Mathew, you should be careful what you say. Can you give up the idea of Rasta? Mind itself is a mental construct under observation, much less its content and the ideas that it creates.
Nothing you can experience is real, the real cannot be contacted. You only know what is in your mind, anything beyond it you are just guessing.
Let him who has nothing standing between him and the field of consciousness claim liberation from the mind and not a moment sooner. All ideas need to be abandoned before any further progress can be made. All mental groves need to be iron out. How can you be so sure of the reality? You can only be sure of one thing, you exist. Everything else dissolves. You are merely describing a play which takes place in your mind. Do you know who you are, what you are or where you come from? Did your parents give birth to you or you to them? Where are you going? I doubt whether you know the answer to any of these fundamental questions. Volition of an individual is an illusion, since you cannot know what it was before you started to think about what it was you were doing at any given point in space time. you can only be aware of the impulse, what was it before? To know what is happening in consciousness, first you need to find the doer, and since there are no doers in consciousness it is an impossibility to know. If your harbour ideas about the reality then you are not in control, the idea is in control of you, whether good or bad. You are what you think. If you represent an idea, then you will die with that representation. Life doesn't need representing, it can hold its own. Consciousness is pure in the beginning and pure in the end. It is that which lies in between that get contaminated with wrong ideas.
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