Conflict

What creates this separation between you and me? Where does the mind come to a state of being that it creates separation between the observer and the observed? These images we have assembled in our minds. These recordings of our partners, our children, our peers, our gods, even our emotions. Nothing but images. But is it not these very images that we’ve generated in our mind that create that space which separates us? And in this space, I see conflict is born. Not just conflict between you and I, but that conflict which also arises within ourselves. The energy that we apply to a problem, is it not that very same energy that solves that problem? When we are aware, consciously engaged in something, no thought arises does it? Our mind is completely attentive on that. There is no separation, is there. Not until we say, “I am trying to solve this problem”, not until the mind creates an image of that being solved, this is when that space is born. But in that moment of absolute awareness, there is no observer at all, is there. There is only the state of attention which is absolute, total energy. In this state of mind, complete and total awareness, there is pure and total silence and in that stillness there is neither observer nor observed. What takes place in this state of total and utter stillness and awareness, it cannot be transferred into words. Verbally I can only go so far, we can only go so far; as that which lies beyond words cannot be expressed in words.