SHACK 4100 THE EDGE OF MIND

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 To some Eastern Masters this may be an asset and should you have read my previous articles I write about 'no mind' and the inculcation processes that lead to a loss of identity psychologically speaking and finding out who you are without a definite identity. I have referred to this as 'nowhere to hang your hat'.

When we suffer a loss be it a job, health, a relationship we may feel a hole and a chip is missing in 'the memory bank' which is my personality and ego collective. I begin to doubt who am I without the loss, I become less and yet living and exploring that loss and the hole it left behind so to speak and just resting in the hole that seems so blank, a void so daunting and unfamiliar may have surprising results, one may find a peace in that space and the dark night of dread may give way to an extraordinary sort of 'empty'  mind so to speak and that perceived loss is seen as an attachment to form in which everything perishes and the clinging to that form be it beliefs or or so called tangible structures causes pain of attachment to that which the Universe teaches is impermanent and transient like a dream seemingly so real and vanishes and is forgotten in time and some wish or strain to get the dream back and its meaning.

So the edge of mind maybe the content of the mind and its juxtaposition and juggling of the content seems fresh and a new life and yet like the furniture in a room maybe changed round or new furniture added in a refurbishment it is the space of room that is always there, even if extreme cluttering is enforced. So the mind is always empty of content which some may seem as stupid, ignorant but that space is the real you and is there for form to arise or the room to fill, take away the walls and that space is still there, it is consciousness without thought and one is not a local imprisoned mind in a mind that really does not exist, a room of furniture that is a temporary construct to either exist for a persons lifetime or move to a new place and in the end all goes to an impermanent existence. 

Should one be able to enjoy the room and its content and move on without attachment or needing the furniture (content of mind, beliefs, agendas and so on) and become so attached as to become addictive to them and so form an identity which one tries desperately to have forever and realising in an awakening that this identity is just content and is or can be changeable and like a dog chasing its tail, its really an illusion and like the magicians trick no matter how real one thinks it is it was merely a sleight of hand. Perhaps that is what we are all here for to sort out the sleight of hand for -----? 

So falling of the edge of mind is really seeing the illusion of the content of mind and madness that is feared is because the content of the data in the mind has not the answers to reality and who one is, that is a breakdown of ego content, the computer ran  out of memory and sort rapidly through the data and it did not match anything therein or thereout,

 so suicide, depression, violence or shutdown with perhaps extreme pursuit of distractions may follow to drown the pain and it will be a shadow and one may forever be looking over one's shoulder to imaginary pursuer which was the content of the mind in one of its upgrades or juggling endeavours to make a reality and be forever safe. 

SHACK   aka   GEOFF