Freedom begins here...

    Seeking to know the truth of who you are through the conceptual mind (thoughts) is a futile attempt...it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Your mind is only able to create concepts and nothing more. The notion of a you and me is only a concept. What you are, is prior to all conceptual thinking, prior to thought.That is why you often here phrases such as "quiet the mind"  or "rest in stillness." Once you truly see how thoughts, concepts arise and come and go, you will begin to simply let them pass by or pass through. From here pure understanding unfolds as attachments to concepts are no longer held on to and simply fall away. An opening to freedom begins here.