Personality, mind and silence

In the spiritual quest, we often try to get rid of the mind, when in fact we only have to understand that mind is simply a database indispensable for our life plan. It enables us to manage our navigation through the illusion of matter, which is precisely what we came here to experience.

I am not Mind, I am just using Mind

The only problem we may encounter during our exploration is a confusion of tools. There are situations to be managed mentally and others where the mind prevents us from living in the Absolute Present of our essence.

What we call “personality” and are so proud of, is identification with the mind. In other words, the sum of the limitations that have been handed down to us and the experiences that have resulted from them. We can never walk in the same river twice, and it could even be said that even as we walk, the river has already changed.

Why is “personality” an illusion?

And yet we cling to this illusion of ‘personality’, which is nothing more than an attic full of old junk… Criticize us and we react. It’s the same when we’re flattered… And yet, there’s nothing in there that represents us. Absolutely nothing!

It’s behind this practical illusion that we need to look. We must not fight against it. It is useful because it corresponds to our driving code at a given moment. To enable it to become more effective, it is essential to remain open to the new information provided by the river’s living flow.

A closed ecological system is doomed to degeneration and death. This is the source of most diseases, the most eloquent of which is Alzheimer’s… A lake that is no longer fed by a new flow becomes a pond, then a stagnant pool that will eventually dry up completely. Just as a lake is not a river… the mind is not life. Nor is the personality that covers it. Remaining open to the present is a matter of survival, even for the mind.

Let silence feed the mind

If we need to know when to use the mind and when to do without it, we also need to be aware that what lies beyond the mind need not be the object of a search. You don’t look for the sky behind the clouds, you don’t invent it, no one has the power to reveal the sky… The clouds, like the mind, hide the sky… But where are our clouds…?

The sky can only be revealed in deep silence. We don’t even have to fight against the thoughts that hide it. Let them pass by without any attachment, in an attitude of living observation. Rooted in the awareness of our “WHO AM I?” Spaces will gradually open up between our inhalation and exhalation. Let’s become aware of them.

Little by little, they will expand until they fill the whole field of consciousness, revealing that

I AM THAT LIVING I AM.