Mind is as solid as air. There. It has been said (or typed, actually). If you read my previous post on types of thinking, this shouldn't come as a surprise that I would have to write something like this. The suggestion that we are not our thoughts is heretical to many people. But the more you dig, the more you come to find out that this is true. Thinking that you are an identity is just as delusional as thinking that air is a duck.
These statements aren't just philosophical. They are words that come from a lifetime of quieting the conditioned mind and hearing what is, rather than what is not. What is is beyond words. It can't be described nor can it be discussed. You either know it or you don't (though many people have a sense about it). Those who know it, know they don't know it. Those who don't know it, say they know it. It is beyond any notion one can think of. Therefore it has no weight nor form. It is neither humble nor loud. It just is.
Types of thinking, from my previous post, are just ways people live their lives. Quieting the conditioned mind and waking up is realizing that you don't have to be so narrow while living your life. It is the great surrendering to life that most people find terrifying. But they only find it terrifying because they have objectified what it is to surrender. The surrendering is not an act of bravery. It is just an act. For those who are terrified of it though, it is considered the warrior's path. But when the person has truly surrendered, they don't identify as a warrior.
This is why mind is as solid as air. You can grasp at it all you want, but you never really seem to get anything out of it.
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