~When Mind is Busted~

We cannot possess truth; that would be the mind's idea. But truth
can claim its possession, which is 'us', each soul, each being.

When I speak of "stopping" or "calling off the search",
I am simply pointing to our habitual tendency to try to get
something,
which we have been trained to do with the facilities of our minds,
through powers of thinking, projecting, imagining, discriminating, or
veiling. But just in one instant of simply being --
without being anybody, without being anything,
without getting it right, without missing it, without naming it,
and without knowing it --
awakening is present.

The truth is that everyone has these moments every day,
but they are overlooked because of our infatuation
with the powers of mind.
The mind is not present in any of these pure and perfect moments.
But then the mind arises again, and we get on with our business,
with our definitions, and with our ideas of who has wronged us,
what we need, or what we have to know.

To realize true freedom, this infatuation with mind must be cut,
and to be cut it must first be seen.
Each of us needs to investigate and then tell the truth.
In telling the truth, the mind is used to expose and bust itself.
In lying, the mind stays in power.
When mind is busted, a deep happiness is revealed.
Then the intellectual and creative capacities of every individual,
the life experiences of every individual,
can all be joyfully used in service to the truth.

~ Gangaji
From: 'The Diamond In Your Pocket'