mind and beyond mind !

In the East, man has been working on the mind for at least five thousand years. In the west, psychoanalysis is not even one hundred years old; it is just childish. Patanjali is five thousand years old, but he does not bother about psychoanalysis. He simply says there is no need to be bothered about it. Simply become aware of the the content of your mind - the thoughts, the dreams, the dreams or whatever is passing through. And just remain a witness, without any judgment, " This is good, this is bad". You have nothing to do with it; it is just traffic that is moving, and you are standing by the side of the road, just watching without any judgment.

Slowly the traffic becomes thinner, and a moment comes when the traffic simply disappears. When the traffic completely disappears, a new experience of no-mind, a new experience of simple awareness - awareness aware of itself, because there is nothing else to be aware of.

Once this awareness - you can call it enlightenment, you can call it total consciousness - once this is realized, you are beyond all mental problems because you are beyond mind. Now the mind cannot affect you at all.

- The Man of Truth { A Majority of One }