There Is No Doubt — Understanding Our True Self — Part 11
Reality Has No Space for Doubt — Doubt Is Slow — No Doubt Transcends Time — Doubt and Persona
With “There Is No Doubt” we start the second chapter of Understanding Our True Self, titled “The Mind”.
In this chapter, we will explore the mind’s relationship to our true self and how we can cultivate the mind as a tool to understand the structure of reality.
There Is No Doubt
What is, is
Pure Awareness
No room for the mind
No room for doubtExperience always comes first
The mind is always secondary
Life always comes first
Thinking is always secondaryWhen we use doubt
the mind rises
When doubt uses us
we are lost
Doubt in itself is fine, it is a form of questioning reality, and when used in a healthy way for a specific task, it is a good tool, but as a basic approach to life it kills aliveness. It makes us a shadow of what we could be.
Reality Has No Space for Doubt
What is, is 100%. Full and abundant. Doubt comes from the mind. Always lacking behind the experience. It is possible that doubt itself becomes an experience, but only when we are lost in the mind, unable to create a distance between thinking and awareness.
Doubt Is Slow
Imagine that suddenly a lion enters the room, if we doubt what to do, we become the menu. Fortunately, nature shuts down the mind completely, and that gives us the opportunity to survive.
Exactly the same thing happens in everyday life, when we overthink things, we lose touch with reality and become eaten by the circumstances.
No Doubt Transcends Time
When we are fully alive, and completely absorbed by the situation, time is transcended. This feeling of aliveness is what the soul needs, just as the body needs water. This is why sex is so important in our society, it is perhaps the easiest way to be fully present. Some people jump off the bridge with rubber to get this feeling, or they drive very fast, or they look for a dangerous situation — in short, for an adrenaline rush.
When we use doubt as a tool, we have no need for this kind of adrenaline rush. We give the soul the experience of “no time” in a gentle way by simply being aware of the fullness of the present, by walking in nature, creating art, or in contemplation.
Doubt and Persona
The personal level of consciousness is where doubt takes on epic proportions. We have left behind the certainty of gods, religion, and rigid socio-cultural structures (pre-personal level of consciousness) and have not yet reached the maturity of deep understanding (integral level of consciousness). We are trapped in the materialistic worldview, where doubt is one of the great driving forces. This is why manipulation is in vogue and the technology of meaning is an industry. Terms like “disinformation” and “propaganda” only have meaning in a [[society of doubt]].
There is a close relationship between modern society and doubt, we can broadly categorize confusion as a form of doubt, too. The more modern a society is, the more doubt there is. The more we unconsciously use social media, the more doubt takes over. The more we want to control, the more doubt will arise, and our culture is obsessed with control.
The secrets of life will not be revealed by a doubtful mind. We have to devote ourselves to the path of wisdom, there we can use doubt as a tool, but revelation comes only when we are 100% present.