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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
our mind wants forms/objects and strategies. It wants to grasp an object (unfortunately Reality is not an object) and use it to achieve something else - in this case, realisation (what ever our individual minds think about it- is an illusion.) Our own nature is not an object and neither is no-mind. Anything that is achieved will be lost. Knowing this still we want to achieve enlightenment or realisation and that is how we are quizzing ourselves.
Silence is not a form or strategy. We don't have to go anywhere to get it. In fact, it is where all noise is arising in, including the noise of the mind; it is the base on canvas. To inquire into it one leaves all forms and strategies behind. The problem of the aspirants who experience the silence or void or nothingness is that their Mind takes the experience of Silence or No mind and turn it into an object and then start evaluating the same. Now when we are not being silent, we are in our own ideas about it. Now we think we know when really we do not. This inquiry is not into silence; it is into what one "thinks about" silence or no-mind. If this is the case then we
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