any you at all. 578. To come upon that timeless other means to leave the world of time as the past and future. It means to enter a perpetual enfolding of the present without any sense of time or space. No sense of space means there is no feeling of any difference between up or down, right or left. The feeling is that up is down and right is left. They are the same, which means neither exists, or is given any meaning. 579. The woman was upset, defensive, and terribly angry. She did not realize the anger she felt was not separate from her. She was not angry, but she was anger. Anger was her. They were the same, which means love was lost. There was only anger, and therefore love, the love of a spouse, parent, child, or friend, was nowhere to be found. 580. Memory is used to schedule events, make plans and appointments. The nature of memory is that it is an activity of time. Memory is time. It is time as the past and future. The past and future only exist as thought, and thought is fragmented, partial, bias, which means it is a movement of distortion. That means anything grounded in thought is fundamentally an illusion. It means time is an illusion, and therefore the whole concept of the future is illusion. Now this is important to understand. If the future is an illusion, then death does exist. Obviously there is physical death, but the body merely undergoes a change and transformation. It transforms to dust, gas, liquid, and so on. It does not disappear. It does not become nothing. It transforms and continues in a different form. It merely has a different appearance. That is simple. Similarly, if the ego exists at bodily death, then it does the same. The ego transforms, and it goes on. It continues in a new form, which means it has a different shape and appearance. It incarnates into another body, takes the shape of this or that person, but it is still the same ego. It is still the same illusion. It is still the same activity in time. What is important is not the fact that the ego continues, but it is finding out what it means to step out of the stream of time, living in the past, and all the hurt, struggle, and sorrow that goes with it. Find out what it is to end living in time, which means to totally walk away from the attachment to memory. Explore it. Play with it. Test it out for yourself. Only when you are completely alone can the clockwork of psychological time stop, and when that happens you feel it. You feel it because only that timeless other remains, and occupies the brain. There is nothing else there. When that takes place, notice what happens to every inner hurt and sorrow that plagues the brain. Just do it, and notice what happens. 581. All mental pictures, images, and ideas take the form of thought, and thought is confined to memory. Memory is finite. It is limited. It is formed based on particular upbringing, education, experience, and all that. Therefore thought is finite. Thought is also limited. That is the nature of thought. All of that is obvious if you look at it. Now if one is inwardly still, quiet, and the movement of thought has subsided, which means one is tremendously alert, internally vibrant, and teaming with energy, and one meets another person on the street, observes a small spider as it walks across a table, or listens to thousands of leaves softly rustling in a breeze, then that which is infinite unfolds. That unlimited other shows itself. That which is unlimited has no beginning and no end, which means it is something that cannot be measured. It cannot be measured in terms of time or space. That means it has a timeless and formless character about it. It is this timeless, formless, and immeasurable other, or whatever you want to call it, that the mind comes upon when the movement of thought subsides. Find out what it means to look at another person, a small spider, and a tree as it gently sways in a soft breeze, without thought to block or distort the observation. See what takes place inside the mind when one looks at oneself, and observes ones reactions, motives, desires, opinions and beliefs. See if it is possible to observe the flow of thought as it takes place inside the brain, which means to observe oneself without any reaction. If any reaction takes place, which means labeling, naming, comparison, judgment, and so on, then observation is distorted. A distorted observation is useless, and therefore without any real meaning. Observation without distortion does not choose between what takes place inside and outside the brain. It is a way of observing oneself, the world, and the whole of life that is total, unblemished, and clear. Only when you find out what it is to observe without choice, and therefore without distortion, can you learn what it is to step out of the field of time, and therefore come upon that unlimited, timeless, and therefore choiceless other. 582. The clouds were cotton-like and puffy. The morning sun lit up the top edges of the huge clouds with a mix of bright white, yellows, and oranges. People walking along the brick sidewalks were looking down with glazed looks over their eyes. A corner coffee shop was bustling with music and people waiting in line, and sitting at tables with smartphones, iPads, and laptops. People seemed to not notice each other. They appeared to be unaware of the beauty of the sky and clouds. They seemed to be in a daydream, caught, and wrapped up in mental images and thought. Thought is the continuous playback of memory. It is the recycling of old ideas, beliefs, and images one has about everything, the whole of life, and oneself. Therefore it is a repetitive and mechanical process. Life is not mechanical. Life does not repeat itself, which means it is a movement. It is an active, flowing, and lively movement that has no relationship with the past, thought, or any form of memory. To be entangled in the world of thought means to be caught in playback of memory, which is illusion. Thought is illusion. It is illusion because to view life with thought means to create separation between the observer and the observed. This separation is a fallacy. It is a fallacy, because there is no difference between the images you have of yourself and you. You are that. The observer and the observed are one and the same. To observe without thought means to come upon a way of observing without illusion. Only when one discovers what it is to observe life without any sense of separation can one penetrate into the extraordinary beauty of a sky, a cloud, and another human being. 583. Live in the present and everything reveals itself. 584. The greatest experience one can ever come upon, realize, and have operate in the brain is that which is infinite, and therefore timeless. That timeless other has nothing to do with memory or the contents of memory. It is not a mental image, idea, or concept. A belief is an idea. It involves a mental image. You cannot walk inside a church, mosque, or temple without a mental image. That means belief involves memory. It involves time. If any personal belief, faith, or philosophy is praised or revered by the brain, then the brain becomes entangled in time. As long as the brain is entangled in time it cannot come upon the other. 585. If you fear death, then life for you changes completely when death is abolished. When the whole idea of death comes to an end, then any apprehension, anxiety, or fear of death that you may have had no longer exists. Death means the end of everything. It means the end of your family, your job, your beliefs, your pleasures, and all that you adore and cherish. All of the things you cherish take the form of thought. They take the shape of mental images, which are what create a me, an ego, a psychological center. The idea that this center will come to an end when the body dies, creates fear. It brings about havoc for the center, because it is facing the end of itself. However this center is an illusion. This center is thought, and thought is a limited, bias, and therefore slanted activity. Thought is an activity of deception. What that means is the end of thought is the end of deception. They are the same. When deception ends, then the result is not a black void or empty nothingness. Instead it means the end of illusion, and therefore the beginning of what is real and true. Find out what it means to bring a stop to a life of deception. Leave every form of psychological attachment to mental images, which means every sense of ambition, pursuit, and struggle, as the struggle for position, money, sex, happiness, God, security, and all the rest of it. The activity of thought is all that. When this activity ends, then something else begins. A new way of living is revealed that has nothing to do with attachment, ambition or struggle, and it is not an illusion. It is real. Every sense of vanity, self-worship, and the desire for acknowledgement must cease for this other way of life to show itself. There must be complete humility, and a quality of innocence that only comes about when one discovers what it is to love. Love and death go hand in hand. In fact one cannot learn what is death without finding out what is love. There is only one real reason you are here, and that is to love. There is nothing else. That is the sole purpose and ultimate significance for the whole of life. There is a key to come upon and realize that significance. The key is that love cannot exist as a remembrance, no matter how beautiful or profound the remembrance appears. Love is not an idea, thought, or mental image. It is not a memory. To prize any mental image, or give any form of memory any hint or the smallest bit of psychological worth or weight at all, sustains it. It perpetuates the remembrance, which means time. Memory is time. As long as one inwardly clings to time, holds onto it, and remains enraptured by it, then that which is timeless cannot show itself. That is an absolute and undeniable fact that one must come to terms with. It is a truth that one must face. Fail to face it, and love will remain a struggle, concept, or belief, which means it will be something continually separate from you, and therefore not real. 586. If an ego forms in the brain, then an inner collapse takes place. The collapse is the formation of time. It is what creates psychological space, which means mental distance between the ego and the whole of life. The ego is time. It is time as the flow of thought, memory, psychological attachment, fear, sorrow, and all that. The ego is space. It is space as the distance that is created between the North Korean and South Korean, Christian and Muslim, or any observer and observed. The collapse of the timeless other is what denies relationship between the observer and the observed. It is what denies love. 587. Find out what it is to love another person without any past baggage or memory, and nothing will be able to interfere with, poison, or corrupt that love. Memory as past hurt, betrayal, jealousy, fear, sorrow, or any hint of hope or expectation, is what bars love from showing itself. It bars love, because all of that involves the movement of memory, and memory is a partial, finite, and measurable thing. Love is not partial. Love is not finite, and it cannot be measured. Therefore all psychological baggage that exists in the brain must be purged. One has to learn what it means to remove the whole of every past hurt, fear, feelings of betrayal, anger, jealousy, and sorrow from within oneself. Every expectation, belief, and assumption that one has about love must be completely eliminated. It must all go. Only when all of that is gone, wiped away for good, can a love which is without measure, and therefore immeasurable and infinite, reveal itself. 588. People who have reported having a near death experience, entering a dimension of existence where time does not exist, seeing God, finding a purpose to their life, and so on, have all considered the experience greater and more life changing than anything they had ever before experienced. Every near death experiencer seems to make their experience all important. They give the memory of it tremendous value and worth. That is the reason they recount it, and tell the story over and over. If any memory or past experience is idolized or given supreme worth, then an ego is formed. Any mental image that is given such value, relived again and again, creates a me, a self, an ego, and therefore all the problems and mischief that go with it. The experience does nothing to bring an end to the mental attachment of the memory of it, because the attachment to the memory sustains it. It sustains the psychological attachment, and as a result there is disappointment, anxiety, frustration, loneliness, and all the inner conflict that goes with it. The near death experiencer’s desire to repeat or relive the experience is the same desire a child has for a toy, a businessman has for money, or a priest has for salvation. Here is the thing. The near death experiencer needs to experience death, and not recount a near death that happened in the past. They need to experience the death of the ego, and then live it. Any experience that involves the ego is slanted and distorted. The experience may seem fantastic and reveal things that are unimaginable. However, if the ego is involved, which means if the ego has not ended when the body dies, then whatever happens to the experiencer is grounded in partiality, and therefore it is slanted. It is twisted. This is important to see. To have an experience that is not twisted, can only occur when the ego is absent. That means the ego must go. It must be completely obliterated. Only then does the veil of illusion come down. Only then can one come upon a dimension to life that is actual and true. The only true dimension to existence is the present, and the present has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with any past experience, remembrance, or memory. People seek security in memory. They seek comfort in the stories people write and tell. The stories people tell may be true, or not. The fact is they are merely stories, tales, or a history about a past experience, and therefore they can never be used to meet the present. The present is the only security. The present is not a security for the self or ego, but rather it is security itself. Find out what it is to walk away from and relinquish every story, every tale, every past experience that has ever been or can be told, and sees what happens. See what happens to you when you go for a walk under a cloudy sky, through a forest thick with trees, across an open meadow of grass, or along a narrow dirt path overlooking a mountain or valley. See what happens when every memory falls away and there is only the sky, the grass, the valley. The immensity of what takes place is something no past experience or memory can ever touch, penetrate, or fathom. It is unfathomable what happens. 589. There is a way of seeing which does not distinguish between this moment and that moment. The mind that operates outside the field of time does not differentiate between what is happening, what has happened, or what may happen. Different events may be recorded in memory, but the mind that does not relive events or replay past experiences, lives in a field of life outside the confines of time. The mind that comes upon this timeless field makes no distinction between one moment and any other. For the mind that comes upon this timeless other, only one moment exists, and that moment is now. It is a field of existence that is extraordinarily vibrant, surging, and alive with tremendous energy. The energy that shows itself is immense. It is an energy that pierces and passes through everything, the smallest cracks in a wall, the color of a sky, or the movement of leaves blowing in a breeze. The energy cannot manifest in a mind caught up in the past, and therefore time. Only the timeless mind can come upon this energy. When the mind brings an end to living in the field of time, then this surging, unconfined, and immense energy comes out. It emerges. 590. Memory and knowledge are limited. Intelligence is not limited, which means it has a character that is limitless and formless. It exists in a formless, and therefore non-physical world. The physical and non-physical worlds are parts of an undivided whole. They are like two sides of the same coin. That means the non-physical world is not closed off. It is here. Like the emptiness in a room surrounds and permeates the walls, the furniture, and everything else, the non-physical world surrounds and permeates the physical world. To come upon the non-physical world one must bring an end to the ignorance within. Ignorance is the entire movement of mental partiality and bias. It is the activity of the self, and all the mischief and callousness it involves. When ignorance ends, intelligence starts. The end of ignorance is like walking from one room into the next. It is that simple, easy, and natural. 591. There are thousands of different opinions and beliefs about life, how to live life, what life means, and so on. If you base your life on a particular belief, a belief that you acquired from your parents, upbringing, or the society in which you find yourself, and suddenly you discover that the belief you thought was true is a fallacy, then you will have made an astounding discovery. If you realize a mistake, then that realization makes a correction. The revelation of a falsehood is the revelation of a truth. They are the same. 592. Every past experience takes the form of memory. Memory is measurable. That means no past experience can be used to come upon that which is immeasurable, infinite, and therefore sacred. If no past experience can be used, then to seek new, different, or unique experiences with the idea or expectation for growth, understanding, or to get closer to that which is sacred, is a mistake. The realization of this fact brings freedom from seeking any new experience. It brings freedom from all the sacred books, religious videos, spiritual seminars, new age workshops, and all the rest of it. Freedom means the end of all that. It means the end of seeking, pursuing, and following. Only when the mind finds out what it is to following nothing and nobody can one be free, and only in freedom can that sacred other come out. 593. The present is real, and everything that takes place in the present remains in the present. It does not remain as a reoccurrence or playback. The present does not play back. It has no repetition. That means everything you ever did in your life, everything you have ever thought, felt, and done in your life exists in the present. To come upon the present one must understand what is meditation. The present is outside the boundary of time. Meditation is the only way to access it. It is not a meditation that involves any mental picture, image, or thought. Thought corrupts meditation and dirties the brain. Meditation is the absence of thought. It is what cleanses and purifies the brain. It is what gives the brain a clean slate. Everyday living must involve meditation. It is what maintains a healthy and sane brain. It is a mistake to set aside a particular time to meditate. Meditation cannot be scheduled or in any way planned. Any plan implies the activity of thought and thought denies meditation. That means meditation happens naturally without effort or will. It happens when thought is not needed. You may be standing in a check out line at a super market, waiting for a train to arrive, or sitting in a chair after a meal. You may be most anywhere quiet, still, and then suddenly it begins. The meditation happens all on its own. There is no movement of thought or any image making that takes place in the brain. There is only alertness, watchfulness, which means the entire movement of thought, the repeat of thought and the whole comings and goings of memory, suddenly stops, and comes to a complete standstill. It goes utterly silent. In that silence is meditation, which means the ending of time. Meditation is what puts a lid on time. It is the thing that quashes it out of existence. Learn what it is to meditate, to listen without effort, desire, or any hint of anticipation. Do that, and watch what happens to the brain, how the brain rejuvenates, becomes alive, and comes upon an energy that never before existed. The energy that manifests is huge. It is a surging, gushing over, and spilling out. The brain taps into the present, and the present is where the energy resides. It is the source of the energy. The present is the energy. They are the same. 594. If the whole of psychological division ends, which means heartache, loneliness, depression, fear, and all the rest of it, then a completely new and different way of living not only begins, but the possibility for another way of life presents itself for the whole of mankind. It does that because there is no difference between you and mankind. You are the same. 595. The person that comes upon that timeless other dimension to life does not see a tree with merely the eyes. Psychologically no separation exists between the person and the tree, which means the person and tree combine. They merge, and as a result there is neither. There is only seeing. 596. Boredom happens when the mind is not attentive. Experiment with it. Do it now. Be attentive and watch what happens to boredom. It ends. It ends instantly. Now live that state of attention. Live it completely. 597. When you find something that clearly and without a doubt completely and instantly wipes away every trace of every problem a person has and can ever have, there is a yearning to share it. There is compassion for those that live with fear, depression, despair, anguish, and sorrow, because you have what can bring it all to an end. You have it, and the only thing the other person needs to do is to have an open mind and just listen. If a person would simply listen, then the chance to find out what it is to live without any fear or despair is made possible. Listening is the key that ends the whole of human sorrow. It ends all of it. 598. Intelligence brings insight into all human knowledge. Intelligence is all knowledge, however it is not knowledge about what is known. It is insight about what is unknown. 599. The brain felt healthy, vibrant, and sharp. It was highly sensitive to shapes, colors, events, and words that were being spoken. Each word the neighbor spoke was received with great interest. It was not the subject that made the brain alert and sensitive. The brain was naturally alert. A great tree was be being cut down and people had gathered around to talk about it. Earlier the tree split and a large branch felt on a rooftop destroying a brick chimney. It was a mighty tree with thick multiple trucks with branches spread out over a large area. Long ropes dangled from the high branches and wrapped around the lower ones to be cut. The workers had left for the day, and evening was descending on the neighborhood of expensive homes. The sky was mostly clear with wispy yellow and orange clouds. The air felt fresh, comfortable. There is an extraordinary unfolding of the present that meditation makes possible. The meditation does not involve time or thought. Instead it is the ending of thought. It is the ending of time as the past, and when the past ends, the present unfolds. The unfolding involves what is happening outside the body, sights, sounds, as well as the internal physical feelings of clothing, breathing, heartbeat, and all that. It also includes what is going on in the brain, any feelings and thoughts that may pass through, come and go, appear and disappear. More deeply, the unfolding also contains what happens when the movement of thought subsides, when the brain is quiet and completely still. The absence of thought means no movement of thought. It also means no self or ego, and therefore no sense of psychological attachment to any mental image. Life can involve a spouse, children, job, house, money, sex, but the meditative mind has no attachment to any mental images of any of that. It is within the absence of thought that meditation, the present, the unfolding, or however you want to put it, reveals a tremendous field of energy. The energy is alive, active, and palpable. It is palpable, but it is not an energy like the energy that exists in the muscles of the body, jet engine, hurricane, or burning sun. It is not a physical type of energy, which means it is not an energy of this world. It is an energy that has no boundary or limits of any kind. When the energy appears it flows like an inexhaustible fountain. It is a fountain dripping with a degree of affection and love unlike anything the brain has ever known. The energy that the unfolding reveals, and which the brain comes upon, is a total absence of all impurity, disorder, and division. It is an energy without division, which means it is an energy that ends division. Division means conflict, and what ends conflict is love. The energy is love. There is no difference between this immense and fathomless energy and love. They are the same. This is obviously impossible for most people to understand, because most people live with conflict. Most people tolerate living with conflict as jealousy, anger, apprehension, loneliness, sadness, despair, which means they do not love. Love is none of that. Love is not conflict. They are two totally different things. This is a love that cannot be conveyed with words. The description of it is not what it is. The only thing one can do is explore it. One must go into it for oneself, alone, which means with no help, guidance, or assistance from anything or anyone. Only then can it come out. 600. Intelligence is not knowledge. Knowledge is partial, and intelligence is not partial. That means the whole of human knowledge cannot be used to come upon intelligence. 601. When you listen, listen with the whole body, not just the ears. 602. The mind that releases every mental stress and burden that exists in life, brings a stop to all forms of internal pushing and pulling. Also, as a result all internal weight is lifted, and the mind discovers what it is to be psychologically weightless. A mind that comes upon this sense of inner weightlessness at the same time comes upon love. It does that because love is not a weight or burden. Love does not push, pull, or involve any form of stress. Love ends stress. It destroys all burden, hardship, trouble, and worry that exists in the mind. Love destroys it all. Find out what it means to come upon this psychological state of weightlessness, which means a mental release letting go, and setting free. The mind that is not weighted down with stress, anxiety, and all the worries of everyday living, is free. It is in that state of freedom that the mind comes upon love. Freedom is love. They are the same. 603. The world of the ego is the world you project. If you project unfairness, prejudice, anger, jealousy, and fear, then that is the ego. It is you. Stop the whole mechanism of mental projection, and the ego vanishes. It ends. All the nonsense of prejudice, jealousy, and all the rest of it, are suddenly wiped out. They are wiped out completely. 604. When you put down every mental image you care about, let it all go, and no longer have anything to inwardly hold or possess, then that action brings freedom. It opens the door to an absolutely unfathomable sense of freedom that immediately destroys all sense of fear, anxiety, loneliness, and any other form of internal opposition and conflict. It is that freedom which enables love to come into place. This is not a love that is expressed in the movies or television of today. It is not a love that has anything to do with emotion, sentiment, sex, or desire. This is a love that has no relationship with any form of thought, concept, or aspect of memory. Memory is fixed, lifeless. Memory can obviously be altered, modified, increased and so on, however it is inherently a static thing. It is static because it is always the past. Love is not like that. Love is not the past. It is not static or lifeless. Love is something that is immensely alive. It is literally alive, moving, surging, emanating, touching, and penetrating all that is. The mind that comes upon this love is not separate from it. That is the beauty and hugeness of it. They are the same. 605. The whole of life, which means life, death, and that which is sacred, unfolds if you love. It comes out with a love that has no conditions, and depends on nothing. 606. When belief is discarded, then the division it creates ends. Therefore discard all beliefs you have, and do not replace them with others. Discard them because it is the right thing to do. 607. The self is the fundamental problem for all people. It is the cause for every form of psychological and social problem that has ever existed, and goes on throughout the world today. The mind entangled in the self is entangled in ignorance. The self is ignorance. They are the same. The ignorant mind does not love. It cannot love as long as it remains trapped in the field of ignorance. The mind that learns what it is to step out of the field of ignorance at the same instant comes upon intelligence. The beginning of intelligence does not occur as a result from any period of psychological analysis, arduous study, prayer, hope, or any type of deep or profound thought. Any period, duration, or length of thought implies time. Intelligence has nothing to do with time. Intelligence is an action outside the field of time. Therefore intelligence has an instantaneous quality about it. The realization of this fact is the beginning of intelligence. Only when this realization occurs does intelligence manifest in the mind, and that manifestation absorbs ignorance. It swallows up ignorance, and as a result an extraordinary psychological transformation takes place. The mind changes. It changes because it is no longer entangled in the self, which means every mental problem as frustration, disappointment, loneliness, and all the inner torment that goes with it, come to a stop. The self dissolves, which means it no longer occupies the mind. What remains is a mind free of ignorance, and therefore devoid of conflict. The mind is empty of ignorance and conflict, which means within the emptiness there is love. Love is the emptiness that comes with intelligence, which means the emptiness is not empty at all. It is full. It is a fullness that cannot be put into words. 608. The memory of a person is not the person. It is you. 609. If you were hit by a truck, lying in the street, and death was imminent, and you wish you could have done one last thing in your life, then whatever that is, if it is not a part of your life now, then you are not living your life fully. You are not living life passionately. 610. The end of the division between you and the things you see, or between the observer and the observed, reveals an order unlike anything else. The order is perfect. The order is as perfect as the simplest math equation, an ocean wave crashing on a beach, or a bird soaring effortlessly in the sky. It is an order that touches the whole of life, the stars, the earth, and all of mankind. It is an order that exists in everything, which includes the cry of a child, the anger of a jealous spouse, the violence of a criminal, or the cruelty of a bloody war. It contains all that and more. The mind that comes upon that order has ended the division between the observer and the observed. As a result the mind is not different from the order. The mind has tapped into it, which means it is not separate from the order. They are the same. 611. Learn what it means to stop struggling. People struggle for more money, a better relationship, a bigger house, happiness, God, and all that. Learn to not struggle. Find out what it means to struggle for nothing. In the end of struggle something emerges that no struggle can ever come upon. What emerges is contentment. It is a contentment that no words can describe. 612. The present is absent of every form of duality. That means the present is a movement that lacks nothing, and therefore is perfect. It means the content of the present is perfect. The present contains all that is. It contains you, the job you have, the people you meet, the things you do. It contains all that. Find out what it is to be the present, and all that is unveils itself. Everything shows itself. The mind comes upon a wholeness and completeness to life, and the mind is not divided from it. The completeness is a natural math, frequency, and beauty that is unparalleled, and the mind is not separate from it. The unveiling that occurs, and what lies within it, is available for anyone willing to face it. 613. Belief divides people. It is the root cause for all social division, conflict, and violence that has ever existed throughout the history of mankind and continues to go on in the world today. Take out all altars, ornaments, benches, and carpets in all the temples, synagogues, shrines, churches, and mosques through the world. In place of these things put beds for the homeless to sleep and kitchens to feed the hungry. Melt all the gold and silver from these places, and buy food for the poor. Discard the holy books, scriptures, and scrolls of the world, and replace them with silence. Replace it all with a silence that does not separate people, Catholic and Muslim, Republican and Democrat, rich and poor, which means it is a silence that unites people. Do not do these things because of any belief, philosophy, or idiotic ideology. Do it because it is the right thing to do. 614. Each day you do not feel a deep and abiding sense of inner contentment, freedom, and a love that depends on nothing, which means a love that is untouchable, incorruptible, and therefore sacred, is a day lost and wasted. It is a day down the drain. 615. All psychological conditioning is blockage. It blocks the brain from loving. Conditioning includes all of the dos and don'ts handed down by the society in which you were raised, religious traditions and customs, and all the racial and ethnic prejudices you inwardly embrace. Let every form of mental conditioning go. Let it go completely, and simply see what happens. See what occurs in the brain. The key is to replace the conditioning with nothing. When the whole of mental conditioning vacates the brain, and it is replaced with nothing, then the mind comes upon a dimension to life that has no conditions of any kind. It comes upon that which is unconditional. Love is that unconditional other. They are one and the same thing. 616. Transform the things that reflect the ego, which include all places of worship, statues, cemeteries, monuments, sports stadiums, and the like. These things serve the ego and all the ignorance that goes with it, which means they are useless and utterly unnecessary. Remove these things, and make gardens, homes, and schools to feed, shelter, and educate people. Do that and you will have done something useful. You will have done something that makes sense. 617. That which is timeless cannot be demanded, summoned or in any way called forth. It may be invited, and the door may be open for it, but it only comes when every trace of hope, desire, and prayer for it is gone. It only comes unexpectedly, which means it comes on its own. 618. If you experience loneliness, anger, jealousy, frustration, fear, or any other form of mental conflict, then immediately stop and deal with it. Do not do anything until the conflict ends. To do nothing means to not suppress it, escape from it, or try to control it. To do nothing means to not react to the conflict in any way. Any reaction is a movement of thought, the self, and the self means conflict. It is the self that suppresses, escapes, and seeks control. That means you must find an action that is not a movement of the self. Action is different from reaction. Reaction is a response to an event, which means it involves time. Action has no connection to time. That means it is an instantaneous and immediate thing. Loneliness does not take time to resolve. Jealousy and frustration can end instantly. Only when you learn what it means to act, and not react, can the conflict within come to a stop. 619. Home is a love without conditions. They are the same. That means the man who loves unconditionally is at home wherever he is. 620. Love is not limited. That means love is something that exists inside and outside of everything, the trees, animals, earth, and stars. It exists inside you, even though it may not be clear, apparent, or operating. You may be wallowing in depression, fear, jealousy, anger, or some other mental hurt or conflict, and yet that love exists. It exists which means it is possible. It is near. You are simply not tapped into it. Love surrounds you through and through, however if that love is merely an idea or belief, then it remains separate from you, and separation means conflict. It means depression, jealousy, frustration, and all the rest of it. Uncover what it is to come upon that love. Tap into it. Allow it to move in everyday living, and suddenly conflict ends. The whole of conflict shatters. It is blasted out of existence. That is what love does to conflict. It obliterates it. 621. Be love. 622. The person that comes upon that timeless dimension to life, which is a realm perfect in every way, needs nothing more. That is what perfect means. It means there is nothing missing or needed. It is complete the way it is. 623. Most people seem to go to a job they are not passionate about, and they bring their ego along, which means they suffer frustration, boredom, fear, stress, insecurity, and all the mental torment that goes with it. They return home where the frustration and insecurity continue. They watch television to escape boredom, then they eat, have sex, sleep, and do it all over again the next day and the next, and that is their life. It does not appear that such a way of life has much meaning. There seems to be little significance in it. There is a key that a person, absolutely any human being, can come upon that brings unimaginable significance to the whole of life. This key has nothing to do with work, family, friends, money, food, or sex. It also does not involve any form of belief, philosophy, or teaching that exists in some book, lecture, or video. It requires no period of study, analysis, or pondering. It has no connection to any of that, which means it involves coming upon a dimension to life in which time plays no part. Psychological time has no place in this other dimension. Psychological time means thought. It means the world of ideas, mental images, opinions, beliefs, and all the inner division and conflict it creates. It is when the mind disentangles itself from the world of psychological time that this new and completely different realm is uncovered. This new realm is not of time. It is devoid of time. It is more than the absence of thought. Time does not pass in a linear manner in this other realm. Linear time stands still. It stops. That means this realm is without beginning or end. It is ageless and timeless. It is this timeless realm that brings meaning to life. It brings meaning to life because love exists in this realm. Love is timeless, and it is this love that gives meaning to the life of the person who comes upon it. Without such a love life is so terribly petty, shallow, with all the mental struggle, ambition, and destruction that goes with it. Explore what it is to bring psychological time to a standstill, which means to have a mind that is quiet, not chattering, and not stuck in a world of thoughts and ideas. Explore it. That is all. Just explore it. 624. Psychological death brings about a freedom that is a rebirth into an understanding that completely collapses the whole of time. Time collapses, and as a result that which is timeless emerges. A timeless realm reveals itself that has no beginning and no end. It is a realm without distance, and therefore it cannot be measured. Thought cannot touch, approach, or by any means fathom it. It is an immeasurable thing, and therefore sacred. That is what death reveals. It reveals an immeasurable and sacred other. 625. The ego is thought, which is a movement of partiality and bias. The cessation of the ego ends bias. It wipes away the partiality within. As a result one comes upon a oneness, a wholeness, a feeling of being perfect in every way, which includes all the blemishes, mistakes, and errors that come with being human. What happens is extraordinary. 626. Every cruelty you inflict on another, you inflict on yourself. When you are cruel to another person, animal, or thing, there is no difference between cruelty and you. It is not that cruelty is separate from you. Cruelty is you. You and cruelty are one and the same, and where there is cruelty, there is no love. 627. Intelligence brings the ability to look at oneself as never before. It allows observation of the self without distortion, and therefore makes possible a perception that is complete, total. 628. If you feel your life is moving in the wrong direction, and you do not know what to do, then simply stop moving in the wrong direction. Do not move or take steps in the wrong direction no matter what happens or what are the consequences. If you do not step in a wrong direction, then the right direction emerges. Not taking the wrong path is the right path. They are the same. 629. To learn how to speak a language, read and write, prepare a meal, and so on, requires a period of education. It requires thought, and thought means time. However, love is not like that. Love is different. Love is not a thought. It is not an idea. Just like the idea of a bird is not the bird, any idea of what is love is not love. Love does not require time. Love is instantaneous. It is something that happens all of a sudden like a flash or spark. It means the possibility to come upon a love that is timeless is a heartbeat away. 630. Every mental image that the mind identifies to forms the ego. Images are bound to memory, which means the ego is restricted and finite. It means the ego has a boundary. It has an end. The end of the ego is an extraordinary event, because it means the end of restriction. It means the end of living in a field of life that is finite. One cannot imagine what it means to have no ego, because anything imagined implies an image and therefore memory. It is not something that can be acquired after a period of study, or appears after a certain kind of will or effort. All of that implies time, and time means memory. They are the same. The end of the ego happens when there is no psychological identification to any mental image. The images of identification may be about a job, a person, an experience, an event, a belief, an ideology, or some personal philosophy of life. It does not matter what form or shape the images take. It is the end of the entire mental identification to all images that must occur for the finite within to fall away. When the finite within ends, a door opens to a whole new world. It is a world without restriction or boundary. It is a world that is boundless, infinite, and therefore sacred. 631. The possibility exists for the mind to come upon what is divine, not an idea of what is divine, but the real thing. If you make an idea, mental image, or belief of what is divine, holy, and sacred, then it disappears. Do not make any idea of it. If a mental image of it forms, then throw it away. Purge it immediately. The image of a thing is never the thing. They are different. They are totally separate in every way. The divine unfolds with the purging of mental imagery. The purging is the key. It is everything. 