Dr. Blynd on What is Mind?

• From "FUNKTIONARY, THE KEY HOLDERS ENPSYCHLOPEDIA"

Copyright 2016 Chocolate City Press 

Resonated & Orchestrated by Dr. Blynd, Ph.F.

mind - a non-material, ephemeral interface of consciousness and biological brain. Like a parachute, a mind only works when it is open. There are other "things" that also do not work properly, unless they are open—like a sewer, but I would not compare that to my mind, because an open mind needs to be discriminating, less it accepts everything—hook, line and stinker, as does the sewer, voter or true believer. "An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth." -Peter Kreeft. Obsessed with the content of our thoughts, we fail to recognize the process. Content changes; the process remains the same. Now, you already know that a mind is a terrible thing to waste or let go to waste. So, in order for the mind to go beyond all wasted conditioning, there must be a complete cessation (through profound meditation) of the experiencer (the modifier, the censor, the ego-entity) who makes running commentary about the experience, with the urge to grasp or the urge to change, repeat, accept or reject. The mind is a cage, but if you look inside it will find no prisoner. Only with a stillness of the mind can the unknown come into being. (See: Unlearning, Acceptance, Upper Room, Identification, Unknown, Self-Inquiry, Form, * Processing Thinking, Thoughts, Duality, Experience, Attachment, Disidentification, Release, Neuralight & Undoing)

MIND -Mental Identification Nurtures Dualism. Identification with the mind creates the split-mind duality.

Mind - (Mentally Identified Notions Dominating)—a non-local memory bank comprised of stored sensory input data, pro-survival fact data and prevailing belief data which only has itself to know itself with; 2) the active agent of intelligence used to perceive and observe the Universe; 3) a non-physical aspect of self that uses the physical brain to communicate with the physical universe. 4) that which contains the ability to think beyond itself. 5) consciousness—"existing" everywhere and nowhere spaceless and timeless) simultaneously, i.e., non-local. 6) restlessness itself. Anything restless cannot be at peace. 7) a disturbance in consciousness—the primary dis-ease. 8) the accumulated past of all incomplete actions. 9) from the known to the known—a collective phenomenon. 10) "empty cognizance." -Tulku Urgyen. We do not think with the mind; we think for the mind. Mind is a disturbed state of consciousness—agitated, unstable, restless and full of waves. Mind has no existence, it only appears to exist, inferred, but it is only a form—like a dream, wave or a knot. Mind is a door towards the world, i.e., "objects," away from yourself, i.e., "subjective," not a door towards consciousness. Mind divides and then everything looks clear-cut. It is a slave pretending to be master. Interestingly enough, the mind is very unmindful. Mind is nothing but memory, and memory is not understanding. No matter how clear your mind becomes—it is still a barrier, a knot, a spectator. Mind permeates the Kosmos and must constantly be sustained and reproduced or the Kosmos will cease to exist as registered in consciousness. All the instruments of perception and apperception of past and present place mind in the Kosmos and the Kosmos in/as/of mind. Mind is that which takes you away from Reality, the object. Mind never takes you to an object. Mind is an epi-phenomenon—a process which is useful but secondary; a process which comprises words, not realities. The Mind is merely thoughts filtered—and of all the thoughts, the thought T is the root. Therefore, the Mind is only the thought "I." Mind is manifestation of the vitality of the Infinite—a reflecting phenomenon, the reflection comes from the real, but the reflection is not real. It is like a mirror—pure reflection with no retention. Overstanding this is what I call "mirrorealization." The reality is reflected in it, but reflections are not real. Your mind can reflect everything, but your mind cannot reflect you. You are the blackground behind (anterior and antecedent to) the mind, the mind can orj;. reflect ±ir.£s which are in front of it. Within the reality of this realization is the true Ph.D.; Potential hidden Divinity—She doctorate m Self-knowledge from the Cosmic University of Life. The mind hides reality because the mind takes the place of Reality Annihilate the mind if you wish to be a consort with Reality. Mind cannot by any process be made intelligent because -and means memory. Mind means a mechanism that accumulates past experiences. Mind means known, and intelligence means exploration of the unknown— and not only of the unknown—when the intelligence reaches to its ultimate flowering it enters into the world of the unknowable. Mind is nothing more than desire leading you away from yourself—your aboriginal True Self. Mind is the non­local apparatus by which the universe precipitates ideas (ideations) into solid-seeming creations within the dimension of space-time—the physical universe. The mind does not really exist—that is, have a separate or independent existence transcending time and space. It operates non-Iocally but doesn't exist as such. What exists are the non-local thoughts only. The substrate of the mind is thought; not: the mind is the substrate of thought. Your mind has been preprogrammed with a virus, the purpose of which is to shut down its operation of inquiry into the True Self as soon as trigger questions are initiated and pursued by awareness (awakened consciousness). We can't use tangible senses where only intangible sensors will prove fruitful. Without awareness, mind is nothing—-just as fire without fuel is not a fire. Sit back and think black into your mind. Only mind is able to reach back into time. Remove the notion of time and you remove the essence of mind. Mind does not observe the past; it creates it. Mind is the seat of conscious or unconscious awareness. Our minds interface with OM—ordinary matter—in the form of brains (grey matter) which are themselves complex processes and/or complexes of processes. Our brains are entertained by reality which is hosted by Consciousness. Our mind-brain interfaces model reality within an environment that has become self-modifying and self-referential (recursive). Our minds co-evolve with everything that influences them. Minds are figments of reality, bi-directional processes interfacing between ordinary matter (brains) and immaterial consciousness. Mind-Brains evolved through (within Consciousness) in order to mimic, model and manipulate natural processes in this manifestation (Existence). There is no such thing as mind over matter. Mind is matter. All there is, is Consciousness. (See: Awareness, Mirrorealization, Consciousness, True Self, Mindfulness, Bondage, The Mind, Suffering, Third-Eye, Literal Present, Brain, Thoughts, The World, Discovery, The Past, Homecoming, Background, Suddenlightenment, Body-Mind, Brain, Karma, Self-Knowledge, No-mindedness, Psychic Junkyard, "You," "Me," Thought, Maya & "The Now')

