Mind doesn’t exist and World doesn’t exist

When I do The Work with people,

I help them clarify their minds by seeing that mind doesn’t exist and world doesn’t exist.

The ultimate clarity is to realize that there are no thoughts

and you’re not the one thinking them.

It’s easy to see how the mind functions: no thought is true.

So it’s easy for me to guide people to nothing, if they’re open to that,

because that’s where they are in the first place.

I just guide them to unravel everything they think.

I don’t move; they’re the ones who move.

I ask questions and occasionally point to nothing.

I help them notice that the thoughts and images in their mind are pure imagination.

However substantial a belief appears to be,

there’s no substance to it, and I point them to that no-substance.

When the mind is tempted to land on any thought,

it’s because it believes that thought.

And to believe a thought is to exist in an imaginary world, however real it may seem.

So I guide people out of their imaginary world, into Buddha-mind –

in other words, into nothing.

You can’t describe Buddha-mind.

You can only point to it with words such as serene, joyous, whole.

– Byron Katie

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