632. Love is not jealousy. It is not fear or any form of inner hate or animosity. If you accept living with jealousy, hate, animosity, and all the rest of it, and you have no interest to change, which means you accept a way of life that is without love, then live that way. It is up to you. 633. If a person comes upon what it is to love without any rules or conditions, then a consummation takes place that cancels out the whole of mental conflict. All psychological conflict dissolves, which includes the conflict of depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, envy, and all the frustration and internal duality that go with it. All of that falls away. It falls away entirely. What remains is a peace and contentment that no words can begin to describe. Ask yourself what is love. Look at the relationship you have with a spouse, parent, child, boyfriend, or girlfriend. If there are any conditions in that love, which means you only care about that person if that person behaves in a particular manner and according to some personal standard, set of rules, beliefs, or whatever the case may be, then what is happening is manipulation and the need to feel psychologically secure. It is not love. Love has nothing to do with manipulation or the need to feel secure. Love is its own security, because it depends on nothing. Love is a movement of independence, which means it is something that has no conditions. Love is unconditional. There is no getting around that one simple fact. Stay with that fact. Internalize it. If you do that, then what love is not falls away. It dissolves naturally and effortlessly. If you discard what love is not, which means a love that is conditional, and therefore jealousy, anxiety, frustration, fear, and all the misery that goes with it, then that is the first step to finding out what it means to love. It is both the first and last step. They are the same. 634. The body stepped out for a morning walk, and an intense, wonderful excitement came over it. There was no expectation of what would happen. There was no goal where to go. There was no idea of who would be encountered or what would be seen. An immense sense of adventure and wonder of the moment permeated the brain through and through. Everything was alive, filled with enormous, radiating energy, including the sidewalk, street, grass, fallen leaves, leaves on trees, buildings, flowers, clouds, and the immense clear blue sky. There was tremendous energy within the smallest and seemingly insignificant things. The energy was primordial, vast, and without end. There was no separation between the mind and the energy. It is not that the mind was different from the energy. They were the same movement. They had the same essence. The mind came upon, merged, and flowed with a vast field of energy, but the depth and hugeness of the energy extended further. It went deeper than merely the mind and the consciousness of the individual. It contained the whole of mankind, the whole of every consciousness of everyone on earth, and more. It was a permeating and flowing movement, with no limits, infinite, and holy. The hugeness and greatness of the thing was indescribable. 635. If you do not figure out what it is to live without any sense of psychological conflict in daily living, which is the conflict of boredom, anger, frustration, depression, jealousy, fear, and so on, then as you breathe your last breath you may come to see that during your life you missed the opportunity of a lifetime, and as a result you never truly lived at all. 636. If you are cruel to another, then cruelty is you. You are the same. 637. Thought as memory is the past, and the past means time. Thought is time. The movement of thought creates separation between the thinker and thought. Therefore thought implies space. It means thought is a movement of space and time. Thought is this movement. They are the same. 638. That which is timeless comes about when the mind is quiet. It occurs when the movement of thought, and all the chatter and chicanery that goes with it completely ceases. There is no movement of thought that can invite quietness, or entice that which is timeless to manifest. Insight into the limitation of thought finishes the flow of thought. When that happens a timeless aspect to life unexpectedly reveals itself. That timeless aspect is not something with form or shape. It is not a physical thing. It is bodiless, discarnate. It is something that thought cannot fathom or in any way conceive. The entire flow, pursuit, and inner embrace of thought must come to an end for the door to that other aspect to open. Nothing else can do it. 639. Let go of every idea, thought and memory that is held dear, and suddenly the mind discovers what it is to be free. The mind discovers freedom, and in that freedom every form of mental division and conflict comes to a stop. Conflict ends. It drops out of sight. Only when conflict vacates the mind can one find out what it is to love. Conflict is not love. They are two utterly different things. 640. This moment is everything. It is all that exists, and it is all you have. You have the ability to choose what you do in this moment. You may choose to be a terrorist, follow the orders of others, and kill other human beings. If you do that, then you are the one who creates that experience. You choose to do it. If you choose not to do it, then you may be ostracized, cast out, or even killed. However any death that comes for the sake of peace, for the sake of not harming another, is a death of the ego. A death of the ego means the end of that which is bias, divided, and therefore limited. The end of that which is limited means the end of limitation. It means the birth of that which is unlimited. The death of the ego unveils that which is unlimited, infinite, and therefore sacred. It is that sacred other which reveals itself when one chooses not to participate in terrorism, violence, or the killing of human beings, even if it means physical death. 641. There is nothing you can do to come upon that which is the source of all things, which means the source of mankind, the earth, and entire universe. There is no power of will, no system of meditation, no book, no person, no mental image that can help you to cross that bridge. There is no action you can perform that can unveil that mystery so that it manifests inside you, and fills you with a beauty, joy, and ecstasy that depends on absolutely nothing. That means the only alternative is to actually scrap every idea, image, and personal belief from the brain, which not only means to shed any religious belief, theory, or philosophy you may have about it, but it means to see the fallacy of any and all knowledge that exists about it. Knowledge is what is known, and what is known is memory. Knowledge is inherently bound to memory. All that can be known is stored, housed, and imprisoned in memory. Memory is finite. The knowledge that exists in you, which means memory, is a finite thing. The source of all things is not finite. It is not restricted or bound. It is not limited. Therefore the source, which means that infinite and unlimited other, cannot be approached with anything related to memory. It cannot be revealed through knowledge. The whole of human knowledge cannot be used to find out what is that source. Therefore all knowledge has no purpose when it comes to capturing it so that it fill ones heart, mind, and entire being. If you understand the nature of knowledge, that it is limited, and that it cannot be used to come upon that which is unlimited, then you will not use, touch, or in any way go near it. Everything emerged from the source of all that is to form man, the earth, and stars. All of these things are limited. Everything with form, shape, and physical dimension, is innately limited. The source is not limited, which makes it is a formless and timeless thing. That means the mind cannot come upon the source until it finds out what it means to love. Love is not a physical form. It has no height, depth, or width, which means it is not limited. It is also not a function of time. That means love is formless, unlimited, and therefore timeless. To realize that fact changes everything. It brings about a tremendous revelation. Love has an inherent quality that is the same as the source. That means love is the source. They are the same. Love is that from which everything comes. Everything comes from love, and everything returns to it. The ego is grounded in thought, mental imagery, and therefore knowledge. That means the ego is limited. For that reason the mind that is occupied by the ego does not love. It is caught up in a world of psychological pain, hurt, and sorrow. It is caught in a field of time, which means limitation. If the ego dies, then the limitation within ends. Psychologically the whole of time stops, and as a result a returning takes place. A returning happens to that which is timeless. It is a coming home to the source. It is a returning to the original home. That is what this love is. It is the original home for all that is. 642. Love cleans out every hurt and sorrow one has ever felt in ones life. It purifies the brain and what remains is an emptiness. However, the emptiness is not empty. It is full. It is a fullness, and that fullness is love. That means love exists within this emptiness of the brain. Love is the emptiness. They are the same. 643. If a person comes upon what it is to be deeply happy and live with an inner contentment that is impenetrable, then all ambitions and struggles end. They end entirely. 644. The thought about the absence of internal conflict, and the actuality of it, which means living, eating, and breathing it, are two totally different things. 645. It was a beautiful morning. The blue sky was crystal clear. The air felt cool and fresh. People were on their way to work, dashing about, walking hurriedly, and driving fast. They were all in a rush and totally oblivious to the beauty of the air, trees, birds, and great blue sky. It was not a beauty that could be captured by a mind occupied with ideas or thoughts. The whole inner racing about of thought must stop to be able to capture the beauty of the simplest things. It is this beauty that brings contentment, which means a sense of deep, powerful, and impenetrable bliss. It is a bliss that is not knowable. It is a bliss that has nothing to do with anything that is known. What is known is memory, ideas, and the world of thought. This is a bliss that is not an idea or any form of thought, which means it is something moving and lively. It has a vitality to it. Only when the flow of thought comes to a halt, which means when all the internal rushing and mental racing about comes to a stop, can one come upon such a bliss. If you fail to find this bliss, this sense of deep, boundless contentment, then that failure follows you. It follows you wherever you go. To find bliss means to have it inside. It means to have it at death. When death comes and the mind has that bliss, then one dies blissfully. To die blissfully is the greatest death. It means a death without regret, anxiety or hesitation. It is an easy death. It is as easy as walking from one room to another. 646. You create the pain that happens in your life. You do it. Nobody else does it. You may lose your job, house, money, boyfriend, girlfriend, or your spouse may have an affair and leave you for someone else. All the inner pain, psychological hurt, and sorrow that may result is made by you. It is created by you, because you have formed a mental image of your job, house, husband, wife, or whatever the case may be, which is all based on past experience that takes the shape of a mental image. You have given importance to all of those images, and the moment those images are under attack, threatened, or subject to loss, there is anxiety, fear, pain, hurt, and all the psychological turmoil that goes with it. This is important to see. The image you have created of another person is in your head. It is you. There is no difference between the image and the image maker. They are the same. If you want to find out what it means to live without any pain in your life, and if you want to have the intelligence to show another person what it means to live without pain in their life, then find out what is love. Find out what it means to love another person without having an image of that person. If you do that, then you will discover a love that has nothing to do with any image at all. Love is not an image. It is not an idea, belief, or philosophy. That means love does not judge or compare. Any judgment or comparison implies a mental image, and therefore it has no connection with what is love. Any conditions that are placed on a relationship also means an image. Love has no conditions. A person who loves another puts no conditions on that person. Nothing can touch the person who has come upon a love which is unconditional. If the spouse wants to have an affair, and leave you for another, then it does not touch you. It does not affect or change the immense and absolute sacredness of the love you have for that person. If a spouse dies, then the love that existed does not end. It goes on. It goes on because love is not limited. Love is unlimited. It is an infinite thing. Find out what it is to come upon a love that has no conditions or limits whatsoever, and that which is sacred comes into being. It shows itself not as an idea or mental image, but the mind comes upon it. What takes places is impossible to put into words. No words can come close to what happens. Explore it. Devote your entire being to find out if there is any validity to this. Put everything you have into it, which means all your energy and passion. Only then can that sacred other show itself. 647. The greatest action has nothing to do with any form of thought, because thought is by nature bound to memory, and therefore time. One may use thought to have a job in order to earn a livelihood, perform a service, invent, research, teach, or whatever, but all of that is terribly restricted and limited. Thought itself is limited, which means nothing that thought does can compare to the action that is unrestricted, unlimited, and therefore sacred. The only action that is sacred is love. It is the greatest action a human being can ever come upon. 648. The mind that comes upon what is love, a love that is without any sense of conflict, duality, or limits, which means a love that is unlimited, such a mind is not separate from love. The mind that comes upon that love, not merely as an idea or concept, but instead as a fact, does not die. It does not die because love has no end, which means it is something infinite and eternal. It is a deathless thing. 649. To fear anything, including bodily death, is one of the most ignorant things you can ever do. Ignore fear. Give it no importance whatsoever. Find out what it is to live without the fear of death, the fear of the boss, the fear of the loss of family, money, possessions, and all the rest of it. Find out what it means to live fearlessly. 650. Find out what it is to come upon that sacred and timeless other part of life, and whatever happens will be the right thing. The actions that take place may seem small and insignificant, however they will be the right actions, which means the actions will be huge and immensely significant. Live with that timeless other, and whatever you do and whatever happens will be right. It will be the right action. 651. If you want to live in a world without conflict, then end the conflict within you. 652. If you do not learn what it is to love, which means a love that depends on nobody and nothing, then when you draw your last breath, that failure will be your deepest regret. 653. Make a list of the things you were taught to believe, which include religious beliefs and traditions, political, social, and philosophical beliefs, and any personal beliefs you have about life, people, God, and whatever else. Step back and see that all of those beliefs condition the mind. It conditions the mind to think in a slanted and biased manner. A mind that is biased, and therefore prejudiced, cannot love. Love is not biased. It has nothing to do with prejudice. That means a conditioned mind does not love. This is a huge realization. It is a tremendous truth. Follow this truth, and do not be concerned about where it may lead or what may be the consequences. If you do that, then all the beliefs you were taught and subjected to during your upbringing naturally fall away. The mind tosses them out. When the whole of mental conditioning leaves the mind, an awakening takes place that changes the mind. All of a sudden the mind is no longer operating in a conditioned manner. It becomes intensely alive with interest, curiosity, adventure, and a sense of wonder unlike anything it has ever experienced. The mind comes upon a new found vitality and energy that otherwise would not have been possible. People waste energy in mental routine, boredom, fear, heartache, and all that. When the mind is no longer stuck in the whole affair of mental belief and all the conflict it creates, it does not waste energy, which means there is a conservation of energy. The mind comes upon energy, and in that energy there is love. Love is energy. They are the same. The mind must abandon the totality of mental conditioning, which means every form of personal opinion and belief must go. It must wash away like rain washes away the dirt and dust from the leaves of a tree. All belief must wash away naturally, without effort or will. Only when that happens can a love which has no conditions, and therefore is unconditional, occupy the mind. 654. Love is more than the caring and affection for another person. It is more than mutual attraction, sex, friendship, or whatever may go with a partnership or marriage. Love has no rules, obligations, or expectations. It is a relationship without disappointment, inner hurt, or any sense of mental disturbance. A relationship with any form of disturbance, the disturbance of jealousy, anger, fear, and all that, denies love. It blocks love from coming out. Find out what it means to care for another person without any conditions. If you do that, then every sense of inner disturbance disappears, which means the possibility for a love without conditions happens. It happens instantly. 655. Belief is memory. Memory is finite. Therefore no belief can be used to come upon that which is infinite, eternal, holy. To use belief to try to come upon that which is holy is a waste of living. It is a mistake. 656. Make the most of the experience to be in this world, inside a body, in relationship with the earth, skies, animals, and people. To make the most of something means when death is near there are no unfulfilled wishes. If there is any unfulfilled wish, then you did not make the most of your life. Dig down and figure out what is your deepest interest and passion. Whatever it is make it a part of your life. Every day you wait you lose a day of living. You lose a day of living passionately. 657. If you are sad because you feel unloved, or you did not receive the attention you always wanted in life, then find out what it means to love. Sadness due to feelings of not being loved exist because you do not love. Learn what it means to love without asking for anything in return, and every feeling of being unloved, and all the hurt that goes with it, come to a halt. The whole engine of inner hurt, sadness, and sorrow breaks down, and stops running. It stops. It just stops. 658. Love is not something that can be found in any book or Internet web page. It is not something that depends on any so-called holy place, church, synagogue, temple, or mosque. It takes time to read books and surf the web. It takes time to go to a church, temple, or whatever. Love is not a function of time. Love is not a result or product of time. Love is a timeless thing, which means nothing that takes time can be used to come upon it. Whatever you use that involves time to come upon love is a mistake. It can never work. 659. People who mistake memories for reality live in illusion. Belief is memory. Any form of belief that you mentally embrace is grounded in memory. That means if your daily living includes the need for religious, political, philosophical, or personal belief, and all the dogma, traditions, and customs that go with it, then the world in which you live is not real. 660. Heaven is not something that one hopes to come upon in the future. It does not exist in the future. Any sense of the future implies time. Heaven has nothing to do with time, which means it is a realm that manifests when time ends. Time as memory takes the form of ideas and mental images. People cannot live without mental images. Without ideas people would be unable to recognize things and each other. You could not eat, have a job, or earn a livelihood. However, there is another form of time that is expressed as mental images. It is psychological time. Psychological time takes the shape of an ego, a me, a self. Every mental image you hold, embrace, and are inwardly attached to, defines the self. It defines you. The images you have of yourself, as ugly or handsome, smart or stupid, successful or a failure, create a sense of identity, which means a mental picture of how you see yourself. If you have an image of yourself as a Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, North Korean, South Korean, republican, democrat, jihadist, activist, or whatever, then that mental image you have of yourself establishes who you are inwardly. It creates a psychological center, an ego, and where there is an ego, there is division, and division means conflict. The ego is conflict, and the psychological conflict that exists is expressed in all sorts of ways. There is the conflict of fear, anxiety, aggression, ambition, competition, anger, depression, jealousy, envy, frustration, loneliness, and the list goes on and on. As long as an ego exists, then the brain is bound to time, which means that which is timeless cannot come about. That is the key point. The ego must end. The end of the ego means the wiping out of the psychological attachment to all ideas and images. It means throwing out every mental image that one gives value, which includes all religious beliefs, political ideals, and philosophical viewpoints. It includes the images you consider important about your job, body, appearance, status, family, property, possessions, and all the rest of it. It is all that, and it includes every other image you have of yourself. When all that is put in the garbage, never to be seen again, then and only then can there come a stop to all the pettiness, mischief, and conflict that is the ego. The end of the ego means the end of attachment to all mental images, and the end of attachment means freedom. It means freedom from mental images and therefore time. Only when the ego is wiped clean can psychological time come to a stop, and only then can the mind come upon that realm which is timeless. Heaven is timeless. They are one and the same thing. 661. When stillness comes to the mind, it comes without warning. It comes in a sudden burst of awe and unexpected wonder. The still mind can happen anywhere. It can happen sitting in a crowded room, waiting in line at a market, or lying in bed before sleeping. When it appears there is no activity of thought. There is no expectation or seeking of any experience. The brain must be utterly silent. Simply watch, listen, and feel what happens when all seeking ends. Do that, and allow to whatever happens to unfold. 662. He was a middle aged man who was skilled at reasoning, took pride in his work, and talked at great length about his job and the benefits it had for people and the environment. He spoke with authority and conviction. He was able to readily repeat facts and figures about a great many things. He valued knowledge, and possessed fixed ideas about people and things around him. It was the knowledge that he treasured so much that preventing him from loving. It mentally isolated him. Inwardly he was deeply troubled and unhappy. It is knowledge that closes a person off, and blocks a connection between others and the world. Knowledge is the collection of fixed and hardened ideas that are all housed in memory. Memory is the warehouse of the past. It is the place where all things old are stored. Love is not old. Love has nothing to do with the past. Love is a living and flowing movement. It is active, vibrant, and hugely alive. It is something that only happens in the present. The mind that is fixated in knowledge, memory, the past and all that is old, does not love. It is this fixation that makes love impossible. All knowledge must be given no prestige, power, or any intrinsic value. Only when all human knowledge, which means the whole warehouse of memory, is put in its place, can the mind open itself to love. Knowledge cannot come upon what is love. It cannot come upon love, because love cannot be known. Knowledge is confined to the known. Love is not confined, which means it has no connection to knowledge. It means love is freedom from knowledge. It is freedom from that which is known. 663. No organized religion, government body, or political group has love right, which is why people remain divided and social conflict goes on throughout the world today. The people who identify to these things are making a mistake. In fact a person who identifies to anything is making a mistake. Identify to any religion, country, political group, country, person, or any idea at all, and inwardly an ego forms. It creates an ego, and any action by an ego is partial and fragmented. It is an action that can never be whole. It can never be complete. If you can bring an end to the ego, then that necessarily is the greatest action, because it is an action that ends division and wipes away conflict at its source. It is an action that corrects the mistake you are making. 664. The body was resting with eyes closed. The brain was alert, watchful, and completely still of the wave of thoughts and mental imagery. With the eyelids closed the eyes continued to watch. There was no desire or expectation. There was only vigilance and intense watchfulness. During the watching the scene was black and shadowy. It was within the blackness that there appeared thousands of moving starlike objects. The objects moved in the same direction spinning like a top at high speed. The flow and movement of the objects rotated in the shape of a ball. Unexpectedly the ball disappeared, and the objects formed what appeared to be a deep, long tunnel. There was a sense of traveling at great velocity as if through space. This only seemed to go on for a short time until without warning the objects and tunnel disappeared. As if turning off a light switch, the tunnel disappeared and a window or portal of some kind suddenly came into view. It appeared to be an opening into another world. It was not a dream or projection of the mind. There was complete awareness of what was happening outside the small house, the sound of cars passing, the rumble of engines, the feeling of clothes on the body, breathing, heart beating, and all that. There was no exercise of any effort, desire, or will into anything that was happening. There was only watchfulness, alertness, and a quality of mental awareness. The portal revealed what seemed like another realm altogether. Within the other realm there were figures of people. It was a small group of people, four or five. The outlines of the people were clear, distinct, however the faces and details of the figures could not be discerned. The people were busy at work. Each person seemed to have a purpose and clear job to do. They worked together without any sense of stress or pressure. Unexpectedly a wave of thought streamed into the brain and suddenly the portal closed. It shut down. Only a memory of it remained. The memory of it lingered for a short time and then passed. There was no interest to analyze whatever happened, and no desire to try to repeat the event. Desire is a movement of thought, the ego, and all the trouble that goes with it. The street was empty of people and cars. The trees were still, and the sky was blue, clear, immense. 665. The brain uses thought for purposes of survival. It is needed to plan, eat, have sex, and all that. However, when it realizes that the whole of human thought is limited, and can never be used to come upon that which is unlimited, the brain lets it go. The brain automatically discards thought as supreme or almighty. The brain does not will thought away. It does not force or any way demand that the movement of it stop. The brain sees that thought cannot be used to find that which is unlimited, infinite, and therefore outside the field of time, and as a result the brain naturally does not use it. The brain sees the fallacy of using thought to that end, and thereby it is free of thought. The brain is free. It is the realization of this fact that disentangles the brain from thought and time. The brain is no longer entangled in any of that, which means the limitation within ends. The brain discovers that which is unlimited. It comes upon that unlimited and timeless other. 666. Psychological freedom is the absence of all forms of mental attachment to any idea, thought, or image, while love is something that has no conditions. Make this freedom and love your choicest friends. Do that and what happens will take your breath away. 667. Love only shows itself when the ego dies. As long as the ego exists, love does not. There is no way around that simple fact. 668. If you love only your boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, parent, or child, then that is not love. Love is not partial. It is not limited to a select few. Learn what it is to love the hateful, prejudiced, homeless, dictator, ignorant, and insane. Do that, and the door opens to a love that is not partial or restricted. A love that is not restricted has no measure. It is immeasurable and eternal. It is a holy thing. 669. Pleasure that comes from the idea of taking a walk in beautiful place, watching a movie, enjoying a favorite meal, having sex, and so on, need not involve any type of anxiety, tension, or any form of inner struggle. It need not involve an ego. That is simple. However, any pleasure that involves anxiety, tension, or struggle, the struggle to dominate, to manipulate, to achieve, and so on, means an ego, and where there is an ego, there is conflict and all the misery that goes with it. There is another action, a greater action, that has nothing to do with the ego and any sense of struggle. It is an action that is absent of all forms of inner tension and struggle, which means it is an action that does not require effort or the exercise of will. Effort and will imply time. The absence of will is not a function of time. Learn what it is to bring an end to the whole of psychological will, effort, and the struggle for the repetition of some past pleasure, sex, money, a better job, a better house, and all that. When the whole of inner struggle ends, then the mind comes upon an ecstasy no words can describe. It is an ecstasy that is infinitely greater then any physical pleasure. Pleasure involves memory, and therefore it is an activity grounded in time. This ecstasy has nothing to do with time, which means it has a timeless nature about it, and it has no relationship with anything material or physical. It is not a physical feeling or earthly emotion. It is a bliss and ecstasy out of this world. It is an unearthly thing. 670. The self is thought. There is no difference between the self in one brain and the self in another brain. They are the same movement. They are the same essence and nature. That means all of mankind is thought. It means you are mankind. Inwardly you are every human being in the world. You are not different from anyone else. You are the same. 671. The instant the known leaves the mind that which is unknown shows itself. 672. There is a way to bring heaven to earth. The way is to end the time you carry with you. Time exists in the form of thoughts and mental images that have significance to you and are important in your life in some way or another. These mental images may take the form of a person, drugs, sex, alcohol, work, money, religious belief, political party, race, country, philosophy, ideology, or whatever the case may be. Whatever mental images you put on a podium and consider important are all bound to memory. Every human thought and mental image that exists are located in memory. Memory is the past, and the past means time. Find out what it is to internally release and forsake every mental image you hang onto, and the whole fabric of time unravels. It comes undone. It is the unraveling of psychological time that reveals heaven. It reveals a dimension to existence where time does not exist. Heaven is that dimension. It is that timeless place, and the door to it is open. 673. The thought that some other person can lead you to happiness makes that other person all important. It makes that person vital, and as a result that thought creates dependence. Mental dependence denies happiness. It does that because any form of psychological dependence plants and sustains the seed of fear. There is fear to lose whatever one depends on, and fear wipes away happiness. It makes happiness impossible. Therefore throw out any thought or notion that some other person, book, or belief can lead you to happiness. Follow nobody. Follow nothing. Only when you follow nobody and nothing, is it possible to discover what it means to be free. It is in freedom that fear falls away. When fear leaves, happiness follows. It comes. Happiness only exists in freedom. It happens nowhere else. 674. Everything is in the present. It is all here. 675. When you observe a mental image, do not try to interpret it. Do not try to analyze, control, or manipulate it. None of that has any meaning because the image is you. The image maker is the image. Therefore, watch it. Be with it. Do not judge or compare it to anything. Watch it come and go. Watch the stream of mental images as they enter and leave the brain. It is this watching that ends the separation between the image and the image maker. It is what ends the division within. The end of division means the end of conflict. It means the end of every hurt, grief, and sorrow you have ever known. 676. To begin today anew, every yesterday must be finished. There must be no struggle, worry or hurt from any yesterday that extends or carries over into today. Any past hurt that carries over denies the newness and freshness of today. Most people carry the burden of past hurts. They bear the weight of worry, anxiety, ambition, fear, depression, loneliness, and all the inner pains that go with it. They bear these burdens and weights throughout everyday living. To begin today with no past hurt or psychological baggage of any kind means to have a clean slate. It means to have a quality of mind that is not weighted down by the past. A mind that is not weighted down is free. It is free to observe, listen, and feel as never before. A mind that carries over the past cannot be aware of the beauty of a sunrise, a vast open sky, a lone bird soaring high above the clouds. A mind that struggles with the job, boss, co-worker, family, pursuit of pleasure, sex, money, and all that, is inwardly in conflict. A mind in conflict is caught up in the weight of the past, which means it is psychologically separated and therefore isolated from everything and everyone. Where there is isolation there is no relationship, and without relationship love is impossible. Love only exists in relationship. Relationship is something that can only happen in the present. That means it either exists or it does not. There is no in-between. 677. If you carefully observe a tree and penetrate into its deepest parts, then you experience it as though you are the tree. If you do that, then there is no separation between you and the tree. The end of separation means the image of the tree and the self both disappear. That means there is only observation. It means intelligence is what observes. You do not observe, because there is no you. 678. Let go of every mental dependence to every thought of every person and thing. Discard every opinion, belief, and philosophy you covet and protect. Release the whole of that into oblivion. Do that, and the door to the present opens. Only then does the present show itself. To surrender to the present means to die to the past. The past is memory, and memory is limited. If you die to the past, then you let go of every idea, thought, and mental image you value. You let go of memory. If memory is no longer embraced, then that which is limited fades. It fades away. When that happens the mind comes upon another dimension to life that is unlimited. It comes upon that which is infinite and therefore sacred. The key is to close the door to the embrace of memory. The closing of the door reveals the other. The closing is the opening. They are the same. 679. To live fearlessly is to deny the whole of thought from day to day. 680. There is a love that flows outside the field of time. It has a timeless essence about it, which makes it a love far greater, more immense and profound than any earthly love. That means no matter how deep a love you feel for your family, spouse, or children, it does not compare with the majesty of this timeless other. Think of the greatest love you have ever had for another, and then multiple it by a million. This love is like that. It is a love that plays no favorites, which means it touches all people, animals, plants, the earth, and stars. Discard every mental image about what you think love is, or is not. Mental images and ideas only serve to push it away. They are what hide and deny it. They are the things that prevent love from showing itself. 681. Physical death means the end of bodily functions, including the nervous system, circulatory system, breathing, heartbeat, and so on. All that is obvious. Psychological death is the end of the self. It is the cessation of the process of thought as self centered activity, which is the attachment to belief, opinions, memories, and so on. That is also obvious. The body and thought are material processes. They are material because they are both grounded in limitation. They are both limited. That means there is fundamentally no difference between the death of the body and the death of the self. It means what is revealed when the self ends is what takes place when the body dies. It is the same. 682. Everything that is the ego, including the memories of family, work, ambitions, status, political ideals, heartaches, sorrows, religious beliefs, ideals, and all such personal things, are limited. Memory is limited. They are limited because that is the nature of memory. Therefore the ego ultimately does not survive. The ego as memory may last a minute or a million years, but it must come to an end. What survives death is that which is unlimited, and therefore sacred. Only sacred things go on. Sacred things are those things that cannot be measured, have no limits, and therefore have no relationship to desire, effort, or the search for security through belief, faith, visions of immortality, money, possessions, status, fame, or whatever else. All of that involves memory which means there is nothing sacred in it. However love is different. Love is not desire, effort, or memory. Love is not measurable or limited in any way. Therefore, if you learn what it is to love, what it is to be in relationship without conflict, which means no fear, no attachment, no jealousy, no manipulation, no struggle, none of that, then that love goes on. It survives death. Love survives death because love is immeasurable, infinite. It is a sacred thing. 683. There were rows of red, pink, white, and yellow rose bushes in a corner of the small town park. The bright yellow roses had thorny stems and thick, soft petals. The morning sun covered the wooden park bench with a bright light and comfortable warmth. A gentle wind pushed and pulled the thousands of leaves and branches in the oaks, pines, gums, and gigantic redwood trees. The grassy lawn was lush green, the park trails were deserted, and in the distance children played in a sunny baseball field. Throughout the world children are being educated to fit into a pattern of behavior based on the beliefs of the society in which they live. Children are educated by teachers in schools, by parents at home, and by people in the place where they live. The Christian educates the child about the Bible, church, and how to participate in all of the customs and traditions associated with that organized religion. The Hindu educates the child about the Bhagavad Gita, how to worship, idolize, and perform all the traditions that relate to that religion. The Muslim teaches the child to study the Qur'an, carry out all of those traditions, and how to carry out ritualistic prayers according to that particular religion. The Buddhist, Jew, Sufi, Taoist, all do the same based on their particular system of belief. Children around the world are being mentally shaped, molded, and conditioned. They are being psychologically conditioned to learn, follow, and repeat particular patterns of behavior and systems of belief. It is this mental conditioning that causes the social division that exists in the world. It is this conditioning that perpetuates the division that exists throughout society today, which means it is the fundamental element that sustains social division and therefore all of the human conflict, brutality, and human misery that goes with it. Education must not be divisive, which means it must be total, global. It must be holistic, and thereby not divisive. If education by schools, parents, and society is not divisive, then it is holistic. They are the same. For example, any school education about organized religion and belief must not merely teach about all organized religions and beliefs, but more importantly it must teach about the limitation of belief, how belief divides people outwardly, and how it brings about division inwardly. It must include what it means to live a life that is not divisive, and therefore what it is to live without any inner conflict as bullying, aggression, jealousy, anger, loneliness, frustration, and fear. It must teach all that. However, people do not do that. They do not do that because they do not love. If people loved, then they would not embrace, follow, or be conditioned by any organized religion. They would not embrace any political ideal, form of nationalism, flag, belief, opinion, or philosophy. If people loved, then mentally they would not embrace or be attached to any culture, tradition, dogma, or any mental image of any person, thing, or idea. They would be free, and freedom is what they would teach. They would show by their daily living what it is to live without any form of psychological conditioning at all, which means they would show children what it means to love. Love is not related to anything that is biased, prejudiced, or in any way conditioned. Love is not something that is conditioned. Love is unconditional. That means only a mind that is free can love. If you love a child, neighbor, friend, or other person, then you do not condition that person. You do not teach, force, or in any way educate that person to conform to a particular pattern of behavior, belief system, ideology, or anything like that. If you are inwardly free, then it is that freedom that teaches. Freedom is a teaching that has no opposition, competition, or judgment at all. Freedom has none of that, because love has nothing to do with any of that. Love does not judge, and it has no comparison. Find out what it is to live in this violent, insane, and brutal society with a mind that is free, and therefore not conditioned by any particular pattern of thinking. If you do that, then there is nothing else to do. 684. If you cannot find out what is love, then find out what love is not, and give it no mind. Do that, and watch what happens. 