My Mind Is Not My Intelligence
From the Gold Coast Talk 18 December 1993
Be steady, be still and allow the clarity of the attention to look at nothing. This is precisely what Gautama did before he announced himself to be Buddha. What was done then can be done now. There is no mystery or secret about it. This is the buddhic intelligence. And it is in the body hearing these words.
All I have to do is practise and focus my attention as much as possible onto nothing inside of me. One-pointed, unwavering: nothing arises. That is true. That is the state of liberation in this moment.
Beware. The human mind that you have acquired from this society is going to start interfering. It’s going to start making comments - voiceless, even wordless comments. It’s going to be monitoring what you’re doing with your intelligence. It’s going to say things like ‘I can’t see anything.’ That monitor, the human mind, can never see anything that is the truth. It’s always passing comment on something or other, whereas my intelligence is doing this looking.
My mind has never done anything and never will - except think about it, pass comments and talk about it. My mind is not my intelligence. My mind only thinks it’s intelligent.
Intelligence does not think. I can only look into nothing as long as I’m not thinking. The longer and the more often I can do this, I start to reclaim the one-pointedness of my intelligence, the buddhic state that was once so naturally mine in this matter, this body. For I am not acquiring anything new in being intelligent and unwavering in this matter. I am simply shedding the ignorance, the distraction, the thinking, the monitor. I’m shedding my self, which prevents me from being my buddhic one-derness.
The Good in Me