Progressive Self-Inquiry · Beyond Your Mental Transits
⁘ “Ever seek what's beyond. Know that anything below it is not you, is not your identity, is not your lasting self. This progressive inquiry will lift you beyond the influence of the transiting states of your mind. It'll give you calm and freedom, happiness beyond your fixated framings. But if I'm not the shapes of my mind, what's there to hold me together? Well see what comes. It won't be worse than what you have as it is. Let the mind be. No need to tweak all the time.”
Then ever seek what is beyond,
and when you discover the beyond,
know that whatever is below it,
is not you, is not your identity,
is not your lasting self.
This simple progressive inquiry
will lift you beyond the influence
of the transiting states of your mind.
It will give you calm,
it will give you freedom.
It will even give you happiness
that is independent of your particular framings.
But what then is there beyond?
If I am not the shapes of my mind,
should I let go of my identity
as the mind that I am, or that I was –
will I not be scattered, disintegrate?
Well, if you find happiness and
satisfaction being that mind of yours,
then by all means at ease,
no need to try to reach beyond.
But if you do reach beyond,
prompted by dissatisfaction in your present state.
See what comes – it will
not be worse than what you have as it is.
It may even be that your mind will be more at ease
when you stop incessantly meddling with it,
asserting your identity
into something that is not yourself.
Simply acknowledge the state of the mind – let it be.
No need to tweak and tune all the time.
Be free.