The Mind Interprets Everything
…while empty essence merely notes experience with one taste

Depending on how the mind is set-up (programmed), it will interpret things in a certain way, which will then be seen as its norm. By this, it will judge everything else.

Every conversation is about what we think of as normal and abnormal ‘out there’, and never about our biased view. Psychologists and psychiatrists are only concerned with getting us back to functioning in ‘our normal’ way.

I once asked a psychologist, “What is normal?” She said, “That which is normal for that person.” But by the time we get to ask this question about someone, the mind has already been ‘got at’.

Even knowing this, we still experience a residue of contaminated brain-washing or indoctrination – not forgetting the feelings in our subtle body. I just have to hear a name and my heart either melts or goes YUCK! (mostly Yuck 🙂 ) Yuck is a conventional reaction, and because of awareness it transforms into compassion.

In pure awareness, whatever appears in the mind or through the senses is appreciated in one taste – it’s just an appearance, be it pleasant or unpleasant. Of course, as we have human bodies, so we must discern and make a decision whether something is beneficial or poisonous; we are not vegetables.

The problem nowadays is “news-speak”, “spin” and “self-aggrandisement” – it’s all about enhancing our reputation. As we are not enlightened, our ideas are mainly Yuck! Yuck is just conventional truth and if we are aware, it can serve as a reminder of ultimate truth.

The more the Yuck, the more it is obviously Yuck!

The one taste of Yuck!
It’s all one:
samsara is mistaken reality,
be it pleasant or unpleasant.