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Originally Posted by Iamit
You may not know that there is a point of view that has no problem whatsoever with mind. Mind looks in memory for solutions to problems and if none are found searches externally for data. It would not be surprising that, if it is mind that conducts the spiritual search, that mind also has the c apacity to resonate with solutions found to end the search. Not a popular view in tradionally conditioned spiritual circles.
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Yes, in this scenario, mind looks for the solution and puts on a cloak that says "I don't exist anymore".
It's like going to a circus and seeing the magician tell everyone the lovely lady has disappeared. It's a mirage and trick, and no-one is happier than said mind, who uses this false rationality to tell themselves that they "made it".
They made it to the same place, the Greats and Awakened Ones of the past did - only for this cloak mind, they don't have to do anything - they only have to fool themselves.
And that would be ok - but of course for the cloaked ego, insecurity is at its core - it's made of nothing else but the same shadows it once sought to escape.
So such a mind will always need to preach - and to tell the (non-existent) others that it is real.
Its insecurity casts the Ancients and the truer traditions as "fake" (think the "fake news" or "Alternative truth" tactics)
Furthermore, it mis-uses the Ancients, quoting here and there but always out of context, always without the Truth that you see in the real religions - the Advaita-Vedanta, Buddhist, Mystic, Sufi religions.
Tony Parsons etc. are people out to make a buck, and I sympathize with those who are drawn into this mirage, but at the same time, I don't believe that they are for one minute happy- because these types of parlor tricks are superficial, rudimentary, unsophisticated, and only cause suffering for oneself and others, when all is said and done.
JL