A Mind Without Thoughts Will Show You a Fathomless Deep

How deep can the mind travel?

Most of our lives are very superficial and is it possible to live at great depth and also function superficially? Is it possible for the mind to dwell or live at great depth?


We lead superficial lives, but are we satisfied with it? No, we are not satisfied. But we don’t know how to go deep. Most of us therefore put up with it.

Now, how is the mind to penetrate into great depth?

You lead a very superficial life and you see the beauty, intellectually or verbally, of another´s life, of a mind that has gone into itself very very deeply. You have for example seen musicians, artists, bohemians, philosophers, etc.

Now, you say to yourself: “I see the beauty of it, I see the quality of it, how is this to be done?

Can thought penetrate it? Can thought become profound?

You live a superficial life. You want to live a different kind of life, at great depth. I understand depth to mean not measurement or time to go down but depth as the bottomless; that which you cannot fathom, and you want to find it and live with it. So, you ask: tell me what am I to do?

You don’t know. You are asking whether thought which is time, which is the past, whether thought can penetrate into this profundity? You see thought cannot reach it because thought is a measure, thought is time, thought is the response of the past; therefore thought cannot possibly touch it.

Then, what will bring this about? If thought cannot touch it and that is the only instrument man has, then, what is he to do? 

Thought in its movement, in its function, has created this world which is superficial in which I live, of which I am. The thought is also necessary in a certain way. That is obvious. Now, is it possible for the mind, without the usage of thought, to touch something which is fathomless? Not just some moments in my sleep or when I am walking by myself, but to live there. 

My mind says the depth must be discovered, to let the mind be of the quality of that—I must be aware of that strange fathomless depth of something which is unnamed.

How is that understood by the mind in which there is no thought?  It perceives. It will show it to you. So, the seeing is the ending. There is no effort involved in it all.

In this awareness the thought will be made transparent, it will be made into poetry. The depth will express itself through it by the means of poetry.