Q: …Our question is: can there be a happy mind?
M: Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory
of pain. Both make the mind restless. Moments of pleasure are merely gaps in
the stream of pain. How can the mind be happy?
Q: That is true when we desire pleasure or expect pain. But
there are moments of unexpected, unanticipated joy. Pure joy, uncontaminated by
desire—unsought, undeserved, God-given.
M: Still, joy is joy only against a background of pain.
Q: Is pain a cosmic fact, or purely mental?
M: The universe is complete and where there is completeness,
where nothing lacks, what can give pain?
Q: The Universe may be complete as a whole, but incomplete
in details.
M: A part of the whole seen in relation to the whole is also
complete. Only when seen in isolation it becomes deficient and thus a seat of
pain. What makes for isolation?
Q: Limitations of the mind, of course. The mind cannot see
the whole for the part.
M: Good enough. The mind, by its very nature, divides and
opposes. Can there be some other mind, which unites and harmonizes, which sees
the whole in the part and the part as totally related to the whole?
Q: The other mind—where to look for it?
M: In the going beyond the limiting, dividing and opposing
mind. In ending the mental process as we know it. When this comes to an end,
that mind is born.
Q: In that mind, the problem of joy and sorrow exist no
longer?
M: Not as we know them, as desirable or repugnant. It
becomes rather a question of love seeking expression and meeting with
obstacles. The inclusive mind is love in action, battling against
circumstances, initially frustrated, ultimately victorious.
Q: Between the spirit and the body, is it love that provides
the bridge?
M: What else? Mind creates the abyss, the heart
crosses it.
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