Your Mind Is Alive

Your mind is alive; it is at least as alive as is your body and it is alive as part of your being. Your mind is your own; it belongs to you and, like your hand, you may do what ever you are able to do with your mind. With your hand you can pick up objects, hold them to the light, change them, separate them, carve them, rotate them and place them where you like; with your mind you can do much the same with thoughts. If you understand this, then you have knowledge which gives freedom of mind, freedom to think with your mind as you will. The mind is alive; it is the essence of human life. The mind is awareness or at least involved with awareness. It operates through reason, imagination, knowledge, memory, emotion and perception but also has a resonance with the dark, the unknown, the void, the secret.

We have our living minds, through which currents of thought and feeling ever flow. It is our living minds which know being in awareness and our living minds which know whatever we know. Mind is alive. Your mind is alive and my mind is alive. Mind is alive in ordinary and extraordinary reality. If you are reading, listening or otherwise encountering these words and thoughts, what else can you be but alive, what else can your mind be but alive? Biology may define life in limited strictures of chemistry and reproduction, but life itself is something more vital, it is us, always changing and transcending our limitations.

The living mind is our personal upwelling of thought and feeling, which goes ever on, never stopping for less than death and, if the invisibility of dreamless sleep can be a guide, perhaps not even then. Our living mind is like a great tiger that we ride but more truly a profound dragon; it goes where it pleases and its only limitation is the void of its personal unknowing. No darkness is a barrier but only the unobserved, the unthought of, the unknown and unconceived; the unimagined still waiting for its illumination. If we know or even imagine the freedom of our living mind we become unbound; it may be a sudden revelation but it is followed by a longer becoming.

The living mind is prior to the objectified content of its thought. Suppose the flux of mind contains the thought 'Today is Saturday'. It may or may not be Saturday in the world when this thought occurs, so the thought 'Today is Saturday' as objectified in the external world is not necessarily true. However, the thought 'Today is Saturday' as part of the flux of thought through a living mind has actually occurred and thus has a higher priority, a more immediate reality, than its objectified image.

Mind lives on multiple levels. There are currents of emotion and something still deeper where mind is rooted in the experience of being, awareness, identity and difference. Emotive feeling arises from the depths but mind can also penetrate still more deeply into being, like water into sandstone aquifers, or reverso drawn forth from such deep layers. Nearer to the surface of awareness there are broad strata of perception, what the senses know. And then, rising above these foundations and enfolding them and sailing upon them like a ship upon the waves, thought evolves itself. Thought rises from experience but thought also has another level, where mind brings forth those higher forms of structure and beauty. This is where the mind becomes intrinsically its own and where it comes to knowledge and sometimes to action.


	MIND ALIVE
	YOUR MIND IS ALIVE Your mind is alive; it is at least as alive as is your body and it is alive as part of your being. Your mind is your own; it belongs to you and, like your hand, you may do what ever you are able to do with your mind. With your hand you can pick up objects, hold them to the light, change them, separate them, carve them, rotate them and place them where you like; with your mind you can do much the same with thoughts. If you understand this, then you have knowledge which gives freedom of mind, freedom to think with your mind as you will. The mind is alive; it is the essence of human life. The mind is awareness or at least involved with awareness. It operates through reason, imagination, knowledge, memory, emotion and perception but also has a resonance with the dark, the unknown, the void, the secret. We have our living minds, through which currents of thought and feeling ever flow. It is our living minds which know being in awareness and our living minds which know whatever we know. Mind is alive. Your mind is alive and my mind is alive. Mind is alive in ordinary and extraordinary reality. If you are reading, listening or otherwise encountering these words and thoughts, what else can you be but alive, what else can your mind be but alive? Biology may define life in limited strictures of chemistry and reproduction, but life itself is something more vital, it is us, always changing and transcending our limitations. The living mind is our personal upwelling of thought and feeling, which goes ever on, never stopping for less than death and, if the invisibility of dreamless sleep can be a guide, perhaps not even then. Our living mind is like a great tiger that we ride but more truly a profound dragon; it goes where it pleases and its only limitation is the void of its personal unknowing. No darkness is a barrier but only the unobserved, the unthought of, the unknown and unconceived; the unimagined still waiting for its illumination. If we know or even imagine the freedom of our living mind we become unbound; it may be a sudden revelation but it is followed by a longer becoming. The living mind is prior to the objectified content of its thought. Suppose the flux of mind contains the thought 'Today is Saturday'. It may or may not be Saturday in the world when this thought occurs, so the thought 'Today is Saturday' as objectified in the external world is not necessarily true. However, the thought 'Today is Saturday' as part of the flux of thought through a living mind has actually occurred and thus has a higher priority, a more immediate reality, than its objectified image. Mind lives on multiple levels. There are currents of emotion and something still deeper where mind is rooted in the experience of being, awareness, identity and difference. Emotive feeling arises from the depths but mind can also penetrate still more deeply into being, like water into sandstone aquifers, or reverso drawn forth from such deep layers. Nearer to the surface of awareness there are broad strata of perception, what the senses know. And then, rising above these foundations and enfolding them and sailing upon them like a ship upon the waves, thought evolves itself. Thought rises from experience but thought also has another level, where mind brings forth those higher forms of structure and beauty. This is where the mind becomes intrinsically its own and where it comes to knowledge and sometimes to action.

MIND ALIVE