mind - the immaterial medium for how we fill the atmosphere and fill space and time—serving as interface and interference. The mind's true nature is intersubjective and interconnected—non-local in fact. The isolated mind is a myth. American humorist, Ambrose Bierce, stated the mind, "is a substance secreted deep within the brain, whose chief preoccupation is thinking about itself—the problem being that it has only itself to think about itself with." In order to think about the mind one has to employ the mind; one has to step outside of the mind. In so doing, the mind then would have to function simultaneously as subject and object. Mind is the law that binds the ignorant and frees the wise. Withdrawing from the mind (partaking from it) leaves it incomplete thereby affecting any future observation about it. Conversely, if one does not step outside of the mind to observe it, the observation is impossible. Thinking about the mind with the mind puts you in a doublebind. We think for the mind not with the mind. In 1931 the greatest logician of the 20th century, Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel proved in his "Incompleteness Theorems" essentially that: (1) a logical system with any richness (complexity) can never be complete, (2) nor can it even be guaranteed to be consistent. The most eminent of mathematicians the world over for the past 80 years have been unable to discredit the validity of his proofs. While the mind is non-local and isn't some secretion of the brain, it is however, a very sinister Kafkaesque paradox that rational thought is revealing to us that it cannot be used to penetrate, much less arrive at, some ultimate or absolute truth. Godel had a complexly rhythmic laughter as if highlighting his ability to fathom the cosmic joke that is being played on us. He got it and it released him into laughter. Now, you are aware of your mind, but is your mind aware of you? Mind you, you are the one who speaks about your mind, but did your mind come to talk about you? Can the mind by itself, of itself, trouble you? Reflect on this for a moment. When you move from the position of the person to the state of presence you move from thought of the mind to clarity—to being beyond mind. The presence is always what's here; mind is mostly everywhere but here and now. Awakening only takes place here within you—nowhere else. Something within you has come through—be born. The work and the seeing take place right where you are. The renewing of the mind comes as the realization of presence above the thoughts of the mind—beyond the mind. The one for whom the concepts are playing you will even transcend that one you are trying to transcend the concepts while at the same time your identity is also a part of your concepts, then you're out of this trap. All that is necessary is a change in understanding to overstanding and perspective (the way you are looking). Even the present ideas you have of yourself is something you can look at which means it cannot be your ultimate reality—your True Self. Everything the mind can conjure up or find is just another illusion inside the illusion. Observe what Is without a thought. Let go of the concepts and the idea that there is some ultimate purpose or something to believe or achieve. We are realized already. (See: Incompleteness Theorems, Consciousness, Quantum Reality, Ego, True Self, Schizophrenia, True Education, Personality, Awakening, Nonduality, Addiction, Resurrection, Triune Brain & Presence)

Osho: "From Reaction to Action"

An excerpt from "freedom"

"The first thing, and the most basic to be understood, is that whatsoever you do, it should not be a reaction. If it is an act then there is no problem. Action is always good; reaction always bad.

So try first to understand this term 'reaction'. It means you are acting unconsciously. Somebody is manipulating you. Somebody says something, does something, and you react. The real master of the situation is somebody else. Somebody comes and insults you and you react, you become angry. Somebody comes and praises you and you smile and you become happy. Both are the same. You are a slave and the other knows how to push your buttons. You are behaving like a mechanism. You are an automaton, not a man yet.

Act, don't react. Don't be a plaything in the hands of others.

And you cannot predict a man who acts out of no-mind; only mind is predictable. If you are awake, alert, conscious, nobody can say what turn any situation will take. A thousand and one alternatives open for consciousness. Consciousness is total freedom -- spontaneous, an act totally in the present, not controlled by anybody else, coming out of his own being....

We react according to our conditionings. If you have been born in a vegetarian family and non-vegetarian food is placed on your table, you will feel nausea, vomiting, sickness. Not because of the non-vegetarian food, but because of your conditioning. Somebody else who has been conditioned for non-vegetarian food will relish the very sight of it, will feel appetite not nausea, will feel happy, will be thrilled. That too is a conditioning.

We react because we have been conditioned in a certain way. You can be conditioned to be very polite. You can be conditioned to be always in control. You can be conditioned to be silent. You can be conditioned to remain still in situations where people ordinarily become disturbed and distracted. But if it is a conditioning then it has nothing to do with religion; then it has something to do with psychology. And Buddha or Jesus are not masters there - B.F Skinner and Pavlov, they are the masters there. It is a conditioned reflex.

I have heard a story. In B. F. Skinner's lab, a new mouse was introduced.

They go on working with mice because they don't give any more credit to man. They think that if they can understand the mind of a mouse, they have understood humanity.

The old mouse, who had been there with Skinner for a very long time, initiated the new and said, 'Look. This professor B. F. Skinner is a very good man, but you have to condition him first. Push this button and immediately breakfast comes in. I have conditioned him perfectly'

B. F. Skinner thinks he has conditioned his lab mice, and they think they have conditioned him.

Conditioning is a murder; the spontaneity is killed. The mind is fed with certain ideas and you are not allowed to respond; you are only allowed to react. In small things or great things, it is the same.

If you have been brought up in a religious family, the word 'god' is so beautiful, so holy. But if you have been brought up in a communist family in Soviet Russia, then the very word is ugly, nauseating. One feels as if it would leave a bad taste in the mouth to utter the word.

Small or big is not the question. If you go on behaving the way you have been conditioned, you are functioning as a machine; the man has not been born yet.

"It is said that when you tell an englishman a joke, he will laugh three times. He will laugh the first time - when you tell it - to be polite. He will laugh a second time - when you explain it - again to be polite. (That is the training of the englishman - continuously being polite.) Finally he will laugh a third time in the middle of the night when he wakes from a sound sleep and suddenly gets it.

When you tell a german the same joke, he will laugh twice. He will laugh first - when you tell it - to he polite. He will laugh a second time - when you explain it - to be polite. He will never laugh a third time, because he will never get it.

When you tell an american the same joke, he will laugh once - when you tell it - for he will get it.

