May 31, 2014

Kranti Ananta was talking to someone trying to help him understand meditation and she said “In meditation they tell you to become the witness but you already are the witness. So it’s developing the knack of watching the mind”.  And I got it on another level.  The mind isn’t watching awareness in meditation. You might think in meditation that you are putting your attention on awareness itself and being “the watcher” But the mind is just a cohesive conglomeration of thoughts, stories, and programming that has infiltrated and co-opted awareness creating the illusion, in awareness, that there is a separate self. The mind is not you. The aspect that creates the identification with the mind and body is the ego. The ego is the sense of identifying as a separate self. In this capacity it is like a virus in pure consciousness. The ego even thinks it’s the one on a spiritual path. A path, by the way, that leads to it’s own dissolution. It’s all happening in awareness. A stunning illusion I must say.

So how do we stop the Ego-virus? Well, Captain Kirk said it best in “The Immunity Syndrome”: “An-ti-bod-ies, an-ti-bod-ies!”  So what’s the antidote?  Be the antibody!  Watch the mind. Ignore the mind. Disregard the mind.  Do not let it seduce you and lead you back to sleep.  Stop the mind and be free.