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“You can only know something when you are not that at all.
To know something means you don't know so you have to know. But what we call consciousness is all-pervading. It is everything. So it's nothing. You can only be nothing when you're everything. When you think something is missing you have to search for something.
As an example most of us here are looking or self-realization looking for Buddhahood, we're looking to become one with the force. The looking will keep you back. For you are looking for something that already is. It always has been. Yet when you're looking for it you're saying it is not here. So you have to search, you have to look. It is the mind that causes all this nonsense. It is the mind that makes you search for yourself when you're already the Self. It is the mind that tells you all these stories that something is wrong someplace, that you're not happy, or that you're too happy.
When you hear that the mind does all this it is therefore your duty to transcend the mind, to stop the mind from doing these things, to stop the mind from leading you around from pillar to post, causing you happiness sometimes and causing you misery sometimes. It is the mind that has created this whole universe. Everything that you behold with your eyes, with your senses, you hear, you taste, you touch, you feel, it is really the mind. Nothing else but the mind and yet there is no mind. So what's going on around here. We thought the mind caused our problems then we hear there is no mind, well both are correct. As long as you believe you're a human being you've got a mind to contend with. As long as you believe you are a person, place or thing you'll have a mind to contend with.
When you begin to sit still and you look upon the mind, the thoughts, you witness the thoughts, you watch the thoughts the mind slows down. As you continue witnessing the thoughts, watching the thoughts the mind becomes weaker and weaker and weaker and you become happier and happier and happier.
Bliss comes when the mind is at rest. Unalloyed happiness comes when the mind is inactive.”
Robert Adams
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The Self has no attribute
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