685. There are different types of belief. Racism is the belief in the superiority of one particular race over another. Patriotism is the belief in the importance of a particular country over other countries. Religious belief is the belief in the greatness of a particular organized religion over other religions. Political belief is the belief in a better political party over any other. The list goes on and on. If you step back and look at the nature of belief, it is obvious that belief is divisive. It divides people. It is the root cause of so much of the human division, and therefore violence, that has plagued mankind for thousands of years. That means if you psychologically identify to any religious, political, social, or personal belief, then you propagate the violence that exists in the world today. However, by not identifying to belief, any belief, you break this propagation. You end the pattern of divisive behavior. Put every form of belief in the trash, and you no longer contribute to the social conflict and violence that has existed for centuries throughout the world. It is the greatest action to discard the whole of belief, religious belief, political belief, and all the rest of it, even though it may shock every person in your life, your family, neighbors, and co-workers. It is the greatest action because it is the right thing to do. When you do something because it is the right thing to do, regardless of the consequences, then the act is true, which makes it sacred. What is true is sacred. They are the same. 686. Seek pleasure in love, and you will find none. 687. If you identify to any form of thought, then friction, conflict, and therefore violence, are inevitable. 688. Enjoy work, food, sex, play, or whatever, but do not form any attachment to it. The moment attachment forms, fear is created. When fear enters the brain, love leaves it. 689. Love is like a frequency that the brain must tune into. The tuning of the brain is the negation of the self. When the self falls away, which means the entire movement of thought as possessiveness, the search for inner security, and all the fear and frustration that goes with it, then what remains is a vast emptiness. It is psychological emptiness, and it is within this emptiness that love exists. It is what makes love come alive and show itself. 690. Everything knowable is limited. 691. All mental images and thoughts are stored in the brain. They are in your head. Any person that is mentally attached to a job, spouse, parent, child, bank account, religious group, political organization, country, or whatever, is attached to the thought that one has about it. One is psychologically attached to the thought of the child, not the child. That is simple if you look at it. This is important to understand. Every religion in the world involves the mental attachment to an image, which takes the outward form of belief, faith, tradition, custom, and all that. The form may differ, but basically it is a thought or mental image. Therefore, if you are attached to Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Judaism, atheism, agnosticism, or any other "ism", means that you are attached to a mental image. It means you are attached to yourself. Think through this carefully. See what people are doing. They are attached to a belief, a faith, the image of a particular religion, person, job, or whatever, which means psychologically, they are stuck on themselves. It is this mental attachment to images or some form of thought that prevents a person from being free. That is what attachment does. It denies freedom. Find out what it is to end the attachment to the whole structure and mechanism of thought. If you do that, then the door opens to what it means to be free. This is a freedom that is not a mental image or anything that remotely involves an idea, thought, or belief. It is none of that, which means it is a freedom that is real. It is the real thing. 692. Something connects people by great distances. Two people can be at opposite ends of the earth and at the same time they can be deeply and intimately connected. The connection is not made by anything involving thought. Thought is memory, and therefore it is the past. Real connection only takes place in the present. That means thought denies connection. It makes thought a terribly small and limited affair. However, what makes the connection between the people has no limitation. It is not confined by thought, or space as distance, which means it is not bound by time. It has an unlimited and timeless character about it. Love is not limited. Love is not something that is confined to anything or bound by time. That means love is what connects people to each other. It is what makes the deepest and most intimate connection. It does not matter where two people live or even if they have ever met before. If they love, then it is that love that brings them together. It is love that unites and makes them one. There is no deeper connection than the feeling of being one with another human being. It is the deepest connection a person can ever come upon. 693. Psychological death means the end of thought as the ego. It means the ending of the whole operation, function, and movement of thought as personal opinion, belief, ideology, and every other mental image the brain has latched onto. When such an ending occurs a transformation takes place. The mind mutates into something altogether new. It comes upon a dimension to existence outside the field of time, and the mind is not separate from it. That which is outside the field of time has absolutely no connection to the ego, thought, or memory. Memory is time. This other is not confined to memory. It is not a product of time. Only when thought as the ego dies does this other dimension show itself. Death does that. It reveals this other dimension. Do not accept or discount any of this. Instead put away any ideas you may have about the possibility or impossibility of it, and delve into this for yourself. Just explore it. 694. If you let go of every experience after it happens, then the mind renews itself. It does not get caught up in memory nor allows life to pass it by. Most people are inwardly entangled in memory, attached to belief, ideals, conclusions, opinions, and all that, which means an outlook of partiality, and therefore an incomplete way of living is inevitable. One cannot live fully or completely without meeting death at every turn throughout the day. To live fully one must die to each experience during the day. One must discard every form of thought after the mind records and finishes with it. For example, you have an experience, which can be with your spouse, boss, co-worker, neighbor, client, or whoever. When the experience is done, and it is recorded in memory, do not carry it over. Do not relive it. Finish with it. Only when you finish with the whole of the experience can a renewal take place. Out of the ashes of finished experience, something entirely new is born. It is an inward renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation that words cannot begin to describe. 695. A love without conditions expands and magnifies the whole of life. It magnifies it a thousand fold. 696. If you do what you love, then time passes. It passes as if there is no time. 697. No knowledge can end the violence that exists in you, another person, or the world in which we live. Knowledge is restricted to memory, and memory is partial. That which is partial cannot resolve a problem completely. Partiality and completeness are two different things. That means only that which by its nature is complete, whole, and therefore absent partiality can resolve a problem completely. Love is not partial. That means only love can bring an end to the violence that exists in you and in other people. Only love can end violence completely. This is important to see. No skill, theory, or special knowledge can be used to come upon what is love, because love is not an idea. Every type of skill, theory, and form of knowledge implies an idea. It means a thought, and as the thought of a chair is not the chair, any thought of what is love is not love. Therefore no thought, mental image, or idea can be used to come upon love. The insight into that fact brings about freedom from all ideas. It brings freedom from all books, thoughts, and theories about what is love. It brings freedom from all the television talk show hosts, all systems of meditation, all religious beliefs, all philosophies, and everything else. It brings freedom from all that. Only when you are free can you come upon what is love. It is not that freedom and love are different things that are somehow related. They are more closely related than merely going hand in hand. They are more intimately connected. The greatest intimacy is when every sense of separation is no more. The end of separation means wholeness. It means oneness. That is the extraordinary relationship that exists between freedom and love. They are one. They are one and the same thing. 698. The fact that the thinker is thought is an absolute fantastic realization. It is fantastic because it means the end of division. It means the end of the division within. 699. Watch the thoughts that come to mind, the thought of the boss, food, alcohol, sex, a pretty woman, a handsome man, a bag of money, adoration, criticism, God, death, or whatever. Watch whatever thoughts come to mind without judgment, impulse, or reaction. Do not react to any thought that comes to mind, but instead watch it. You may feel anxious if a particular thought comes to mind, and if so then watch the anxiety. See that the anxiety is caused by the thought. If fear, jealousy, or anger arise, then watch it. Watch how it springs from thought, and that there is no difference between thought and you. When you see there is absolutely no difference between the thinker and thought, then what sees is not you. You are not doing the seeing. That means something else sees. What sees may be described as intelligence. It is intelligence. It is intelligence that sees the absence of the division between the thinker and thought. When this intelligence enters the brain, or when the brain come upon it, then watch what happens to anxiety. Watch what happens to fear, anger, and whatever other name you want to give to inner conflict, which is the division. The division in the brain comes to a standstill. The end of division means the end of conflict. All of conflict comes to a complete and total stop. The beauty of what happens is that it is something that does not take time. The end of all the struggles of life happens instantaneously. All forms of fear, jealousy, anger, anxiety, frustration, and every other form of inner misery, gets finished in a single, sudden, and sweeping instant. 700. Do not think of yourself as an individual. Think of yourself as the entire human race, because that is what you are. Psychologically you are every person who exists in the world today. You are the same. Do not merely accept or reject that statement. Think it through. Go into it. 701. There is nothing holy about any idea. Every idea is bound to memory, which makes it narrow, restricted, and finite. That which is holy is not narrow. It has no restrictions of any kind, which means it is an infinite thing. To come upon that which is holy, one must let go of every idea that exists. One must turn away from the idea peddlers, say no to all human knowledge and belief, and turn down anything that involves or relates to the attachment to an idea, thought or mental image. If you turn away from all that, then you find yourself alone. In that aloneness the door opens to the unrestricted, infinite, and therefore holy other. It opens. 702. The purpose of these writings is to describe what it is for an ordinary person, someone who is really nobody, to come upon that which is without measure or limitation. The purpose is to show the possibility exists for a common person to find out what it means to love without any conditions whatsoever, and thereby make possible for the discovery of that which is sacred. It is not an ordinary discovery. It is the discovery of a thousand lifetimes. 703. If you are caught up in a cycle of mental attachment, psychological dependence, and all the conflict and misery that goes with it, and you fail to learn what is love, then that failure perpetuates the cycle. It is what makes the misery go on and on. Find out what is love, a love that depends on nothing, and every ounce of inner conflict ends. The cycle of misery stops altogether. 704. When you come across something unadulterated, a phenomena that is pure and immaculate in every way, you feel it. You feel it more deeply than merely an emotion or sentiment. It is a feeling that has nothing to do with any sort of personal belief, position, stance, or ideology. You feel it as something real and palpable. You feel it as a fact. That which is immaculate cannot be touched or approached by any belief or mental image. It cannot be discovered by means of any idea or thought. It is like trying to capture the beauty of a flower with a painting, poem, or some other expression of thought. A painting of a flower is not the flower. Any poem, arrangement of words, or thought, no matter how touching, beautiful, or eloquent, can never capture the actuality and beauty of a flower. That which is immaculate has nothing to do with thought. It has no connection to anything related to memory. Memory is limited. This immaculate other is not limited. It is unlimited, infinite. It is a hallowed thing. 705. The ego is the mental adherence to opinion, belief, and ideas. When an idea is held dear, treasured, and coveted, then an ego arises. If that which is coveted is attacked or threatened, then fear, anger, jealousy, and all that surfaces. Love is not fear. Love has nothing to do with jealousy. That means the ego must be annihilated for love to show itself. It means you need to let go of every opinion, belief, and idea you treasure in order to come upon what is love. There is no other way to come upon a love that adheres to and depends on nothing. To depend on nothing means to be free. Independence is freedom. They are the same. 706. Within the brain there are thoughts, and between those thoughts there is emptiness. Thought is memory, which means the past and therefore time. Any stream of thought, ideas, or mental images present in the brain is a movement of time. The emptiness that exists between thoughts is not a movement of time. Time does not exist in the emptiness, which means the emptiness is a dimension to existence that is timeless. The brain must be empty of thought for this dimension to be revealed. Any idea of this dimension is not it. It is not that this dimension is always present in the brain or can be accessed at any moment in the future. There is no always or future. This dimension has no future. It has no tomorrow. The idea that it can be accessed tomorrow or at some point in the future is an illusion. It is a mistake. 707. Throughout history people have used theories, ideas, and concepts, to try to end psychological conflict, the conflict of mental anxiety, depression, disorder, the struggle for money, pleasure, achievement, security, God, and all the rest of it. People have not figured out that theories and concepts are bound to memory, and memory is partial. They have not learned that something that is inherently partial can never resolve such problems completely. Memory cannot be used to end conflict. That means to use memory for that purpose is a misuse. Nothing with a partial nature can carry out an action that is complete. Only love can do that. Only love can do that because love is not partial. It is not something fragmentary or incomplete. Love has a completeness and wholeness about it. Therefore only love can end conflict completely. The simplicity of that fact is absolutely astonishing. 708. Death is life. It is a life unlike anything you can possibly imagine. 709. If you live with low spirits, loneliness, melancholy, despair, depression, or some other form of psychological problem or disorder, and you want it to end, really wipe it out of existence from your everyday life, then you need to get at the root of it. The root of the disorder must be eradicated. If anyone tells you that it is not possible to do that, then they have not found what it is to end it in themselves. To end psychological disorder in daily living, the brain needs to be cleansed. It needs to be wiped clean of any knowledge you may have about it, because none of that has any value. In fact no knowledge of any sort can be used to get at and eradicate the root of any psychological problem, disorder, conflict, or however you want to describe it. Knowledge cannot eradicate the whole of disorder because the character of knowledge is limitation. Knowledge is fundamentally limited, and that which is limited cannot resolve any problem. To resolve a problem means the problem is over and beaten. It is totally finished. Knowledge cannot do that because it is against its nature. Therefore dispense with knowledge, because it has no value when it comes to this issue. If any knowledge is given value, then an ego forms. An ego forms because there is no difference between the knowledge that is given importance by you and you. It is the same. The moment an ego is created, then disorder begins, and all the loneliness, melancholy, and mental stress that go with it. However, if the knowledge you value is discarded, completely throw out, then the brain is purged of the ego. The ego is no longer present. This is the key. The ego is the real problem. It is the root of every psychological problem and disorder that exists or can ever exist. When the ego is no more, then psychological stress, disorder, and all the rest of it, is impossible. The ego is nothing but a collection of all the knowledge that has ever been. It is the total of all ideas, concepts, and mental images that the brain gives importance. The images include all opinions and beliefs about life, death, love, marriage, work, family, sex, politics, religion, and God. They include any ideas you hold about yourself, that you are ugly, handsome, smart, stupid, rich, poor, friendly, mean, happy, sad, a success, a failure, and on and on. Find out what it is to have no knowledge or image about yourself. Do that and any disorder that exists in the brain fades away. It vanishes completely. In order to bring an end to every image you hold about yourself, explore what is the difference between meeting life with an image and without an image. For example, the next person you see, a spouse, child, boss, co-worker, neighbor, police officer, priest, homeless man, or whoever, look at that person without an image. To look without an image means to look without any personal opinion, bias, or prejudice. It means to see the person as he or she is. If you do that there is no separation between you and that person. No separation means no division. It means no conflict. Only when you find out what it is to be in relationship without conflict, with people, the animals, the earth, the stars, and the whole of life, is it possible to end the psychological disorder of loneliness, despair, and all the rest of that nonsense. 710. Selfishness is violence. If you are selfish, then you are no different then the criminal. You are the same. 711. If you make a decision because you fear punishment or hope for reward, then the decision is grounded by the ego, which means it has no significance. 712. Love is not an idea, which means it cannot be known. Therefore it is something that is unknown. To come upon that which is unknown means to empty the brain of the known. Only then does the unknown reveal itself. 713. People seem to think there are different kinds of love, such as romantic love, platonic love, brotherly love, and so on. However, if any of these so-called types of love have any conditions, then it cannot be love. Love has no conditions. It does not involve a prerequisite, which means it does not depend on what another person does or does not do. It means love is independent of all things, events, and circumstances. Every other form of love, romantic, platonic, or any other so-called love, that has any condition at all, is not love. If you go into this deeply, you will see it is obvious. If you fail to come upon that love, which means a love that is unconditional, then every relationship you have will be shallow, superficial, and therefore with very little meaning. 714. Love is not a problem. Love solves problems. It solves all problems. 715. There is a state of existence that does not evolve, develop, or progress over a period of time into any higher or greater state. It is a state outside the walls of time. Time is confined. It is limited. This other state has no walls. It is not confined or limited in any manner, which means it has an unlimited and timeless element to it. It is something that envelopes the stars, earth, mountains, rivers, trees, and all that is. Find out what it is to come upon this state and be it. This is something that no religion, no book, no philosophy, and no other person can give you. It is something that cannot be communicated by language. It cannot be conveyed with words or thought. Thought only denies this state from manifesting. It is a mistake to rely upon thought to try to approach it. It is a mistake because thought is bound to memory, and therefore it is bound to time. Be alone and explore what is thought. Explore the nature of it, how people embrace and follow it. Explore what it is to be without the thoughts you value and worship. Learn what it is to change the thoughts from thoughts that are held dear and treasured to not treasured. Change the thought from being everything to being nothing. People treasure thoughts. They treasure and identify to thoughts about work, family, God, country, flag, home, love, sex, and so on. Any thought that is treasured, internally clutched, means that the brain is caught in memory. It is stuck in time. Memory is time. It is mental time as thoughts, ideas, and all that. Put away every thought that is held dear, and suddenly the door to the other state opens. It opens internally. The whole of time stops, and the brain comes upon it. It comes upon that which is timeless. 716. People commit murder in the name of religious, political, and ideological belief. That is what belief has done. It has been the cause of millions of murders throughout human history. There is nothing sacred in belief, because belief is stored in memory, and memory is finite. Therefore belief is finite. That which is sacred is not finite. It is an infinite and immeasurable thing. As long as you fail to live without belief in your life, you can never come upon that which immeasurable, and therefore sacred. You can never come upon that dimension to life that is sacred, which means the killing of people in the name of this belief and that belief will go on. It will continue as it has for thousands of years. 717. Do not get attached to any belief, idea, or mental image. Mental attachment denies freedom. It denies psychological freedom. The absence of freedom means imprisonment. It means inner incarceration. The only way to break out of that prison is to end all forms of mental attachment. There is no other way. 718. Listening is a factor that wipes away every psychological hurt and sorrow. Sorrow is a movement of mental images. It is a movement confined to memory, the past, and therefore time. Listening makes time stand still. It connects the mind to that which is timeless. The connection that takes place between the mind and timelessness is not a connection between two different things. The mind is that. They are the same. 719. Yellow, brown, and rust colored leaves covered the wet grass and walking paths in the park. Brown birds dashed from branch to branch feeding on the red drupes from a holly tree. Next to one path in the shade of an oak tree was a green wooden bench. The seat was slightly curved up for a comfortable sit. The body felt relaxed and alert at the same time. With closed eyes the brain, ears, and entire body were listening. The air was filled with the squeals of happy children riding push scooters, dogs running and barking, a lone squirrel jumping through the dead leaves on the grass. The whole process of the brain making mental images was like an ocean wave coming in and going out. It was a creating and a destroying, a filling and an emptying. The emptying of mental images took over and went on for an unknown time. The emptying brought with it a feeling of renewal. An internal rebirth was occurring that eliminated every sense of separation and division from things. An extraordinary sense of peace unfolded. The peace was inconceivable. It was untouchable by human thought, which means it could not be hurt, soiled, or in any way corrupted. It did not involve any mental concept, idea, or belief whatsoever. Belief denies peace. When the brain embraces a belief, a faith, or any mental image, then psychological attachment forms. Any form of mental attachment means fear, fear to lose the attachment. Fear is conflict, and conflict prevents love. It prevents love from coming about and showing itself. Find out what it is to not accept, touch, or in any way embrace any form of psychological attachment to a belief, faith, or any mental image of God, country, family, work, money, or anything else. All images of attachment make up who you are. They define you. When the whole of that ends, then every image you have about yourself ends. Inwardly you end. That means the ego drops out of existence. If the images you have about yourself disappear, then the whole of conflict does as well. All conflict as frustration, anxiety, anger, jealousy, and every other mental torment falls away. It falls away completely. Only when the brain empties itself of the ego can love manifest. There is no other alternative. The sky was crystal clear, blue, and stretched out as far as the eye could see. A group of children were playing tennis, laughing and cheering each other. The thunder of a jet engine grew loud, slowly faded, and then disappeared altogether. 720. Find out what it is to be attached to nothing, which means no attachment to any concept or psychological image. When that happens a new dimension to life is revealed. Unexpectedly one comes upon what it means to be free. One comes upon freedom, and in that freedom the whole of conflict collapses. The collapse of conflict is peace. They are the same. The peace that comes is not a story, fantasy, or any kind of hallucination. It has nothing to do with any form of thought or mental image. The image of peace is not peace, just as the image of a bird is not a bird. When you have that peace you feel it. You feel it as something palpable, actual. You feel it as a fact. The fact changes the brain. The brain is no longer attached, which means it is free. It has come upon freedom. In that freedom the brain discovers a way of living that no words can describe. It is a way of living without anxiety, worry, tension, fear, anger, frustration, jealousy, or any form of psychological opposition or conflict. All inner conflict is completely obliterated. It is gone. Any idea, explanation, or description of it, is not it. The whole attachment to mental images must cease. That is the key. That is the spark that sets it into motion. Only then does this new dimension to life reveal itself. 721. When the disorder of conflicting thoughts and mental confusion is corrected, the brain functions in a logical and reasonable way. The brain is brought into order that is similar to the order of nature, the universe, and stars. The order is similar but there is another type of order. There is a different and much deeper order that the brain can come upon. This other order is infinitely greater then the order of the stars. It is greater because the order of the stars, planets, and all that, is a physical order. It is an order of physical things. This other order is not physical. It is not material. Love is not material. Love has nothing to do with anything that is physical. That which is physical is measurable. Love is not measurable. If you discover what it is to wipe out everything that is measurable within you, which means all personal theories, opinions, beliefs, and everything else that forms the ego, the I, the me, then the door opens to this other order. Love is this other order. They are the same. 722. Effort cannot be used to attain that which is holy, sacred. Effort to attain anything implies an ego. As long as the ego exists, it pushes that sacred other away. The realization of this fact makes every effort come to a complete stand still. It makes the whole psychological movement of effort come to a stop. When all effort stops, the door opens to that which is sacred. Find out what it is to bring an end to every form of internal effort, push, and struggle. Do that and in the ending of struggle, that sacred other unfolds. It shows itself. The mind comes upon an immense and intimate sacred other, and the mind is not separate from it. 723. A dream about a flower and the actual flower are two totally different things. The actual flower is real. It is filled with life, movement, and a beauty that no dream can ever penetrate. A dream is a mental image. It is merely an idea, a thought. The thought of a flower is nothing compared to the actual flower. It is the same with that which is sacred. When you come upon that which is sacred, the real thing, then any idea or thought you have about it loses all meaning. All mental images about it turn to dust. When that which is sacred occupies the brain, then any and every thought, concept, belief, image, and mental picture about it disappears. It goes. As a result that which is sacred takes over. That sacred other replaces any image about it. It replaces the idea of it that once existed in the brain. When that happens the brain changes. It undergoes a tremendous transformation. What takes place is something that cannot be believed. What happens is unbelievable. 724. End the mental attachment to the known, and that which is unknown reveals itself. The known is memory, which means limitation, confinement, and therefore measure. The unknown is the absence of measure. The mind that ends the mental attachment to memory and any and all mental images that are present in the brain, discovers what it means to end the measure within. It discovers what it is to be free, and as a result it comes upon that which is immeasurable. Only when the mind is free can it come upon that unknown dimension to life, which is immeasurable, infinite, and therefore divine. 725. It rained in the night. The streets were wet, clean, and empty. The morning sky was covered with giant grey and white clouds, and between the clouds were pockets of blue sky. A man and a dog were walking through a picnic area in the small park. The dog spotted a squirrel foraging around a redwood tree, and upon seeing the squirrel it completely froze and stood motionless for several minutes intensely focused on the small animal. The squirrel was lively and alert searching for food and at the same time on the lookout for danger. The focus of the dog was unrelenting. The dog began to slowly stalk the squirrel, and silently moved toward it inches at a time. Suddenly the squirrel ventured into an open grassy area, and the dog bolted toward it. The squirrel caught sight of the dog, skipped to a nearby tree, and quickly climbed to safety. The dog looked up at the squirrel that was far out of reach, turned around, and playfully trotted back to the man. The squirrel remained high in the tree alert and attentive to all the things around it. When the mind records an experience and does not hold onto the recording, it is in a state of constant renewal. It goes through a continual rebirth that eliminates the past from moment to moment. The mind that undergoes this process is not burdened with the baggage of past memories, and all the hurts and torments that go with it. It is not in conflict, which means it does not waste energy. A mind that does not waste energy conserves energy. As a result it has an abundance of energy. When the mind empties itself of all yesterdays, and embraces no tomorrows from moment to moment, it renews itself. It comes upon a rebirthing that is unlike anything it has ever before known or experienced. The mind in this state is empty and open, which means it is highly sensitive, alert. As a result a way of living comes about that has no hurt, torment, or conflict of any kind. Learn what it is to empty all psychological recordings after they happen. Do that, and you will learn what it is to live without conflict of any kind. 726. The ego is hell. The end of the ego is heaven. 727. All information about any human being living in the world today, and all information about any human being who has ever lived, is available. It is available because there is no difference between you and any other human being. You are the same. Therefore if you understand yourself, then you understand the world. 728. When you come upon that which is unlimited you feel there is no other reason to be alive other than to give your life to it. Nothing else compares to it. 729. When mental dependence to ideas ends, there is nothing to hold you down. That is what mental dependence does. It holds you down. The end of dependence brings freedom. It is a freedom that cannot be mentally imagined. Find out what it is to be mentally free, which is to inwardly depend on nothing, no idea, no thought, and no mental image of any kind. Only if you do it can that unimaginable other emerge. 730. Living in a world of thought makes you tune out to what is happening. It makes life complicated, difficult, and terribly confusing. Life is unbelievably simple. There is only one purpose to living. There is no other meaning or significance to life other than to love. Any belief, idea, or thought about what is love, is not love. As the thought of a clear blue sky prevents you from tuning into the sky, seeing the beauty of it, the color, vastness, and immensity of it, thought prevents you from loving. Thought may be described as the collection of all human ideas, stories, beliefs, theories, and philosophies. It is the whole of every mental image that can possibly exist. Love is not an image. Any mental image is confined to memory, which is the warehouse of your particular education, upbringing, and mental conditioning. You have been conditioned to believe certain things. You have been conditioned by your parents, friends, relatives, and the society in which you were raised. You have been conditioned to believe in a particular organized religion, a particular government, a particular social norm, and way to behave and think. You are conditioned, and that conditioning takes the form of thought. It means you are living a conditioned existence. If you are conditioned, then that conditioning stops love from showing itself. Love is not conditional. Love is unconditional. As long as the conditioning within you exists, then love does not. Find out what it is to purge every form of mental conditioning that exists inside you, and what it means to bring an end to the whole of it. Only when conditioning ends can that which is unconditional reveal itself. Learn about the nature of conditioning. Find out what it means to be free of it. Freedom from conditioning does not take the form of any idea, theory, or philosophy. If that happens then you are back. You are lost. Freedom from conditioning is not a fixed, dead thing. Ideas and theories are fixed. They are dead. This is something entirely different. This is breathing, moving, alive. It is a movement that is alive. Love is like that. Love is alive. 731. Love does not hand out any reward for good behavior, and it has no interest in punishment. Love does not reward or punish. It has nothing to do with any of that. It is not the job of love to forgive bad behavior, wickedness, and stupidity. Love simply does not allow any of that to touch it. The nature of love prevents anything from effecting it. Nothing can effect, corrupt, or destroy love. Love is untouchable. It is an indestructible thing. 732. When you live with uncertainty, which means to have no preconceived ideas, desires, or expectations about anything, you are tremendously alert and naturally watchful. You are burning with curiosity. In that state of curiosity there is no conflict of any kind. There is no conflict as worry, anxiety, frustration, and the despair that comes with living a shallow life, which means a life without any real meaning and without what has been described by the ancients as immeasurable, infinite, and therefore sacred. In that state of immense curiosity, the whole of psychological conflict does not exist, which means there is peace. It is not a casual or superficial peace. It is not a peace that can be bought, possessed, or has anything to do with the false sense of psychological security that may come with a personal religious or philosophical belief, a big bank account, work, family, or physical health. This is not a peace that depends on anything, which means the inner state of curiosity, living with uncertainty, psychological alertness, and this deep, impenetrable sense of peace, are one and the same. They are the same movement. They are the same thing. 733. You may feel as though you live in obscurity, without much, if any, effect on what happens in this divided, crazy, and violent world in which we live. However, when you come upon that dimension of life that is completely without limitation and outside the field of time, then it not only has a tremendous effect on the world, but it has an effect on the whole of life. It has an effect on the whole of existence. The brain that discovers that unlimited and timeless other undergoes a tremendous change. The brain sees things differently. It sees people, animals, trees, the sky, the stars, and all that is, in a completely different light. Inwardly a change takes place. The whole of psychological limitation ends, and in the end of that limitation, the brain comes upon that which has no division. Every form of division ends. The brain discovers that undivided other, and it is not separate from it. It is that. The brain that comes upon that vast and extraordinary other is suddenly made whole. It discovers a wholeness that touches, surrounds, and penetrates everything. As a result it has an effect on everything, the stars, earth, and all mankind. It has an effect even though it is not apparent. It penetrates the whole of life because it is an unlimited. It is infinite. That is its nature. 734. The greatest experience a person can ever go through is death, which means the end of the ego. Death absent the end of the ego, is no death at all. 735. There is no need to acquire. There is only the need to let go. 736. There are broken pieces inside of you. They are the broken pieces of inner conflicts you go through in daily life. They include the feelings of fear, anger, failure, injustice, hopelessness, frustration, and every other form of conflict that exists within you. The source of this conflict is the mental images you have about yourself. These images not only create the feeling of identity, but these images are you. They are what create you. They create the ego. When these images exit and leave the brain, then every form of inner conflict leaves as well. As a result an extraordinary sense of contentment and oneness comes about. An inner wholeness takes place in the brain itself. The key is bringing an end to the images you have of yourself. That means you need to let go of every mental image and idea that gives you a sense of personal identity. If you psychologically identify to the idea of being a religious person or atheist, drug dealer or police officer, jihadist militant or non-violent protestor, republican or democrat, rich or poor, good or bad, and so on, then walk away from it. If you identify to the image of being a successful business person or failure, a loner or family man, victim or criminal, or whatever else, then discard it. Dump the whole of it into the garbage. You may be ostracized by your political party, church, or gang, banished by your friends and family, or treated like a leper by your co-workers and neighbors. All of that may happen and more. However, none of that compares to what comes about. Let go of every thought that defines who you are. Do that and every trace of personal identity ends. If you identify to nothing, then the ego no longer exists. When that happens watch what takes place. See what happens as every broken piece inside of you disappears, and as a result every feeling of inner conflict is wiped away. In the ending of conflict there is peace. The ego and every sense of personal identity no longer plays any part in ones life, and consequently a peace manifests. An inner peace and contentment emerge that cannot be described. What takes place is extraordinary. It is impossible to convey or put into words. Do not believe any of this. Go into it for yourself. Experiment with it. 737. A prejudiced person is an ignorant person. The end of human prejudice, and therefore ignorance, is not a matter of evolution, because evolution implies time. Prejudice can end now, which means the end of ignorance has nothing to do with time. It means the factor that ends prejudice has a timeless property about it. Only intelligence ends ignorance. Therefore intelligence and that which is timeless are the same. They are words that describe the same thing. 738. There may be great anguish and sorrow in the world, however none of that touches love. Love exists in a dimension entirely absent of inner hurt, pain, and sorrow. Find out what it is to come upon that dimension, and the whole of sorrow is wiped out of existence. That is what love does. Love destroys sorrow. It destroys it completely. 