Joseph Maynor

You will do it: you will continue to cling to it. Or so your Mind thinks. How many times have you deviated from what your Mind thinks you will do?

Oh yeah? The Mind loves to make linear predictions about what you will continue to do.

You need to find out what the word 'being' is pointing to. That's a major milestone on the Path.

Being can be pointed to but it cannot be captured in the Mind's concepts.

What does being point to? Throws a cup of ice water in face.

The word 'being' is a pointer. You saying being is everything is the Mind attempting to turn being into a thought, a concept. You have to locate what the word being is pointing to. It's not conceptual. Being as a pointer points to being. There's no conceptual extension for being. That would be to turn being into a concept, into a thought.

Being is not an answer to the Mind's questions; and on the flip-side being is not an object for the Mind's answers.

What is it that thinks it's conscious of something?

There is no conceptual answer. Being is not a conceptual answer. The Mind wants a conceptual answer, see.

What is it that understands?

What is it that thinks that?

What is it that thinks that?

What is it that thinks that?

What is it that clings to being being this or that?

That could be a new Zen Koan. What is God? Big booty.

It's weird, I have no need to put being into any concepts. It's just what's there when there is no Mind trying to label things. I could call it "blah" or anything and it would change it. In fact that would just be talk or the Mind imposing itself on it.

Because being is more cognitively neutral and therefore more suitable for use as a pointer. The best thing to call it would be "pointer" actually. No conceptual content, just "pointer". It's that cognitive content of the concept that screws everything up in somebody who falls into that trap. But to use the word God is just asking for that to happen. It's like putting a delicious slice of pizza in front of someone trying to diet.

As long as that's not clung to as a metaphysical belief, I can accept that, but I wouldn't want to label it as anything but being. God has too much meaning in it, so I think it's a word that seduces the conceptual mind to cling to all kinds of concepts, beliefs, and metaphysical notions that lead one astray from being, so I avoid the word "God".

Ooh, your illusory conceptual Ego just got triggered.

I've been religious in the past. I'm fully aware of the delusion of belief in God. I also went through the God Stage on the Enlightenment Path as well. Been there, done that.

No, when I say mechanism I'm pointing using a concept.

God is a concept. The Ego is not a concept, it's a mechanism. God doesn't exist. The Ego does. It's odd that you have these things backwards.

The Ego is not a definition, it's a mechanism. If I put a gun to your head, your response to that will be a mechanism not a definition.

The Ego is not really a concept, it's a mechanism. It's not a concept though because if it were, Ego would disappear when no thought is present. But that's not the case. Ego is a mechanism that you can transcend but can't completely remove.

What is the nature of everything? I think I'll have a slice of delicious pizza. Zen.