NO MIND

NO MIND

There is no entity, as such, which we can call 'mind'. Because thoughts emerge, we assume that there is something from which they emerge, and we term it 'mind'. When we probe to see what it is, we discover that there is nothing there. After it has thus disappeared, eternal peace remains.

'Thinking' or 'the dis­criminating faculty' are mere names. Whether it is 'ego', 'mind' or 'intellect', it is the same. Whose mind is it? Whose intellect is it? It is the ego's. Is the ego real? No. We are confused by the ego and call it 'intellect' or 'mind'.

Desire for sleep or the fear of death exists when the mind is active, and not in the respective states themselves. The mind knows that the body entity persists and reappears after sleep. Therefore sleep is not attended with any fear but with the pleasure of being without a body. No existence is sought. On the other hand, the mind is not sure of its reappearance after so­ called death and therefore dreads it.
- Conscious Immortality