739. People were protesting what they felt was injustice, inequality, and brutality against a particular race. They were carrying signs, chanting slogans, and blocking traffic in the street. It was obvious that the protest did not get at the root of any problem, which means the problem remains. When the root of a problem is not removed, it continues. That means the protest had no real value. Any protest or action that fails to address the root cause of a problem has no fundamental value at all. Only an action that ends a problem has value. To end a problem means to end it so that it is completely gone. That means the action must be total. It must be whole. An action that is whole brings an end to a problem completely. If you are unaware what it means to come upon an action that is whole, total, then before you do anything, before you take a single step out the door, go into it. Find out what is that action. Otherwise any protest, sit in, carrying signs, and all that, will be fragmented, incomplete, and therefore a total waste. However, an action that ends brutality has value. An action that brings a complete stop to violence has tremendous significance. The only action that is total, not fragmented or partial in any way, and thereby brings a stop to every form of brutality and violence, is love. This is not a love that you see on television. It is not a love that has anything to do with jealousy, sex, the desire for a particular person, or anything like that. All of that involves a mental image. This is a love that has nothing to do with an image. Love is not an image. It is not an idea. As any idea of a thing is not the actual thing, any idea of love is not love. This is critical to see. Any idea that the brain embraces creates a self, an I. It makes an ego. It is this ego that is partial, divisive, which gives rise to all the brutality and violence that goes on in the world today. However, love is not partial. Love has nothing to do with partiality, bias, or any form of prejudice. Love ends prejudice. Only love can do that. When you have that love, that love which knows no bias, then it touches everyone and everything. It touches all human beings, the white person, the black person, the red, yellow, and brown person. It does that and more. It touches the whole of life, the animals, trees, mountains, and valleys. It does that. It does that because it is inside you. Only when the brain comes upon a love which has no bias, no partiality, and therefore no division of any kind, can it act in a manner that is complete and whole. Love is that action. Love is the action that ends a problem completely, which means it is the only action that has any real meaning. 740. The root cause of any act of violence is fundamentally the mental identification to an image. When the brain identifies to the mental image of, for example, money, sex, drugs, as well as a religious belief, a political ideal, country, job, spouse, friend, relative, and so on, then it creates a mental box. This mental box is the ego. The ego partial, limited, and imprisoned in memory, and memory means the past. The past can never meet the present, which means if an ego exists, then this division between past and present is inevitable, and division means conflict. The ego is what gives rise to every psychological conflict that a person can ever experience. It is the root cause of all inner conflict as anger, hatred, jealousy, boredom, fear, greed, ambition, and every other form of duality and opposition that goes on inside the brain. Is it this mental prison of the past that is the root cause of every form of torment and conflict that exists in you, as well as every form of social violence that is present throughout the world today. If your interest is to live in a peaceful world without opposition, division, and any sense of conflict, then bring an end to this sense of self. Find out what it is to dismantle this mental box, and thereby break free from the past. That means you must mentally identify to nothing. It means to take every idea, thought, and mental image that you value and throw it away. Trash the whole of it. If you identify to a particular religious belief, or any religious belief at all, then discard it. If you are inwardly attached to a political ideal, any political ideal, then drop it. If you give supreme importance and value to the mental image of sex, money, drugs, a gang, job, spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, a belief, faith, theory, philosophy, or whatever, then let go of that image. It is this whole process of mental identification that creates the internal box that is the ego, which in turn causes this inner duality, and therefore terrible violence, brutality, and all the rest of it. Empty the brain of all mental images that define the ego, If you do that, then something absolutely amazing happens. All of a sudden that which has sustained and perpetuated this inner duality, and all of the human violence throughout the ages, comes to a stop. A change takes place in the human condition. The change that occurs is not an idea. It is not a belief, theory, or any idiotic fantasy. The change that happens is real. It is genuine. It is the beginning of a new human being. 741. You come to a point where you stop all struggle, all seeking, and all following. You have been through it all. You leave everything. You are completely alone, and that sacred other says, "Sorry, you cannot have me”. That is the greatest thing. 742. Psychologically identify to nothing and the ego ceases to exist. It falls away. When that happens you no longer identify to this country or that country. That means you are a citizen of all countries. You are citizen of the world. 743. The brain has the potential to come upon a dimension of existence that is not bound by ideas and thoughts, not trapped in memory, and not encased in the past or time. It has the capacity to come upon a dimension outside the field of time, which means a dimension that is timeless, and therefore holy. 744. You do not need to do anything to come upon love. Find out what it is to do nothing, and love emerges. It comes out of nowhere. 745. If your viewpoint about life is based on a particular culture, education, upbringing, and all of the social beliefs that have been handed down from generation to generation, then your viewpoint is biased, prejudiced, and therefore distorted. If your perspective of life is distorted, then you are living in a fantasy world. The life you are leading is not real. The only way to bring about a perspective that is not distorted, or have a viewpoint that is not filtered by any particular upbringing or culture, is to discard the particular culture in which you were raised. It means to throw away your upbringing as a Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, or Jew. It means to let go of every social standard and rule about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and all the rest of it. To throw out all of that brings an end to the conditioning that has been put upon you since childhood. As long as the brain is conditioned, which means a brain that is fundamentally biased, prejudiced, then a distorted perspective of life is inevitable. To bring an end to this mental conditioning is what is important. The brain must end the conditioning inside of it. Only when the entire structure and movement of mental conditioning comes to an end is it possible for that which is unconditional to enter the brain. Love is unconditional. Love is what brings about a viewpoint that is not distorted, and therefore clear and true. Only the person who learns what it is to end the conditioning within him or her, can come upon what it means to love. Love is not bias. Love has absolutely no connection with prejudice and all the conflict and violence that go with it. There is nothing greater than to come upon a love that is devoid of social and psychological conditioning, and the ignorance and insanity that is involved with it. Do not just agree or disagree with this, but go into it for yourself. Explore it. Examine it carefully with interest and great curiosity. Only then can the truth or falseness of it come out. Only then can any of this have any meaning. 746. Love is a merging and coming together. When love enters the brain every sense of separation ends. Separation as bigotry, favoritism, personal belief, and all the rest of it, comes to a complete halt. It passes away. In the passing away of inner separation an extraordinary sense of joy, ecstasy, and rapture takes place. However, it is more than that. That which is sacred comes into being. Love is sacred. It is love that appears. Find out what it is to end the separation within, and that which is sacred comes out. It unfolds. 747. Under the blue sky and in the shadow of the trees the mind was quiet and sensitive. The whole replay of memory was still, and in the stillness of the mind it came. Without warning there suddenly appeared the other. It was terribly intense and filled with indescribable energy. The energy was like an ocean, immense, and vast. It was energy itself and that energy was without limits or measure. The mind was the energy, but it was more. It was more than energy. It was an ecstasy that had no measure. There was no division between the mind and that immeasurable other. It was that. The energy, the ecstasy, or whatever it was, was not physical or material. It was not something that could be touched with the hand or seen with the eyes. It was not of this earth. It was an unearthly thing. 748. The ego is small and petty. It is awfully limited. When the ego dies a new dimension to existence is revealed. It is a dimension without pettiness or limitation, and therefore it is that which is unlimited. It is something no language, gesture, or expression can convey. Find out what it is to empty the brain of the ego. Only then does that infinite other emerge. 749. The brain uses thought to survive. Without thought you would perish. You could not hold a job, cook a meal, react to a fire, or avoid a poisonous snake. None of that could happen, and the body would quickly die. Although thought is clearly needed for such things, the brain does not always use thought. It does not always require thought to operate. Meditation does not require thought. In fact, the absence of thought is meditation. They are the same. The mental process of creating and repeating images in the brain can be still. It can all fall silent. Obviously the silencing of this process does not involve any method or system. Any method implies an image. Any system means a movement of ideas. Therefore all methods to quiet the brain are out. All systems to make the mind still have no value. That means you are free from every person, book, and so-called expert that tries to peddle some system of meditation or some method to help make the mind quiet. There is freedom from all that. However, it goes much deeper than freedom from only methods and systems. Anything that takes time involves an idea. Time means a mental image. The silent mind does not operate in a field of time. It is free of everything that involves time. Freedom from time is not an idea. It is not a philosophical concept or notion. Freedom from time does not demand any effort. It has nothing to do with effort, work, study, or any sense of struggle. All of that means time. Any effort or struggle to make the mind still, denies it. It denies stillness. That means you have to find out what it is to listen without ideas and thoughts to interfere in the listening. To listen without thought is incredibly simple. The simplicity of it is astounding. To listen without the processing of thought means to listen to the sound of the wind as it fiercely blows through a grove of trees, a lone bird as it sings a morning song, the quiet breathing of the body at rest. It means it listen to all of that actively, intensely, with incredible interest and passion. To do that makes time stand still. It reveals a dimension to life outside the field of time. It allows that which is timeless to manifest. 750. The cement path jutted out to the sea, looped around, and returned back between the black rocky sea walls. The sea was flat, still, and muddy grey. The forest of eucalyptus trees stood straight and towered over the narrow dirt path. Down the hillside lay an old dead tree, falling apart, and rotting. Next to it was a small and young sapling. If the ego exists at the time the body dies, then it leaves the body. The ego must leave the body because it has not ended. The ego is a movement in partiality, bias, and therefore ignorance. Only intelligence ends ignorance, which means when the body dies, the ego ejects from the body and moves on. The ego enters into another realm but it cannot penetrate it. It cannot see it for what it is. This other realm is tailored to the ego which means it is a distortion. There is another realm that is not partial. It is a deeper realm absent distortion. Only when the ego ends can this deeper and whole other realm show itself. This other realm is not an idea, which means it has nothing to do with time. It exists in a field in which time does not exist. Only when the ego dies does this timeless other show itself. The end of the ego opens the door to it. Find out what it is for the ego, the self, and the whole movement of the me, to wither away. That is the sole thing that needs to be done. 751. In the face of all the insane crime, war, poverty, and disease in the world, there is something that goes beyond all of that, ends every inner hurt, frustration, and sorrow, and thereby brings infinite meaning to the whole of life. The beauty of it is that it does not involve time, which means it has a timeless, and therefore holy nature about it. The only thing that is timeless is love. It is the only holy thing that exists. Find it, and everything changes. Find it, and you will never be the same. 752. The most important day of a year for you may be a religious holiday, a birthday, a wedding day, the birth of a child, a death anniversary, a day when your mortgage is paid off, the day you retire, or whatever. By making a particular day or event more important than any other, life in the present is more then lessened. It is missed. To look forward to a particular day or event in the future creates a blindfold. It makes you blind. It blinds you to that immense and sacred field of existence which can only be found in the present. The hugeness and immensity of what is the present has nothing to do with any past event or mental projection of the future. The past and future imply time. This is something that does not exist in time. When you look forward to, dread, or make a particular day or event important, then you are operating and living in a field of time. You have an idea of the event, with all the worry or anticipation that goes with it, and that idea exists in memory. Memory is cemented in the past, which means it is limited and confined to time. Only when the blindfold of time is removed does that infinite field of life unfold. Only then can that unlimited and timeless other emerge. What comes out is not any sort of transcending concept, quantum theory, or spiritual idea. It is not an idea, which means it has nothing to do with anything related to the past or any projection of the future. It is something real. It is something sacred. This sacred other is immensely more meaningful than any particular day or event. Tomorrow may be the day a peace treaty is signed, a new president is elected, a nuclear bomb explodes, or a comet strikes the earth and wipes out all life. None of that can compare to the immensity, magnificence, and absolute majesty of that sacred other. That which is sacred has nothing to do with anything material or earthly. It is an utterly unearthly thing. It is something that is so simple. It is too simple. Words cannot describe the simplicity of it. The simplicity of it boggles the brain. 753. The mind that is conditioned by upbringing and belief has a perspective that is crooked, and therefore perverted. It is this conditioning that is the root of the bias, prejudice, and separation between people. It is the root of ignorance. A life of ignorance is like living in darkness. It is as though you are living in your own twisted world blind, deaf and dumb. Intelligence is what drives out bias and prejudice. It puts out the darkness of ignorance. The whole of mental conditioning must be forsaken for intelligence to operate in the brain. To forsake conditioning means to disown all personal belief. It means to not only disown your personal beliefs, it means to divorce yourself from all beliefs, including religious, political, philosophical, cultural, social, and all the rest of it. It means to turn your back on all of it. When you do that, the brain finds itself no longer conditioned. It finds itself absent of bias and prejudice, which means suddenly intelligence manifests. It manifests in the brain, and immediately eliminates every trace of ignorance. An inner light turns on, and that light dispels the darkness. It dispels the ignorance. It makes way for an entirely new and different way of living. 754. Children are conditioned at a very young age with all of the religious and cultural traditions in the specific society in which they live. The brain becomes bent and molded, and that mold is the conditioning. Children grow, become adults, and pass on the same conditioning to their children, and so on and on it goes. The conditioning is passed on from parent to child, from society to the individual, and from generation to generation. Conditioning is what prevents people from learning what is love. If you love, then you live without the conditioning of personal religious and social belief. Drop every form of conditioning. If you do that, then it all ends. It ends with you. 755. Love is indestructible. 756. To look inside yourself means to watch the self. The self is thought. That means when you watch what thoughts, ideas, and mental pictures enter the brain, you are watching the self move, plan, manipulate, and carry out all of the activities that are it. Be sensitive to the thoughts that enter the brain. Thoughts can be observed. They can be observed without corrupting the observation. Corruption only takes place when there is an ego. The ego is attachment to mental images as opinion, belief, theory, and ideology. Therefore the ego cannot observe without making a mess. It cannot observe without twisting and distorting. Find out what it is to observe without the ego to filter and thereby corrupt the observation. Only when that happens can an observation that is free of corruption take place. Only then can the mind come upon a way of observing life that is incorruptible. 757. The annihilation of the self, the me, the ego, or however you put it, brings about an extraordinary revelation. It reveals what is psychological death. To come upon the death of the ego means to experience a joy that cannot possibly be described with words. The joy is not any sort of mental idea or memory. Memory is a lifeless thing, because it is chained to the past. This other is moving and alive. It happens from moment to moment. That is what death does. It brings about a living joy, bliss, and happiness that takes place moment to moment. Find out what ends the ego. That is the key. It is the key to happiness. 758. When you look at a person, look dead on. If you look at the sky, a tree, or animal, then look straight at it. Look at it completely so that nothing of it remains. Nothing of it must be carried over and played back. If a memory of it plays back, then watch it. Observe it. Only in observation does the memory of it subside. Only then does it end. The end of the playback of memory prevents the brain from reliving the past. It enables the brain to break away from the past and thereby live in the present. The present is what ends every playback of every mental image that exists in the brain. Find out what it is to observe without making an image of the observation. Do that with the sky, the tree, and every person you meet, see, work, and live with. Do that, and you will live without worry, struggle, and all the heartache that goes with it. You will live a happy life. 759. The ego is a psychological box. It is a box that contains all of the mental images that give your life meaning, images of work, family, possessions, money, ideology, pleasure, sex, God, and so on. The images inside this box make up the box. This box can expand, alter, and modify, but as long as any image exists, then so does the box. This box is made up of nothing but mental images, which means memory. Memory is a limited thing. It is restricted to the past. That means the box is a restricted and limited thing. It means the ego is limited. The ego is the cause of every hurt you have ever known in your life. There is the hurt of longing, rejection, failure, frustration, and loss. If you have no ego you cannot feel rejection or failure. All frustration, loss, and every other form of inner conflict become completely impossible. When the ego is no more then inwardly a change takes place. The limitation within fades away, and the brain comes upon that which is unlimited. It comes upon an unlimited other. The key is the end of the ego, which means the emptying of this mental box. Find out what it is to dismantle, break down, and completely obliterate this mental box, and all the limitation within comes to an end. It means the end of the ego, and the end of the ego is the end of hurt. It is the end of sorrow. It is the end of every inner hurt and sorrow that has or can ever plaque the mind. When the ego really ends, then that which is unlimited, infinite, and therefore divine comes out. The end of the ego reveals a divinity. It reveals that which is sacred. It is this divine and sacred other that brings an end to all inner hurt and sorrow. It is the thing that gives life meaning. You cannot identify with this sacred other. You cannot worship it. You cannot organize it. The moment you worship or organize it, then an image is created, which means an ego. It means a box. Do that and you are back. You are back in the box. You are back in the world of needless hurt with all the insane and idiotic problems that go with it. Identify to nothing. Put no mental image on a pedestal. Give no mental image about anything any importance at all and live like that. Do that and see what takes place. See what happens inside the mind. Experiment with it. Just do it. 760. To go through life without the realization of the immensity and sacredness that the brain has the capacity to come upon is a waste. It is a misuse. It means the squandering of a life. 761. The brain has the capacity to come upon that which is without beginning or end, unlimited, and therefore deathless. The brain that comes upon that deathless other, no longer fears. Fear disappears altogether. The end of fear brings about an extraordinary sense of fearlessness. It is not that one suddenly does dangerous things or tempts physical death. It is nothing like that. Instead the brain discovers what it means to live without the fear of losing anything, a spouse, a job, a house, or anything else. It discovers what it means to live fearlessly. 762. Immortality implies life forever. It means living always year after year into infinity. Therefore immortality implies time. However, that is not quite right. It is an error to think that way or have that belief. The whole concept of time is a fallacy. It is a complete illusion. It is an illusion because time is thought, and thought is partial. If the mind has a partial perspective, then distortion is inevitable. It means the perspective is off. It is skewed and therefore incorrect. The mind that sees the fallacy of time is free of the idea that there is immortality in terms of time. The mind that is free of this illusion comes upon something else. It comes upon that which is beyond or outside the field of time. It comes upon freedom from time. Freedom from time is not a planned thing. It is something the mind can only come upon when every sense of hope and expectation are finished. Freedom from time is a discovery of that which has nothing to do with any idea or thought, because thought means memory, and memory means time. This is the discovery of that which has no connection to time. It is the discovery of that which is timeless. The difference between immortality and timelessness is obvious. Immortality is an idea, a belief, a theory, and timelessness is not. Find out what it means to come upon that which is timeless, and the whole concept of immortality, and living always year after year into eternity, is seen for what it is. It is a mistake. 763. Meditation is not effort. There is no sense of trying to attain anything. There is only attention. Meditation is an attention that is open, direct, and clear. The intensity of the attention is huge. It is packed with energy. The energy is internal, vibrant, and filled with movement. The whole activity of thought, idea making, and the playback of memory, has come to a complete and total stop. All of that has ended. The end of idea making is a vacating and emptying of the brain. Memory is a bounded thing. It is chained to the past. That means meditation is a breaking of the bounds and chains. It is an emptying of the limitation that exists within. In the emptying of this limitation the brain comes upon that which is unlimited. It comes upon an infinite other in which all separation has ended. The emptiness in the brain is not separate from that infinite other. They are the same. The whole of memory has emptied and thereby turned to ash, and from these ashes that which is infinite is given birth. It is born. 764. Do this. Sit for a long time and simply watch the things that happen. Observe buildings, homes, cars, trees, animals, or whatever lies before you or crosses your path. Feel the climate, the sky, the temperature, the freshness or dirt in the air. Watch as people walk by, and observe what they do, how they act, where they go. Notice the color, shape, and movement of things. Listen to the sounds of a bird chirping and a dog barking. Watch the clouds move across the sky, tree branches as they sway back and forth in a breeze, a lone cat that walks down a driveway, or a spider walking up a wall. Be intensely watchful and alert. Be the cloud, the tree branch, the spider on the wall. Do not pick and choose what you see, listen to, or feel. To pick and choose means desire, comparison, and judgment. It means the movement of thought, memory, and all that. Watch without memory, which means to watch without naming or labeling. In the same way as watching what happens outside the brain, watch what is going on inside the body. Feel the lungs as they fill and empty, the feet on the ground, the clothes on the back, the beat of the heart. Feel and be aware of all that. Now in the same way watch what happens in the brain. If an idea enters the brain, then watch it. Be sensitive to it. If a thought, mental picture, or any sort of remembrance emerges from memory, then simply observe it. Let there be no effort to summon or suppress what ideas enter the brain. Discard any and all desire to end, suppress, or modify what thoughts come and go. Just watch. Watch the movement of thought, where it goes, how it reacts, when it appears and disappears. Watch as ideas come and go, arise and leave, are given birth, and then die. Watch what happens when a thought ends. Watch what takes place when all thoughts end. The brain that does not embrace thought allows it to pass. It allows thought to pass through the brain without leaving a mark. The brain discovers what it is to live without a mark, blemish, or wound or any kind. Thought is what causes wounds. It is the cause of every inner wound, hurt, and sorrow that has ever existed. What happens when the brain makes this discovery is a total and complete life changer. It changes everything. 765. If you feel lost, saddened, or defeated about what it means to love without any conditions whatsoever, then find out what love is not. For example, love is not jealousy. If jealousy exists in you, then end it. Learn to live without it. Find out all of things that love is not, and deny them. Purge them all from your life. When that happens the door to what is love opens. The mystery of what is love is demystified. It is no longer a mystery because it appears. It shows itself. It unexpectedly happens. 766. There are two basic different types of thought. There is practical thought such as the thought about how to perform a task at a job, prepare a meal, tie a shoe, and so on. There is also the type of thought that is the core cause for every jealousy, envy, greed, ambition, fear and sorrow that exists in everyday life. The type of thought that is at the heart of all psychological conflict may be described as useless and unsafe. Without the mental attachment to some form of thought, such as the thought of a spouse, bank account, house, job, position, belief, and so on, there would be no conflict as fear, jealousy, insecurity, or greed. Every sense of psychological turmoil and sorrow would not exist. If there was no mental attachment, then there could be no inner turmoil. All sorrow would be over. The type of thought that creates attachment is this unsafe and impractical thought. It is impractical because it is the cause of all the inner conflict and turmoil you and every other human being on the planet have ever known. A life of conflict is not only impractical and unsafe, it is unnecessary. So the content of the mind is both practical and impractical thought. That is simple. It is easy to see and understand if you step back and look at it. The content of the mind includes all of that, however there is something else. There is something more that exists in the mind. There is something else other than mere practical or impractical thought. It is obvious that the other thing that exists in the mind is emptiness. It is the empty space that exists between thoughts. The emptiness that exists in the mind is also a part of the mind. It is a part of the composition of the mind. It is the part of mind that gives meaning to life. Thought does not give meaning to life. Thought is limited. It is bound to memory and therefore time. Anything that is limited cannot give meaning to life. Anything imprisoned in time, which means the past, and all the disappointment, heartache, and sadness that goes with it, means life is being missed. Life is wasting away. However, the emptiness is not limited. The emptiness is not confined to memory or imprisoned in the past, which means it is outside the boundary of time. It is outside of time itself, which makes it an unlimited and timeless thing. It is this emptiness that gives meaning to life. Only that which is unlimited and timeless does that. Nothing else does. In order to find out whether or not this extraordinary other actually exists one must meet it. One must face it. Here is the thing. Only when the brain gives no value to any form of impractical thought can that emptiness reveal itself. All the nonsense of impractical thought must go. That is obvious. Every form of impractical thought must end, which means thought as the mental attachment to all images, including the image of a spouse, a job, a God, a religious belief, a political ideal, and all the rest of it. All of that needs to die. It needs to die because the death of mental attachment means the death of the ego. Attachment to mental images is the ego. They are the same. The death of the ego does not mean one must jump off a bridge or blow ones brains out. That is physical death, and the death of the body has nothing to do with the end of the ego. Bodily death cannot end the ego, because the ego is a field of ignorance. It is the whole activity of ignorance as personal opinion, belief, culture, tradition, which means bias, bigotry, prejudice, and all the rest of it. Only intelligence ends ignorance. That means one must bring an end to every idea, opinion, belief, and mental image that is personal. One must abandon every mental image that one cherishes and inwardly identifies to, which include the images of culture, country, race, job, family, money, bank accounts, and everything else. One must identify to nothing. Only when there is no self identification to any mental image at all can the ego, and all the ignorance that goes with it, actually cease to occupy the brain. When the ego ends, when it dies and is really gone, then ignorance dies with it. The death of ignorance is the birth of intelligence. They are not different. When that happens intelligence suddenly begins to operate in the brain. Impractical thought comes to an end, and intelligence takes over. As a result both intelligence and practical thought remain. Practical thought still remains, which includes the thought needed to work, teach, cook, clean, and all that. The key is for the brain to come upon the emptiness. In order for the brain to come upon the emptiness, the whole of thought must be quiet. That means one must learn what it is to have a brain that is still. This is a stillness in which the totality of thought ceases to be. It is a stillness in which the whole of time comes to a standstill. The movement of thought is a movement in time. Thought is time. It is memory. Memory is the storeroom of the past, which means thought as past experiences, remembrances, and all of that. The whole of that must be still for the brain to come upon the emptiness. That means one must explore what it is to listen and observe life without the movement of thought. One must find out what it is to have the capacity to observe a beautiful sky, a pretty face, a pile of money, and all that, with no sense of possessing, longing, heartache, frustration, or any conflict whatsoever. It means to observe without any sense of separation. Observation without separation brings stillness to the mind. It brings a oneness, a wholeness. It is in this state of wholeness that the mind comes upon the emptiness. Therefore explore what it is to die to experience and the entire process of making mental images from moment to moment. It means when an experience takes place, and the brain records it, then the experience finishes. The brain finishes with it. There is no mental embrace or any attachment that is formed as a result of the experience. Find out what it is to die to all experience from day to day and moment to moment. That is the key. 767. The person that dies to every experience from hour to hour and minute to minute lives in a dimension without beginning or end. The person lives in a dimension of existence that cannot be measured. Learn to do that and you will discover what it is to live with no beginnings or endings. You will discover what it is to walk, work, eat and breathe with that which is immeasurable. 768. When you consider the question “What does the mind contain?”, you search memory for a reply. There is nowhere else you can look for an answer. You may find a particular scientific theory or a philosophical opinion about it. You may recollect data from psychological experiments and ideas about it from eminent people, thinkers, and researchers. The fact is everything that exists in memory that can be used for an answer to that question takes the form of an idea. It takes the shape of a mental picture, image, or thought. That is a simple fact. In actuality it is an absolutely tremendous fact. It is a fact that must sink in the brain. It must be realized. If you realize it, then all of that, which means every idea, opinion, belief, and mental image, are nothing except a form of thought. It is all merely thought, which means thought is what exists in the mind. In the same way the content of a thing is the thing, so then the content of the mind is the mind. They are the same. That means when you learn about the nature of thought, what it is, how it moves, reacts, behaves, and all that, then you not only learn about the mind, which is you, but you learn about all minds. You learn about the whole of humanity. 769. The content of a thing is the thing. For example, the content of an atom is the matter which takes the form of the movement of electrons, protons, quarks, and all that. It is also the empty space that exists between these things. The amount of empty space is enormous. The enormity of the emptiness that exists is extraordinary. Similarly, the mind contains mental pictures and images. It contains thoughts. There is nothing mysterious about it. This is an obvious fact if you step away and look at it. Every opinion, belief, concept, ideal, and so on, takes the form of thought. There is nothing else there. There is nothing else that exists except for one other thing. There is also the emptiness that exists when thought is absent. When the activity of thought subsides, which means when the mind is quiet, listening, watching without effort, will, or any activity of desire, then the emptiness shows itself. Here is the thing. The emptiness does not gust sit there like a bump on a log. It is moving, beating, surging. That means when the mind comes upon it the emptiness takes over. It begins to operate. The operation of this emptiness means energy. The energy that exists within it is tremendous. It is massive. Thought is the matter of the mind. The emptiness that exists when thought is quiet, is the energy. This is important to see. The emptiness that exists between the smallest bits and waves of matter, electrons, protons and so on, and the emptiness that exists when thought is quiet, or the emptiness that exists between thoughts, are the same. There are no different forms of emptiness. Emptiness is not a divided thing. It is the same emptiness, which means it is the same energy. This energy is not an idea, theory, or any form of thought. Thought is not creative. Thought is a record, an archive, which means memory. It means limitation. This energy is not limited. It is a creative thing. It is creation itself. The mind that taps into this energy has emptied itself of the limitation of thought. It has ended the limitation within, and as a result it comes upon this energy, this creativity, this immense unlimited and infinite other. People do not seem to realize the tremendous energy that the mind has the capacity to capture. They live in a material world, filled with beliefs, hopes, dreams, expectations, and all the frustration and discontent that goes with it. This energy has an infinite and therefore sacred quality about it. That which is sacred knows no discontent. On the contrary it brings content. The contentment this sacred other brings is massive and huge. It is more than just huge. It is absolutely indescribable. 770. Find out what it means to come upon an intelligence that has no connection to any belief, knowledge, skill, past experience, or memory, which means it is an intelligence that cannot be touched, and therefore regardless what happens, any reaction by any person has no effect on that intelligence. You may be cursed, outcast, and terribly tortured which will cause the body to cry out in agony and speak nonsense. However none of that will have any effect on it. This is important to understand. Intelligence is not a physical thing. That means anything that happens to the body does not effect or touch it at all. Intelligence is impervious to any desire, will, or mischief of any person, which means nothing can penetrate it. It is an impenetrable thing. 771. It was a morning of scrubbing, dusting, and everything else that goes with the cleaning a living space. Afterwards the body felt tired and rested on a sofa for a short time. As the body rested, the brain was watchful and intensely alert. It was alert to the strong and steady beat of the heart, shallow breathing of the lungs, dark shadows in the room, sharp angles and gentle curves in the walls, distant sound of passing cars, people talking, and more. Inwardly the brain was silent, watching, empty of ideas, thoughts, and everything that goes with it. Unexpectedly the sense of an unspeakable other manifested. It was palpable and unambiguous. It appeared in the mind. It was within the emptiness of the mind, and the mind was not separate from it. The mind was empty of the movement of memory. The whole of time as memory fell away, which means the activity of time ceased. It was in the cessation of time that it came. The sacred other emerged. When you come upon something sacred, not any mental concept, idea or belief about what it might or could be, but the actual thing, you feel it. It is a feeling and discovery that is unmistakeable. It is something that changes everything. You discover the capacity to let go of the mental images you covet about your job, friends, family, everything you own and treasure in your life, and not have it touch you. You may continue to work, enjoy family, friends and neighbors, live in a house, and all the rest of it, but the mental attachment to the image of these things is no longer present. It no longer exists in the mind. That which is sacred depends on nothing. When the mind lets go of the attachment to all forms of thought, then it comes upon a field of life that is totally independent, free, and therefore without ant limits or boundaries. It comes that which is limitless, infinite. It is this infinite and sacred other that gives meaning to life, and thereby makes all the things of everyday living, having a job, money, sex, food, and all that, so terribly trivial and small. You may have a job, friends, family, own a house, enjoy sex and all that, but the whole of that cannot compare with this sacred other. It is an incomparable thing. 772. The body was seated alone on a bench in a small park. The brain was keen and sharp. It was highly vigilant. The birds and squirrels in the park were bursting with vigor and energy. They seemed to have the same vigilance and quality of alertness. On the bench and in the shade off a pear tree an indescribable connection and intimacy took place. The intimacy was a oneness. It was a complete absence of all sense of separation between everything and the mind, between the observed and the observer. In the absence of separation there was what ends all inner pain. It was the revealing of what wipes away and obliterates years and years of psychological pain as loneliness, sadness, despair, and sorrow. It obliterates it instantly, which means it is something that has nothing to do with time. The only thing that stops such pain, and has nothing to do with time, is love. Love ends pain. It ends pain instantly. In the absence of separation it was love that showed itself. Love was the oneness. It was the intimacy. They were the same. The sense of intimacy filled the brain. It was like a vast ocean that extended beyond time and space. The hugeness of it could not be grasped by thought. No aspect of thought could penetrate or get anywhere near it. The intimate other, the oneness, whatever it was, continued throughout the day and well into the night. It was astonishing how it cleansed the brain. Only a purity could do that. That was the intimate other. It was an extraordinary purity. It was pure, immaculate, and therefore holy. There are no other words to describe it. It was astonishing what happened. 773. You can only be psychologically attached to an idea of a thing, not the actual thing. Find out what it is to be attached to no idea of anything. Do that, and you will discover what it is to be free. 774. Have the capacity to be alone and completely at ease, comfortable, and content in that aloneness. If you turn to television, a book, the internet, shopping, music, alcohol, drugs, or whatever, to escape from feelings of anxiety, boredom, or any sense of uneasiness when you are alone, then deny all that. Do not turn to anything, but instead if you are anxious, then be anxious. If you are uneasy, then be uneasiness. The key to end any form of discontent is to be the discontent. When the separation between you and discontent terminates, then the termination of that separation dissolves the duality in the brain. It concludes the dual, the fight, which means it stops the conflict. It ends the discontent. It ends the whole of it. 775. It was evening. The house was quiet, and the room was dark. The body was resting on a sofa and breathing was shallow, natural, easy. The playback of memory and the movement of ideas were still. In the stillness of the brain the bliss appeared. It appeared without warning. It was a total and ecstatic bliss. It was something else, vast and moving. It was not an elated or enthusiastic kind of blissThe brain could not comprehend or in any way fathom the vastness, intensity, and movement of it. It was a flowing bliss, vibrant and alive. It was a bliss that was alive. It was not a mental projection. The whole act of mental image making was at a stand still. There was only the alertness of the brain, and the bliss that occupied the brain. The alertness was the bliss. They were the same movement. They shared the same essence and nature. Words cannot begin to describe it. No description can convey what took place. It was something that takes the breath away. It makes breathing seem to stop altogether. 