Recognising the difference between thinking you are a thing to which other things happen and being the space where everything happens is profoundly life changing.
At the close of meditation this evening this thought, somewhat paradoxically popped up, ‘…the veracity of the unspoken, the wordless…’
It is said that AI doesn’t know what it’s doing or how it’s doing it.
I would suggest that neither do we.
Bring the noise
Sitting in silence and stillness is all very nice but there is nothing intrinsic to these conditions that gets you any closer to recognising the nature of your mind.
Sitting in a traffic jam on a hot day next to a pneumatic drill is equally conducive.
There is no situation that can hinder your ability to see what you are.
“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
— George Bernard Shaw