And when you tell a jew the same joke, he won't laugh at all. Instead he will say, 'It's an old joke, and besides, you are telling it all wrong.'

It may be a joke, or it may be a great philosophy. It may be trivia or god himself - it makes no difference. People behave the way they are conditioned to behave, the way they are brought up to behave, the way they are expected to behave. Nature is not allowed to function; only nurture is allowed to function. This is the man whom we call a slave.

When you become free, when you drop all conditioning and for the first time you look at life with fresh eyes, with no clouds of conditioning in between, then you become unpredictable. Then nobody knows, then nobody can imagine what is going to happen. Because then you are no more there; god acts through you. Right now only society goes on acting through you.

Once you are simply alert, ready to respond, with no fixed idea, with no prejudice, with no plan, whatsoever happens in the moment, you become true and authentic.

Remember two words - authority and authenticity. Ordinarily you behave according to the authority that has conditioned you - the priest, the politician, the parents. You behave according to the authority. A religious man behaves not according to the authority; he behaves through his own authenticity. He responds. A situation arises there, a challenge is there - he responds with his total being. Even he himself cannot predict it.

When you ask a question, even I don't know what answer I am going to give to you. When I give it, only then I also know; only then I say, so, this was the answer. Your question is there, I am here - a response is bound to happen.

Response is responsibility. Response is authenticity. Response is living in the moment.

You can always predict what unconscious people will do: they willl be brave or they will be cowards, they will be patient or they will be impatient. But for a real man of understanding there are no alternatives - all possibilities are always open; no door is closed. And each moment decides. He does not carry a decision beforehand; he has no ready-made decisions. Fresh, virgin, he moves. That is the virginity of an enlightened man... uncorrupted by the past.

Awareness is the key. If you become aware, everything follows.

Don't try to become anything - patient, loving, non-violent, peaceful. Don't try. If you try, you will force yourself and you will become a hypocrite. That's how the whole religion has turned into hypocrisy. Inside you are different; on the outside painted. You smile, and inside you would have liked to kill. Inside you car;y on all rubbish and on the outside you go on sprinkling perfume. Inside you stink; on the outside you create an illusion as if you are a roseflower.

Never repress. Repression is the greatest calamity that has happened to man. And it has happened for very beautiful reasons. You look at a buddha or a muso - so silent, undisturbed. A greed arises:

you would also like to be like them. What to do? You start trying to be a stone statue. Whenever there is a situation and you can be disturbed, you hold yourself. You control yourself.

Control is a dirty word. It has not four letters in it, but it is a four-letter word.

Freedom.... And when I say freedom I don't mean licence. You may understand... when I say freedom you may understand licence, because that's how things go. A controlled mind, whenever it hears about freedom immediately understands it as licence. Licence is the opposite pole of control. Freedom is just in between, just exactly in the middle, where there is no control and no licence.

Freedom has its own discipline, but it is not forced by any authority. It comes out of your awareness, out of authenticity. Freedom should never be misunderstood as licence, otherwise you will again miss.

Awareness brings freedom. In freedom there is no need for control, because there is no possibility for licence. It is because of licence that you have been forced to control, and if you remain licentious the society will go on controlling you.

It is because of your licentiousness that the policeman exists and the judge and the politician and the courts, and they go on forcing you to control yourself. And in controlling yourself you miss the whole point of being alive, because you miss celebration. How can you celebrate if you are too controlled?

It happens almost every day. When people come to see me who are very much controlled and disciplined, it is almost impossible to penetrate their skull; they are too thick... walls of stone around them. They have become stoney, they have become ice-cold, the warmth is lost. Because if you are warm, there is fear - you may do something. So they have killed themselves, completely poisoned themselves. To remain in control, they have found only one solution and that is not to live at all. So be a stone buddha. Then you will be able to pretend that you are patient, silent, disciplined.

But that is not what I am teaching here. Control has to be dropped as much as licence. Now you will be puzzled. You can choose either control or licence. You say, 'If I drop control, I will become licentious. If I drop licence then I have to become controlled.' But I tell you, if you become aware, control and licence both go down the same drain. They are two aspects of the same coin, and in awareness they are not needed.

It happened:

"An eighteen year-old boy, who had always been somewhat shy and retiring, one evening decided to change himself. He came down from his bedroom, all slicked up, and snapped at his father, 'Look, I'm going out on the town - I'm going to find some beautiful girls. I'm going to get blind drunk and have a great time. I'm going to do all the things a fellow of my age should be doing in the prime of life and get a bit of adventure and excitement, so just don't try and stop me!'

His old man said, Try and stop you? Hold on, my son, I'm coming with you.'

All controlled people are in that state - bubbling inside to explode into licentiousness.

Go and see your monks in the monasteries. In India we have that type of neurosis very much. They are all neurotics. This is something to be understood - either you become erotic or you become neurotic. If you repress your eras, eroticness, you become neurotic. If you drop your neurosis, you become erotic.

And both are sorts of madnesses. One should be simply oneself - neither neurotic nor erotic, available to all situations, ready to face whatsoever life brings, ready to accept and live - but always alert, conscious, aware, mindful.

So the only thing to be constantly remembered is selfremembrance. You should not forget yourself. And always move from the innermost core of your being. Let actions flow from there, from your very center of being, and whatsoever you do will be virtuous.

Virtue is a function of awareness.

If you do something from the periphery, it may not look like a sin, but it is sin. The society may be happy with you, but you cannot be happy with yourself. The society may praise you, but you deep down will go on condemning yourself because you will know you have missed life - and missed for nothing.

What is it - the praise of the society? If people call you a saint, what is it? Nothing but gossip. How does it matter? You have missed god for gossip. You have missed life for these foolish people who are all around, for their good opinion.

Live life from your very center. This is all that meditation is about. And by and by you will come to feel a discipline that is not forced, not cultivated, which arises spontaneously, arises naturally like a flower blooms. Then you will have the whole life available, and you will have your whole being available.