776. When you come upon death, which means the end of the self as the identification to ideas, mental pictures, and patterns of thought, then a completely new and different realm is revealed. This realm and the contents of this realm have a quality that is choice, supreme. It is perfect. The stars, earth, trees, birds, insects, are all perfect. They exist in the present and the present is what reveals it. The perfection of this other realm, and everything within it, is difficult to describe. It is exquisite. It is more than exquisite. It is complete and whole. That is what death reveals. It reveals a wholeness that otherwise remains hidden. Find out what it means to let go of every pattern of thought and idea to which the brain identifies, the mental identification to a job, a family, a religious belief, a political ideology, a personal philosophy of life, and whatever else. Do that and suddenly an extraordinary sense of wholeness and completeness gushed out. It opens up, spills out, and when that happens the brain experiences a sense of tremendous ease and contentment. Every sense of worry, fear, anxiety, stress, uneasiness, and apprehension vanish. They disappear. That is what happens when the self comes to an end. That is what death brings. It brings contentment. It uncovers a realm that brings about the deepest and most powerful sense of joy and happiness. This is something that only happens if you live it. Do not accept any of this. Find out for yourself whether there is any truth to this or not. Test it. Test it with every ounce of care and interest and passion you have inside you. Only a test that applies the deepest interest and passion has the potential to come upon it. Do it. Just do it. 777. Love lies within. That means when the mind comes upon love it is not separate from love. It is the same. 778. If you are mentally stuck, glued, and therefore attached to the images you have of your job, your spouse, your religion, your possessions, the money you have in the bank, and so on, then you cannot simply discard the attachment that exists to only one of the images and thereby be free. If any mental attachment to any image at all exists, then freedom is denied. Only when the mental glue to all images is removed, which means when attachment itself perishes completely, can the brain discover what it means to be free. Freedom is not attachment. There are two completely different worlds. 779. To deny ignorance is intelligence. They are the same. 780. There is nothing you can do to entice love from coming into being. There is no action you can take which will invite it, create it, or otherwise bring it about. Therefore find out what it means to do nothing. To do nothing means to bring an end to desire. Love is not desire. Desire is based on memory, which means it is anchored to the past. Love has nothing to do with the past. Either love exists now or it does not. There is no in between. Every trace of desire must end for love to come about. When that happens you feel it. You feel it in your bones. 781. The elderly woman was deeply conditioned and her thinking was stuck in the past. Her way of living was a repeat of her upbringing which included particular religious traditions, social customs, personal beliefs, and all that. She could not see that she was conditioned. It was this conditioning that caused her perception of life to be confused. It was the source of her anxiety about growing old, sorrow for the loss of loved ones, and the fear of death. Psychological conditioning is the root source of every anxiety, sorrow, and fear. Learn what it means to wipe out the whole of conditioning. Do that and an insight comes about into what it means to live without anxiety. Suddenly there is the discovery of what ends sorrow, fear, which includes the fear of death. To find out what ends psychological conditioning, one must explore what it means to come upon that which is unconditional. You need to investigate what is unconditional and what it is to have it occupy the brain. It must occupy the brain in daily living, otherwise it has no meaning. There is only one thing a person can come upon that has no conditions. That thing is love. Love has no conditions. If love occupies the brain, then every sense of anxiety, tension, and fear vanishes. All hurt, depression, and the whole of inner sorrow suddenly disappear. That is what love does. It brings an end to all that. It brings an end to the fear of growing old and the fear of death. It brings an end to fear itself. When that happens one discovers what it is to live fearlessly. Love and living without fear go hand in hand. The one cannot exist without the other, which means they are one and the same movement. 782. Any decision based on love, which means a love which has no conditions, is the right decision. 783. Things that happen in the field of time have no meaning to the timeless other. The timeless other does not judge. There is no judgment in it at all. That means what you do in this world will not be judged by it as good or bad, right or wrong. If there is any judgement, then it is you who judge. 784. Follow your heart, fear nothing, and do what is your deepest passion. Follow what you love to do, and your life will not be a waste. 785. A free mind is not entangled in memory. It is free from memory. It may use memory, but it is not used by memory. There is a difference. To be used by memory means to be a slave to it. It means to be caught in the past and therefore living with anxiety, apprehension, neurotic fears, and all the needless torments that go with it. It meets living in a way that is repetitive, dull, and therefore limited. Only when the mind is free from memory can it come upon that which is not repetitive or limited. When that happens the repetition and dullness within end. The mind discovers what it is to be vibrant, original, and expansive. The inner expansion that the mind undergoes is extraordinary. It discovers that which has no limits, and there is no division between the mind and that unlimited other. It is that. They are the same. 786. There is an insight that ignites what is love. The insight is that love cannot be approached by anything that involves, implies, or takes time. That means you do not need to read any book, listen to anyone speak, go anywhere, or do anything. You do not have to go through any hoops. It means there is no method you can use, path you can take, or any place you can go where you will find love. To take a journey down any road involves time. Any place you go takes time. All of that denies what is love. It denies love from revealing itself. Therefore discard all roads. Take no paths, and throw out every book about what is, or is not, love. Drop every method on how to come to it. Put away all that. If you see the mistake of using anything that involves time to approach what is love, then you are free of time. Freedom from time is what invites love. It allows love to come into being. This is not a love that exists as a form of memory. Memory is the past, and the past means time. This love is devoid of time, which means it is a timeless thing. 787. Find out what it means to be free of time. There is no greater psychological inquiry, exploration, or investigation. Be a detective and carefully examine what it is to completely erase the whole of time from the brain. Only then can the brain come upon that timeless other. The end of time, which means the end of mental image making, the past, and all that, opens the door to that which is timeless. To come upon that magnificent and timeless other brings unbelievable meaning to daily living. There is nothing more meaningful. There is absolutely nothing that gives the whole of life more significance than that. Nothing. 788. The large dog had a beautiful bold face, long square muzzle, and black nose. Its coat was clean, well groomed, golden, tan and black. A man walked ahead of the dog, often turned back encouraging it to hurry along and catch up. The rear end of the animal was inflicted with some sort of nerve disorder or severe arthritis. The back legs trembled and collapsed with every other step. It would walk a few steps and the back legs would collapse to the ground. The dog then dragged the back legs a short distance until it could stand upright. It was a beautiful animal. The eyes of the dog appeared alert, lively, without a hint of frustration. Yellow and brown leaves steadily fell from a nearby tree and covered the narrow pathway. In the distance a young child playfully ran at a black squirrel chasing it up a tree. The sky was partially cloudy, however here and there a clear, blue sky emerged. It emerged between the clouds. There is an emptiness that exists between thoughts, and this emptiness is not limited. The movement of thought is narrow and limited. It is limited because it is grounded in memory, and memory is bound to the past. That means the activity of thought, which involves the whole array of personal opinion, belief, theory, prejudice, and all the rest of it, denies that which is has no bounds from coming into being. It is this movement of personal belief and prejudice that fills the brain, and as a result denies the emptiness. It is what stops the emptiness from emerging and thereby prevents the brain from coming upon that field of life that is boundless, infinite, and therefore sacred. 789. The death of the body is a totally and utterly insignificant event. It is like walking out of house and going outside. It is that easy and natural. 790. In the large open grassy field young children were playing soccer. One of the boys kicked the ball that hit another boy in the face. An adult on the sidelines took the crying boy from the field, hugged and comforted him. All of the children were very young, and did not know the rules of the game. Adults on the side lines were barking orders at them, and the children appeared distressed, confused, and did not seem to enjoy the game at all. In the distance a young woman and small child were playfully kicking a ball back and forth on the lush green lawn. There were no rules or pressure to try to kick the ball in a particular way. The child had great fun running after the ball, kicking it, and then watching it roll. There was a large group of older children from a nearby school singing in front of a crowd of onlookers. The children were dressed in uniforms, lined up in rows, and singing. Other children were selling baked goods under large white tents. Schools throughout the world do not seem to include in the curriculum what is most important in life. They do not teach what it means to love without conditions, what it means to live in freedom, what is intelligence, and what it is to live without the psychological conflict of anger, jealousy, frustration, loneliness, and so on. Instead schools seem to emphasize passing exams, getting good grades, finding a career that pays well, and all of that. Although today people must earn a living, it must not take a back seat to the importance to deeply and completely understand what it is to live without psychological conflict. It must not overshadow what it means to be inwardly free, not dependent on any mental image or form of memory. It must never be ahead of learning about what it means to love, not a love that is based on some belief or what some idiotic talk show host says about it, but a love that is actual, which means a love that has nothing to do with any idea or mental image. Any school that fails to include these things is not designed to educate the entire student or the whole human being. These are things that make a person whole, and out of that wholeness, everything else falls into place, such as having a job, earning a livelihood, and learning how to survive in this violent and insane world. Most current educational systems involve indoctrination that includes the pledge of allegiance to a particular flag or country, the participation in organized religious beliefs, customs, and traditions, the aggressive behavior, violence, and self promotion of competitive sports, and the comparison to standards that goes with letter grading systems. These are all activities that are designed to indoctrinate, condition, and therefore brainwash the students. As a result they have no place in any intelligent educational system. A school must be designed with no pledge of allegiance to any flag or country. It must be based on no form of belief, ideology, or philosophy. There must be no special days or events, no celebrations of any religious, political or personal beliefs. All of the government recognized religious holidays, the presidents days, the so-called holy days, and all that, must be thrown out. None of that must be recognized or given any importance whatsoever. Any and all sporting activities that involve competition, that pit person against person and are inherently divisive, aggressive, and all that, are unnecessary, involve violent behavior, and are to be discarded. Teachers are not to hold themselves above students, which means they are not to be put in positions of authority. Teachers must relate to students at the same level, which means there must be no separation between teacher and student. The absence of this separation makes possible for relationship without fear, anxiety, tension, or any sense of conflict. It demonstrates what it means to be in relationship without conflict, and therefore a relationship where there is great care, affection, and love. Only when every form of mental uneasiness and tension are not present in relationship is there the possibility for love to show itself. Love is not tension. It has nothing to do with any form of conflict or separation. When there is no separation between teacher and student, then a new kind of learning takes place that is undivided and therefore whole. It is a learning that goes hand in hand with the acquisition of practical knowledge and development of skills needed to live in the world today, as well as the exploration of what is the personal interest and talent for each and every student. This new kind of learning can only come about in relationship, and relationship means no separation, no division, no conflict, and therefore love. Love is what brings a quality of wholeness to learning that is free of conflict. It is the greatest learning. A school that has teachers who have this love is the greatest school, because it teaches and shows students what it is to learn, grow, and develop as whole human beings. 791. The thought that counseling, therapy, psycho analysis, and all that, can bring an end to depression, emotional distress, or behavior problems, is a fallacy. No thought can end any psychological problem. All of thought is rooted in memory. It is grounded in the past and therefore time. That means thought and time are intimately connected. It means if anyone offers you any idea or thought to end some psychological problem, conflict, or sorrow in your life, then they are offering you time. Time cannot end a problem now, which means time is the problem. Therefore say no to any thought offered by a book, web page, counselor, psychologist, or any so-called expert. Say no to the whole of human thought, which means say no to time. If you say no to time, then suddenly and unexpectedly that which is timeless comes into being. The brain comes upon what brings an end to every form of psychological problem, distress, and grief. It comes upon love. Only love ends all psychological problems. It is the only thing that can do that, because love is not the outcome of time. It has nothing to do with time. Love is timeless, which means it is a holy thing. 792. Attention unclogs the brain of all yesterdays, memories, and remembrances of the past. It erases memory, which includes all previous pleasures and hurts. As a result an inner cleansing takes place. The brain itself undergoes a purification. It is that purification that makes the whole of fear, greed, envy, jealousy, and all inner struggle come to a sudden stop. Be attentive now and notice what takes place. See what happens in the brain. Do it. 793. There is a dimension to existence that has nothing to do with time. It exists outside of time, and therefore the nature of it is timeless. The timelessness that exists in a single moment of linear time feels absolutely immense. It feels eternal. Similar to the amount of energy present in matter or the amount of empty space that exists between the particles or waves in an atom, the amount of timelessness in a single second of time is just as immense. Within a second of time there are what seems like hundreds, thousands, and millions of years of timelessness. The timelessness within the passage of a single second of linear time cannot be conveyed with words. The immensity of it is too great for the brain to grasp. It is too big to fathom. It is unfathomable. 794. Love can never be known. Everything known exists in memory, and memory is bound to the past, and therefore it is inherently limited. Love is not limited. It is not bound in any way. Love is unlimited. It is a boundless thing. 795. The ego is a collective of every mental image the brain cherishes, holds onto, and covets for a sense of safety, security and well-being. The mental images may be of status or position one has at a place of work, the feeling of promise at being a member to a church, social club, or political group. The images may be of the attachment to the idea of another person, spouse, child, savior, or God. There is an endless variety of mental images to which the brain can treasure, form an attachment, and seek comfort. However, the sense of comfort and security the brain may feel is an illusion. In fact when people attach themselves onto a particular belief, then that attachment divides them from other people. Division is the seed of conflict, and therefore it is the cause for every cruelty, terrorism, and war that has ever existed and goes on in the world today. It is the whole process of mental attachment that ultimately prevents physical safety and security. What human beings are doing to each other as a result of this division denies physical security. As a result it is dangerous and crazy behavior. It is insane. The collective of whatever images to which the brain is attached defines the ego. It creates the ego. As long as the brain embraces an image, any image, then that image forms an ego, which creates havoc, chaos, and a complete mess of things. Therefore as long as an ego exists there will always be conflict, violence, war, and all the insanity that goes with it. Conflict cannot exist without the ego. They are intimately tied together. They are entangled. However, it is more than mere entanglement. The ego not only goes hand in hand with conflict. The ego is conflict. They are the same. That is a fact. It is an enormous truth. If the brain faces that truth, and sees the insanity of attachment to any mental image, then that truth changes the brain. The ego may try to resist that truth, sweep it under a rug, or stamp it out of existence. However, a truth is something that the ego cannot touch. It is something that the ego cannot corrupt or destroy. Truth is something that never becomes obsolete. It has a genuine incorruptible character to it, which makes it an indestructible thing. Carefully go into this. Think through it for yourself. Take time away from work, home, family, and all that, and be alone with all of this. Go into it and figure it out. Explore it as thoroughly and as deeply as possible. Do it, and see what happens. 796. There were high winds, heavy showers, and flooding in fields, streets, and throughout the small town. The rain was relentless. Waves of water poured down. It came down in sheets, drenching the earth, and pouring leaves and mud in the streets. The sky was a solid thick mass of gray. The power of the storm was enormous. It brought about a child-like sense of awe and wonder. The body sat in a cushioned wicker chair that overlooked the falling rain through a large single pane window. The silence in the room was remarkable. It made you want to whisper. Unusual insights began to pop into the brain. It was a rapid stream of realizations that came back to back one after the other. It engulfed the brain. The brain was like an empty tube, vacant, vulnerable, and utterly receptive. The insights streamed through the tube without leaving a mark. There was no effort to interpret or decipher what was happening. There was only observation. The observation was simple, easy, and pure. It was unadulterated. The insights, epiphanies, or whatever you want to call them, was a continual streaming shift in the brain. The shifts were chasms of change. Everything was filled with change. The change was the present, the is-ness, and the brain was wholly immersed in it. The eyes were closed and feet flat on the floor. The body sat still, motionless, with an erect back. A powerful wind howled. An area of blackness appeared. The eyelids were closed, and a form of deep blackness appeared in some unknown area. The black form was small and irregular. It was blacker than black. There was nothing in it. It was pure nothingness. The nothingness was unnamable, untouchable. The vastness of it made the body quiver, and suddenly it vanished. In the blink of an eye it all disappeared. The wind continued to blow violently pelting acorns from a towering redwood tree onto a covered carport. Gusts of air blew through a small crack in the open window and filled the room with fresh, cool air. The body sunk into the softness of the bed, blankets, and pillows. The brain was sensitive and watchful. The body felt drained and fell into a long, deep sleep. 797. Intelligence has no religion, politics, country, or flag. It is a place where flags do not exist. 798. It was late evening and the house was empty and quiet. A solid door separated two rooms. One room was filled with light from a corner lamp. In the other room the light was turned off, and it was dark. The door opened. The dark did not enter the room filled with light. It was the light that entered the dark room and dispelled the dark. It completely erased the darkness from the other room. Light does that. It erases darkness. The key was the door, the door between light and dark needs to open for light to erase darkness. It is the same with intelligence and ignorance. The door between intelligence and ignorance needs to open for intelligence to erase ignorance. Ignorance is a mistake that the brain makes. It is a perspective about things that are bias, prejudice, and therefore slanted. A brain with a slanted perspective is ignorant. For example, a person who has any personal inclination towards a particular religious belief is bias. The person is mentally inclined to the belief, and views life through the filter of that belief. As a result the perspective is distorted. It is ignorant. Only intelligence ends ignorance. It cannot happen the other way around. Ignorance cannot touch, influence, or in any manner corrupt intelligence. Intelligence is incorruptible. Find out what is the door that prevents intelligence from showing itself, getting to, and thereby bringing an end to ignorance. If intelligence can simply get to ignorance then it does the rest. It acts. The action is instant, and ignorance disappears. It disappears all at once. The door that separates ignorance from intelligence prevents the ignorant brain from letting go of every form of personal inclination, bias, and prejudice. For example, a person must let go of the personal religious belief one has about Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Krishna, or whatever. What prevents that? What prevents the brain from dropping every form of inner inclination and attachment to the mental image that exists of Jesus or Allah? The door between ignorance and intelligence must come down. The door that separates the two must be opened. Is there is key that unlocks this door? The key must be related to intelligence. There must be a factor or quality of some sort that enters the mind which as a result brings about the realization needed to unlock this door. What is the quality of mind that enables a person to face this, take the plunge, and jump out of the whole field of mental attachment with both feet? It is obvious that the quality of mind involves no personal opinion or belief. It does not require any idea, concept, or form of thought, because all of that is bound to memory, which means it is fragmented. It is partial. Partiality implies bias, which creates distortion. Distortion means ignorance. That means all of that is out. Nothing in memory can be used to unlock this door. Nothing in any theory or belief has any value at all, which means that is the key. It is this nothing or nothingness, which means no memory, that is the key that opens the door. It is the factor that ends the ignorance within the brain. The realization that no thought of any kind, and therefore no mental image stored in the warehouse of human memory, can be used to open the door between ignorance and intelligence, is what opens the door. The realization into the nature of memory, that memory is partial, limited, and cannot be applied to end ignorance, is intelligence. That realization is the quality of mind that ends the ignorance within. There is no difference between that realization and intelligence. They are the same. The brain that no longer has any particular inclination or personal perspective about life no longer lives with any personal opinion and belief. All of that is finished. That means it no longer has a distorted perspective about life, which means it has come upon what it is to have a perspective that is clear and unblemished. The brain that comes upon intelligence has thereby made a huge discovery. It has come upon something that is unblemished, and therefore pure. The purity of it is unspeakable, however it is more than pure. There is something else, something more and much deeper about it. The brain has discovered that which cannot be sullied or adulterated in any way, which means it has come upon a field of existence that is unadulterated, pure, and therefore divine. It has come upon a divine other, and intelligence is that. Intelligence is divine. They are one and the same. 799. There is a barrier that separates ignorance and intelligence, and that barrier is one way. The barrier separates ignorance from intelligence, but it does not separate intelligence from ignorance. The barrier acts as a membrane. The membrane is transparent for intelligence, and it is opaque for ignorance. Intelligence can observe ignorance. It can see the ignorance of the ego, how it moves, and how it is an activity of psychological attachment. It sees how the ego gives meaning to particular mental images, the images of a person, a belief, a job, or whatever, and how it becomes mentally attached, suffers heartache, sadness, depression, and everything else that goes with it. The hammer that breaks down this barrier is insight. Insight is not the result of training. Training involves practice and study, which both take time. Insight has no relationship to time. That means insight is a sudden and instantaneous thing. Insight is the awareness that attachment to any mental image means misery, and therefore ignorance. The insight of that fact ends attachment. It wipes out any mental embrace that exists to any idea, thought, or concept. In the same instant the movement of ignorance stops. It ends. As a result an entirely different movement begins to operate in the brain. It is a movement devoid of attachment and absent any sense of inner hurt or sorrow. It is a movement that marks the beginning of a completely new way of life. It is the beginning of a life absent ignorance, and as a result filled with intelligence. A life of intelligence means living without psychological attachment, and therefore freedom. It means living free of all anxiety, worry, heartache, depression, and every form of psychological struggle, misery, and sorrow. It means freedom from all that nonsense. 800. Love is perfect. It is perfect in every way. 801. Intelligence has nothing to do with the known. All that is known is recorded in memory. Memory is limited. Intelligence is not limited, which means it has an eternal property about it, and therefore it can neither be created nor destroyed. Find out what it is to let go of the totality of the known, which means to give nothing that is known any importance. If you do that, then the brain comes upon an intelligence without beginning or end. It comes upon that eternal and indestructible other. 802. The sky was clear, open and empty. It was a beautiful day to die. 803. If memory is measurable, then it makes no sense to use it, or anything that lies within it, to come upon that which is immeasurable. Belief exists in memory. That means if you embrace belief, any belief, in order to come upon that which is immeasurable, then you are using a lie to seek the truth. you are not only making a mistake, you are wasting your life. 804. Pride in anything is worthless. It is worthless because it creates an ego. 805. If the ego fears loneliness, then let it be alone. If the ego fears loss, then let it lose everything. If the ego fear death, then let it die. 806. If your enemy loves you, then love your enemy, and if your enemy hates you then love your enemy. 807. Bless the idiot that goes to war against the other idiot, and then bless the other idiot. 808. If the whole of human knowledge, which means science, technology, art, literature, tradition, culture, and all that, are not given supreme value, and no opinions and theories are coveted, and no concepts and ideologies are embraced, then a new kind of learning takes place. The learning has no goal or conclusion. It has no end. The meaning of learning is found in the act of learning. The learning that occurs is insatiable. It is a learning that moves through the brain, and the brain does not hold it. It lets the learning go on and on and on. 809. Jealousy is mental hurt, torment, and distress. Love is not hurt. Love is not torment. Jealousy makes love an impossibility. Learn to live without an ounce of jealousy in your daily life, and suddenly the brain comes upon the insight of what is love. When that happens every sense of inner hurt and torment ends. That is what love does. It ends inner hurt. It wipes out the whole of it. 810. That which is sacred exists, which means it exists in the night or day, winter or summer, war or peace. 811. A love that is just sexual is not love. A love that is merely friendship is not love. A love that is only motherly, paternal, or devotional, is not love. Some think that love is a combination of all of these merged into one, and combined to form a love that is undivided and whole. However, if any one of these so-called forms of love involve memory, a mental image, or any form of thought, then it cannot be love. It cannot be love because memory and thought are grounded in limitation. Love is not something that has any limitations. Love has no limits at all. Love is unlimited, which means it has an infinite and therefore sacred character about it. Anything that does not have a sacred character about it has no connection to what is love. If you fail to find and find such a love in your life, then it is as though you never really lived at all. 812. The playback of memory stopped and the intimate other appeared. It emerged from nothing and came out of nowhere. It was far reaching, immense. It penetrated the brain. It was on the brain, in it, and through it. It made the brain sharp and incredibly alive. It seemed to touch every nerve in the body. The sensation was more than merely pleasant. It was beyond that. It was a bliss and inner joy. It was unbelievably joyous. It was not a definable physical form. It was not material. It was a formless and immaterial thing. The instant the movement of memory restored, the intimate and joyous other ceased. It stopped all at once. Watch what happens when the brain is quiet, watchful, which means the activity of memory is not operating. Do not believe a word of any of this. Watch without effort, expectation, or any degree of desire. Do it, and see what happens. Simply do it. 813. If you love another person, and that love is genuine, which means it is a love without conditions or limits, then that love has no end. It is a love that does not die. 814. The ego cannot end halfway. It is all or nothing. Until the ego ends altogether, then all the fears, sorrows, and struggles of existence will persist. They will go on and on and on. 815. The self in one brain is the same as the self in all brains. 816. All books have a first page and a last page. That means all books are limited. That which is sacred is not limited. Therefore no book is sacred. 817. Life is sacred. Therefore no church, mosque, temple, holy book, belief, or faith, compares to that sacred other which exists in a bird, tree, or blade of grass. 818. People demand an end to violence, but they refuse to do what is necessary to bring an end to it, which is why violence goes on day after day and year after year all around the world. If people discard every form of psychological identification and mental attachment they have to any person, physical object, or idea, which includes the ideas of personal opinion, belief, ideology, philosophy, and so on, then violence ends. It ends altogether. Test it out. Experiment with it. Do it yourself, and watch what happens. 819. There is no difference between the ego in you and the ego in another. That means you are every human being who has ever been, exists today, and will ever be. It means you are not only directly connected to everyone, but you are everyone. You are the same. Therefore every single thing you do impacts everyone. It touches the whole of humanity. If you learn what it means to be free, to be attached to no thought, no mental image and no belief, then you need do nothing else. You do not need to write a book about it, give any talks, or establish any kind of new age school. None of that is needed. It is not needed because if you change, then it touches, effects, and impacts everyone. It happens. This is a tremendous fact. It is a fact that brings a contentment and inner bliss unlike anything else. The bliss is unfathomable. 820. The music was calm and tranquil. The brain was silent of the noise of thought and mental image making, which means it was vigilant and filled with alertness. With eyelids closed an array of what seemed like shooting stars appeared. The starlike shapes moved with great speed as if one was passing through a tunnel. After an unknown time the star shaped objects burst apart and separated into random flowing movements. Suddenly the star shapes stopped, and a portal of some sort opened. It was a window into another unknown scene. The window was large and displayed moving scenes of landscapes, rolling hills with trees and grassy meadows. The scenes passed from left to right as if one was riding in a car or plane. Suddenly there were large groups of unknown figures, apparently people, who stood together tightly bunched. The figures performed an unknown activity. The attention of the figures seemed focused, and the activity was deliberate. The eyes began to tire, and all at once the portal closed. It vanished. There was no inclination or desire to interpret what took place. What happened left no impression on the brain. The brain remained watchful throughout the evening. Black covered the night sky. The rain was furious and pounded hard on the empty street and parked cars. The rain cleansed everything it touched. 821. The only peace that is real comes when you find out what it means to be psychologically independent. Psychological independence means to inwardly depend on nothing. The brain can only depend on a mental image or thought. The thought may be of a spouse, a boyfriend or girlfriend, a religious belief, a job, a house, money, God, friends, family, or whatever. Regardless what are the thoughts of dependence, they must end. They must all be completely purged from the brain. If there is only one dependence, then it is one dependence too many. There is no difference between a person who mentally depends on a single thought and the person who depends on a thousand thoughts. It is still dependence to thought. It is the same movement of dependence that is happening in the brain. Bring an end to the entire movement of mental dependence, and instantaneously the brain comes upon what it means to be free. It is in that freedom where the brain finds peace. It is a peace of mind that is not a hope, fantastic wish, or idealistic concept. It is not a concept about peace, but it is the real thing. 822. The body is a straight jacket and encumbrance. It is a meat suit. Intelligence uses the body. If the body is no longer of any use, then intelligence sheds it. It sheds the body at death. Take care of the body with good food, exercise, and all that, but be indifferent towards it. There is another field to life infinitely more precious than the body, anything physical, and all things that are bound to the earth. Intelligence is that infinitely precious field. It is an unearthly thing. 823. You don't plan to come upon that which is sacred. It just happens. 824. When the brain is empty of thought and idea making, another movement of life unveils, and in that unveiling what takes place at death is revealed. Death is the ending of your job, your possessions, your attachments, and your name. It is the end of the mental images you have of yourself. Therefore the end of the images you have of yourself leaves nothing. There is nothing. It is a birth of nothing, and nothing means everything. It means a dimension of unimaginable energy. That is what death is. It is the beginning and birth of an absolutely immense energy unlike anything one can possible imagine. It is not an idea or theory. It is palpable. It is something you feel. The key is to empty the brain of every image and idea that makes up your identity, including all ideas you embrace about a particular religion, political affiliation, family, work, or anything else. The emptying of these ideas and all idea making in the brain is what begins and releases the energy. The emptying is the energy. It is the thing that reveals what is death. 825. Watch the movement of the ego. It may try to seep into everyday living with hope, comparison, judgment, and the endless search for safety and continuity. Watch it and the movement stops. It ends. To discover what happens when the movement of the ego ends is the greatest and highest. It is the epiphany of a lifetime. 826. The body was seated in a hard cushioned chair in a quiet room. The back was straight, and the eyelids were shut. With eyelids closed the eyes continued to look. This went on for a long time, simply looking, watching, and observing without will or hope. Out of nowhere a portal opened. It was not a large opening, but the view was clear. There were figures of people. They seemed to exist and move outside the field of the known in a dimension that appeared outside of time. There was no mental playback of memory. It did not involve any movement of thought. The figures were moving and working. There was purpose in the work. The work was deliberate, and at the same time it was quiet and easy. The figures, beings, or whatever you want to call them, were completely and wholly in the present. The portal was in the present. It was there with the sounds of passing cars, the fresh air from an open window, and the feeling of clothing on the body. The mind was still, and it was in the stillness of the mind that the portal appeared. There was no attempt to communicate with the figures. There was only watching. There was simple observation. The figures seemed either unaware or ignored the fact that they were being watched. There was no desire to enter the portal, have it continue, or end. The observation lasted for a short while. The eyes began to feel strained, tired, and all of a sudden the portal closed. It closed abruptly, and disappeared altogether. The memory of it remained for a short time. There was observation of the memory of the very strange and unusual event. The remembrance of what happened then vanished, and the brain became empty and utterly silent. The silence was not dull or boring. There was no struggle or effort to understand, cope, or try to translate what happened. There was only silence. The brain was occupied with silence, which means it was bubbling and overflowing with enormous energy. The silence was energy. The brain was alert, watchful, and that watchfulness was the silence. It was the energy. They were the same. 827. Belief is memory, and memory is limited. That which is sacred is not limited. That means there is nothing sacred in any belief. 828. Discard every precious idea in the mind, and the mind discovers what is precious. 829. The only day with meaning is today. 830. A habit is a pattern of behavior that can come about through repetition. It can make the mind dull and sluggish. Mental alertness is what brings a total halt to sluggishness. It awakens the mind, and stops any and every sense of repetition. It is the factor that enables the mind to suddenly see a flower, tree, and sky as if for the first time. A sluggish mind, which means a mind that is caught up in a habit of thinking in a particular way, cannot penetrate into the tremendous beauty of a flower with all of the shapes, colors, and smells that is the flower. Watch what happens to the mind when it is alert and highly attentive. It gets sharp, and that sharpness brings an end to the dullness. It ends the dullness in the mind. It makes everything new and bursting with freshness. It is as though one sees things with young eyes. It makes the eyes young, innocent, and filled with the most extraordinary energy. A dull mind has no energy. It is listless, bored, frustrated. It falls victim to frustration and all the anxiety, tension, and mental conflict that goes with it. All of that conflict is wiped clean by the alert mind. This is something that is easily experienced. Do it now. Watch what happens in the mind when it is alert. Live that alertness. It is astounding what takes place. 831. Every organized religion in the world is based on a belief. A belief implies a mental image. That is obvious if you step back and look at it. Now what comes next is important. All mental images are memory, and memory is finite. That which is sacred is not finite, which means it is infinite. It is immeasurable. Therefore all organized religions throughout the world are using something that is finite to try to come upon that which is immeasurable, and therefore sacred. It means they are all making a mistake. 