The Conceptual Show

   Whatever appears in the mind is only mental appearance, so we don’t attribute too much reality to it. With this attitude, we constantly reflect that conceptual structures are not very good indicators of deeper reality.  This is the path.  When free from automated concept-making we are truly free from dense ignorance and the revolving wheel of oppression. Just by taking note of the mechanistic thought patterns that keep arising on their own it becomes easier and easier to just dismiss them and not become attached and entangled in them.  When the conceptual show stops, what remains is the true nature of mind, unpolluted free consciousness, our “original face”.   Trying to stop thoughts and thinking is not needed and cannot be done purposefully anyway; all that is needed is to just stop following along with the flow of thoughts and stop speculating and analyzing every thought structure in relation to past and future time. This automated kind of daydream imagery and thought arises by itself without any help from the one who watches it arise. Intently and vigilantly watching thoughts tends to let them stop on their own. Free from such mental constructions, which carry in themselves errant imputations superimposing illusions upon all external and internal perceptions, the mind comes to rest and we experience our natural state.