And when your whole being and the whole life meet, between the two arises that which is god, between the two arises that which is nirvana. [MORE] and [MORE]

"double consciousness" as defined in FUNKTIONARY

• From "FUNKTIONARY, THE KEY HOLDERS ENPSYCHLOPEDIA"

Copyright 2016 Chocolate City Press 

Resonated & Orchestrated by Dr. Blynd, Ph.F.

double consciousness - the sense of looking at one's Self through the eye's (axiology) and distorted mirrors of others. 2) the psych-mismanagement of one's neurosis. 3) intimately involved with what you hate, and torn apart from who you (think you) are. You cannot learn to use that which you refuse to acknowledge, i.e., one's heritage, roots, or asili. (See: Matah, Inauthentic, "Wille-Chip," Power, Anxiety, Anguish, LEARN & Asili.) 

Larken Rose: Government is an Illusion [that depends upon your belief in it]

Dr. Varius Blynd: "Unlearning"

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Copyright 2016 Chocolate City Press 

Resonated & Orchestrated by Dr. Blynd, Ph.F.

unlearning - a process of eliminating obsolete and /or inaccurate foundational concepts by totally reorienting one's methods of accessing, coordinating, juxtaposing and internalizing data, perceptions, opinions, facts, truths and subjective reality. 2) awakening to one's fundamental Self-nature—our ground-state of Being. 3) the process of uncovering the nature of reality. 4) learning about the art of learning itself. 5) the ability to clear out one's default beliefs, programs, and self-doubts will open up one's consciousness to what you really want to create. By the time you reach your mid-twenties and beyond, your beliefs about yourself and the reality that you experience (or can experience) are pretty much already circumscribed and set in stone. The key to unlearning is to be a rolling stone—break away and then roll free. Unlearning involves reversing (undoing) the pedagogical technique that was applied in and during one's formative years of indoctrination, conditioning, education, programming, training, study, etc. Most of our learning has been unconsciously laced with limiting beliefs. The first step in unlearning is becoming aware of what is holding you back, holding you up or holding you down—in a word, what you deferred or settled for in life rather than what you preferred or dreamed possible. The technique of unlearning involves the following: Redirect Learning, Responsive Learning, Reflective Learning and Reverse Learning. Unlearning is akin to reverse engineering coupled with conscious re-imagineering. The conscious mind can only create what you desire in your reality if the subconscious mind doesn't present any stronger belief currents for why you can't. When the conscious mind knows how to unlearn (reverse the subconscious technique), it breaks the subconscious hold and breaks open as the processing mind breaks down. The degree to which ignorance falls away is the degree of enlightenment there will be. With a ruthless integrity we must scrutinize our own motives and make the honest effort to determine what our relationship to life is really based on. Those who learn think they are learning the ordinary that can be understood, while those who unlearn feel deep within they are embodying the extraordinary that is beyond understanding. Unlearning comprises a combination of learning {uncovering) something or realizing that something is possible and recovery (the removal of a block) of something that is aboriginal to us, something we've alienated, denied its rightfully belonging to us. Unlearning requires keen curiosity which embodies self-motivation. It is also about being aware of using concepts (which are static) without being fooled by them or getting lost in them, i.e., remaining in direct experience (which is dynamic). Unwinding a whole circuit of conditioned responses, inflexible seeing and fear-inducing habits requires an unimaginable amount of intellectual fortitude. R. D. Laing defines the depth of the challenge: "Our capacity to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell is so shrouded...that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love." Unlearners leart at will by their own will. Learning consists of filling; unlearning consists of emptying. "The chief object of education is not to leam things but to unlearn things." ~G.K. Chesterton. We have to wean ourselves from overdependence on the expertise we've labored so hard to accumulate as stores of knowledge. "We must avoid letting our education interfere with our learning." -Albert Einstein. Unlearners are more favorably disposed toward the unexpected. Instead of filling with answers, empty of questions. Questions confine answers. When you are clear of questions, answers are unbound—free to arise of their own volition no longer held hostage by them. Unlearning is reformatting our gestalt in order to uncover and recover one's dormant or arrested potential through Self-Overstanding—the inner quest to the realization of the Overself. We must welcome the insecurity, the uncertainty and the wisdom of courting the unknown while making the familiar strange—to see or unblock the view totally anew. "We are too used to learning and too dependent on being taught. Over-reliance on the need to learn is making our society into a world of experts, ever more selective, divisive, and complicated." ~Dr. Ilchi Lee. Everything in Consciousness-based education starts with freedom from the need to leam. As you let go of your dependence on "learning" (in pursuit of earning a living), and simply listen, observe and reflect, life will naturally begin unfolding its secrets, mysteries and lessons to you. Unlearning reduces the frequency and extent of our pervasive misapprehension of reality—both its nature and attributes. Out from the shadows of familiarity and the cocoon of conditioning lies a vibrancy of life rarely encountered—and those that do, are mostly unlearns of the highest magnitude who recenter their perception and awareness into the actuality, the immediacy of the here-and-now. When you move from your deepest knowing, all the right doors will fling open for you. The more you learn the less you know; the more you unlearn the more you know that you don't. We gravitate with celerity those who think like us but learn slowly (and unlearn even slower) from those that don't. You know it's like that, 'cuz that's the way it is. When you're unlearning, you're burning—putting out a lot of self-made fires in the tender box of your unexamined life and unquestioning mind. When you're all burned up and the false self consumed, then you become the light. Drop what you've been taught so you can recollect what you know. "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it!" While spirituality is all about unlearning all the garbage you've been taught. Unlearning has to do with awakening. (See: The Tao, Aw-akening, Unanswering, Questions, Overself, True Self, Questioning, Searching, False Self, Third Sight, Ego, Attention, Awareness, Stillness, Innocence, Truth, Seeing, U-Turners, Love, Truth Editing, Creative Seeing, Wisdom, Dream, Third-Door, Insecurity, Uncertainty, Unseeing, In-Seeing, Consciousness-Based Education, Unstuck & Seeking)

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of "Belief"

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Resonated & Orchestrated by Dr. Blynd, Ph.F.

