"When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was. You find that human relationships and situations are amazingly subtle. And you gain a facility for understanding them, not through conceptualizing, but through asking your brain how it would deal with them.

Your brain is an organ like your heart, and it can deal with situations without having to think about them! The brain is not only an organ of thought — only one of its functions is thinking. The brain does a lot of things other than thinking, and enables your body and mind to perceive and act in new, unique, and wonderful ways.

You have a fantastic computer in your skull — and what we call 'thinking' is only fifteen percent or less of the brain’s activity. The brain is very active in controlling all our organic processes — our gland functions, our digestion, our circulation, and everything else. The brain is in control of the entire autonomic nervous system. Through the practice of Zen, you can learn to use your nervous system in a much more wonderful way than you would ever have thought it could be used!

By practicing Zen, you find you can let your nervous system answer questions and pass through problems without any interference from your conscious thinking process. We cannot solve the puzzle of the Zen koans or of the situations we encounter in life through our conscious thinking process — but the brain will! And the practice of Zen shows us how." ~Alan Watts...
Art by: Android Jones

The individual mind is the seat of the ego or the consciousness of being isolated. It creates the limited individuality, which at once feeds and is fed by the illusion of duality time and change. So, in order to know the self as it is, consciousness has to be completely freed from the limitation of the individual mind. In other words, the individual mind has to disappear but consciousness has to be retained. 

~ Meher Baba


“You must be ready to accept the possibility that there is a limitless range of awareness for which we now have no words; that awareness can expand beyond range of your ego, your self, your familiar identity, beyond everything you have learned, beyond your notions of space and time, beyond the differences which usually separate people from each other and from the world around them.” — Tibetan Book of The Dead