You have said: “In Satsang it is not so much the words that are spoken because mind imagines it can understand whatever is beyond mind. It’s not possible.” Please, would you like to develop this? What is this mystery that happens in Satsang?
Mind is ultimately a tool that appears in consciousness enabling consciousness to be conscious of itself through manifestation. It is limited and finite and its perception is determined by the conditions that are at play at the moment of perception.
It has the ability to believe its own imaginings which include ideas about being able to grasp, own and control most things that come into its line of vision. If mind can create a concept, any concept, then it has material to work with and it readily believes that what is perceived is real. It can only deal with concepts and absolutely everything phenomenal rolls out from there.
Prior to concept is also a concept and mind will project a meaning on that also. Prior to mind, beyond or outside of mind points to a ‘zone’ that does not hold concepts. This is where mind cannot go because mind itself is a concept.
What is useful is to let mind know that it can’t grasp what is beyond its capabilities – it can only work with that which can be reduced to concepts. Truth is only a concept when we talk about it, but in its essence it is prior to any concept. Like knowing that your car cannot fly up into the sky, mind is not wired to understand Truth and this needs to be known.
Yet Truth can be known by some other capacity. Let this be accepted by mind, that there is a ‘zone’ beyond its reach. This piece of information stops mind from grasping and desiring Truth.
Satsang, like any moment in life, is rich with opportunities to unplug from the stories of mind. Satsang allows an opportunity to view from a wider lens and understanding can come from this. More so there is an energetic transmission that is available at satsang if one is susceptible to an energetic change at that time.
Having the willingness to let go of opinions and beliefs and to be generally loose within body and mind allows maximum transmission. Leave all resistance outside of satsang and without expectation sometimes something else can happen.
I just recognized the concept, that runs, “I have to know”. Likewise, the opposite – “I don’t know” has been really scary for me.
There is a wonderful freedom in not knowing. There is rest in not knowing; it’s a zone that is open, immediate and honest. Let your energy system become familiar with this. Perhaps mind has equated knowing with control. The only thing that really is worth knowing is unknowable anyway!
Phenomenally let yourself feel that there is a place for both knowing and not knowing. Both happen. Disconnect the emotional response that mind has equated with these two states. There is knowing and there is not knowing, they are in fact totally equal. Find the same in these two states and see how mind has attached values to knowing and not knowing.
Jac O’Keeffe is an Irish non-duality teacher now based in California.
Jac O’Keeffe
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