Belief- the psychological calm of imagined certitude safely beyond de-stabilizing doubt and troublesome reality-entanglement. 2) a construction of approximate truths, absolute truths, mass truths and primary myths, based on genetic predisposition, and environmental and socio-psychological conditioning. 3) the institutionalization of the unknowable, i.e., a conviction that is not necessarily based upon any empirical, direct-mind or experiential knowledge. 4) a non-physical surviving thought-form. 5) any conclusion based on a fundamental assumption; the evidence of things not seen, no longer actively sought. 6) an intellectual
rationalization surrounded by (based on) "'proofs," reasons and arguments. 7) that which springs out of cultural ideology. 8) the greatest fiction. 9) a trick of the mind to repress doubt. 10) a mental doubt-suppression tactic. A suppressed doubt is neither faith nor even trust. 11) repressed doubt. 12) an explicit or implicit assent to dogmatic propositions (with or without overgrown religious foliage) on someone else's authority. 13) reverential blindness that thwarts fresh perception and intuitive apperception. 14) a prejudice without any experience to support it. 15) a peculiar blend of fatiloquent assertion on one hand and adamant
denial on the other. 16) a manic flirtation with the terminally unprovable. 17) certainty based in the unknown. 18) having another "see" it for you while seeing him see it (for you)—in effect being for another. 19) a conclusion without the verification of direct experience—make-believe made real. 20) the inability or unwillingness to master the requisite logic or reason to counterbalance (or overcome) the willingness to be misled. 21) the abnegation of internal authenticity for outside authority. 22) ego-consoling faith. 23) acceptance of a statement, tenet or creed with available verification and substantive evidence to its contrary. The word belief in English comes from the Anglo-Saxon root 'leif, which means, "to wish." Belief is the inability to formulate the necessary suspicion that there is something seriously missing. Sin means missing the mark—and belief is the mark that's missed in the very act of merely believing. Belief is the blind spot of what's not. It's beautiful—you can't see what's not really there. When people believe something, their beliefs take form and appear real to them. Belief, even in the most arrant nonsense, often finds the greatest audience with the highest credulity. When you utter the creed, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth..." you are really saying, "I fervently wish that there exists God the Father Almighty." With belief, you have to believe only in lies; you don't have to believe in truth. Remember, you cover a lie; you discover truth. A belief is an unwarranted, unchallenged or cherished assumption that is elevated to the status of a conclusion or absolute truth without examination and verification through observation, direct or authentic experience, critical thought and contemplation. A belief is a stub (proxy-rung) in one's personal ladder of truth. Each belief carries the embedded doubt in itself. A belief is the violation of epistemological integrity in which something one doesn't really or truly know is feigned as something one knows. Most belief is founded on the form—not the content—of the words believed in. Once a belief is rigidified or solidified as dogma, individuals (believers) will predictably limit themselves only to the experiences that validate their belief (wishes). Don't believe or disbelieve, because in either case, '"you" will never undertake the effort of direct experience to really know. Belief is external absolute-truth-based blindness. Belief is something fixed, static, stagnant, frozen— a conclusion we have reached (albeit not on our own and based on the unknown). Once we believe something, we shut the door to everything outside of, or opposed to, that belief and stop inquiring or questioning. Belief is a cultural conditioning imposed on you by others; it is a slavery. Belief is our substitute for truth: truth our substitute for reality—thereby stultifying our opportunity for awareness. Belief is what we cling to when we have no true overstanding or comprehension (knowingness) of the nature of reality, existence, or the Totality. Only the blind must believe in sunlight. For those who can see with a single eye, belief plays no part in the experience of seeing. A belief is a question we have put aside so that we don't have to seek an answer from reality. Belief is present when you don't know, yet believe anyway. A belief cannot be questioned—its very nature is to end the quest in the very believing. To believe a statement or proposition "P' is to act as if 'P' is held to be true; and if so, it too holds true for others.   It is not necessary that the belief be neither conscious nor certain.   Confusion arises from failure to overstand the essential difference between theoretical (i.e., intellectual) belief, and vital (i.e., unconscious) belief. Most beliefs are merely the result of indoctrination, acculturation, programming and conditioning.   Only vital beliefs have the power to transcend the exigencies of life, and of death. The highest belief is the belief in reality, and even that position is an unenviable one.  When you are free of belief you are ready for truth; when you're free of truth, you're ready for reality, and when you're ready for reality, you're ready for Phfreedom (not having freedom but being freedom itself). With belief, you can only see your way out of it; you cannot see through it or into it. Seeing your way out provides the false impression that you can make your way out (of it). A belief may be comforting, but only through experimental transformation into knowingness, by way of revising one's truth, does it become liberating.   Shed your belief for existential relief.   Belief is always unnecessary (and a hindrance) to action but a salve to the ego. "There is no idea so stupid you can't find people to believe in it."~H.L. Mencken. Belief may console the ego-personality, but it simultaneously deludes, confines and supports it. "Belief is only as good as the ability and willingness to give it up.   Beliefs only betoken intention and doubt and that when doubt is laid to rest through experience, belief dissolves as naturally as stitches after an operation.   When you really know something, if you have the experience to back it up, belief becomes more of a hindrance than help. But its most useful function—and its most profound accomplishment—lies in its ability to disappear." -Adam G. Fisher.  The very idea of belief implies a residue of doubt, but knowing leaves no trace of skepticism. Don't believe a word of what you read here in the Funktionary. Belief is being locked into an idea; an unalterable understanding. We fail to realize how dangerous (and limiting) blocking out new information can be simply because it is new, foreign or inconsistent with our tradition or religious conditioning.   If knowledge is not constantly changing you—then you're full of shit.   How much?   It all depends.   When we're "smellin' ourselves" in our beliefs, rest assured, others are smelling us too—because it reeks from a distance. All the dangers of belief lay close to the shore of dogma. Once one has broken through the spiritual shoals and religious reefs, the expanse of the ocean of Being brings great relief. Why should many consider it a virtue to believe something or "believe in" something without any supporting evidence, or in spite of contravening evidence?   Whatever you now believe, you believe only because you were willing to release a prior belief. Knowledge comes into existence by shedding belief—it is but a natural progession from superstition to reality-based living and quantum physics experienced as a quantum leap forward into and through consciousness.   You don't have to take any responsibility for belief—that shifts responsibility or romoves it altogether from the believer, as contrasted to knowledge, wherein once you know, once you are aware, you have to take responsibility for an action based on that knowledge. With belief, you can willfully ignore knowledge and facts and remain in ignorant bliss. Challenging and questioning the void, blind spot, or fear supporting the need to defer experience and knowledge for belief presents us with the prospect of reinventing our lives anew from scratch—not the outer life, but our inner lives, our essence.  A reorientation from belief to knowledge takes tremendous courage.   Belief blocks us, i.e., stands between us and the reality-based truth we so eagerly dodge, avert or fail to even acknowledge or recognize its presence always there just beyond our fears to engage or entertain. Belief is a personal claim that doesn't matter because it has no impact on the outcome of the encounter or exchange between two people or events. Sure, you can exercise a modicum of faith to practical things in the world but that doesn't denote belief. Faith is belief sustained by some reasonable test of its validity. If a belief cannot be tested, it moves into superstition or faith. Faith (like truth) can be tested against reality and will yield either temporary knowledge or conclusive disrepute.   However, once a claim "matters," even though the question or answer may not change (what's your name and the factual response), the stakes are raised. A formula can be generated that depicts belief. Belief equals the claims divided by reason, times the evidence minus an uncertainty factor to the power of change driven by infinity.   [B = (C/R)E - Un].  We should approach a claim with some reasonable expectations (because we understand and have experienced the world and events to follow a certain pattern or be a certain way).  It is most prudent to dissect a claim from our reasonable expectations of our understanding of the world especially its uncertainty factor amidst ceaseless change. This is the safest and most sane manner or method to determine if the claim comports with the nature (attributes) of reality. Once you substitute knowledge and reality for belief and truth, your life (the substitute life you're leading will never be the same.   The end of belief is a challenging moment.   Don't be afraid to live your life without the binky of belief—it will come to you as a life-changing and most joyous relief.  Once you know—back to belief you cannot go. Not in belief, but rather in knowingness and openness to change we grow. In belief we're off to the religious races, but we never go far. Flow it down for a change and be where we really are; be who we truly are!   (See: Faith, Vital Belief, Sin, Belief System. Certainty, Phfreedom, Dogma, Knowingness, Liberation, Ego-Personality, Epistemology, Space, Seeing, True Believers. Essence, Human Beams, Overstanding, Atheism, "God," Absolute Truth, Proof, Mythology, Undoism, Subconscious, Self- Identity, Religion, Ideology, SLIP, Evil, Good, The Unknown, Guilt, Understanding, Religion, PC & Trust)

