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NOSTRADAMUS 2012159myself and that I should get my New Age ass into the work of looking in otherwisethe mind was going to continue pretending it was transcending the mind.So I retreated, wounded bear fashion, back to my little Zen bench and triedto watch my breath help me get over myself. At some point I saw a deep maw openinside my subconscious and beheld there all of this endless shit of the mind and egocoming up like the Gulf Oil Spill out of that pipe.It was endless. I felt so completely helpless. It looked like it was going onforever. Three days later, it was time to see the Vipassana instructors. I asked themexactly the same question you have, Reg, “Does it ever end?”The group leader reflected my look of helplessness and humility and said, “Idon’t know.”That was nearly [32] years ago.Do I have an answer? Do I see the end of the garbage?No.But I will share with you this possibility. Don’t believe it or disbelieve it offhand.See if with time and meditative practice it becomes your experience.The crap is the crap, but the “witness” of it isn’t the crap. I find myself goingdeeper into the witness of things. What is witnessed is just allowed to be there,good, bad, true or crap, it doesn’t matter. The one watching is allowed to be therewhether he’s in his mind or silent or he’s in emotions or serene. Such is the case.There’s all of that and there’s a watching. The garbage becomes a contrast tothat which isn’t the garbage......and then there is “something else” that’s neither of action nor of the inaction.It is deepening...deepening...Each one of us comes to this placeless place and un-has this IN-experient “it.”It is a paradox. It isn’t even there. It never existed, that’s why it is free of allthe garbage, all the holies, all the serenity and all the ego.It is so vast that it isn’t even there and sometimes it is so infinitesimal that itis too universal to bear.It is inescapable.We can try to sleepwalk or take drugs or get as drugged with mind chatter,Mayan Calendar mass enlightenment dates and any other of life’s near infinite soapoperas as we can, but after awhile one can’t completely ignore “this.”…thisAn inescapable, constant, eternal reality.It sounds like “this” has gotten under your skin, Reg. So we move forward,