Unconscious identification with the individual and collective thought process has a powerful impact on what is perceived and accepted as reality. Naturally the active mind has the capacity to serve many functions. Primarily its operation resides in the realm of duality. Fundamentally the mind's function is to create and solve dilemmas. As one might expect, its inclination is toward activity. It is generally experienced engaging a concern for the past and future. When the mind becomes present there is no activity, no dilemma, no past nor future. There is only the perfect emptiness of the Silent Mind. Its Stillness is immutable, regardless of the apparent manifestation and dissolution of form occurring. It is utterly satisfied. It is devoid of the nOT4on of something other. It is not grasping, nor seeking fulfilment in an empty promise of consolation. There is no fascination with 'more'.

The Silent Mind is simply at ease, relaxed, and resting as Consciousness aware of Itself.

The active mind's concerns are not actually established in that which is “Real”, but that which is “unreal”. The transient (as a direct manifestation of Pure Consciousness) is Absolutely Divine. It cannot be separated from the wellspring of Silent Mind from which it arose. Regardless it is not “Real” in the truest sense.

The mind will always seek a challenge to its ingenuity, and finally finds itself in the company of the ultimate challenge, that of engaging the quest for Enlightenment. It seeks the Truth, and searches relentlessly using every strategy beknown to it. This search is bound to be fruitless, for the apogee sought out by the seekers mind is already effortlessly resting in the Silent Mind. It is forever Here, and therefore inaccessible to the seeking mind that looks elsewhere!

Searching itself is established in loss and the attempt to acquire. The Truth is eternally Present, unable to be lost or found. Consequently whilst identification with the seeker prevails, there can only be perpetuation of the illusion that the Truth is other than Here which inevitably and gloriously fails to satisfy.

The fundamental dilemma for the spiritual aspirant is the basically disagreeable disposition of the human condition, as a panacea to which all religious and spiritual means attempt to remedy. The basic presumption that the human condition is imperfect fuels all seeking toward that which Is (perfect). This situation is of course a hopeless predicament.

The Truth Is that existence needn't be, and is not, a problematic condition to be remedied. The human condition is already unconditionally Divine. Other than within the nOT4on of the seeking mind, there is no additional sublime ingredient necessary to perfect the alchemy. It is perfectly imperfect, and therefore absolutely the Way It Is.

End of story.