Preface

The Shastra Says:
The world is a projection of thought; suffering is the fabrication of a mind at work.
Liberation is the cessation of thought; freedom is the homecoming to No Mind.

We humans have mistaken “what we think” for “who we are.” We run endlessly in the labyrinth of thought, yet never pause to ask: Who is thinking? That which knows thinking is happening—is it itself a thought?

The answer lies not in the content of thought, but in the background against which thought arises. This “background” is not another thought. It is that thought-free awareness, that space of No Mind.

This book does not teach you “how to think better.” It invites you to: Stop identifying with thinking. When you cease taking the ceaseless mental activity as “me,” when the fabrication of “mind at work” rests, illusions vanish. The stage stands empty.

This is “No Mind”—not becoming numb, but awakening to the coming and going of thoughts with freedom. Not eliminating emotions, but no longer being swept away by them.

Each chapter delves deeper into the illusion of “mind at work,” pointing toward the reality of “No Mind”: from the misidentification of self, to navigating relationship, wealth, and death, to healing illness born from mind, and finally to living, creating, and loving from within this awareness.

Ultimately, it reveals a truth so simple: The peace you seek is found the moment you stop seeking. You are already that perfect awareness which shines without a mind.