MINDFUL OR MINDLESS?

THE

all encompassing

MIND of GOD

means

we are in HIS MIND

not outside of it

In some traditions, the concept of being mindful is to be “altogether present”, which, in a manner of speaking, is a way of being mindless (not being distracted by reflection or projection).  However meritorious, it still infers a certain unspoken “attachment” to being defined by the activity in which this mindfulness is engaged.  The mindfulness that we will be addressing is the mind that is “full” with the awareness of being WHOLE, or ALL-ENCOMPASSING.

Our experience seems to dictate a mind which feels trapped within the boundaries of our own skin--a “separate” mind to go along with a separate body.  While this feels “real”, it hardly represents REALITY.  A “world” of separate minds, all bumping into one another, along with a “mind of GOD” perhaps included in the mix somewhere, seems to dictate our perception.

Quantum physics has even arrived at the conclusion that one mind (or consciousness) is the source of what we perceive, with each “perception” derived from a unique perspective.  The trouble with the hypothesis is the identification of who the perceiver is, and what is being perceived.  The concept of a separate perceiver (or mind), is, in itself, delusional.  With the mind being ONE, the concept of a separate mind is essentially “mindless”.  To relinquish our identity with the self-created artificial barriers which establish our experience as being separate, is to allow ourselves to go from being mindless to mindful.

To identify with the WHOLE MIND, the ONE MIND, the ALL-ENCOMPASSING MIND, is to identify with the FULL MIND, and to be TRULY MIND-FULL.