The Machine within the Ghost

When we allow everything to be as it is, in that inner attitude of non-grasping and surrender, something creative can come to you. That is the space in which insight, wisdom and revelation arise...

It’s the space in which we are gifted with what we need to see. It’s the space in which we can be informed by the wholeness of consciousness, not just by a little speck of consciousness in our mind. And ultimately, it is the space in which realization arises. It is the space in which we realize ourselves to be consciousness itself, the unmanifest fabric of being.
~Adyashanti

The Yoga Sutras tell us that it is because of avidya, or ignorance, that we mistake sensory form for reality.  Sensory form necessarily rests within mind.  There is no sensual experience without mind.  It all takes place in within the still mysterious processes of the brain which somehow seem to mediate between the material and the immaterial.  Somehow the brain takes in our narrow spectrum of electromagnetic energy and manufactures it into our world.  Mind is what gives it shape, meaning and value.

 

    “Reality” exists within us as conscious beings.  We don’t belong to the mechanisms of life or nature; certainly not the fabrications of society and culture.  As spiritual beings we are autonomous and whole.  We have simply chosen to dance with form and manifestation.  Freedom is inherent within us.  Attachment causes us to dream that we are bound.