Anyone who actively, and uprightly travels this inner road, eventually realizes that every time they say, “I” – to some degree – they lie, in that no word, no sentence, no lifetime of words and sentences can begin to adequately portray a man’s life. If he never comes to recognize this, he will forever remain normal and nonplussed, and never roam far from where he began.
But there is a much more pronounced, overlooked, and devastating effect the word, “my” has on a nascent sojourner. The inner intangibles to which a man’s mental voice lays claim, constitute the very structure that claims to be, “I.”
A further unrecognized result of the unstudied use of the word “my” is the establishment in each person’s thinking of an internal duality: that of “I” and of what I “possess.” A ME, and a MY, not only a fictional being, but one with imaginary possessions. (As in all such instances, it is easy to see how this arrangement serves well the need of man collectively, but of interest to us here is how it plays out in the individual anxious to leave the herd.)
Examples of how the word and concept of “my” as applied to intangibles misleads, are as numerous as nouns for intangibles. “It was MY choice” – “MY fault” – “MY dream,” (and endlessly, so on). But there is one use of this word which is the very immaterial, inner ground upon which all of the other intangible structures stand; the source of all distortions, and clearly displayed in any sentence containing reference to: “MY MIND.”
All who go after The Enlightenment; The Awakening; The Liberation, (no matter the terms in which they think about their efforts, as dictated by the teaching they have adopted), are on a journey of the mind, with the only impediment BEING the mind.
J.