832. There is something that can occupy the mind that is neither directly nor indirectly a response to external stimuli, sights, sounds, and so on. To find out what that is one must learn what it is to observe without an idea, thought, or mental image. On must learn what it is to listen to a bird, a breeze, a spouse that one has lived with for years and years, as if for the very first time. 833. That which is sacred is unrestricted. Memory is restricted. It is restricted to the past. Therefore memory has no relation or connection to that which is sacred. A memorial is designed to preserve the memory of a person or event. That means there is nothing sacred in any memorial. 834. There are thousands of mysteries and secrets about nature, and there are new technologies that are knowable, which have not yet been made known. People make learning about and knowing these mysteries, secrets, and technologies primary, when what is primary is that which is unknowable and therefore exists outside the field of the known. The field of the known is memory. The whole of human knowledge, and that which is known, is stored in memory. It exists as memory. Memory is fundamentally a measurable thing. Give no mind to memory or any knowledge within it, and that which is immeasurable reveals itself. Do that and what is unknowable and primary unfolds. Love is that which is primary. It is that unknowable and immeasurable other. 835. All technology and science are movements in human thought, and therefore they are limited activities. As a result no advance in technology or scientific discovery can come upon that which is unlimited. It cannot come upon that which is infinite, and therefore sacred. Love is infinite. It is the only sacred thing that exists. 836. The practical success of learning what it means to bring an end to every form of psychological conflict as jealousy, anger, depression, fear, greed, frustration, and all the inner struggle and sorrow that goes with it, depends on one thing and one thing only. It depends on the end of the ego. 837. Not a harsh word, look, or thought or any kind can break apart love. Love is unbreakable. 838. Nothing can influence, touch, or in any way effect what is intelligence. Nothing can move it. Intelligence is an unmovable thing. 839. Human ignorance cannot end by the spread of knowledge. Knowledge is partial. It is inherently incomplete. To think that something partial and incomplete can bring an end to ignorance is a fallacy. Intelligence is the only thing that can end ignorance, because intelligence is not partial. Intelligence is not incomplete. Otherwise it would not be intelligence. The realization of that simple fact ends the emphasis the brain puts upon knowledge when it comes to this issue. The whole of human knowledge can do nothing to end the ignorance of personal bias, prejudice, opinion, belief, and all the division and violence that springs from it. The person that sees this fact is no longer tricked into believing that knowledge can end ignorance. As a result there is freedom from knowledge, and in that freedom the partiality within the brain ends. The brain comes upon that which is not partial, and therefore complete, whole. It comes upon a wholeness, and that wholeness is intelligence. The simplicity and beauty of what takes place is extraordinary. 840. Science and technology are merely forms of organized knowledge. Knowledge is limited, which means it does not have a total or holistic quality about it. Therefore knowledge cannot be used to end conflict. No scientific discovery or any technology can end conflict completely. Nothing limited can end anything completely. Therefore one must find out what event has an eternal nature about it, because only that eternal other, whatever it is, can end the whole of conflict, completely and totally. That which is eternal is not a castle in the air or dreamscape. It is not some sort of fool's paradise. Put away everything you know or have ever learned about it from books, periods of study, and the society in which you were raised. Discard your personal upbringing, every social norm, and pattern of thinking that you have about it. Make a clean slate of the brain. Only then can the brain have the capacity to come upon something new and unadulterated. When that happens the brain comes upon that which no form or aspect of knowledge can grasp. It comes upon that which is unknowable, unadulterated, and therefore eternal. It comes upon the event that ends conflict completely. 841. Explore and work out what it means to live without any degree of mental division or conflict. Do it as slow as needed so that it is clear, and you feel it when you begin. If you feel it when you begin, you will discover the beginning is the ending. They are the same. 842. The first step is to live with wonder and watchfulness. It is the first and last step. 843. The night sky was ablaze. The sky, stars, and emptiness between the stars were all alive, pulsating, breathing in and out. The brain was the sky. It was the emptiness. An immense awe and sense of veneration appeared. It was a veneration that came out of nowhere. It made the mouth open, and jaw drop. It made breathing quiet. It was not an earthly thing. The brain came upon it, and the end of knowledge is what reveals it. Knowledge begins with experience. When an experience happens, that experience is recorded in memory as a mental image. The mental image is knowledge. They are the same. However, there is an experience that has nothing to do with any image. It is an experience that has no relationship with knowledge or memory. It is the experience of that which is the present. The present may be a bird calling, car passing, or the glitter of a piece of broken glass in a street gutter. The experience of the present is active, moving, and flowing. It is a flow of watching, listening, and allowing every cell in the body and brain to be alert and intensely sensitive. Let go of all knowledge, which means the whole of human memory, and the veneration shows itself. The unearthly other comes into being. 844. When the brain banishes the ego, the brain changes. It happens all at once. 845. If you are cruel to any person, animal, or living thing, then there is no difference between cruelty and you. You are cruelty. You are one and the same thing. 846. Step back and look at the different societies in which people live around the world with all the various beliefs, customs, and habits of behavior. People around the globe have been habituated. They have been conditioned. The only thing to realize is that you are conditioned. If you realize that fact, then that realization brings about a change. It changes the brain. The brain suddenly becomes aware of what it is. It sees itself. It realizes how it has been trained and programmed to follow this custom, that tradition, or whatever lifestyle that exists in the particular society, group, or family in which it finds itself. It is the realization of ones own conditioning that brings freedom from conditioning. As a result the psychological conditioning of years of upbringing, training, education, and all that, no longer has any meaning. The brain suddenly places no value on any of that. It gives no significance to any conditioning that goes on in any corner of the globe, which means the brain discovers what it is to be free. It comes upon freedom. 847. A large gaggle of geese and goslings were foraging on the open grassy lawn. The lawn was surrounded by trees and a walkway that snaked along the sandy shore of the bay. A man was wind surfing a long distance from shore. He was jetting across the waves at a very fast speed. He seemed to be a very accomplished surfer making all sorts of loops, jumps, and spins. Suddenly the surfer crashed into the grey, murky water, and disappeared together with the board, mast, and sail. In no time the wind lifted up the sail, the surfer rose, and once again he began to sail across the open sea. A giant roll of thick, grey clouds slowly turned over the western hills. Grey and black boulders outlined the walkway that extended out into the bay. A young child was riding a bicycle and was chastised by a parent for riding fast. The body felt strong and sensitive as it walked down the hill on the narrow path facing a cool, strong wind. There was the urge to stop, stand still, and look upon the waves, distant hills, and beautiful blue sky. Suddenly it came. An unexpected sense of impenetrable peace unfolded. It was a peace that depended on nothing. It was intimate, penetrating. It was not something that took time to unfold, but it was instant and altogether immediate. It was not an idea. There was no concept or anything the brain could inwardly hold, grasp, or in any manner put into some kind of thought. Any sort of thought of it was not it. It was the absence of thought that seemed to unveil or invite it. There was no intent or any act of will involved. It was the release of thought, desire, and will that seemed to bring it about. Thought and will are movements of memory and therefore the past. This had nothing to do with the past or any yesterday. The brain surrendered to all yesterdays. It surrendered to the whole of the past, and in that surrender the present showed itself. It opened up and came out. The present and the sense of peace were not different. They were one and the same movement. The feeling was both mysterious and extraordinary. There was nothing like it. The body continued down the narrow dirt path and onto the busy street filled with bumper to bumper cars. The small homes along the street were well manicured with mowed lawns, trimmed trees, and landscaped front yards. A lone sea bird glided high in the sky. It was a glorious day. 848. Live as a riding tide, a falling leaf, a cloud as it moves across an empty sky. That is all you need to do. Nothing else is needed. 849. Find out what it is to be a nonentity. Only then can that sacred other be invited. 850. Love does not choose. 851. Love reveals that which is timeless, holy, and sacred. It is what humanity aches to possess. Love does not yield to pride or vanity. It cannot be altered by prejudice, desire, sex, or money. It is unyielding and therefore it is an unalterable thing. The ego seems to be nearly as unyielding as love, because it has resisted the immense beauty and wonder of it for thousands of years. The idea that time will gradually modify human thought so that it has the capacity to come upon this love is a mistake. It is wrong because that which is sacred has nothing to do with time. Love is sacred. It is a timeless thing. 852. Your life may be consumed with a job, house work, caring for children, exercise, money, sex, and all that. It may be filled with small, insignificant, and terribly petty little things. Meditate each day. Meditate for any earthy period and that will be enough. It will be enough to keep the brain sane, healthy, and allow the unearthly other to flow through it. 853. People desire love, but they mistake a mental image for it. Any image of love denies love, because the image of a thing is never the actual thing. The image makes coming upon what is love an absolute impossibility. 854. Look at something without an idea of it. Look at a sky, tree, cloud, spouse, or co-worker without the filter of any idea at all. To look without an idea means to look with eyes that are alive, curious, and filled with vitality. If you look at something without an idea of it, then there is no space between you and it. No space means no separation. The end of separation means the idea and the idea-maker vanish. It means there is no you. There is only looking. It is in the looking without idea-making that brings aliveness and vitality to the brain. The vitality is huge and far reaching. It is absolutely immense. 855. Happiness does not exist in thoughts. It exists in the space between thoughts. 856. The ego as the psyche or personality is fundamentally bias. It is bias with inclinations based on education, leanings based on upbringing, and preferences based on the conditioning of friends, family, and the society it finds itself. That means the ego is basically a psychological movement that is slanted, twisted, and therefore distorted. Bias means distortion. They are the same. That means the ego is a psychological state of distortion, and distortion means ignorance. It is not that the ego is separate from ignorance. The ego is ignorance. It is the same state and movement. It is the same thing. Nothing ends ignorance except intelligence. That is an incredible fact. It is incredible because it means at bodily death if the ego occupies the brain, then the ego must go on. The ego must leave the body, eject from the brain, and carry on. Therefore when the body is finished the ego continues. It continues without the body. What happens when the ego moves on cannot be fathomed by the ignorant brain. The ignorant brain may imagine, hope, and believe all sorts of things. It may envision itself as a spirit, a light, or an immortal soul that goes through a tunnel, meets deceased loved ones, encounters angels, God, heaven, hell, and so on. However, as long as the brain remains ignorant, it is not to be trusted. This is important to understand. Whatever the ignorant brain thinks, imagines, believes, concocts or in any way psychologically conjures up about what happens when the body dies, must be discarded. Therefore all imagination, hope, and belief about it must be abandoned. It must be let go. Only when the whole structure and movement of psychological ignorance has ended, can intelligence occupy the brain. Only the intelligent brain can come upon insight into what is death. The key is purging the ignorance. This purging needs to happen, because only when ignorance ends can what takes place at death show itself. 857. Cling to the image you have of yourself and everything is lost. Let it go and everything is revealed. 858. The freeway was jammed with congested traffic. The eyes and faces of drivers looked stone-like, glazed over, and lifeless. They appeared to be entranced in thought, and therefore mentally dead. The cars were like metal coffins carrying people going nowhere. The mind turns into a lifeless thing when it latches onto and gets swept up in the activity of thought. The thought may be about work, family, money, sex, politics, art, science, religion, God, or whatever. Regardless of the type of thought, to be internally possessed by thought destroys mental aliveness. It kills creativity, and takes away inner passion. Only when the insanity of being psychological caught up in thought comes to a stop, can the mind learn what it is to live without stress, anxiety, and all of the inner torment that goes with it. Only then can the mind find that extraordinary quality of inner peace and emptiness that knows no torment of any kind. Psychological emptiness is not an emptiness in which the mind falls into a mental daze, stupor, or blankness. It is not some sort of mindless inner void. Instead it is an emptiness that is not empty but full. It is a fullness. The emptiness brings a fullness to the mind, because the mind discovers what it is to not be possessed by any thought at all. It discovers what it is to be possessed by nothing, which means it comes upon freedom. It is in that freedom where the mind finds out what it is to live without anxiety, frustration, disappointment, fear, and every sense of inner hurt and grief. As a result an inner release takes place, and a tremendous vitality and energy begins. The mind discovers an energy that has no relationship to thought. It is an energy with no connection to any aspect of memory or time. Thought is memory, and memory is the past. It is time. The mind that has learned what it is to live without being caught in the cycle of thought suddenly finds it no longer moves in time. The whole movement of psychological time ends. It no longer operates. As a result the mind enters into and merges with a dimension of timelessness. It comes upon that which is timeless, which is not something that can be possessed, put into a pocket, or imagined in any way. It is an absolutely unimaginable thing. 859. What is impossible for the ego is possible without it. 860. The young man was said to have financial worries and failed relationships. As a result he committed suicide. When you commit suicide the troubles that plague the self do not end as one might believe. They do not go away. Only love ends the self and all the worries that go with it. The brain that has not discovered what is love, which means a love that has no worries, problems, or sorrows of any kind, is plagued with the self, and so if the brain dies, then the self survives. It goes on. It goes on because only love can bring an end to worry. Only love can end every problem, trouble, heartache, and sorrow known to man. That means if the self exists in the brain at death, then all of the worry, heartache, depression, and all that the rest of it, continues. It continues in another body. It carries on in another person, which means it carries on in the neighbor, co-worker, spouse, parent, and child. It does that because there is no difference between the self that exists in you and the self that exists in any other person in the world. It is the same. Only when the self discovers what it is to love can the cycle of birth and death stop. It stops altogether. Find out what it is to come upon a love that has no worries, troubles, and sorrows of any kind. All worry and sorrow are caused by thought, and thought is a limited and finite thing. Love is not limited, which means it unlimited. It is infinite. Find out what it is to have that love inside you. Do that and break out of the whole senseless cycle of sorrow. Do not say you will do it tomorrow or at some time in the future. The future is merely an idea, and love is not an idea. Therefore do it now. Love only exists now. It only exists in the present, which means the past and future have no value when it comes to finding out what it means to love. They have no value at all. 861. There is something the brain can tumble into that overflows with the most vital and primordial energy. However, any idea of it is not it. Any idea, concept, or mental image of it only serves to prevent it from coming out. Ideas and images are fixed and stagnant things. They are confined to memory, and therefore limited. This energy is not limited. That which is limited prevents this unlimited other from emerging. The whole process of mental image making must cease for this energy to be encountered. When that happens you feel it. You feel it as a fact. You feel it as a life changing realization. It is a realization that makes the jaw drop, breathing shallow, and the mountains, clouds, and sky to suddenly come alive. 862. To observe life through the lens of the ego, which means memory, and therefore that entity which is partial, broken up, and therefore not whole, necessarily distorts the observation. It distorts perception, and thereby prevents the ability to see clearly. At physical death the same distortion takes place. If the ego has not ended in life, then it continues in death. What takes place at death may feel real and true, however it is not. It cannot be what is true, because if the ego continues, then distortion continues. Anything the ego meets, encounters, and goes through is partial. It is not whole. The key is to end the ego. Bring an end to the ego, and every sense of partiality and fragmentation fall away. As a result a wholeness comes about. An inner wholeness unfolds. The wholeness that unfolds when the ego ends, is the same wholeness that is revealed at death. The ego must be totally vacated from the brain. Only then does the actuality and whole of what takes place at death show itself. 863. Conflict is walking away from what it is to love without conditions. 864. Sorrow is a movement in itself. There is no your sorrow or my sorrow. There is only sorrow. Love ends sorrow. Nothing else does that. That means not even physical death ends sorrow. If sorrow does not end in life, then it continues. It continues until love ends it. 865. Memory operates only in the field of past experience, knowledge, and the known, which makes it a narrow, partial, and terribly limited thing. Intelligence is not partial. It is not narrow or limited. Therefore memory has no relationship with intelligence. Memory cannot perceive, fathom, or in any way grasp what is intelligence. It cannot grasp how intelligence works or acts. The action of intelligence does not involve any aspect of memory, which means it is an action that does not contain any idea or mental image. All images are housed in memory. As a result every image, idea, and thought are limited by nature. They are all snapshots of experience, which makes them partial, incomplete. Intelligence is impartial, and therefore it is complete. It is whole. It is an action in wholeness, which means it does not depend on anything. It is perfect independence. It is a completeness that needs nothing. It does not even need the brain. That means it operates independent of the brain. This is quite an interesting fact. The brain can tune into intelligence, and intelligence can thereby operate in the brain, however intelligence remains separate from the brain. Only the brain that has brought about an end to the ignorance within it can come upon intelligence. Until that happens intelligence cannot work in the brain, which means all of the fear, worry, anxiety, despair, depression, and sorrow of everyday living will go on. Human sorrow is needless and wasteful. It is wasteful because there is another way to live that is not partial, limited, or divided in any way. A life that is divided is a life of conflict. Dividedness means conflict. They are the same. The brain that ends the ignorance within it, comes upon that intelligence which has no division or limitation. It comes upon that which connects to and thereby touches everything, the stars, the earth, mountains, oceans, animals, trees, and all mankind. It comes upon that which surrounds people with all of their pettiness, inner hurts, conflicts, and problems. It surrounds the ignorant criminal, jealous spouse, and greedy businessman. Memory cannot in any manner grasp what is taking place. It cannot comprehend the significance of the unlimited other that surrounds the whole of life. End the ignorance within and that unlimited other shows itself. The brain comes upon that which is unlimited, infinite, and therefore holy, and it is not separate from it. Words do not do justice for what happens in the brain. What emerges is extraordinary. 866. If the ego exists in the brain, which means ignorance, distortion, sorrow, and all that, then it is the same as any other ego. If an ego is in you, then there is no difference between you and any other human being. Your life is not greater or smaller than that of any other person. It is neither smaller than that of the greatest person nor greater than that of the smallest person. It is the same. However, bring an end to the ego, and suddenly an entirely new and different life unfolds. It is totally unlike anything else. It is natural and completely different at the same time. It is a way of living that is both natural and unequal in every way. 867. If you come upon what is love, a love with no end, then the brain turns on. The brain comes alive. It changes how you breathe, where you go, what you say. You discover what it is to live deeply in the present. Things that mattered before, the struggle for money, status, power, authority, relationships, sex, security, God, and all that, no longer have value. All of that struggle no longer makes any sense. The whole of struggle turns into a useless and senseless thing. 868. Compassion for people who live in agony, misery, and terrible sorrow only has meaning if it is based on a love that has no conditions, no limits, and therefore no end. 869. The instant you come upon a time and place without distraction, which means no work, no eating, no family, no sex, no telephone, no television, no internet, none of that, then go into what it means to step out of living in psychological time. Think as carefully, deeply, and rigorously as you can from every angle, up, down, inside and out, without the help from any book, another person, or anything else. Think through it, and be vigilant not to fool yourself. Be watchful not to fall into a trap. If you think through it, and come to a conclusion, then that is not it. A conclusion means a mental image, and an image involves memory. Memory is the past and therefore time. It is psychological time. Therefore if you are left with any idea, thought, or mental image of any kind, then that is not it. All of that must be denied. The complete movement of thought, playback of hopes, dreams, beliefs, and all the rest of it, must be internally put into the garbage bin. The denial of all that brings an end to living in time. It reveals that timeless other. 870. Thought as the ego is like a box. It is a box that contains all the evils of human life. Use thought for play and practical things. Other than that give it no mind. 871. At the most basic level consciousness contains ideas, mental pictures, and thoughts. The collection of all that may be described as the content. It may be described as thought. Any personal opinion, theory, faith, ideology, or conclusion about anything takes the form of thought. In short, it means that consciousness is its content, and that content is thought. However, there is more to the content that merely thought. There is also the space that exists between thoughts. There is the non-thought or emptiness that exists when thought is absent. This is important to understand. Thought is finite and limited by nature. Therefore the emptiness that exists between thoughts is not that. It is not finite, which means it is infinite. It is unlimited. To have an insight into that emptiness, one must explore what it is to bring an end to the activity of thought as analysis, concentration, desire, struggle, belief, and all the rest of it. This exploration cannot involve any type of effort, training, or mental exercise. All of that implies thought and therefore it has no value. In fact the whole of human knowledge has no value when it comes to this matter. If you see that fact, then there is freedom from knowledge. There is freedom from every form of thought, which means freedom from limitation. The mind that is free comes upon the emptiness that exists between thoughts. It comes upon that which is unlimited. That which is unlimited is not confined to the brain. If it was confined to the brain, then it would not be unlimited. The brain that stays away from the activity of thought and the whole of human knowledge, comes upon this other dimension. It meets it. The brain tunes into it. Only when this whole activity comes to a standstill can the brain tune into that unlimited, infinite, and endless other. Meditation ends that activity. The brain that learns to be still and completely quiet, discovers what it is to meditate. It is not a deliberate sort of meditation. It is not a meditation that requires planning, training, any idiotic mantra, or anything having to do with time. Any form of meditation that involves time is a fraud. It is a gimmick. It is a gimmick, because time means thought. It means limitation, and as a result there is the whole circus of struggle, ambition, and all the inner disappointment that goes with it. Therefore any form of meditation that involves time goes out the window. It is also a fallacy to state that this emptiness always exist. The word “always” implies time, and therefore thought. It is a trap that the brain falls into. It is trap because if a person embraces any thought, then that mental embrace turns into a conclusion, opinion, or belief. It perpetuates thought, and thought denies the emptiness. It denies the infinite other from manifesting. Therefore embrace no thought, no idea, no mental image of any kind. Included in that is the mental image of a job, a person, a religious belief, a particular culture, a political group, a personal philosophy about life, death, relationships, God, the devil, and all the rest of it. It means there is psychological identification to nothing. Only when that happens is the emptiness real. Only then can the brain come upon that infinite, endless, and unadulterated other. Thought as belief, faith, and personal ideology is adulterated. It is adulterated because it divides people, causes war, and all that foolishness. However, the emptiness that exists between thoughts does none of that, which means it is not in any way adulterated. It is unadulterated, pure, and unblemished. It is sacred. Find out what it is to meditate, which is the discard of the entire activity of thought from moment to moment, and that sacred other comes out. It makes itself apparent. 872. There is a source of all that is. It existed before time. In the beginning the source divided. It divided into yes and no, male and female, right and wrong, order and disorder, intelligence and ignorance. It divided into all that, but it was no division. The source knows no division. That means there is infinite significance to life for the beggar, criminal, sorrowful, and poorest of the poor. To come upon this significance one must come upon the source, which means one must bring an end to the division within. Division means conflict. Therefore one must have no conflict throughout daily living, which means no anxiety, no frustration, no disappointment, no inner pain, sorrow, or torment of any kind. One needs to learn what it is to have no conflict at work or home, when you wait for your order in a restaurant, talk to the auto mechanic about the repair work needed for your car, or when you are alone with yourself sitting in the shadow of a tree under an immense blue sky. Find out what it is to have no inner conflict of any kind in your mind, heart, and throughout daily life. Only when every sense of inner conflict has been totally obliterated can one come upon that source, because the source knows no conflict. It knows no division, which means it is something that possesses a divine quality about it. The source is divine. It is a holy thing. 873. Regardless what you do, how you live, or who you are, you belong to the human family, which means you likely have one basic thing in common. You struggle. You struggle for love, peace, happiness, freedom, the ability to live without fear, and the search for safety and security in this violent and dangerous world. There is no difference between you and any other person who struggles. If struggle exists in the brain of a famous, wealthy, or powerful person, then it is no different than the struggle that exists in the criminal, poor, or powerless. It means there is no difference between the lives of any of the people who struggle. They are the same. People think some people, the scientists, artists, business person, clergy, presidents and kings are somehow greater human beings then the beggar, homeless, and poorest of the poor. However, if they struggle, then they are not different in any way. They are the same. 874. Be curious, innocent, and wakeful. Live like a child. Live in wakefulness. 875. If you pray, then when you pray a mental image is formed in the brain. That image exists in memory. Memory exists in the head. It exists between your ears. That means if you go to a church, mosque, or temple, and you pray, then you are praying to yourself. 876. There is a love unlike anything that can possibly be imagined. It is a love that is more powerful that anything ever conceived, organized, or made by man. It is not powerful in terms of force, push, and pull. It is not a power like that which exists in a government ministry, corporation, military, church, educational or philanthropic organization. It is not a power that comes with any sort of personal belief, faith, ideology, or philosophy. A belief or philosophy is merely an idea. It is a mental concept. Love is not that. Love is infinitely greater then any idea or mental concept that can exist in the brain. Any concept is trapped in memory and therefore the past. It is restricted to the past. The past as memory is a narrow thing. Love is not narrow. Love is not something that is bound in any manner. That means the person who comes upon love discovers that which touches everything and everyone. The person comes upon that which envelopes the stars, sky, mountains, plants, animals, and every living thing on earth. Love does that. Love envelopes the earth. It encompasses all of mankind. Nothing else in existence does that. There is nothing more far reaching, immense, and powerful than a love that is unrestricted, boundless, and therefore endless. Find out what it is to come upon a love without end, and you will discover an inner power and strength greater than anything anyone can ever imagine. You will come upon the unimaginable. 877. Everything in the dimension of thought, memory, and therefore time, pales compared to that which is timeless. It is like the difference between a thing and the shadow of a thing. Living in time is like living in a pale, dull, and lifeless shadow. That which is timeless is not dull or lifeless. It is something that is vital, vibrant, and immensely alive. That which is timeless is alive. It is life itself. 878. You may have a well paying job, live in a beautiful house, drive expensive cars, enjoy luxurious vacations, entertainment, pleasure, sex, and all that, however unless you are completely and totally mentally unattached to all that, which means you have the capacity to let it go, and not have it touch or effect you in any way, then you will never be free. Without freedom life is shallow. It is more or less a waste. Just for the fun of it, explore what it means to be mentally free. Examine what it is to be not attached to any memory or mental image at all. Test it out. To test it out means to not just think about it. It means to live it. Test what it is to actually live without a shred of psychological dependence to any idea or mental image of anything or anyone. Do that and you will learn what it is to be independent. You will experience it first hand, and thereby learn for yourself what it is to be free. The life of a person who is free is infinitely greater and more meaningful than the life of a person who is attached to status, power, wealth, fame, pleasure, or anything else. It does not matter if you are a king or peasant, priest or heathen, CEO of a large company or lowly office worker, because if you are mentally attached, and therefore not free, then your entire life, which means the things you do and decisions you make, will have no real meaning. They will have no real meaning because without freedom there is no love. Love is what gives life meaning. It makes possible for life without sorrow of any kind. Psychological dependence is the cause of sorrow. It is the cause of sorrow that expresses itself as jealousy, anger, depression, loneliness, anxiety, frustration, fear, and all the rest of it. Love brings a stop to all of that. You may be in a position of authority, and the decisions you make may seem to effect millions, but without love, the things you do and the decisions you make will have no real effect on anything or anyone. They will have no fundamental meaning at all. 879. If you look at the night sky, the planets, stars, and everything else that is the vastness and immensity of the universe, then every psychological problem, trouble, and anguish you have in your life, becomes a very small and insignificant thing. All problems, worries, and troubles fall away when there is no division between you and the stars. If the division between you and what is seen ends, then all of that triviality cancels out. It disappears. Watch what happens when you observe a thing without any sense of division. Just do it. 880. Do not rely on anything for inner peace, not family, not work, not money, not pleasure, not sex, not belief, not ideology, not culture, not anything. Only when you rely on nothing, and you are deeply and honestly at ease with it, can you come upon a peace of mind that cannot be effected, influenced, or penetrated by anything. It is a peace that the brain can encounter, but it does not require the brain. That means it is a peace that exists independent of the brain, and therefore has no relationship with anything that has been or can be put together by people. It is immune from the activities of man, which means man cannot manipulate or corrupt it in any way. It is an incorruptible thing. 881. If you ever feel despair, despondent, or filled with gloom and doom, then do not try to escape from it. Do not seek any help, advise, or answers from any self-help book or so-called mental health expert. Simply observe it. Look at it straight on. Watch the conflict, whatever it is, as it moves in and out of the brain, which means observe the mental image or images that accompany all of those feelings. If you observe what is going on inwardly at the moment the feelings arise, then you can see how the brain is caught up in a movement of mental imagery. It is lost in the world of ideas and thoughts. It does not matter what color, flavor, or shape the ideas take. It is irrelevant what are the tone and volume of the thoughts. What matters is that there is awareness of the ideas. What is important is that the movement of thought must be observed. It must be watched, which means there is no effort to suppress, modify, or control the movement. Any desire or effort to control thought implies a psychological center. It means an ego. Effort implies an ego. However, observation without effort has no ego. It prevents the ego from existing. The brain that learns what it is to observe without effort experiences the absence of the ego. It experiences the end of effort, struggle, and therefore every sense of inner conflict. It discovers what it means to bring an end to conflict. The discovery that takes place is fantastic. It enlightens the brain about what is the fundamental cause for every sense of fear, anxiety, and feeling of gloom and doom. The brain awakens, which means it becomes wise, intelligent, and enlightened. In that enlightenment, or however you want to describe it, the brain comes upon what it means to have no hint of inner opposition or duality. Every sense of psychological duality comes to a stop. All of the mental fighting that has existed throughout life suddenly ceases. It ends. In the ending of all that the brain comes upon what it is to have peace of mind. This is not a peace of mind related to any idea, thought, or mental image, which means it is real. It is the real thing. 882. An open mind is not bound to any idea, concept, or psychological ideal. It is not attached to any personal opinion, belief, conclusion, rationalization, or philosophy. It is a mind unbounded, and therefore completely and wholly unattached. Attachment denies freedom. Therefore an open mind is a free mind. They are the same. 883. When you realize what demolishes the me, the I, thereby coming upon that which is innocent, pure, and therefore sacred, it is not that you see or hear it. You feel it. You feel it as a fact. 884. The end of the ego brings about the ability to empathize with the feelings, thoughts, and attitudes of another at an unusual depth that otherwise would not be possible. One sees the root cause for any and all grief, anguish, and sorrow that exists in another due to the loss of a home, a job, or a loved one. As a result an immediate and total understanding comes about why another person struggles, lives with hardship, and goes through life with continuous frustration, anxiety, loneliness and despair. The feeling that comes brings about a different and extraordinary type of empathy. It brings compassion. It is not a compassion that has anything to do with pity, sympathy, or any kindly sort of inner sorrow. It is a compassion that is the result of learning what is love. However this is a love unlike anything else. It is a love that has nothing to do with anxiety, despair, frustration, or loneliness. It is a love that obliterates all that. It is a love that destroys every inner hurt and struggle that exists within. When you have such love, then compassion naturally arises. It happens. Compassion without love is not compassion. It is a fraud. Only when one discovers what is love, which means a love that has no limits, no conditions, and no sorrow of any kind, can one have compassion for another. 885. If you inwardly cling to any form of thought as personal belief, faith, or ideology, then mentally a division takes place. An internal divide happens between the past and present. Thought is memory, which means the past. The past is not the present. They are two completely different things. The past cannot approach, grasp, or meet the present. If you try to meet the present with the baggage of the past, then division is created, and division means conflict. The baggage of the past is the source for all human conflict. If you carefully look at it, that is the simple truth. It is a fact. However, if you let go of personal belief, faith, and whatever thought or mental image the brain clings to, then the division between the past and present ends. The end of this inner division wipes away every psychological disturbance, trouble, and feeling of unease. The whole of mental unease dissipates. The release of every form of thought that the mind cradles and makes all important is the factor that allows all such mental conflict to stop. It allows all of it to end instantly. 886. Embrace no thought, and the capacity to live a simple and innocent life is made possible. 887. When you relinquish every mental image that gives life meaning, the images of a spouse, job, God, or whatever the case may be, there is an inner movement that occurs which is similar to a psychological progression and regression. It is a movement in which the deepest feelings that the heart can ever have advance and fall back, move forward and backward at the same time. An inner movement occurs that creates a balance. An extraordinary inner balance and harmony takes place, and there is awareness of it. The mind comes upon an insight, and suddenly an awareness takes place into the whole nature of human struggle, strife, and hurt. There is an instant and total realization of the absence of division, the division between right and wrong, order and disorder, intelligence and ignorance, love and hate, and all the rest of it. The absence of division is this balance. It is this harmony. The insight, awareness, realization, or however you want to put it, changes the brain. It brings a harmony to the whole of life, and the brain is not separate from it. It is not different from the harmony. It is the harmony. They are the same. 888. People are only different from each other if you make them so. 889. There are two worlds. There is the world of time, which is thought and all of that which is material and earthly. There is also the world of timelessness, which is not thought, immaterial, and therefore unearthly. When the brain comes upon that which is timeless, it discovers what it is to live in both worlds at the same time. It discovers how to live without any division between the earthly and unearthly. When you come upon that undivided and timeless other, the real thing, there is no going back. The power, might, and massive greatness of it demands the presence of mind. It is as if the mind is compelled by it. It is as if the mind is compelled to reside in it. 890. Come upon a love that has no conditions and you will have lived a full life. You will have lived a life that could not have been any fuller, richer, or more complete. 