Concealed Messages in the Mind

Student – “Where do thoughts come from?”
Teacher – “From the past.”

Student – “Where do words come from?”
Teacher – “From our culture.”

Student – “What is culture?”
Teacher – “Society, way of life, lifestyle, customs, traditions,
heritage, habits and values. This is how we learn to describe things.”

Student – “What if these values are wrong?”
Teacher – “These values are a relative experience. From an absolute point of view, all appearances in the mind are concealed phantoms. Our pure essence forgets itself when it relates to appearances, believing them to be reality and thus creating a confused, relative, conventional truth.

“The constant repetition of social ways of life, lifestyle, customs, traditions, heritage, habits, ways, and values leaves subliminal messages in the mind. This creates a weak foundation, which perpetuates confusion throughout life. We learn to mimic our parents, who mimicked their parents and so on. Even if we fight against this mimicking programme, it only serves to create a different, social way of life, lifestyle, customs, traditions, heritage, habits, ways, values – and is still a lifetime of confusion.

“From an absolute point of view, all thoughts in the mind are something to which ‘we’ (absolute reality) relate, thus creating a duality – an illusory reality, maintained and reinforced by concealed messages from our environment.”

“Meditation cuts through this coprophagy: the chewing and swallowing of faeces or dung”! 😉