The Mind’s Capacity for Self-Perpetuation

How can the mind plot against one’s understanding if the mind is merely thought appearing in consciousness? Rupert says: ‘The mind is consciousness plus the content of experience. This apparently separate entity wants to perpetuate itself by continuing its activity. As long as the mind is continuing its activity – thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving – it perpetuates itself. The one thing it finds really difficult is not to do anything at all. Not only to abandon the conventional search for happiness in the world, but to abandon the search for God in the religious traditions, or even to abandon the search for enlightenment in the spiritual traditions. A time comes when you have to let all of that go, and that doesn’t just feel like death to the mind, it is the death of the apparently separate self.’

From event 06 June - 13 July, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 6–13 June 2025

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