belief-based truth - a description or perception of reality, (the content of which comprises what we call "truth"), that one desires or hopes to be true, despite external scientific, natural, or reproducible proof-based truth to the contrary. People all-too-often compromise their integrity and/or intelligence by devising truth which disallows any proof by design, as part and parcel of its ruse to allure its believers)—and even the truth that carries proof cannot be proven against the undeniable uncertainty of Reality. You fall prey to (or fall for) the illusions of proof if you ignore the pure subjectivity of reality. Illusions of scientific proof follow illusions of limits, and illusions of religious proof follow illusions of truth. Science makes truth out of proof, while belief-based religions make proof out of truth. (See: Infinity, Proof, Revelatory Truth, Absolute Truth & Belief System)

belief exams - self-administered tests of one's assumptions (cherished beliefs); testing one's beliefs. The only way to recognize the limits under which you have been living is to test them. If you do not test your beliefs they will become your warden an; you their hostage.   Unquestioned beliefs own you. If you don't confront your beliefs they will only comfort you in you: imprisonment to them. (See: O.D., Belief Systems, Belief Pushers, Guilt, ludgment, Fear, Sin, Fate & Convictions) [MORE]

OSHO: And the Flowers Showered 1-2

Debate is Never Communication & is Stupid: Uncle Brother's Point is To Make People Hate & Fear Each Other

Boston yesterday. 

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Undeceiver Dr. Blynd in FUNKTIONARY explains: 

Doggy - Uncle Brother—the condition and conditioning which serves you your problem doubling as your very own ambition. 2) a situation such that the fulfillment of the conditions necessary to achieve a desired result produces its failure. 3) the entity that goes by many names, including bank-monopolized capitalism the Spectacle, the Hall of Mirrors and the Looking Glass society, the Mega-machine, Statism, Global Imperialism Scientific Socialism cooperative federalism, corporate religion, and the phallacy of "progress"—the manifestation and embodiment of the tool of the Wallflower Order. 4) any shrewd trickster. 5) Leviathan's Big Brother. 6) the creators of the source code for the global dis-information "system." 7) Dr. Sam and Mr. Brother. 8) the collective name ascribed to inert abstractions that we have given artificial life-support to and unwittingly sanctioned or accorded superiority over life. Doggy is the cultural conditioning system that maintains its hold over all things and all people, even our minds and opinions, by getting us to be informers and informants on each other, by getting us to be the trustees in and of their mind prism prison. Doggy is any and all conditioning, often self-imposed and when necessary involuntarily inflicted, that promotes your belief in illusion (both grand and petit) as a way of life. Doggy creates the conditions wherein an undetected and undeclared war is waged on us directly through us. The result of this on-going psychological war is that you, like many others, willingly destroy your freedom without the possibility of recognizing or overcoming the oppressions of control. The belief in illusion is the agreement to oppression. Doggy is the violent programming we have sustained all of our lives. Doggy wants you to just barely survive—but not to be fully alive—wants you to remain barely alive, but not to fully live. Say Uncle! Bad Doggy. (See: "THEY," Hidalgo, Vampires, Society, Thoughtforms, Crimethlnc., Beasthood, Corporate State, Governments, Uncle Sam Wallflower Order, Cell, The Collective, Fishbowlers, Big Brother & "Greater System")

The break down of the following Zen koan by Osho Rajineesh may provide further understanding: 

There is an old tradition in some Japanese Zen temples

that if a wandering monk can win an argument

about Buddhism

with one of the resident monks, he can stay the night.

If not, he has to move on.

There was such a temple in northern Japan run by

two brothers.

