Presents
The Power of No-Mind
Once a man is in a state of no-mind,
nothing can distract him
from his being.
There is no power bigger
than the power of no-mind.
No harm can be done
to such a person.
No attachment, no greed,
no jealousy, no anger,
nothing can arise in him.
No-mind is absolutely a pure sky
without any clouds.
You say
"How does watching
lead to no-mind?"
There is an intrinsic law:
thoughts don't have their own life.
They are parasites;
they live
on your identifying with them.
When you say, "I am angry,"
you are pouring
life energy into anger,
because you are getting
identified with anger.
But when you say,
"I am watching anger flashing
on the screen of the mind within me"
you are not anymore giving any life,
any juice, any energy to anger.
You will be able to see that
because you are not identified,
the anger is absolutely impotent,
has no impact on you,
does not change you,
does not affect you.
It is absolutely hollow and dead.
It will pass on
and it will leave the sky clean
and the screen of the mind empty.
Slowly, slowly you start
getting out of your thoughts.
That's the whole process
of witnessing and watching.
In other words –
George Gurdjieff used to call it
non-identification –
you are no more identifying
with your thoughts.
You are simply standing
aloof and away – indifferent,
as if they might be
anybody's thoughts.
You have broken
your connections with them.
Only then can you watch them.