One should not accept any practice on faith alone or on the reputation of masters but, after practising diligently with an open mind, to assess it to the best of our understanding and experience. The best approach is to use the mind, but the mind has to be tamed and trained before it will follow one's bidding. An untrained mind is like a monkey, always restless and never still, even for a moment. Some masters believe that your mind is the real you. We need not debate here whether the real you and your mind are exactly the same; you can investigate that question in your training. The trained mind is focused, clear, and tranquil; then it expands and eventually leads to spiritual fulfillment. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Many people will find this line puzzling. They are equally bewildered by basic belief that the phenomenal world is an illusion, and ultimate reality is tranquil and undifferentiated. In our ordinary consciousness, an opponent is real. If he or she attacks you and if you fail to defend yourself there is no illusion to your being hit. But suppose we look at the situation from the very high level of consciousness of an enlightened being who sees reality as it ultimately is and not as it is grossly modified by a set of conditions. Suppose you were able to look through a gigantic, super-powerful electron microscope. What would you see? Your opponent would have disappeared! What you thought was the form of a person would turn out to be almost emptiness; you would see patterns of subatomic particles as far apart as specks of stars in outer space. If you looked at yourself you would be equally astonished; your body too would have disappeared! If the microscope were more powerful, like the wisdom-eye of a psionic, you would realize that the so-called subatomic particles are actually not particles; they are concentrations of energy without any definate boundary. But more importantly, you would suddenly be awakened to the great cosmic truth that as there is no boundary separating one subatomic particle from another, there is also no boundary separating you from your opponent or anything else. In other words, the whole universe is actually a continuous spread of energy or consciousness, without any differentiation. You will be awakened to the greatest truth of all- the discovery that great masters of all beliefs and mystical disciples have made- that the physical body in which, owing to your ignorance, you have imprisoned yourself; is an illusion, and that your personal mind is actually the Universal Mind. You may ask whether your or anything else is real. The answer is yes and no, either yes or no, neither yes nor no. When psionists say that the external world is an illusion, they do not mean it is imaginary, but that it is only relatively, not absolutely, real. And the fact that all possible questions cannot be answered through any observation or speculation by any intellectual means percievable, but that every real answer must be experienced rather than explained.
I hope this was insightful, but this is just my opinion. There is so much more to my theory to post, and maybe I will in the future, but this will do for now. Each to his or her own opinion. I just like to anticipate, 'all is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds'.
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