891. There is only one family. It is the human family. 892. The end of the ego reveals what it is to face eternity. 893. If you want to live with an ego, and all the sorrow it brings, then take that road. It is up to you. 894. If you live with the conflict of jealousy, anger, frustration and fear, then you cannot come upon what is love. Love is not conflict. It is that simple. 895. When you understand that the thinker is thought, the thinker is memory, which means it is limited, and therefore it cannot be used to come upon that unlimited, endless, and therefore sacred other, then that insight rips you apart. It tears you into pieces. It is in that moment when your eyes are opened, and the world is suddenly seen in a completely different light. It is as though you have brand new eyes, eyes that have the ability to see people, your job, your family, animals, trees, the sky, as if for the first time. You see everything without any filter or barrier. All at once there is connection and relationship with the whole of life. There is no longer any separation between you and the boss, you and the criminal, you and spouse, you and the stars, tree, bird, pebble, and grain of sand. You are all that. A relationship occurs that thrusts the mind into a world without separation, which means a world without time. The mind comes upon that which is timeless. What happens is astonishing. It is beyond belief. 896. In the same way light puts out all darkness, intelligence stamps out all ignorance. Ignorance is the whole movement of psychological possessiveness. If you psychologically possess another person, a job, money, sex, a religious belief, a political party, or whatever, then that possessiveness gives rise to conflict. There is no way around that fact. It means the formation of deep rooted apprehension, uneasiness, and fear that the possession can be threatened, taken away, or lost. A life of apprehension and uneasiness is no life at all. A life of fear is a waste. It is more than a waste. It is ignorant. It is ignorant because it is unnecessary. The mind that brings an end to every form of psychological possessiveness at the same time obliterates every sense of inner discomfort and unease. It ends living in fear, the fear of failure, the fear of the boss, the fear of loss, and also the fear of death. It ends all of that, which means it ends living in ignorance. The mind that has brought ignorance to an end comes upon a light that dispels the darkness within. The light is not a light that one sees with the eyes. It is nothing like that. It is a light that one feels. It is a light that enlightens, and therefore penetrates and changes ones entire being. One is no longer possessive of anything, which means one is free. The mind is enlightened, and that enlightenment sets the mind free. It is this inner light, enlightenment, intelligence, or whatever name you want to give it, that shows a new direction for everyday living. One cannot approach it in a gradual manner. Anything gradual implies time. Intelligence has nothing to do with time. That means one must dive into it. It is like taking a plunge. It is something that only occurs in a flash. It is an instantaneous thing. 897. All human knowledge and past experience are memory, and memory means time. Therefore the whole of human knowledge and past experience have no value and cannot be used to reveal that aspect of life in which time does not exist. Only if time is discarded can the window open to that which is timeless. Let the whole of human knowledge, experience, and memory die away. Let all of it wash away, and in that washing away it happens. Psychologically time ends. It is the washing away of all that day by day, hour by hour, and moment by moment that reveals the timeless other. 898. To feel deeply connected with every person, every creature, and every plant, one must learn to observe without an image, which means the image maker must be unplugged. It must turn off. 899. Love has a kind of tone. The tone is similar to a frequency that is alive and massively vibrant. When the chatter of thought as the mental attachment to ideas subsides, then the brain can tune into that frequency. However, the chatter must stop. If that happens an extraordinary internal change takes place. The brain undergoes a shift, which means an inner transformation takes place. As a caterpillar turns into a butterfly with the ability to fly, the brain changes and starts to work completely differently. It begins to operate in an entirely new and different way. All inner hurts, troubles, and torments that ever existed with relationships, family, work, finances, the struggle to fulfill personal hopes, dreams, and desires, and all the worry and stress that go with it, suddenly disappear. Love brings all of that to an end. It wipes out the whole wall of worry in a sudden and explosive instant. Find out what it means to bring a stop to the whole business and chatter of mental attachment. Do that. If you do it, then it happens. The brain instantly has the ability to tune into that frequency, which is love, and thereby bring a stop to every torment and trouble that exists. Love does that. It ends all torment. It makes every trouble disappear. 900. Follow the truth no matter where it leads. 901. The brain of a child is not conditioned by belief, faith, and all the funny little rituals that go with it. It is not conditioned, and therefore it has an unconditional quality about it. Find out what it means to have the brain of a child, to live without any trace of belief or faith in everyday living, because only then can one learn what it is to come upon that a mindset that has no condition. Love is that mindset, because love has no conditions. It has no conditions at all. 902. The self is memory, and memory cannot love. Memory is finite. Love is not finite. That means the self blocks love. It blocks love from coming out. 903. People have been mentally molded and shaped to believe this or that about what is right and wrong, good and bad, love, God, the purpose of life, and so on. A person who has been mentally molded has a distorted perspective about life and therefore lives in world that is not real. The molded brain itself is slanted and twisted. As result it becomes neurotic, dangerous, violent. It becomes awfully ignorant. However, if the brain realizes it has been molded by culture, belief, tradition, upbringing, social norms, and all that, then something huge happens. In that realization the brain awakens. A tremendous mental awakening takes place, and that awakening is the beginning of intelligence. It is intelligence that sees how the brain has been programmed and conditioned to follow particular social norms, traditions, habits, and patterns of behavior. It is intelligence that sees all that, and the seeing of it brings an end to the conditioned brain. It is the factor that brings a stop to the ignorance in the brain. Intelligence is at the helm of this seeing. Therefore intelligence is what ends ignorance. It does that. Nothing else does. Here is the thing. Find out if you are psychologically conditioned, which means mentally molded with fixed ideas about right and wrong, love, death, God, or whatever else. If you are conditioned, psychologically twisted and slanted, then love cannot operate. It cannot operate because love is not twisted. Love is not something slanted or in any way, shape or form conditioned. Love is unconditional. Therefore only when the whole of psychological conditioning comes to end can you learn what it means to love. There is no other way. 904. Any form of meditation that involves training the mind to promote relaxation, build energy, develop patience, or induce a particular mental state, is a meditation that involves time. That is obvious. Any meditation that involves time is a movement of thought. Thought means memory, and memory is incomplete. It is a field of incompleteness. That means any form of meditation involving time is incomplete. However, there is another type of meditation that is totally different. It is a meditation that does not involve time, which means it is a meditation that is complete and whole. This is a meditation unlike any other. It is something that has nothing to do with training, and therefore it does not involve any aim or goal. That means it is a meditation absent personal will and any sense of effort. Will and effort imply a goal, aim, or mission. It means an ego. This is a meditation without any of that. It is a meditation without a goal, training, effort, desire, which means it has nothing to do with time. To observe a flower or listen to a bird does not require training. It does not involve effort. There is no mission or goal to observe a flower. It takes no time to listen to a bird. You simply do it. Find out what it is to listen to a bird without memory to interfere in the listening. Explore what it is to listen a bird, the sounds, chirps, and singing without any image of the bird to interfere in the listening. Explore what it means to observe a flower, a cloud, a person with active interest and great care. It is the same with a person. When you look at a person, look at the features of the face, the hair, eyes and skin. Look very carefully without any resistance, comparison, or judgment. When you listen to someone you have lived with for many years, listen to what the person says. Listen to the words, sound, and tone of the voice. Listen without expectation, hope, or desire, which means to listen with tremendous interest, energy, and attention. That is meditation. Meditation is total and complete attention. It is a living and breathing thing that does not take time. Anything that involves time implies memory. It means thought. Meditation has nothing to do with thought or any mental image of any kind. On the contrary meditation is freedom from the whole image making process, and therefore cannot be achieved by any form of training, desire, or period of time. Learn what it is to be free from the whole mental image making process, and meditation takes place. It happens. 905. Deeply feel that your life is ending now and from moment to moment, and you will live a passionate life. 906. If the brain lets go of every idea and mental image it depends on, then a release takes place. The release is death. It is a death that gives birth to something new and different. It is a release into another world altogether. 907. It is the simplest and most natural thing to leave the world of time and enter into that which is timeless. It is like walking from one room into another. It is that easy and natural. The ease and simplicity of it is astonishing. 908. When you realize that love has nothing to do with memory, has no conditions, and involves no attachment to any mental image of family, friends, God, or whatever, then everything you believed was true is ripped from you. You lose the foundation on which you built your entire life. You may feel utterly alone, lost, with no barring, no compass, no sense of where to go or what to do. Everything you have ever known breaks down, collapses, and turns to ashes. It is from these ashes where something entirely new arises. Something new begins. A newness is born that has nothing to do with any memory, conditions, or form of attachment. Find out what is that newness. Explore what it is to come upon that mysterious other which has no memory, no conditions, no attachments at all. Do that. There is nothing else to do. 909. It was early morning, and the body was lying in bed after a deep, restful sleep. The mind was alert. Breathing was steady and natural. There were muffled sounds of distant cars coming and going, growing loud and falling quiet. A faint breeze entered the room from an open window. The brain was still, unmoving, and completely relaxed. The eyelids were closed and yet there was observation taking place. With eyes closed and within the darkness, a small, clear speck of light appeared. It appeared out of nowhere. It was pin point with dark all around it. It seemed to be a distance away, but it was inside the brain. The brain is physical, material, with cells, blood, neurons, and all that. This pin point of a light was not physical. It was not a material thing. It was not a hallucination or any sort of fantasy. A fantasy implies a mental image and this was not an image. At the same time there was awareness of the sounds outside the house, the soft roar of car engines, the rumble of a plane high above, and a lone dog barking. There was also alertness to what was happening with the body, the breathing of air in and out of the lungs, the pulsating heart, the feeling of a pillow, blankets, and bed. There was awareness of all that. At the same time there was this incredibly small bright, pure, white light. It remained clear, bright, and pin point for a short time. There was no desire to approach or invite it. There was only quiet and natural watchfulness taking place. As suddenly as the light appeared it vanished. There was no effort to search for it or in any way regain it. The whole activity of thought as personal effort was not at work. There was only quiet, simple observation and the mental recording of what was happening. The eyes opened and thoughts about everyday living began to come to the brain, getting up, showering, having a meal, and all that. The inner stillness continued. The brain remained intensely alert and watchful for a long time. It was not a trained or difficult watchfulness. It was natural, simple. The simplicity of it was extraordinary. 910. It is not possible to convey the beauty and unspeakable bliss of what it is to come upon that which exists outside the field of time, which means a timeless other, and therefore holy. There are no words, description, or language that can convey or impart what it is to capture it. The only way to find it is to deny everything it is not. Only then can it reveal itself. There is no other way. 911. The brain has the potential to come upon something huge, massive. The nature of this massive other has no barriers or walls of any kind. It is not restricted to anything. The conditioning of the brain prevents this potential from releasing, and thereby allowing this massive other to show itself. A conditioned brain, which means a brain that is psychologically caught up with personal attitude, assumption, belief, theory, or any form of human thought, is the wall that blocks the brain from coming upon this other. It keeps this other from coming out into the open, because this other has no conditions, no restrictions, no beginning or end. Explore what it means to weed out and remove the totality of whatever psychological conditioning exists in the brain. Go into what it is to uproot and be done with the whole of it. If you do that, then out of nowhere that unrestricted and endless other is made possible. Only when psychological conditioning ends can that massive other show itself. 912. No religious belief, ritual, or faith of any kind comes close to the beauty of a morning breeze, a flower in bloom, a cloud as it moves across a vast blue sky. 913. If you are married with children, a job, a mortgage, a religious belief, a political stance, nationalistic pride, personal theories, and presumptions, and you suddenly discover what it means to be deeply and profoundly happy, then that happiness does not depend on the spouse. It does not depend on your children, your job, or how much money you have. It does not depend on any religious belief, faith, political party, or national flag. It depends on absolutely nothing. A happiness that depends on nothing is something that only exists when you find out what it means to be free. It means freedom from all of that which you depend. This is not any kind of intellectual theory, philosophical concept, or some kind of goal that one must strive to achieve. Any theory about freedom is not freedom. Any goal implies time. It means effort, struggle, the pursuit of some idea or mental image. All of that involves time. Freedom has nothing to do with any goal or idea, which means it is an instant thing. It happens in a flash. 914. A person is an individual unit of consciousness. The whole of mankind is a collective of units of consciousnesses. Each unit of consciousness is superficially different, with different memories, past experiences, upbringings, hopes, beliefs, fears, and all that. However there is fundamentally no real difference between the units. Each unit is memory, and therefore partial and constricted. Each unit is a movement of partiality. It is a movement of constriction. That means the individual and the collective are the same. You are not merely interconnected with every other person on earth. It is much more than that. It is much more than mere connectedness. Psychologically you are actually every person on earth. You are the whole of mankind. You are the same. 915. No past experience has any value to find out what is love. It does not matter if it is a past psychic, spiritual, or near death experience. Love does not exist in the past. It either exists in the present, or not. As long as the brain fails to abandon the past, it can never meet the present. Love only exists in the present, and if the brain cannot meet the present, then it cannot come upon what is love. 916. It was a televised sporting event, thousands of people filled the stadium, and there appeared to be much excitement for the games to begin. Before the start a ceremony occurred in which people sang and gave praise to the flag of a country. The people seemed to solemnly embrace the song with great pride. The pride seemed to be personal, cultural, and nationalistic. The verses of the song were poetic, rhymed, and echoed throughout the large round and open theater. If you look around the world today there are all of these different countries each with a different flag. The people of each nation seem to feel pride for the nation to which they belong and identify. In other words there is nationalistic pride for each nation by the people of that nation. If you step back and look at what is nationalism, it is obvious that it is one of the things that divides people. It creates social division, and as a result it causes unbelievable acts of violence, cruelty, and war. That means if you psychologically embrace or identify to any country, nation, race, or group of people, then you perpetuate the division, violence, and cruelty that has plagued human beings for thousands of years. Therefore, mentally identify to no country, no flag, no nation, no race. Identify to nothing. Do not do it because of any personal belief, philosophy, or anything like that. Do it because it is the right thing to do. 917. Approach any question about life, love, death, peace, freedom, God, and so on, as if you were from Mars. To do that means you must have no preconceived idea, notion, or belief about what the answer to any particular question might be. If you approach such questions from a particular point of view or set of personal beliefs, then there is the danger of being mislead, fooling yourself, and embracing an answer that in actuality is not true. That means when you pose a question, carefully look at the meaning of the words in the question, and have no idea what is the answer. Only then can the answer present itself. 918. All organized religions cannot be used to come upon what is sacred, because that which is sacred cannot be organized. 919. Intelligence can be accessed by the brain. The access is immediate. It happens when the brain is empty of ignorance. Ignorance is the totality of all that which is personal, which includes personal opinions, beliefs, tenets, principles, this and that. That which is personal is bias, and bias means ignorance. The emptying of all that which is personal, ends the ignorance within. The end of ignorance is the beginning of intelligence. They are the same event. They are one and the same thing. 920. The mind contains ideas, concepts, and mental pictures, which may all be described as thoughts. Thoughts may exist as individual thoughts or as streams of thoughts. The streams of thoughts link individual thoughts together in an unbroken stream. For example, one may focus on a problem and try to solve it. During the analysis of the problem there may be streams of thoughts present in the brain. That is simple. The mind also may contain gaps, a void that exists between thoughts and the streams of thoughts. That means the mind may contain thoughts and streams of thoughts that thread with, mix, and interweave with this void. This is important to understand. Thought is memory, which is conditioned due to upbringing, nurturing, training, education, personal opinion, belief, and so on. Thought is the totality of all that. The void is not that. The void has nothing to do with thought, which means it has no conditions, constraints, or limitations of any kind. That means it has an unconditional and unlimited aspect about it. That which is unconditional and unlimited is not an empty void. It is not some sort of vacant oblivion. On the contrary, it is not limited which means it is has an infinite, immeasurable, and therefore sacred quality about it. That which is sacred has nothing to do with anything that is personal. It has nothing to do with the self, the ego, which means it is an undivided thing. There is only one thing in existence that has a nature of undividedness and without any conditions at all. That thing is love. Love has no divisions or conditions of any kind. Love is whole. It is a wholeness, unconditional, and therefore infinite. It is a love unlike anything anyone can ever know. It has nothing to do with mere feelings or emotion. It is not any aspect or form of psychological attachment to another person, idea, or belief. It has no relationship with any thought, past experience, remembrance or memory. Memory is finite. This is a love that is not finite. Most people obviously have no connection with this love, because they live with attachment and all the conflict that goes with it. They live with anxiety, worry, anger, fear, regret, loneliness, depression, and all the other mental conflicts typical of people in the world today. If they had this love, then none of that craziness would exist. The whole of inner conflict would be eradicated. That is what love does to conflict. It eradicates conflict. Love obliterates the whole of mental conflict. It obliterates it altogether in a sudden and breathtaking instant. 921. If you want to find out what it is to be deeply happy, then explore how thought is the culprit that steals away happiness and every sense of inner peace, contentment, and well being. You cannot erase, stamp out, or destroy thought. You cannot do that because thought is you. However, thought can be watched. How thought behaves around people and events can be observed. Therefore simply watch it. That is all that can be done. That is all that needs to be done. 922. There is no greater calamity or more widespread affliction for humankind than the self-centered activity of thought as the ego. Find out what it is to empty the brain of every personal belief, opinion, impression, viewpoint, and let the experiences of everyday life pass through the brain without leaving a mark. Do that and the cure for this ugly and awful affliction is found. The solution to this calamity presents itself. There is no greater discovery a person can make that to find what ends the ego and incorporate it into daily living. It is the discovery of a thousand lifetime. 923. There is no need to go anywhere or believe in anything. The whole of life can be found through the mind. It can be found through the mind alone. 924. People are different and the same. People are different in that everyone has a different upbringing, culture, interests, skills, talents, and all that. They all have different attachments, frustrations, anxieties, fears, hurts, and sorrows. Also they each have different opinions, beliefs, and forms of mental conditioning, which means the perceptions they have about life are slanted differently. They are distorted differently. It is obvious that a distorted perception is an ignorant perception. A conditioned brain is an ignorant brain. It is ignorant because conditioning implies a slant and twisting of what is real. Therefore the ignorance of people comes in different shapes and sizes. All of that may be described as the activity of the me or the ego. It is the ego, and the ego is you. You are the product of your upbringing, culture, and all the social conditioning that you have been subjected to throughout life. Therefore if you are conditioned, then you are ignorant, which can be called personal ignorance. In that superficial sense each person is different. The shape and flavor of the ignorance of each person differs according to the particular upbringing, education, and social norms the person was subjected to and embraces. That is all fairly obvious. It is obvious if you look at it without the filter of any conditioning. However, people are also exactly the same. The psychological conditioning that exists in one person is fundamentally the same as that in another person in that both are conditioned. They are both ignorant. If people are conditioned and psychologically attached to a particular set of beliefs, culture, or whatever, then they are basically swept up in the same river of ignorance. They are caught in the same river of the ego. In that sense each person is the same. All of that can be called the general ignorance. That is also obvious. Now this is quite interesting if you go into it further and more deeply. If the ego exists at bodily death, then it carries on. If intelligence has not ended the ignorance in the brain, and the brain dies, then the ego must continue. The ego persists. It persists because only intelligence can end ignorance. That means the ego leaves the body at death and thereby enters into another world. It moves on into another realm altogether. In order to describe that other realm in a manner that is clear, undistorted, and not adulterated in any way, the ego cannot exist. If the ego exists, then what happens is tailored to the ego, which means distortion. Therefore any description of what happens is fragmented. It is partial and incomplete. The ego cannot describe what truly happens because the nature of the ego is ignorance. Therefore the answer to what happens at death lies in the end of the ego. The ego is every precious experience, memory, and thought that exists in the brain. One must actually let go of all that. One must relinquish every thought one values of friends, family, sex, money, work, status, position, politics, religion, Jesus, Allah, Krishna, Buddha, and everything else. Throw out the whole of thought as religious tradition, political ideology, personal culture, philosophy, attitudes about life, death, and all the rest of it. To discard all of that means to bring an end to living with a brain that is conditioned. Mental conditioning exists as thought. It exists as memory, which means it is a movement in the past, and the past means time. If the whole of mental conditioning is discarded, and put into the rubbish, then the brain comes upon what exists outside the field of time. When that happens, then that which is unlike time comes out. That which is timeless unfolds. As a result what truly and actually happens at death is revealed. It is revealed because death means the ending of time. It is the same. Do not believe any of this for a second. Doubt it. Go into it for yourself. Only then can what takes place at death reveal itself. 925. The fact that violence has existed throughout recorded human history does not mean it is inevitable. It only means people have not learned to live peacefully together. In the past violence was used to take and keep mates, food, and territory. Today it is still used for that, as well as for religious, political, nationalistic gains. People dominate, manipulate, and bully others to gain advantage, position, and power over others. The search for status and power are obvious activities of the ego. Where there is an ego, there is no love. That means there is no love in the brain of the bully, politician, and religious fanatic. Such people may have a spouse and children, many friends, admirers, and all that, but as long as an ego exists, then love does not. 926. The air was cool, crisp, and the blue sky was crystal clear. Tree limbs, stems of bushes, leaves, flowers, and flower peddles, were all vibrantly alive, rocking back and forth, bobbing up and down in the morning breeze. Bright sunlight and dark shadows covered the landscape. Throughout the morning the brain was silent. It was silent of all the bunk, gibberish, and madness of memory. Within this silence the brain was attentive and highly alert. It was within the alertness that a sudden and unexpected innocence opened up and revealed itself. It saturated the brain, and brought about a connection with the whole of life, with everything and everyone. It was complete, which means there was no separation between sky, mountain, ocean, person, animal, tree, or flower. The connection brought an end to any feeling or sensation of separation. The end of separation made the brain whole. It was a wholeness that could not be conceived by any idea or mental image. No thought could seize or grasp it. It was outside the realm of memory and all mental imagery. It was inconceivable. It was an utterly incomprehensible thing. The end of every sense of separation is needed for the brain to come upon or make possible for this innocent other to come out. The innocent, unsullied and unadulterated other, whatever it was, revealed itself to the brain for an unknown time. Every sense of the passage of time stopped. Time itself seemed to stop altogether. There was no imprint left on the brain. The innocent other wiped away all imprints, marks, and remembrances. It cleansed the brain making it clear and totally unblemished. It was a holy thing. 927. Reset the brain by discarding the whole of memory. Do it now. 928. You do not love as long as meanness, ugliness, or any type of vulgarity occupies the brain. The brain must be clean, which means it must be empty of every form of ugliness and malice. Find out what cleans the brain, and thereby purifies it. The brain can only come upon love when it is clean, empty of meanness, maliciousness and everything that goes with it. Every form of maliciousness takes the form of a mental image. Find out what it is to live without the adherence or attachment to any mental image of any kind. It does not take time to do. That is the beauty of it. It can happen now. All one needs to do is to find out what it is to be mentally free. Mental freedom is not an ideal or goal. It merely means the end of attachment, and you can only be attached to an idea or mental image. All mental images exist in the brain. That means you can only be attached to yourself. Attachment means the self, the ego, the me. Learn to end attachment. Find out what crushes it out of existence. You do not need to go anywhere, see anyone, or read anything to learn what does that. Go into it for yourself. Put away all the things you have ever learned about it, and explore it as if for the very first time. Only then can the brain be open and have the capacity to come upon the beauty, mystery, and wonder that is freedom. Freedom gives the brain the capacity to bring an end to the meanness and ugliness within. It makes possible for the brain to discover upon an entirely new dimension to life that is clean, pure, and therefore sacred. Love is sacred. That means freedom and love are connected. If one exists, then so does the other. 929. If people were not divided inwardly, then society would not be divided outwardly. 930. Whatever work you do to earn a livelihood, have the capacity to leave it, and not have it touch you. If you suddenly find that your spouse of many years decides to leave you and take all of your possessions, house, money, and all the rest of it, then have the capacity to not have it effect you at all. If a dear friend, loved one, or family member unexpectedly dies, then watch all the memories of that person pass through the brain. Merge with the memories. Assimilate every past experience, remembrance, and mental image that exists of the person so that there is no difference between you and that image. Make it so that you are the image. You are the memory. You are the departed. Let no psychological separation exist between you and the memory of the person, and in the absence of separation a oneness occurs. An inner oneness takes place that brings about an entirely new meaning for death and at the same time for the whole of life. 931. If you refuse to find out what it means to bring an end to the mental attachment that exists to all the ideas, thoughts, and images in your head, and thereby condemn yourself to a life of frustration, discontent, fear, hurt after hurt, and sorrow after sorrow, then live like that. It is up to you. That is your problem. It is not mine. 932. Listening ends time. It reveals that which is timeless. 933. The self is the mental attachment to viewpoints, beliefs, and ideas. Attachment implies limitation. The self has no relationship with that which is unlimited. It has no relationship with love. Love is unlimited. Nothing the self does can get close to, in any way compare or dispute a love that is unlimited and therefore infinite, holy. Love is beyond compare. It is beyond dispute. It is an indisputable thing. 934. Sorrow does not come from what happens. It comes from the thoughts about what happens. 935. You do not need any sort of spiritual, supernatural, or near death experience to come upon a love that is outside the field of time. You only need to realize what love is not, and thereby discard it. Jealousy is not love. Anger is not love. Fear is not love. Any psychological hold onto any remembrance is a mental movement in the past and therefore time. Find out what it is to live without jealousy, anger, fear, and any hold onto any memory in everyday life, and suddenly love is made possible. Do that and the door opens to an area of existence on the other side of time. The area is timeless. It is sacred. Find out what it is to face that kind of love. There is nothing greater or more jaw dropping than to do that because it changes everything. Love turns out and exposes everything. Love does that. It reveals everything. 936. The personality is the total of all mental and emotional characteristics that define the individual, the me, the self. It includes the psychological movement of personal prejudice, tradition, culture, desire, dogma, opinion, and belief. It encompasses all of the mental attachment to these things as well as the attachment to mental images of people, a job, God, and all of the emotional responses that goes with it as anxiety, frustration, jealousy, anger, fear, and so on. All of these things originate in memory. They are based in memory. The nature of memory is that it is the past, which means it is an isolated and limited thing. This is important to realize. It is not that the self and limitation are different. The self is limitation. They are the same. If the self is limitation, then it has an end. The end of the self is inevitable. It may take a day, year, or thousand lifetimes for the self to end. However long it takes, the self must finish at some point. It must finish because that is the nature of it. It is an illusion to believe that it takes time for the self to finish. The activity of the self is the activity of time. It is a movement in time. Since the self is a movement in time, then what ends it is unrelated to time. What finishes the self has a property outside the field of time. Therefore it is an instant and immediate thing. It takes no time for the self to finish. The self can finish today. It can finish now. When the self finishes a dimension to existence is revealed that has no limitation. The end of the self means the end of limitation. It means the end of living with personal belief, culture, tradition, fear, frustration, jealousy, and all the rest of it. It brings an end to life as you know it. It means the start of a whole new way of living, because it is the start of coming upon a dimension of life that is infinite. That which is infinite has no measure. It is an unmeasurable thing. There is only one dimension, one movement, and one thing in life that has such a quality. It is love. This is not a love that has anything to do with any of the nonsense that exists on television or in the movies. It has nothing to do with what you likely have been told by the people in the society in which you were raised. It has no relationship with jealousy, possessiveness, or any of that insanity. Jealousy is torture, torment, and awful misery. Love is not misery. This is a love with an infinite and immeasurable quality to it. It is a holy thing. Only when the self finishes and is wiped out of existence can this love start. It is love that ends the self. It is the event that ends all the culture, tradition, bias, jealousy, struggle, ignorance, and misery that is the self. It does not take time to come upon this love. It does not take time, because love is a timeless thing. If you do anything with your life, just explore this one thing. When you are in your car commuting to or from work, talking a walk, sitting on a park bench, or wherever, go into it. Think deeply, seriously, and as honestly as you can about it. You cannot imagine what it is to come upon this love. Whatever you imagine this love is, it is not that. This is a love that no mental image or imagination can grasp. It is an unimaginable thing. 937. If mental attachment to ideas exists at bodily death, then attachment continues. It goes on. It goes on because where there is attachment, there is psychological insecurity and fear to lose the attachment, which means sorrow. Only love ends sorrow. Nothing else does. For some sorrow will go on for thousands and millions of years, while for others the sorrow they endure in life today will be the last. It will end because they have learned what it is to bring an end to the psychological attachment to all ideas. They have learned love. To learn love is not an idea or concept. It is a soaking up, taking in, and assimilation. Love is taken in, digested, and as a result a transformation takes place. The mind itself is transformed. That is what love does. It transforms the mind, and it is this transformation that brings an end to suffering. It is the key that ends all suffering. If you discover what it is to love, then that love continues. It continues after bodily death. It continues because love is endless, infinite. It is an eternal thing. 938. The problems of jealousy, anger, anxiety, depression, and every other conflict that exists in the mind, cannot come to an end little by little or step by step. The mind cannot be unburden with such things in a manner that is gradual or involves time. Time cannot end mental conflict. Time implies thought, and thought means the past or the mental projection of the future. The realization that time cannot resolve conflict brings freedom from time. It brings freedom from all of the psychologists, therapists, and so-called experts. It means freedom from all self-help books, systems of meditation, and all the rest of that nonsense. Freedom from time means the mind comes upon the element that ends every conflict that mankind has ever known. It comes upon that which is timeless. That which is timeless is the element. It is the agent that removes the whole of every mental conflict that exists in the mind. It removes it altogether and straight away. It does that. 939. When a loved one dies, the essence of that person does not leave. The essence and personality of that person does not leave because it is you. Psychologically the image you have of the loved one is memory, and memory is you. You are the loved one. You are the same. 940. Love only exists in the present which means the present is everything. The present is everything because love is everything. 941. It does not take time to shovel the ego out of the brain. The whole ego and all the inner dependence to mental images of the job, boss, spouse, bank account, country, flag, God, and all the rest of it, can be cast out in a single swoop. You cannot cast it out, because the ego is you. You are the mental image you have of the job, spouse, flag, or whatever. That image is inside the brain. It is you. That means the thing that does the casting out has nothing to do with you. What casts out the ego is something else. It is entirely unlike and different from the ego, which means it has a character about it that is unrelated to any form of mental dependence. The only thing that has no relation to dependence is independence. It is freedom. It is mental freedom that casts out the ego. It is the event that drives out and obliterates it. This is not a freedom that has anything to do with any psychological concept, theory, or mental image. It is not a freedom that is the result of a slow, gradual, or step by step process. That means the first step to freedom is the last step. They are the same. 942. Bright sunlight glistened through the broad leaves of the giant oaks trees. Dark shadows spread across the manicured lawns, red and white flowers, and the sidewalk stained with the brown of dead fallen leaves. If you do not meet life, which means to live completely and wholly in the present, then you cannot meet death. Death only happens in the present. The present is not a limited thing. It is not partial or broken up into little pieces. It is a movement that is whole, complete. It is a movement with absolutely nothing missing, and therefore it is perfect. That means when death comes, it comes at the perfect time. 943. If you feel great affection, fondness, and caring for a person, then do not be attached to any mental image of that person. Any psychological attachment to an image creates fear. It means an underlying fear exists due to the ever present possibility for the loss of the attachment. If the root of fear exists, then so does fear. Love is not fear. Fear denies love. That means if there is no mental attachment, then the care you have for another is real. It is real because it is based on love. Find out what it means to have affection and care for another person, and at the same time not be attached to any image of that person. Only then does care and affection have real meaning. 944. She was a young woman, small, slender, with pale, white skin, brown eyes, and brown hair that was wrapped up in a bun. She busily worked behind the counter helping customers with orders for coffee, bread rolls, and morning pastries. She appeared tired. Her eyes had a look of fatigue and discontent. There was no energy in how she walked and held herself. She did not seem to be passionate about the job. There was no energy or fire in her. The discontent and what seemed like a deeply rooted conflict within her only served to cut off and dissipate energy. It was a waste of energy. That is what conflict does. It wastes energy. However, if conflict ends, then energy is no longer being wasted. It is being conserved, and therefore built up. Sudden bursts of energy take place when conflict no longer occupies the mind. The energy that comes is huge, enormous. It comes unexpectedly. It comes again and again and again. 