Is going into who you are a horizontal activity?
Asking the question, “Who wants to know?” is the working mind. Arising of the question is vertical, the involvement of the thinking mind is horizontal. The working mind is not horizontal. The working mind is the present moment. So in the present moment the working mind asks the question “Who wants to know?” and if the thinking mind doesn’t come in try to answer the question, then the “who” disappears.
There are two aspects. One is the monkey mind ^ the thinking mind which asks questions, provides answers, and asks further questions of those answers and goes on and on. Then another aspect, the working mind, is only focused with doing what needs to be done at the moment in the circumstances. It is not concerned, not even with whether the work that is being done is necessary or not. Nor is it concerned with the consequences. It is only focused on doing the job that is being done, and it is not concerned with “who” is doing the job.
It is the thinking mind that says, “I’m doing this work, and ‘i’ must find out what the consequences are going to be.” So the thinking mind always thinks about the consequences in the future. The working mind is not concerned with the future.
The “one” who is concerned with the consequences of the future is the thinking mind, the ego. In the working mind there is no individual, no ego. So in the working mind if there is no individual doing the work, then “who” is to worry about the consequences? In the working mind there is no individual worker ^ the work is just being done.
The individual “doer” is the thinking mind wanting to know: After the work is done, what is going to happen to me? The “me” is the thinking mind, ego. The ego is the identification with the name and form as an individual with the sense of doership whatever happens to this body “i” am doing it, and “i” am the one who is going to suffer the consequences. – The Times of India
Satsang: Ramesh S Balsekar
