Mind

The mind appears within awareness as a series of perceptions: thoughts, images, memories, and intentions. These arise spontaneously in the field of consciousness, without an individual thinker or doer behind them. What we call “mind” is not an entity, but a movement — an appearance in the light of being.

In this movement, patterns emerge: recognition, association, imagination, and attention. These apparent functions are neither separate nor personal. They are activities known by awareness, shaped by memory and conditioning, yet never outside or apart from the still presence in which they appear.

The body, too, is a perception — sensations, forms, energies — known through consciousness. It seems to operate with its own rhythms: maintaining its structure, seeking nourishment, reacting to threats. Yet these, too, are appearances within the unchanging background of awareness. There is no independent controller within the body or the mind. What appears to function is seen, but what sees does not function — it simply is.

When we take thoughts and sensations to be “me,” we become entangled in the belief in separation. But through clear seeing, we come to recognise that what we are is not the mind or the body, but the aware presence in which these come and go. Thoughts may speak of a self, but the self is never found apart from awareness. What we are has no form, no boundaries, no age or history.

There may arise in consciousness various conditions — concentration, distraction, clarity, confusion — yet none of these touch the truth of what we are. Even imbalance, dysfunction, or suffering are known within the stillness of being. Awareness is never harmed by what it knows.

This is not to suggest that, where such imbalance or difficulty appears, it would not be appropriate to make use of the tools offered by science or psychology. These, too, may appear as part of the unfolding of healing within the dream — guided not by resistance, but by the quiet intelligence of being.

In the unfolding of this recognition, the need to fix or improve the mind dissolves. There is a quiet resting in what is — without seeking. Community, relationship, and individual expression may arise naturally, yet without personal claim or resistance. They are simply movements within the dream — seen, enjoyed, and let go.

To awaken is to cease identifying with the changing and to stand as the changeless. In this understanding, we no longer cling to the mind, nor reject it. We simply know it for what it is: an appearance in the light of consciousness. And we remain as that light — silent, present, and free.

With love,

Freyja