Title: You Don't Feel It Because It's Sick. It "Becomes Sick" Because You Feel It.
Subtitle: Reversing the Core Misunderstanding of Healing from The Shastra of No Mind
Date: 2025-12-10
Tags: healing, no mind, awareness, disease, energy
For millennia, humanity has operated under a fundamental, unquestioned assumption about illness:
"Because a part of my body is sick, I am then able to perceive the sickness."
This seems logical, self-evident. A tumor grows, then we feel pain. A virus invades, then we get a fever. We believe we are passive reporters of a pre-existing physical reality.
What if this is the root of all sustained suffering? What if we have the causality completely backwards?
Chapter 7 of The Shastra of No Mind presents a radical inversion:
It is not "illness exists first, then is perceived."
It is "first comes the solidification by 'mind at work,' then energy manifests as the appearance of illness."
Here’s the model:
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The Natural State: The energy of your true nature—Self-Nature—is inherently flowing, transparent, and unobstructed. Like light. Like water.
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The Freeze: A thought arises, unnoticed: "Hmm, a tightness here," or "What if this pain means X?" This is 'mind at work' (youxin). Your attention—which is conscious energy—gets drawn to and locked onto that mental label and its corresponding bodily location.
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The Manifestation: That flowing energy of life, under the sustained "spotlight" of your fixated attention, slows down, congests, and solidifies. It's like flowing water hitting a sustained cold spot and turning to ice. This solidified energy first manifests as sensation (ache, numbness), and if the focus continues, it densifies into what we call pathology: inflammation, nodules, dysfunction.
Your body never actively "gets sick." It is a perfect, passive screen. It only manifests the state of the energy projected onto it.
The "disease" is the ice. The 'mind at work' is the cold that freezes. Your awareness is the water.
Healing, therefore, is not about fighting the ice. It's about withdrawing the cold.
The moment you stop the unconscious projection of attention (return to wuxin, No Mind), the solidification process loses its power source. The energy, by its natural tendency towards wholeness, begins to flow again. The ice melts back into water.
Practice for this moment:
Place your hand on your arm. Feel the sensation. Now, see if you can feel the space in which that sensation appears. Don't analyze the sensation. Find the background awareness that knows the touch. Rest there for a breath. You've just temporarily shifted from focusing on the "content" (sensation) to abiding as the "context" (awareness). This is the fundamental move from 'mind at work' to No Mind.
The implications are endless. It begins with seeing through this one, deep illusion.
Excerpt from The Shastra of No Mind, Chapter 7.2:
"The body is not a site of disease, but a screen for Awareness’s light; Symptoms are not real—they solidify only through the mind at work."
