Mind's turmoil

Everything of our world revolves around sensory perceptions which gives rise to the activity of mind. Anything else is mere speculation, something reserved for the mystics. Nothing of ethereal nature, such as a permanent state of clear consciousness, has any use for us living in this world. You may know about your own true nature - but this knowledge remains circumscribed by the walls of concepts if it is not directly integrated into a dynamic self-sustaining state of being.

To learn to see things as they are, one must set the mind aside. This is accomplished by focusing attention on the mind’s tendency to manufacture objects of perception by the projection of images. At the moment you become aware of this tendency, you come to the realization that the mind can only distort what it perceives, for what is really there cannot be interpreted in terms of the known. What is really there can only reveal what lies beyond the known - that which is alive in this timeless present.