SERIOUS INNER GAME - MUST READ

The predominace of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of conciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster. I will talk more about this later.

Thinking and conciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of conciousness. Thought cannot exist without conciousness, but conciousness does not need thought.

Enlightenment means rising above thought, NOT FALLING BACK TO A LEVEL BELOW THOUGHT, THE LEVEL OF AN ANIMAL OR A PLANT. IN ENLIGHTENED STATE, YOU STILL USE YOUR THINKING MIND WHEN NEEDED, BUT IN A MUCH MORE FOCUSED AND EFFECTIVE WAY THAN BEFORE. You use it mostly for practical purposes, but you are free of the involuntary inner dialogue, and there is inner stillness.

When you do use your mind, and particularly when a creative solution is needed, you oscillate every few minutes or so bewteen thought and stillness, bewteen mind and no-mind.

No-mind is conciousness without thought. ONLY IN THAT WAY IS IT POSSIBLE TO THINK CREATIVELY, BECAUSE ONLY IN THAT WAY DOES THOUGHT HAVE ANY REAL POWER. Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of conciousness, quickly becomes baren, insane, destructive.

The mind is an esstenially a survival machine, Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information -- this is what its good at, but it is not at all creative.

All true artists (Mozart, etc) whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. The mind then gives form to the creative impulse or insight. Even the great scientists have reported that their creative breakthroughs came at a time of mental quietude.

THE MAIN, NUMBER ONE REASON WHY PEOPLE THINK THEY NEED TO THINK OR ANALYZE TO SOLVE A PROBLEM, IS NOT BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO THINK, BUT BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP THINKING.