945. Whatever apparent vision, insight, or deep feeling you encounter, do not hold onto it. Do not make a mental image of it and seek to have it repeated. The moment the desire to repeat it occurs means a trap. It means you are caught in a world of time, and therefore illusion. You are caught in a world of hurt. 946. Every human being has the capacity to come upon that which is without measure, infinite, and therefore divine. It does not involve any system of meditation, complicated theory, or mental concept. It is not a concept or any form of mental imagery. A concept is a mental formulation, recollection, or impression in memory. There is really no difference between a concept and memory. They are essentially the same thing. A concept is memory, and memory is a finite and measurable thing. That means if the mind empties itself of that which is measurable, then that immeasurable other can arise. It can surface. That which is measurable is every psychological notion, belief, and thought that the mind holds or covets. The mind can only covet a belief or thought, and if that happens, then it is becomes trapped in memory, and therefore measure. It becomes imprisoned in the world of measure. Any thought the mind clings to serves to maintain the measure within. Only the mind that clings to nothing can invite that immeasurable other. The mind that clings to nothing, which means no belief or thought whatsoever, makes room for the other. It makes room for the immeasurable, infinite, and divine other. If people realized the huge, immense, and absolutely unfathomable thing that the mind has the capacity to come upon, then everything else would pale by comparison. It would have no real meaning at all. That means money, work, pleasure, sex, a nice home, healthy food, fancy clothes, and all that, would all be trivial and secondary. They would be completely inferior to this vast, immeasurable, and utterly magnificent other. Churches, mosques, holy books, organized religions, political parties, the worship of flags, the search for mental safety and security, all of the philosophies about life, death, God, and all the rest of it, would have absolutely no meaning. This infinite and magnificent other surpasses all of that. It annihilates any meaning one once had for any of that, and replaces it with meaning. It replaces the meaningless with meaning. The meaning that comes cannot be put into words. It cannot be described with human language. It is indescribable. 947. The skill to manipulate thought, quickly mix, and move ideas through the brain, creatively spew out concepts, mental images, and all that, has nothing to do with intelligence. Concepts and mental images are nothing but thought, and thought is memory, which is a terribly finite and limited field. Therefore thought is limited. Intelligence is not like that. Intelligence is not limited. It is not fixed or confined to memory. It has no dependence on memory. It depends on nothing. Intelligence and mental independence go hand in hand. Learn what it is to be unattached to every thought and mental image that can be conceived or imagined. Do that and you will discover what it means to be free. You will come upon freedom, and in that freedom there is intelligence. The mind that is free is open to listen, observe, and learn. It is not chained to any preconceived notions, attitudes, or beliefs, which means the free mind is without any chains or boundary. It is free. It has come upon a dimension to existence that is boundless, infinite. It has come upon intelligence. Intelligence is that other dimension. 948. The greatest problem confronting human beings today is the same problem that has existed for thousands of years. It is the same problem that has caused every social division, war, horrific violence, and cruelty throughout the history of mankind. It has not only caused social division and violence, but it is the origin for every psychological problem that has ever existed, and continues to exist in the human brain today. The greatest problem facing the world today is that people do not love. People have been conditioned to believe that love is something restricted only to family, a particular person, parents, and children. They are conditioned to think that love is related to marriage, the mental ownership of another, psychological attachment, possessiveness, and all the fear, insecurity, and conflict that goes with it. People have been taught that love involves conflict. They have been educated by the society in which they live that love is somehow related to fear, jealousy, anger, loneliness, heartache, and all the rest of it. The fact is love is none of that. Love knows no conflict. The moment conflict enters the brain, love leaves it. The two cannot coexist in the same space. Love is not something restricted to a select few. It has no restrictions, which means it is an unrestricted, unbounded and therefore infinite thing. That which is infinite has no limitation. It has no boundary. It is an unlimited, boundless, and therefore sacred thing. Love is sacred. Also love is not possessiveness or has any hint of mental attachment. If you are mentally attached to another person then that attachment causes conflict. It causes psychological conflict that takes the form of jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger, and all the rest of it. Love is none of that. Love has nothing to do with possessiveness. It has no relationship with any form of mental attachment. Here is the thing that must be internalized. Love has no conditions. Anything conditional implies dependence. Love has nothing to do with dependence. It depends on nothing. That means love only exists in relationship where a person is inwardly free, and totally at ease in that freedom. It means any conditions you put on a relationship with another denies love. These are facts about what is love that people have failed to learn. If you fail to learn what is love, a love that is without conditions, then you create and perpetuate the psychological conflict that exists in you, and thereby the social violence that goes on throughout the world. This is a love quite different from everything else you have been lead to believe. This love has nothing to do with memory, which means is has nothing to do with the past. This is a love that only exists in the present, which means it is real. It is the real thing. 949. The present is when and where you die. It is the time and place death happens. Learn about the present, and you learn about death. 950. The infinite other is here. It is in your midst. If you desire it in any way, then it will never come. Desire denies it. Desire is the activity of the ego. If there is an ego, which means the mental attachment to ideas, then that which is infinite turns into an idea. It turns into an illusion. Any idea of the infinite is not it. The whole psychological movement of desire must stop. End desire, which means the activity of the ego, and the door opens to that infinite other. It opens. 951. Find out what it means to let go of every idea you have about what is love. Only then can the brain come upon a love that is not an idea. 952. When the brain empties itself of the false, it comes upon what is true. 953. It is the most extraordinary thing for an ordinary person, a person who struggles and suffers throughout daily life, to discover what brings an end to all that. It is extraordinary because when suffering ends, then the ordinary life changes. When a life of struggle ends, which means greed, ambition, envy, competition, the desire for money, pleasure, security, and all the rest of it, then that ordinary life transforms. It transforms into a new and exceptional way of life. The transformation that takes place is out of the ordinary. It is extraordinary. 954. Everything happens at once. It happens at the same time. 955. If you accept someone as an authority to tell you what is love, death, how to end the mental conflict of jealousy, anger, loneliness, anxiety, and all that, then it can never happen. One must accept no authority, which means one must follow nobody. That is the key. It is the key to finding out the truth about such things. 956. He was elderly, retired, owned a modest house, and lived comfortably together with his spouse of many years. He enjoyed good food and all of the conveniences of modern life. He easily became annoyed with comments made by his spouse. Frustration and anger would happen without warning, and his spouse seemed embarrassed by his behavior. He talked about how he could not imagine life without television and how he would go crazy without it. He described how he could not sit still for any length of time without turning on the television, working on his house, or occupying himself with some sort of activity or another. He considered sitting still and being mentally quiet as a waste of time. He saw no point to sit still and do nothing. He accepted a life of anger, frustration, and all of the other mental conflicts that go with it. He could not fathom living differently, and he assumed that mental conflict was unavoidable. He considered personal feelings of frustration, anger, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, bitterness, despair, and all that, was a part of everyday life and something that all people experienced. He accepted all of that as a natural part of the human condition. If there was any form of mental conflict in my life the first thing I would do would be to explore it, learn about it, and find out what it would mean to end it. I would immerse myself in it, and make it the most important thing in my life. I would devote my energy, heart, and entire being into finding out what ends all that in real time, which means not at any unknown time in the future as a day, month, or year from now. I would want to find out what ends it now. I would want to learn it for myself, and therefore I would accept no person, no book, no philosophy or teaching as any authority about it. I would deny all that. I would discard all authority, follow nobody, and be terribly careful not to fool myself. If people did that, then there would be the possibility to bring an end to all of that nonsense, and thereby live a completely new, different, and infinitely more meaningful way of life. To bring an end to living with endless psychological problems and conflict would be tremendous, because it would be the discovery of what is love. Love ends all problems. It ends conflict. Nothing else does that. People have nutty ideas about what is love. The truth is love is not an idea. It is not any idea. The essence and character of any idea is memory. Memory means the past. It means time. Any idea takes the shape of time, which means psychological time. However, love is not a factor of time. Therefore, if you embrace a particular idea, theory, notion, belief, or opinion about love, then you are embracing time. Psychologically the brain is operating in the movement of time, memory, which means the baggage of the past, and therefore mental hurt, pain, sorrow, and everything that goes with it. This is a huge fact. All sorrow is a movement in time. It is an activity based on the past. Love is not the past. Love has no connection with the past at all. That means it has nothing to do with any idea, thought, or remembrance of any kind. The whole of human thought and remembrance are barriers to love. They are impenetrable barriers because they imply memory, and memory means time. Love is timeless. If you see that fact, and face it, internalize it, then what emerges is beyond imagination. That is what love is. It is something that no imagination can fathom. It is an unfathomable thing. 957. Death does not happen at a time in the future. It only happens in the present. The idea that death is an event that takes place in the future is a fallacy. When it happens, it happens now. The now is not bound by time. It is outside the realm of time. That means it is not a limited event. It is not partial, and therefore it is an event that is complete. This is important to understand. Death is an event that lacks nothing, which means when it happens there is nothing missing. There is nothing absent, wrong, or amiss. It means when death happens it happens at the right time. 958. If you live with people, then have the capacity to live without people, to be alone, and completely content in that aloneness. Similarly, if you live alone, then have the ability to live with people, to walk, eat, and live with them, and at the same time be completely content. Contentment does not depend on the presence or absence of others. It depends on nothing. 959. The whole of life can be understood when it is viewed as a totality at its simplest level. For example, memory is limited. Everything inside memory is limited, which includes all ideas, beliefs, and mental images. That is a simple understanding of what is memory. For example, God has been described as that which is unlimited, infinite, without bound or measure. If memory is limited, then memory cannot be used to come upon that which is unlimited. Therefore, not only cannot belief be used to come upon that which is unlimited, it is the barrier that prevents the brain from coming upon it. That means all forms of religious belief, tradition, culture, dogma, and authority are barriers to that which is unlimited. That is an immense fact. That fact brings about understanding into the nature of that which is limited. The understanding of that fact opens the door and invites that which is unlimited. It allows the unlimited and infinite other to manifest. It does that. When that happens there is an insight about all of life. That is what this infinite other brings about. It makes possible for the brain to come upon an insight and understanding about the whole of life, and that understanding is total. It is simple. The simplicity of it is what boggle the minds of people. People think that life is difficult, complex, confusing, filled with hardship, and struggle for this and that. The understanding into that which is unlimited ends all confusion. It makes simple everything that was once considered to be difficult, and it stops every form of inner struggle that exists within the brain. The beauty of this understanding is that it is not a conclusion that results from any type of mental analysis, exercise, or length of study. It is happens instantly. It happens like a sudden bolt of lightning, which means it does not take time. Time is memory, because memory is the past. Anything related to time denies that infinite other from manifesting. Therefore if anyone tries to sell you a book, system of meditation, series of mental health classes, or anything else that involves time, then all of that can be denied. It can be immediately refused. The refusal of that which is a movement in time leaves the brain uncluttered, unadulterated, clean and therefore clean. It is in the cleansing of the brain that allows that which is unlimited and timeless to show itself. Do not accept any of this, but explore it for yourself. Question it. That is all that needs to be done. 960. Only that which is unlimited can end the limitation within. If the limitation in the brain does not end during life, then it continues after death. 961. The wind blew from the coastal mountains and brought a blanket of white and grey fog. The high winds were unusually strong thrashing treetops back and forth, littering leaves in the empty parking lot, and kicking up stinging bits of sand from the beach. Wave upon wave of dark, cloudy water rolled across the bay and splashed against the small rocky islands. White caps sparkled in the sun and extended as far as the eye could see. A throng of sea birds nestled in the sand across the beach, while high above a flock of gulls glided effortlessly in the vast, open sky. Only a brain that has broken away from the past, which means memory as personal belief and the mental attachment to images, can perceive the immeasurable beauty of a breeze, a rolling wave, a lone bird in flight. A brain that is bound to the past is incapable of penetrating into the vastness and immense beauty that exists in nature. It cannot grasp the unparalleled wonder present in wave of water, a towering tree, or a handful of soft, wet sand. As a result the brain gets dull, bored. You get bored. Here is the thing. When you are bored it is not that you are separate from boredom. Boredom is the result of comparison, which means the playback of memory. It means the replay of thought. Thought is the thinker. It is you. That means if you are bored, then you are not different from boredom. Boredom is you. To accept boredom means to go through life without any real fire, vitality, or passion. It means to live with constant comparison, judgment, and therefore the past. A person that cannot escape the past does not live fully. It means that upon physical death it is as though the person never lived at all. 962. The room was black and filled with deep shadows. The mind was alert and listening to the faint muffle of television through the walls, the quiet rumble of fast moving cars, and the soft sounds of tranquil, melodious music nearby. An alert mind is open, free, and highly receptive. It is not mean, vile, or spiteful. It does not manipulate, which means it is absent the self-centered activity of thought. It is absent the ego. The realization that the ego is thought, and that thought as personal stance, attitude, and belief, is the root cause for every human division and sorrow that has ever existed, may be a shock. The fact that all of that must end in order to come upon what is love may be a personal calamity. It may be the greatest calamity a person can ever come upon. To live without an ego may cause everyone you have ever known to abandon you. Your friends, family, and entire generation may reject you. All of that may come to pass, and more, however nothing compares to the mind that has brought an end to the whole insanity of the ego, belief, and all the sorrow that goes with it. 963. To come upon a love that is unconditional brings about a palpable sense of being held, protected, and comforted. It is not a mental fantasy that gives the comfort. The comfort is not a mental picture, belief, or image of any kind. Any comfort derived from an image contains fear, which is the fear for its loss. This is a love that knows no fear. It is a love that occupies the brain. It means the comfort and sense of protection that goes with it comes from within. It is a love that comforts and protects. The brain comes upon that love, and it permeates the brain, body and entire physical organism. The feeling it brings is indescribable. 964. Every sense of psychological separation is an illusion. We are connected. We are more than connected. We are the same. 965. Eternity can only be found in the present. 966. Pay attention to every detail of everyday living, the spouse that prepares a meal, the neighbor that cuts the grass, the co-worker that speaks to the customer, the spider that spins a web, the leaf that falls from a tree, the shadows that fill a house when the sun goes down and the lights turn off. Be attentive to everything from the moment you awake to the moment you sleep. In that attention, the mind is free of conflict. It is free of the conflict of envy, ambition, anger, frustration, bitterness, and fear. The mind that is free of conflict is not divided. The whole of division comes to an end. In the end of division there is an immense beauty. It is not a beauty based on the comparison to anything. It is not a personal judgment because judgment involves thought and the playback of memory. This is a beauty that has nothing to do with memory. Memory is measurable. This is a beauty absent anything that has measure. It is an immeasurable thing. Find out what it is to come upon a beauty that is without measure, and a whole new world opens up. It is a world undivided, whole, and therefore perfect. It is perfect in every way. 967. He had extensive knowledge of music, literature, and different cultures of the world. He owned a lavish home in an expensive neighborhood near many upscale shops and restaurants. The home was filled with works of art, paintings, statues, and classic books. He talked about himself and took pride in his accomplishments. He seemed to treasure knowledge above all else. He did not see that the whole of human knowledge is bound to memory, and that memory is a measurable thing. He could not face the fact that only when the measurable is discarded does that which gives life meaning come into being. The immeasurable is what gives life meaning. It gives life the most extraordinary significance. He went on talking about himself, his likes and dislikes, struggles with work, and trying to earn a livelihood. His life was consumed by these utterly little things, by the measurable, and therefore it was rather shallow and empty. His life had no real spunk or fire. It had no passion. It was passionless. It was empty of that immeasurable, infinite, and therefore holy other. It is never too late to find that which gives meaning to life. You can be old and near death, and yet if you were to discover that which is holy, then it becomes the greatest discovery a human being can ever make. It reveals what gives unspeakable meaning to the whole of existence. It reveals what happens at death. The discovery of that holy other brings an end to the division between life and death. It bridges the gap between the two, and thereby reveals that life and death are not different. They are one and the same. 968. If the filter of psychological bias as personal opinion, theory, philosophy, and all that, is completely and wholly purged from the brain, then things are seen in a way that is unbiased and therefore pure. A new and pure way of perceiving life takes place, and as a result an inner purity and innocence is revealed. It comes out. 969. If two people have that love which is unconditional, then there is no separation between them. They are inseparable. 970. The moment you learn something, let it go. When you do that the brain maintains its newness and freshness. It keeps its innocence. 971. It does not take time for the conditioned mind to become unconditioned. It happens in the blink of an eye. Only the unconditioned mind loves, because love is unconditional. That means it takes no time for the person who does not love to change. It takes no time at all. 972. People worship, go to war, and kill other people over a scrap, a rag, a cheap piece of cloth. They kill over a flag. 973. The only step to take that brings about a love that has no conditions is the step that discards the mental conditioning in the brain. It does not take time to take that step. Love has nothing to do with time. Love is timeless, which means the discard of the conditioning in the brain and love are the same movement. It means the first step to find out what is love is the last step. They are the same. 974. People were in the other room eating, talking, and laughing at each others stories. A church bell was ringing in the distance, an ambulance siren sounded, became faint, and then stopped altogether. The body was lying down, weak, and sick. It had a fever, ached to the bone, and still there was that quality of intense wakefulness. There was sensitivity to the faintest sounds, smallest movements, and littlest things. Unexpectedly the brain was covered with a blanket of calm. It was infused with a calm, quiet, and immense acceptance. The acceptance was absolute and unequivocal. The brain was submerged in it. It was not a hallucination, fantasy, or involved any mental image. It was more real than things seen with the naked eye or felt with the hands. It was more real than the bed, walls, sounds in the distance. It was more real than all that. The body felt terribly weak, but the brain remained awake and intensely alert throughout the evening. The blanket of calm, absolute acceptance, or whatever it was, permeated the brain through and through. It had no connection to the body. It was not physical, material, or at all earthly. It was an unearthly thing. 975. Psychological death is when the brain lets go of the whole of past remembrances, future projections, and all the everyday experiences from moment to moment. It means allowing no mental attachment to any idea, thought, or mental image to take hold in the brain. When that happens the brain reboots. It restarts. As a result an inner rejuvenation takes place, and that rejuvenation brings about extraordinary vitality and energy. The brain is refreshed, and it experiences a surge of energy. It feels more alive than ever before. The energy that comes does not appear after a period of time. It does not happen a minute, hour or day later. It appears instantly. A feeling of aliveness and brand new life takes place. That is what happens at psychological death. That is death. Therefore death and life are not different things. Death is life. They are one and the same. 976. If you do something because it is the right thing to do, then there is a purity to that action. The action is pure. It is immaculate. Love is an action that is immaculate. There is no other action like it. 977. All human knowledge cis stored in memory. Every time knowledge is pulled from memory, it is the same movement that happens. It is always pulled, retrieved, taken out of memory. It is the same habit, the same reaction, the same repetitive movement. The mind that glorifies knowledge, gives it value, and makes it all important, is a repetitive mind. Repetition makes the mind sluggish and dull. However if the mind writes down the value of knowledge, then knowledge is put in its proper place. Knowledge has obvious value for everyday living, because it is needed for working, cooking, cleaning, and all that. Without it physical survival would be impossible. However the nature of knowledge is that it is limited. It is limitation itself. That means if knowledge is made primary, worshipped, and in any way glorified, then limitation is glorified. Only that which is unlimited has glory. It has glory because that unlimited and infinite other is sacred. It is divine and holy. That means the glorification of knowledge is wrong. It is a mistake. If the mind can devalue the whole of human knowledge, then it ceases to be caught up in the cycle of repetition. Suddenly the mind breaks out of the playback of memory and discovers a dimension to existence that has no repetition, which means it comes upon that which is ever new, fresh, and innocent. The mind comes upon an innocence, which means an inner rebirth take place, and that rebirth brings about an extraordinary sense of youth and vitality. The eyes begin to see things in an entirely different light. The ears listen as never before. The whole body becomes intensely alive, new, young. The mind lets go of memory, and a way of living unfolds that is a continual rebirth. It is a constant renewal. An inner innocence and resurrection takes place, and the mind is that innocence. It is that resurrection. It is the same. 978. Meditate. 979. If you live outside the field of time, then when you walk out the door you have no real idea what will happen. 980. When you watch yourself without any effort or desire to try to change yourself, then a change happens. It happens naturally. 981. All of the cruelty, violence, and human agony that goes on in the world today is rooted in the mental identification to an idea, concept, or some sort of thought. It does not matter what is the idea or thought. It is the mental identification to it that establishes an ego, creates a mental center, and thereby an inner island of isolation, division, and therefore conflict. It is this inner conflict that manifests outwardly as all the violence, destruction, and needless human agony that exists throughout the world. Violence and agony have no effect on a cloud that crosses an open sky. Violence does not touch an ocean wave that spreads across a sandy beach. Human agony does not effect a bird, a tree, or a blade of grass. Be the cloud, the bird, the blade of grass. Live without the mental identification to ideas and thoughts. End the whole of that identification, and the insanity of human cruelty and violence will not effect you. What happens in this dangerous and insane world will not hurt, scar, or touch you. To come upon that which cannot be touched by man is the greatest thing. The greatest thing a human being can ever do is touch the untouchable. There is nothing greater or higher. It is the highest. 982. Horrific violence, war, and all the human suffering that goes with it, has been a revolving door for thousands of years and keeps going on and on and on. There is something people are doing today in their everyday lives that keeps this door open and revolving. It is obvious that violence in groups of people begins with violence in the individual. It begins with the violence and conflict that exist in you. If conflict was removed from you so that you could feel no frustration, jealousy, anger, hate, greed, envy, or any of that, then outward violence would be impossible. What is needed to close and stop this insane revolving door of war and violence is for you to figure out what ends mental conflict and have it, whatever it is, occupy the brain. The question is not to find out what ends mental conflict tomorrow or at some unknown moment in the future, but today. That means the resolution of this problem must take no time. The solution must have nothing to do with time. Therefore, what ends mental conflict must have a timeless quality. There is no other alternative. The question that needs to be explored is what is timeless and thereby brings about a complete halt to mental conflict, the whole of it, all at once. It seems the nature of this thing must be either misunderstood, terribly difficult, or impossible to come upon. Otherwise, people would have come upon it long ago, and the world today would not be such a dangerous and crazy place to live. I feel the answer to all of this is simply misunderstood. It is not difficult, and it surely is not impossible. The only thing that has a timeless quality about it is love. This is not a romantic kind of love. It is not an ideal. The character and nature of love is that is has nothing to do with any idea or personal opinion. An opinion can be attacked or threatened, and as a result it can bring about a sense of fear and anger. This is a love that has no fear. It has no anger or conflict of any type. This is a love that ends conflict. Find out what it is to come upon this love, internalize it, and incorporate it in daily living. That is all you can really do. That is all that needs to be done. 983. A mother held the hand of a child as they crossed the busy intersection, a grocery store clerk stacked fruit on a table, and a teenage girl played classic violin on a street corner with a hat filled with money at her feet. Each of these people operated in a field of thought. They each used thought in some manner to perform a task. It was practical thought. Even though it was practical and had a purpose, it was still thought, and therefore the brain was operating in a limited capacity. The eyes of the young child being taken across the street were wide open, alert, and curious. The child was like a glass without a bottom with experience after experience pouring in and flowing out at the same time. The child was not focused on any task. He was watching, observing, and learning. Have the capacity to be like a child. Allow moments when no thought infiltrates the brain. Moments when no thought occupies the brain are moments when time stands still. The brain comes upon that which is timeless, and as a result the brain reboots. It clears. That is what timelessness does to the brain. It makes it clear. 984. Upon waking the body sat up on the edge of the bed. It remained there for an unknown time sitting upright, eyes closed, breathing quietly and listening. The listening cleansed the brain. It made the brain new and young. The sky was huge. It stretched out over the bay waters, distant mountains, and beyond. Pine and willow trees lined the street and stood silent in the still morning air. The body was teeming with energy, fully awake, and watchful. The walk wound up and down the streets of the small town. People were walking dogs, sitting outside coffee shops, having breakfast, talking, smiling, and enjoy the morning. A young waitress inside a small coffee shop was serving plates of hot food to customers. She had a friendly and kindly look on her face. The ego cannot be kind. It can feign kindness, but as long as the ego operates it only watches out for itself. The ego only gives because it seeks something in return. The priest may seek salvation, the bored spouse may seek an affair, the politician may seek power, the businessman may seek money, and the drug addict may seek to escape loneliness, depression, or a way to end the tedium of everyday life. The list goes on and on. Kindness seeks nothing. It wants absolutely nothing in return, which means it is a movement in itself. If you are kind, then that kindness extends to people, animals, plants, oceans, and skies. It extends to everything equally, which means it does not pick and choose. Kindness is a choiceness thing. 985. If there is a better, greater, and more sane way of living than a life absent the ego, which means a life absent sorrow, absent living in a violent and dangerous world, then it is an illusion. 986. The ego is crafty, devious, and terribly manipulative. It manipulates for purposes of survival, and it seeks survival through mental attachment to thoughts and images. It attaches itself to the images of a person, possessions, money, work, ideology, belief, God, or whatever. It does that in order to sustain and keep itself alive. The images of attachment combine to form an identity. It makes it what it is, which means the images of attachment are the ego. They are the same. A brain with no mental attachment has no ego. There is no sense of self. As a result it is free of all forms of attachment, which include emotional sentiment, ideological fervor, and all the hidden heartaches, disappointments, and frustrations that go with it. It is not that such a person is cold hearted or devoid of feelings. On the contrary, a person absent the ego has feelings that are extraordinarily vast and deep. The person feels at a depth that the ego cannot fathom. The ego is fear, jealousy, anger, anxiety, frustration, loneliness, and all that. It is conflict, which means a drain and waste of energy. The person without an ego does not waste energy. Instead there is an abundance of energy. As a result feelings have a depth, vigor, and intensity that cannot be described. Words cannot convey the immensity of the feelings that occur. What happens is utterly indescribable. 987. Insight into what it is to live in the present is like bolts of lightening that strike without warning. They strike and strike and strike. 988. Drop all previous beliefs and patterns of thinking. Do it, and you will see what it is to live without belief, without repetitive modes of thought, which means a way of life that is ever new, creative, and no need to believe in anything. 989. The thought that you are on a path to peace of mind, enlightenment, the infinite, sacred, God, or however you want to put it, implies time. Any path implies time. To think that you are on the road to something greater is a trick the mind plays on itself. The mind wants to feel safe, and it looks for safety in ideas and mental projections. It seeks safety in thought. Let go of the thought, idea, or notion that you are on a path to a better place, a better world, a better somewhere, and suddenly you find yourself where you are. You find yourself in the present. The present is not a thought. The present is moving, flowing, and breathing. It is something alive. Step away from all paths to that which is sacred and you step away from time. The whole mind set of living in time ceases to exist, which means an entirely new dimension to existence is revealed. A new dimension is revealed that exists outside the field of time. When that happens everything changes. The mind comes upon what is outside the field of time, and it thereby changes everyday living. That is what takes places when the mind discovers that which is timeless. It changes everything. The greatest change is that one no longer seeks. The whole psychological movement of seeking, searching, and trying to obtain, advance, and become comes to a stop. One may belong to a religious group or spiritual sect, embrace so-called sacred books, practice ancient rituals, customs, traditions, systems of meditation, or whatever. All of that no longer has any worth. It no longer has value because all of that implies time, and the mind has finished with time. The whole of that has been put into the garbage, and when that happens an enormous change in daily living occurs. You come upon a way of life that seeks nothing. That means the desire to go to religious meetings ends. The inner need to attend spiritual groups is finished. The embrace and practice of ancient traditions, systems of meditation, and all that, are all over. All at once you suddenly find yourself alone. You find yourself in a position of complete and utter aloneness. You are not lonely. Loneliness and aloneness are two completely different things. You are alone and completely content in that aloneness. You live without any sense of seeking anything, outside the field of time, and therefore you are free. You are free of all religious organizations, spiritual groups, and so-called holy books. You are free of all that folly and foolishness, which means you have come upon an entirely new and different way to live. You are free to observe without the filter of any of that nonsense to distort the observation. You are free to observe the beauty of a blue sky, a tree swaying in an afternoon wind, an ocean wave as it crashes on a white, sandy beach. You are free. The mind discovers what it means to be free, and in that freedom it moves. It begins the greatest, healthiest, and most sane way of living. 990. When you are free of all mental attachment, then life becomes vibrant and full. The mind comes upon a fullness and richness that no words can describe. 991. Mindfulness does not choose. It does not pick a glorious sunset and ignore the dirty street gutter. It does not listen to the song of a bird and not the cry of a child. It does not look at one thing and not the other. It looks at everything. It takes in everything with a mind that is watchful, alert, and deeply sensitive. Only the sensitive mind is mindful, which means sensitivity is mindfulness. They are one and the same thing. 992. If you find out what it is to live without problems, then you will never get caught in the pettiness of the problems of others. 993. Love is not attachment. As long as you resist letting go of every form of attachment that exists to the image of a person, the image of a job, the image of God, and all the rest of it, then love will forever evade you. It will never unfold. 994. If you feel emotional tension, inner pushing and pulling, or any sense of struggle with people, work, sex, smoking, drugs, God, or whatever the case may be, then underneath it all there is a movement of thought. Thought is the heart of all struggle. It is the factor that creates emotion, sentiment, and feelings of psychological need, want, and desire. It is the core of all forms of desire, which means they are not different. They are the same. Thought is desire. Thought is not only the cause of emotional tension and all the turmoil that goes with it, but it is tension. They are the same because the one cannot exist without the other. That means psychologically tension is thought. Here is the thing. You are thought. The thinker is thought. That means there is nothing you can do to end tension. There is nothing you can do that will bring a stop to all the struggle, misery, and inner turmoil that exists in your life. There is no action you can take that will stop it. That means the only action you can take is no action at all. No action means no psychological action. It means no movement of thought. The end of thought is the action that wipes away turmoil. It is the action that destroys every sense of tension, struggle, and inner feelings of need. It is the only action that can do that. Find out what it means to have the whole movement of thought come to a complete and total standstill. Test it out for yourself. Play with it. That’s all. Just play with it. 995. To have a sense of peace is the greatest act. It means the ability to make peace within the brain. To be a peacemaker is the greatest work. 996. When the ego dies, nearly nobody in this violent and ignorant world today will understand you, which means you feel and are utterly and completely alone. You are not in any way sad, melancholy, or depressed. You are simply alone. You may live with many other people but you are still alone, which means you live in total inner solitude. In that solitude there is freedom. In freedom there is great beauty, humility, and innocence. It is an innocence without heartache or sorrow of any kind. That is what the end of the ego brings. That is what death reveals. It reveals an innocence that knows no sorrow. 997. The purpose of gossip is not to pass on truth or accuracy. It is to bolster the ego at the expense of another, which makes it an ugly thing. 998. Live without fear, regret, or any possible sense of loss, and death shows itself. 999. Walking through the empty park beneath the blue sky among the trees and small animals, there was a sudden sense of being watched. It was as if an invisible shield surrounded, watched over, and protected the body. It was not any kind of mental projection. The mind was watchful and awake. It was in that state of wakefulness an impenetrable sense of security unfolded. It was not a security based on hope, desire, or mental fantasy. There was nothing like that going on in the brain. The brain was empty of all that stupidity. There was only wakefulness. There was no ego to protect, look after, or safeguard. The sense of protection was for the body. It was for the physical brain. Immediately the brain dismissed whatever was taking place. It rejected the hoopla that was given to keeping the body safe. The body is only a tool, and the brain is a mere instrument. They are nothing more than that. An awareness suddenly came about that revealed the death of the body could come at any time, and that everything would be fine with it, or without it. It was a tremendous revelation. It was an insight that brought about an extraordinary sense of contentment. It was a contentment unrelated to the body. It was independent of anything that might happen to the physical body or brain. The contentment filled the brain. It was immense, and depended on absolutely nothing. It was something that cannot be conveyed with words. Words are vague, ambiguous, and terribly unclear things. The contentment was not vague. It was clear and definite. It was perfect. It was perfect in every way. The small town was waking up to people driving to work, strolling into coffee shops, and flocks of sea birds hovering among the clouds. It was a beautiful morning.