no doubt

In the enlightened state, the mind knows no doubt. Doubt has disappeared. The whole doubting way of thinking has evaporated. For that doubt is an expression of the fragmented mind: half of the mind pulling in one direction and half in the other. And this is a feature of the thinking mind. It is a feature of words. So ordinarily, we divide something which is in reality an indivisible whole, we divide it into two. And we weigh up the pros and cons; labelling one as good and the other as bad; choosing this one and rejecting that one. But the energy of both parts is still within the mind. And however much the thinking mind wants to put all its energy on one side of the fence, in reality, there is always an equal amount of energy on the other side. Yes, it can be pushed into the unconscious, into the shadow parts, into those dark realms of the mind where, unbeknown to us, all the trouble is fermenting, waiting to come out. And of course, having created such divisions, naturally there is some doubt. ‘Did I make the right decision?’

All of this drops away when the mind becomes integrated and the mind itself becomes holistic. In this space there is no division. Actions become spontaneous, without hesitation, without comparison, without relying on patterns, on memories, on rules and regulations. Instead, every moment becomes a response; fresh, unpredictable, new; a response to this moment, right now, which has never come before and will never come again. And in this spontaneous, holistic response to life, there is no fragmentation. The total energy of the being is moving as one. There is no question of doubt arising, no space for doubt to arise. There is a totality.

And with this way of being, you can see, not only is there no doubt about one’s actions, which have become choiceless, but there is no doubt about oneself. That dark, ugly self doubt, which permeates the ordinary mind; eating away, like a mould in the basement; that has gone. Fresh air is blowing through the spirit. Everything becomes clean. And life is lived lightly, without these doubts.