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INVISIBILITY MIND

THE ESSENCE OF INVISIBILITY IS NO-MIND

To be truly invisible, undetectable, unperceivable, we have to

have ‘no mind’. Our mind has to be like the air, completely
unperceivable and without form.

The writing on our face is in our mind. How we are, what we

think and how we feel is communicated covertly to all with
an eye to perceive, and we all have this eye of perception, it
is as natural to us as seeing, hearing, and breathing.
Through this non-verbal communication we tell everything about ourselves to everyone
around us. We connect to those who want to play our unconscious games. If we are angry
and aggressive, we attract angry and aggressive people, or people who want to be shouted
at. If we are fearful we attract fear, or people who will make us feel fearful; the victim picks
his attacker just as much as the attacker picks his victim. We live in a world of subtle
interplay where we all play to each others' subconscious games; re-enforcing each others'
bad habits and mistaken perceptions.

One way to start to become free of this is through awareness. We need to be aware of
how we are. What is going on in our unconscious, what are the messages we give out, the
games we play. To be aware like this takes a lot of introspective examination, and mind
awareness in all things; we need to always examine our motivation in all things, and watch
our emotions and thoughts as they arise.

Next we need to learn to not act, as our instinctive habits manifest in our thoughts and
emotions. Instead of being taken along in the raging torrent arising from our mind, we
need to stand firm like a boulder in a raging river, letting the water pass around and over us
without budging an inch. The more we do this the weaker our instinctive destructive habits
will become.

The more we do this the more clear our mind becomes, no-longer polluted by
misperceptions brought about by habitual tendencies that have arisen from nowhere yet
onto which we grasp so tightly thinking that they are us, defining us, feeling that if we let
them go we will lose ourselves. Yet nothing is farther from the truth; in fact if we let go of
them we will actually find ourselves, our true selves, our true nature, the self that we have
forgotten existed and have been looking for in every nook and cranny from the start of
beginning-less time.

As our true nature presents itself we are now able to truly examine it. We look at how big it
is, how small it is, what colour it is, what shape it is and so forth. The more we examine it,
the more familiar we become with it. The more familiar we become with it, the more we
identify with it, and the less likely we are to slip back into our destructive habitual
tendencies. We establish a new habit, a positive, constructive habit, the habit of being who
we really are. Yet this habit although very happy and comfortable becomes a little
restrictive. As we identify with our true nature we are unable to move forward. We are
stuck with the idea: this is who I am; our new identity becomes once again all defining,
creating barriers to spontaneity - the ability to be truly adaptable to whatever arises. We
become averse to our mental and emotional arisings, and slowly we slip back into
destructive habitual tendencies, habits more subtle than those observed before.
 If we can be aware of what is happening through perseverance and alert mindfulness of
the process of creation in this chain of causality, we can sit vigilantly looking directly at our
own nature, and what we find is that our nature starts to disappear. In fact what we find is
this thing which we think is our nature, with its subtle form, just disappears, and there is
nothing in particular left in its place. Once here the view is very clear, everything is just
what it is. It looks exactly how it did before we started down this route of exploration and
examination. We find that there no longer is a mind, or to be more accurate, there is no
specifically definable perceivable thing, there is just here and now; whatever rises and falls
here and now rises and falls here and now, whatever is, just is, and whatever isn’t just isn’t.
There is no before and there is no after. There just is what is, nothing more and nothing
less.

If we live with this view then we become invisible to all or more specifically we no longer
broadcast subtle unconscious games, as we are no longer playing games with ourselves.
As such we are no longer in the ‘realm of games’, and thus are invisible to the gamers.

THIS IS NO-MIND

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