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How can I just be? I know I am the pure awareness and not the mind, but the awareness works in and through the mind, so how can I dissolve the mind?

Your question has an incorrect assumption…awareness does not work in and through the mind. Awareness is not dependent on thought or the mind or the brain.

The mind is basically just thoughts/thinking…so cease thinking. When thoughts do not arise…there is no mind to dissolve.

When someone asks “how”…they are asking what to do. “Just be” is not a doing. Cease doing and automatically all that is left is to just be.

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Why is silencing the mind so overrated in spiritual circles? I'm reading a book that says that the more you use your imagination in daily life, the closer you get to your Heart of hearts, to your true Self.

‘Old School’ spiritual circles might still seem to promote silencing the mind. It’s a misunderstanding and can be ignored.

You never try to silence your mind.

In every mind there is the noise, the endless chatter, of thoughts, judgments, desires, worries, sensations and, yes, imagination.

And there is Silence. Already there, already underneath of all internal dialogue and psychological assessment.

That Silence is there even under our dreams and imagination.

Indeed, all that could not exist if it did not have the foundation of Silence to rise from and rest upon.

The “you” (ego-mind) you think you are could not exist without the Silence which is Who You Really Are.

One is not ‘better,’ or superior, to the other. Together they make up the Whole of Life Itself, and neither need be destroyed.

So you never need to silence your mind…indeed that is an oxymoron. That is mind’s function. To analyze, assess, imagine, dream this world into existence and conceptualize how to stay alive in it. Not to be silent. That’s Silence’s job.

In lieu of trying to silence the mind, of your own effort, simply notice there is the noisy mind and all its thoughts, judgments, plans, desires and worries…and notice there is also the infinite Is-ness and boundless Peace of Silence.

Then decide where you want to spend most/all of your time.

If you spend most or all of it in the mind, you will chase your tail all your life. You will actually go further from your imagination and your spiritual Heart…and you will never know your True Self.

But don’t try to shut it up. Just plan your days to spend equal time in Silence. Just Being. Just pure Awareness.

From this Fountain, everything “you” want & need, and everything You Are will spring…even Self-Realization and illumination.

Eckhart Tolle said it best, so I will quote him here:
“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken over. All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind...”

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B Classically the relative is the phenomenal world, while the absolute is the “higher” truth of emptiness – that lack of abiding substance within the play of causality.

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B Emperor Wu asked Bodhidharma, “What is the ultimate meaning of the holy truth of Buddhism?” Bodhidharma replied, “Vast Emptiness. No holiness.” The Emperor asked, “Who stands before me?” Bodhidharma replied, “I don’t know.” The Emperor was baffled. Bodhidharma crossed a river, arrived at Shorin, and faced the wall for nine years.

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B We believe we’re the content of our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and judgments. But are we? Who’s to say?

We resist seeing that all things are empty and we are too.

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When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going"

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LAST DAYS OF THE BUDDHA...

1. ADVICE TO VEN. ANANDA:

“...Blessed One spoke to the Venerable Ananda, saying: "Enough, Ananda! Do not grieve, do not lament! For have I not taught from the very beginning that with all that is dear and beloved there must be change, separation, and severance? Of that which is born, come into being, compounded, and subject to decay, how can one say: 'May it not come to dissolution!'? There can be no such state of things. Now for a long time, Ananda, you have served the Tathagata with loving-kindness in deed, word, and thought, graciously, pleasantly, with a whole heart and beyond measure. Great good have you gathered, Ananda! Now you should put forth energy, and soon you too will be free from the taints."...

2. HOW THE BLESSED ONE PASSED INTO NIBBANA:

“.... And the Blessed One entered the first jhana. Rising from the first jhana, he entered the second jhana. Rising from the second jhana, he entered the third jhana. Rising from the third jhana, he entered the fourth jhana. And rising out of the fourth jhana, he entered the sphere of infinite space. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of infinite space, he entered the sphere of infinite consciousness. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of infinite consciousness, he entered the sphere of nothingness. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of nothingness, he entered the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception. And rising out of the attainment of the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, he attained to the cessation of perception and feeling.

And the Venerable Ananda spoke to the Venerable Anuruddha, saying: "Venerable Anuruddha, the Blessed One has passed away."

"No, friend Ananda, the Blessed One has not passed away. He has entered the state of the cessation of perception and feeling."

Then the Blessed One, rising from the cessation of perception and feeling, entered the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, he entered the sphere of nothingness. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of nothingness, he entered the sphere of infinite consciousness. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of infinite consciousness, he entered the sphere of infinite space. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of infinite space, he entered the fourth jhana. Rising from the fourth jhana, he entered the third jhana. Rising from the third jhana, he entered the second jhana. Rising from the second jhana, he entered the first jhana.

Rising from the first jhana, he entered the second jhana. Rising from the second jhana, he entered the third jhana. Rising from the third jhana, he entered the fourth jhana. And, rising from the fourth jhana, the Blessed One immediately passed away....”

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/.../dn/dn.16.1-6.vaji.html

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