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: The Natural State: The energy of your true nature—Self-Nature—is inherently flowing, transparent, and unobstructed. Like light. Like water. 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. 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…