You Too Can Achieve Transcendent Wisdom

I'm finding that the Big Mind process works for anyone.  People who have never thought about seeking enlightenment, people who come off the street, people who may be at any level of consciousness development, can very easily do and succeed in this process.

What I have observed over the years is that new people can immediately access what could otherwise have taken years and years of practice to grasp and to understand. They immediately have a better sense of how to meditate, and also how to resolve life’s big questions.  In fact, what I find is that the teaching is absorbed so much more deeply because they’re absorbing it from the inside out, rather than the outside in.  In other words, instead of hearing the teaching and trying to understand it, they are speaking as the teaching.

The teaching has always come from the awakened experience.  Traditionally, people receiving the teaching try to get there. But in the Big Mind process, people are already there.  To me, this is what the words ‘educating’ and ‘facilitating’ really mean: we are facilitating and educating the person to be in touch with what is already there within, to bring up the wisdom that is ever-present.  Once they are identified as Big Mind, which is just another way of saying transcendent wisdom, the wisdom that goes beyond duality — once they’re identified with this transcendent wisdom or Big Mind — they speak the wisdom of the Buddha.  And once they’re identified with Big Heart, then their actions are the actions of a Bodhisattva,one who puts others before one’s self.

All the wisdom that we attain to in our spiritual practices — it’s all there.