The elder brother was very learned

and the younger brother was rather stupid, and he had

only one eye.

One evening a wandering monk came to ask

for lodging.

The elder brother was very tired

as he had been studying for many hours,

so he told the younger brother to go and take

the debate.

“Request that the dialogue be in silence,” said

the elder brother.

A little later the traveler came to the elder brother

and said,

“What a wonderful fellow your brother is.

He has won the debate very cleverly,

so I must move on. Good night.”

“Before you go,” said the elder brother,

“please relate the dialogue to me.”

“Well,” said the traveler,

“first I held up one finger to represent Buddha.

Then your brother held up two fingers

to represent Buddha and his teaching.

So I held up three fingers

to represent Buddha, his teaching, and his followers.

Then your clever brother shook his clenched fist

in my face to indicate that all three came from one realization.”

With that the traveler left.

A little later the younger brother came in

looking very distressed.

“I understand you won the debate,”said the

elder brother.

“Won nothing,” said the

younger brother,

“that traveler is a very rude man.”

“Oh?” said the elder brother,

“Tell me the subject of the debate.

“Why,” said the younger brother,

“the moment he saw me, he held up one finger

insulting me by indicating that I have only one eye.

But because he was a stranger I thought I would

be polite,

so I held up two fingers congratulating him on having

two eyes.

At this, the impolite wretch held up three fingers

to show that we had but three eyes between us,

so I got mad and threatened to punch his nose -

so he went.”

The elder brother laughed. [MORE]

Doc Blynd on Meditation, Meditative and Meditator in FUNKTIONARY

From "FUNKTIONARY, THE KEY HOLDERS ENPSYCHLOPEDIA" Copyright 2016 Chocolate City Press. Resonated & Orchestrated by Dr. Blynd, Ph.F.

meditation - the mind-freeing (emptying) itself from the known, i.e., creating "no-mindedness." 2) the total dissolution of everything that the mind, thought, and time has accumulated. 3) conformation and confirmation of unification (oneness) of creation. 4) the music without sound-images. 5) deliberate daily exercise in discriminating between true and the false and the renunciation of the false. 6) a prescription for devotion. 7) freedom from the constraints of time (tick-tock) by creating the divine vastness (solitude) of inner space. 8) the summation of all energy. 9) a movement in stillness and a stillness among movement. 10) anti-dream efforts/techniques. 11) dream-negating activities/devices. 12) the path of how to drop the senses. Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you inadvertently leave your window open, and just like love—it cannot be pursued—one must simply be meditative.) 13) the path of how to drop the senses. 14) participation in the celebration of existence. 15) soul medication. 16) contemplation squared. 17) effortless awareness; developing the ability to flow in all directions simultaneously. 18) opening up all doors of one's being. 19) a state where you allow yourself to feel the pull of existence and trust the tug is real. 20) to be with yourself in your absolute aloneness in order that you may have a taste of your true Beingness. 21) an inward contemplation of divine realities through focusing on an object outside. 22) action detached from the future and the past. 23) the bliss of being alone; the art of being alone; solitary refinement—a return to the Self.  Stop 'trying' to meditate. Meditation is what happens when you do nothing. Like water eroding stone, idle contemplation erodes tension. Meditation is not a trick of thought—it is the dissociation of thought and of its by-products.  It is the seeing of the futility of thought and the ways of the intellect. The objective of true meditation is to annihilate all mind-stuff and meditate upon pure mind. Meditativeness is effortlessly observing the activity of the mind; not the mind-stuff appearing in it or throughout it. Meditation is looking at life without verbalization. Names create duality—within and without, God and creation, matter and mind. There should be no verbal formulations within meditation. Drop the language and the Template of Oneness arises within and appears of its own accord—the observer has become the observed, the observed has become the observer. Where "I" and "thou" become indistinguishable—God enters you, cognized as the God-Self-Divine. Read Mathew 4:16. The people whom sat in darkness saw great light. And to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death (lower flesh / carnal mind) light is sprung up. Unless we meditate, practicing the Single Eye as "Jesus" admonished, we remain chained to a dark wall, as was the case in the •"Allegory of the Cave" attributed to Plato. The experience of God happens within you in the upper world. Your subterranean world is your lower mind (dark dragon). When you visit the Upper Room by entering within yourself you will experience the Kingdom of God and come to know the mystery of yourself. Meditation is living your life from the very center (essence) of your being; an arising and flowering out of authenticity. It is a state of utter receptivity to your own inner divine selfhood or God-Self-Divine. Living attentively in this natural state (aware, yet unmindfully so) while creatively expressing its Presence is living the Neuralife. When your life becomes meditation and you are living the Neuralife, the message that arises from the utmost depth of consciousness is reality-based (subjective) truth realized in you. Luxuriating in the Neuralife quickens the transformation of consciousness (through the recognition of the limitations and illusions of truth-based reality) and accelerates the evolution of consciousness. Meditation is not concentration (focused thought)—it doesn't exclude anything, it includes all. Meditation presupposes the deliberate action of the ego as the meditator, practicing meditation. Meditation is futile if one does by doing—meditativeness is anontological—the quality of non-Being, not the state of being, nor the action of doing—which is useless. When you go up to the mountain (metaphor for meditation) you are raising your consciousness and that is where you make active the single eye or Pineal. Meditation is not something we do (if we do it), it is something that happens when we drop our judgments, ideations, notions, desires, intentions (good or bad), and our attempts to manipulate and/or control. It is a condition of openness from which we are able to pierce into the onion core of reality where infinity is revealed—not the seed of "truth." Meditation happens when we observe without choice and without any wish to change (or think we have volitional power or control to change) what we observe. Meditation is something that happens spontaneously when you're not doing anything, when you're in an absolute state of non-doing. The question is not how to meditate, but what meditation is. No Technique is meditation. Meditation is meeting each moment of life utterly afresh—totally anew. If we overstand this simple subtle insight, then the "how" becomes meaningless. The priests and preachers of organized religion instruct and admonish against you practicing meditation because they are trying to keep you out of God's temple. Religious people come against meditation; they refute the need to go within and find the God-Self because they want you to have to come to them. Sincere Christians please read carefully Matthew 23:13; 15:14, Mark 4:11, and Luke 17:21. In Genesis of the Bible, a garden Eastward in Eden (right hemisphere of one's brain) is where you turn your attention. Focus your watch to the East. In meditation the Eastern Gate is always opened. The right hemisphere of your brain is the dwelling place of God—the Father. As it says in the Book of Ezekiel. 'East, the point on the right side as we look north." -Ezekiel 43:2. "And behold, the glory of Israel came from the way of the East." IS-RA-EL. And who is Israel? IS=ISIS=Spirit. RA=Mind. El=God. Together it means Spirit and Mind aligned in harmony with God as one's realized inner divinity or Christ Consciousness. Those who attempt to keep you from entering your temple through meditation are hypocrites, and in fact, are the Anti-Christ. Reality only exists eternally in the moment, and meditation is the awareness of that moment. Most fundamentally, true meditation is to effortlessly turn the mind toward that energy which energizes the mind. "Closing your eyes and sitting in meditation isn't useful if you become useless as soon as you open your eyes." -Swami Satchitananda. "Meditation can give you that which nothing else can give you; it introduces you to yourself." -Swami Rama. In the book of Daniel (12:11) meditation is referred to as the daily sacrifice. Meditation is solitary refinement—a return to the Unified Field—through the right side of the brain—the True Self. Meditation is participating in "Single-Eye" service—Self-service. It is also called "Shut-Eye" Service at Bedside Baptist. "Turn into me and I will turn into you." -Zachariah 1:33. Meditation is something you have to do. You must enter yourself in meditation. See Isaiah 30:21. The activity takes place within you but you are not involved at all. The activity does not involve you and there is no experience to have. You are simply to become a womb of which the child of promise (Christ Consciousness) is born and not to be the source of the intercourse between the sun (solar plexus) and the cosmic energy. Stand aside and let the intercourse take place within you and let that which is there be bom out of you—save you—SaviorSelf—the Christ Consciousness—the child of promise. The source of this power is love. That is the beauty of love; that is the beauty of life. The power is within you. The opportunity is yours. Be still and move within. This is practicing the Single Eye—the very thing that "Jesus" admonishes us all to do. Like water eroding stone, idle contemplation erodes tensions. Through meditation (working the vineyard) thine eye will become single and your body will fill with Light. Meditation is being the presence of awareness. It is not an activity of the mind. To be awareness is not something to be done by the mind. To know ourselves as (being) awareness does not depend on what the mind is doing or not doing. Meditation is "to be" knowingly the presence of awareness. The highest meditation is to be as you are. True meditation is truly easier than breathing. You are awareness, and to meditate is to be that knowingly. Realize that you are that through which thoughts are flowing totally unconcerned with where they're going. Meditation will reveal to you the mystery of yourself. (See: Pineal Gland, Twelve Tribes, SaviorSelf, Kingdom of God, Tree of Life, Tradition, Garden  of Eden,  Light,  Neuralife,  MASTER,  Yoga,  Vidya,  Unworldliness,  Single Eye,  Meditativeness,  Third Eye, Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Mind-Inversion, Divided Attention, Awareness, Concentration, Alert, Watching, Witnessing, Dreaming, Turiya, Magick, Solitude, Vedanta, Avidya, Realization, Growth, Spiritual Unfoldment, Effort, Intellect, Mediator, The Buddha Christ, Bedside Baptist, Contemplation, Illumination, Practice, Special ED, Dumbelievers, False Perceiving, True Perceiving, Pessimism, Fornix, Negativity, Mindfulness, Buddha-Christ, True Question, Unanswering, Vine, Upanishads, Fornix, Unified Field, Kingdom of Heaven, Delta Fornax, Christ Consciousness, Introception, Buddha-Nature, Vineyard, The Senses, "One Taste" & Mind Grenade)

