What is not the human organism is the sense of existence. The sense of being. Just and simply being. A human. That doesn't have anything to do with the body. Some people don't have arms and legs and they feel human. Some people are unable to think coherently. They're still human. They still feel.

The ego is simply thoughts occurring in the mind. They don't occur 'in' the body. They occur with the mind. Where is the mind? We're told it's in the body. Is it? I don't know. It may be. It may not. But we know it does exist to us through thoughts and feelings.

What isn't the body is what our essential is-ness is. We are. We is. That has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with being human. A rock is. The Andromeda galaxy is. What is that is-ness? What is that?

Is it a sensation? Does it have feelings? No, in my experience.

That is us, before the mind became our self.

What wants to return to just being mortal? I don't know. The sense of existence just is. We can anthropomorphize it all we want. It still is probably not the case that that would be accurate.

But, the desire to just 'be' something is just ego. The sense of existence, of beingness, is just that. Can what doesn't 'exist' desire? I don't think so.

How can what is, be? It can't. It already is by its very existence.

So,.....you are the ego, you are the body, you are the mind, you are all that. But, is that all that you are? Is there more to you?

That is what the true teachings are attempting to impart. There is something here that we don't know about and can't see, hear, or touch. But it's here. And when we still the being enough, it's here. It doesn't appear. We do.

What can you do about it? You can use the mind to struggle for all of your existence trying to touch the untouchable. You can spend your hours attempting to understand the un-understandable. Or you can simply know that your life is being lived through the mind right now and the only way to have the experience move out of that type of living of the being is to take some of the living and just BE.

You already are being. You already exist as you are. Can you be told how to exist? No.

You know you exist. You know what it is to be. You just don't know who to be, so the mind says.

There is no mind in existence. Existence is occurring as mind, as you.

When you see that, you see you.

It sounds difficult and obtuse, and my experience is that at times it is so.

But, at times it isn't. And, that's when the you-ness of you, and the me-ness of me are simply That.

Written by Andre Best
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