Each seeker asks the same thing, “What must I do to find the truth?” The teacher says the same thing to each seeker; she says, “Stop and be still. Spend every waking minute interacting with the world through your senses. Look, listen, feel, smell, taste, attend, and contemplate everything that happens.” Each seeker asks for more explanation, and the teacher further explains everything in exactly the same way.
The mystery is that one seeker will do exactly what the teacher advises. Eight seekers will do some variation of what the teacher advises and will do it for various amounts of time ranging from ten minutes to three hours per day. One student will ignore the teacher’s teaching totally.
Each student came to the teacher in psychologically the same place, lost in the mind, but interested in waking up. One student will wake up. Several students will attain various degrees of understanding without waking up, and the rest will attain virtually no understanding and will stay lost in the mind. The initial interest is the same, the intention is the same, and the teaching is the same, but how each student will respond is a complete mystery. Who we THINK we are has NOTHING to do with how the body/mind responds to __________. Who we THINK we are is an imaginary construct. To understand how much control this imaginary construct has we can imagine a cartoon gremlin and then ask ourselves if that imaginary gremlin can lift a paper clip off of our desk. Who we THINK we are has exactly the same power to move a paper clip or control what we see the body/mind doing.
The one who actually controls the body/mind is the same one who pumps blood, transmits nerve impulses, regulates hormone levels, sees, and thinks. There is no space between the see-er and the seen and there is no space between the thinker and the thought. Look around. What we see if we are not thinking is ______________, and the one who sees is also ________________. So, to sum up
The mystery is that one seeker will do exactly what the teacher advises. Eight seekers will do some variation of what the teacher advises and will do it for various amounts of time ranging from ten minutes to three hours per day. One student will ignore the teacher’s teaching totally.
Each student came to the teacher in psychologically the same place, lost in the mind, but interested in waking up. One student will wake up. Several students will attain various degrees of understanding without waking up, and the rest will attain virtually no understanding and will stay lost in the mind. The initial interest is the same, the intention is the same, and the teaching is the same, but how each student will respond is a complete mystery. Who we THINK we are has NOTHING to do with how the body/mind responds to __________. Who we THINK we are is an imaginary construct. To understand how much control this imaginary construct has we can imagine a cartoon gremlin and then ask ourselves if that imaginary gremlin can lift a paper clip off of our desk. Who we THINK we are has exactly the same power to move a paper clip or control what we see the body/mind doing.
The one who actually controls the body/mind is the same one who pumps blood, transmits nerve impulses, regulates hormone levels, sees, and thinks. There is no space between the see-er and the seen and there is no space between the thinker and the thought. Look around. What we see if we are not thinking is ______________, and the one who sees is also ________________. So, to sum up