meditative - a mode of beyond the dichotomy of either Being or non-Be-ing, emptying to further unfold and vertically align Self as Pure Consciousness such that it Itself will reveal Itself as the Atman. 2) existential openness. What generally passes for meditation in most traditions is horizontal; one has to be meditative—vertical, deep within non-Beingness, the substrate out of which Beingness (or the thought thereof) arises, that is, of course, if the ripened fruits of meditation are to be harvested and tasted. When we go into meditation, we are sacrificing the animal (our lower or animal nature) on the altar (altering our consciousness). Meditate and separate from the thoughts of the left side of the brain. Meditate only on who is the meditator, only on who is meditated on. (See: Psylence, Third Eye, Pineal, Upper Room, Kingdown of Heaven, Silence & Quietude) 

meditativeness - abiding without conceptualizations as the non-dual Consciousness. 2) a state of being through which True Self enters the domain where harmony reigns. 3) the state of consciousness that reveals itself when we take no position in relationship to thought. In meditativeness there is only the realization of the identity as the pure non-dual Consciousness. It is the shift in frame of consciousness from the limited, fragmented human (distorted vantage point of the personal ego) to the timeless, unbounded, transcendental vantage point (God-Self-Divine). (See: True Self, True Perceiving, Thoughtforms, Divine Consciousness, Samadhi, Advaita, Contemplation, Nonduality, God-Self-Divine, Jew, Self-Realization & Reversion) 

meditator - one who knows how to transform solitariness into solitude and loneliness into aloneness without seek-searching. As long as a meditator does not start meditating, and remains in a meditative state, there is withinwards emptying. By doing, you cannot attain, because whatsoever you do will move outwards. Meditation is not to be done—one has to be meditative. Meditation is not a road but a means of perceiving our true selves beyond the cloak of ego—a remembering of what we already are. When you are meditative, it is part of the vertical, i.e., Being. As a meditator, once you realize there is nowhere to go, nothing to attain and nothing to obtain (as in enlightenment, holiness, or some spiritually esteemed state or condition etc.), the seeking will cease on its own accord, and lo and behold, awareness of the resplendent True Self, will be present and cognizable. (See: True Self, Meditation, Prayer, Vertical, Beingness, Oneness, Compassion, Grace, Openness & The Godspell)