You are not the mind

Your experience of the world is a thought. You cannot separate the world from the thought of the world. Without the awareness of the world there is no world, the seen doesn't exist without the one that sees. Your mind is a combination of thoughts, perceptions, and emotions. YOU are the one that observes the mind.

Consider this- a sad thought arises in your mind and you experience sadness. Did you exist before the thought? Now a happy thought arises in the mind and you experience happiness. Has your existence changed in the presence of sadness or happiness in the mind? The thoughts and emotions change therefor the mind changes but "YOU" the one who observes the mind is completely unaffected. So saying I am sad or I am happy is a misidentification with the mind.

Now consider this- You are in a deep dreamless sleep, completely ignorant to the world, do you exist? When you wake the world appears to you, when you dream another world appears to you, do any of these states affect your existence whatsoever? Likewise does the experience of pleasure or pain change your existence? The state of the mind changes, the mind itself changes, the mind and the body are part of the insentient world which is the field of change.

The light that illumines the mind and body and world is the light of consciousness and it is "YOU". Your existence is completely not limited to the rising and falling of minds, bodies, and worlds. In the world all are in flux, all is a dance of energy perceived by your mind to be the world. All that "YOU" observe like your mind, body, and world is other than "YOU". Identifying with the world, which is ever changing, is the cause of incompleteness and yet we try to find completeness in the world from the world. Completeness is found in the seer of the seen, the one that knows the world, that one is eternal, unchanging, uncreated, unborn, limitless, happy, existent, consciousness. That one is "YOU".

You are present in the cycles of birth, life, and death. You are not limited to the experience of the world. You are not limited to the non-experience of death. All is observed by "YOU" the witness. You are the experience of world and the non-experience of death or dreamless sleep.

What is the background of all your experiences? What is the background of the world, your identity, the people, places, things, and God? The reality that makes it all possible is "YOU". Where do you see this blog post right now? Where do you experience the world, the notion of life and death, the people, places, things? All is experienced within your SELF. If all this is within "YOU" then where are "YOU"? Try to objectify your SELF. Try to take your SELF as an object to be observed. You can't do it because "YOU" are the one that observes. "YOU" observe your thoughts and emotions but you cannot observe your SELF because there is no mind behind your SELF to observe it. "YOU" observe the mind, the mind does not observe "YOU".

The SELF that observes is the same SELF in all, it is the basis of existence, the blanket of reality. The "I" thought is the purest thought and is the closest thought to the SELF but the SELF is not a thought. The "I" thought is unique to the many minds but the "I" itself is one in all. "YOU" are eternity. Blessings.