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What Do You Find Without the Mind?
When the mind with all its searching and concepts quiets down, what is revealed is not a new experience but the obvious presence of pure awareness that has always been here, the silent witness that knows 'I am' without needing to think 'I am'.
Key Teachings
- Consciousness exists independently of the mind's activity - it is the aware presence that witnesses thoughts
- What remains when the mind becomes still is not an object to be found but the pure subject - the I Am that is always already present
- The search for something 'beyond the mind' is itself a mental movement; true discovery happens in the pause between thoughts
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From: What Do You Find Without the Mind? - 21st August 2020