#You said that thought appears and disappears but my mind seems to be turning

constantly.

A. Remember that the mind is only a vehicle. When we don’t need our legs we don’t
use them. Likewise, let the mind rest when not needed. What we generally call
thinking is either mechanical reaction to a projected outer stimulation or it is
intentional and calculative. There is unconscious or conscious aggrandisement of
the self-image, psychological attainment. You see it already in very young children
who dream of becoming. These dreams are born from and fed by society. In the
present day everything turns around becoming. In becoming one is never present to
the moment, the facts at hand. The ‘I’ goes back to the past and creates a future
built on the already known. All becoming is one-dimensional, focused on the
horizontal plane.

When you are free of the self-image, your thinking is only an occasional vehicle.
When there is nothing to think, you don’t think. Continual thinking is a defence, a
fortress for the ego, nothing else. Become familiar in daily life with looking at
situations without the intervention of the ‘I’ and its desires, aversions,
resistances, preferences, etc. Sustain this motiveless looking and you will find
that when the observer and observed are no longer fuelled, they disappear. You will
then be in looking itself. This simple looking, free from the doer and the done, is
the timeless consciousness, the background of all activities.

Q. What is one-pointedness?
A. Generally understood it is the same as concentration. It is focusing on one
point to the exclusion of other points. This is combined with looking for a result.

A still mind is not a mind without thoughts. It is a mind without agitation.

Silence is nowhere and in this non-localisation mind function appears.
Most of the time you are concentrated. There’s always the reflex to find yourself
somewhere. In concentration you take something from the perception for yourself.
In real observation the inner need to localise doesn’t arise.

SEEING
When you take nothing from the perception it dissolves in attention. When you come
into a room, let the objects see you. Don’t take seeing to them. Then your looking
will expand and be multidimensional. Be aware of how often you concentrate, that
is, take patterns of seeing with you. Your looking is not fresh but habitual. When
your functioning is not concentrated, energy is released and unfolds. You may be
surprised at what appears.

First, see that you are asleep in daily life, that your looking is mainly memory,
that you don’t inquire, don’t really explore. Objects that are seen through memory
become boring because memory is the already known. Take note of this. In reality
every appearance is new but the I-image, which finds security in repetition, is the
cause of anticipation in all your looking. When you really see a tree, all your
being is engaged. You don’t see only the leaves and branches; you feel survival in
the tree, its dynamism, the desire to take light, maybe its suffering. The tree
becomes an open secret which you find fascinating. If you are not awake in
alertness, you will sleep with your projection.

Q. I’m aware of moments in daily life without activity. But afterwards I lose these
moments.
A. You are accustomed in daily life to emphasise the object part and so, in the
absence of objects, the reflex to objectify brings you to emphasise the absence of
perception out of habit. You still remain bound to the object, the perception. Let
us take an analogy: You have lived for many years in a room with a picture hanging
on a wall. One day you take it down to be cleaned. Now, each time you go into the
room, what hinders you from seeing the wall in itself? It is the absence of the
picture. But you can only know the absence because you are present. The absence
refers to your presence. So explore what is behind the absence. Q. It seems to call
for tremendous alertness to sustain the looking and exploration and not to be taken
by secondary factors like feelings, states and thoughts.

A. Yes, but there is no effort in being alert, Accept that the natural state of the
brain is attention, alertness, and relax in this acceptance. It will bring you to a
new dimension. Be like wild animals who are perfectly alert without reference to
any self-image, past or future. The natural body is as awake as a panther.
Alertness is not a doing, it is a receiving.

Klein, Jean. Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest (p. 71). New Harbinger Publications.
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Klein, Jean. Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest (p. 71). New Harbinger Publications.
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Klein, Jean. Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest (pp. 70-71). New Harbinger Publications.
Kindle Edition.

You can find this at every moment in life. Don't make sitting a practice, a habit,
an addiction. Wait until you feel the invitation to simply be quiet.

What shall I do if the mutation doesn't come very often? 1 have a busy
life and it seems to camouflage the mutations .

See that you are lost in your activities. As soon as you see this there
is some space between you and your activities.

But 1 know I am lost in my activities. I am very aware of this fact , that is

why I came here and asked you the question. Seeing it is not enough.

You have conceptualized your seeing, because you live in concepts.

You have made a thought of being lost and being busy. By seeing
I don't mean see intellectually; real seeing is direct perception as
we discussed earlier. It is facing the facts, the sensation, the state
of things without a justifier, controller, without rationalizing or
thinking about them. There is no seer in seeing. It is an instan¬
taneous apperception that occurs when you no longer try to escape
the facts. Then all activities are in you but you are not in them. You
will no longer feel lost in activities, no longer feel identified with
them. On the contrary activities are lost in you.