I love Samsara!

Blessed Disillusionment has gone multilingual. It has been translated into Dutch and printed by the publisher, Samsara. Thanks to Julian and Catherine at Non-Duality Press for arranging this. Though I can't read what the author is trying to say (!) it is a beautiful, hardcover edition.

In other news, my second ND book, The Myth of the Ego is done and should be published in early 2013 as long as the world doesn't end on 12/21 this year! Either way, not a problem!

There is no mind to give up.

It's imagined that "mind" is the physical or energetic organ that generates thoughts but this seems to be an unsubstantiated belief. As far as I can tell, there is no mind. Have you ever seen one? Does it wake up in the morning with you and have a mug of tea while you converse over the day's newspaper?

Just as the heat of the sun gives rise to clouds, consciouness expresses itself (at least in the human experience) as thoughts--there is no thinker, though, or point of origin of thinking. They arise from and disappear into nothing, expressions of the same field of awareness as everything else is. The idea of a thinker is just another thought. Really, any thoughts about anything are describing "solid" objects where none are to be found. It is the thinking of something to be real that makes it seem so. In the absence  of designations such as "real" and "unreal" there is raw experience--life appearing however it is in the moment.