Shallow = the \u2018secret\u2019 as a simple key leading straight towards worldly success, wealth and fame. For instance, through mindlessly, mechanically repeating \u2018I want\u2019. A simple mechanism as if oneself were also nothing but a mechanical construct.<\/p>\n
This shallowness is a perversion of profundity.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The difference lies in depth of mind. There is no \u2018law of attraction\u2019 at the superficial level. Ignoring the deeper part of mind leads to effects opposite to the intended. However, this deeper \u2013 unconscious \u2013 part is real. Modern science has proven its existence and importance in many ways. Therefore, one shouldn\u2019t try to just swap the \u2018secret\u2019 away with a scientific brush\u2026 Even though it\u2019s frequently treated in most unscientific ways, one can still try to be as rational as possible in thinking about<\/em> it.<\/p>\n
A profound \u2018secret\u2019 can be found in many religions.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the Egyptian, Greek and Roman mystery religions, the mystery was a \u2018secret\u2019. Allah cannot be seen. The Holy Trinity cannot be understood. Hinduism is full of \u2018secret\u2019 things, places, wisdoms\u2026 The secret is attractive. It draws people\u2019s attention. But then it doesn\u2019t yield.<\/p>\n
Many people are looking for this so-called \u2018secret\u2019, presupposing that it is something. Otherwise, what\u2019s the purpose?<\/p>\n
But the secret is PRECISELY NOT something.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That is what it\u2019s eventually about. It is no-thing. This is very different from nothing. With nothing, there is \u2013 well \u2013 just nothing. Contrary to this, if you look into no-thing, you see \u2026 conceptual<\/em> \u2018emptiness\u2019. This is the way of your own unconscious. Thus the secret attracts because it concerns the deepest within you. You know there is something, even immensely much. Yet you look into \u2018emptiness\u2019. More precisely as already said: conceptual<\/em> emptiness.<\/p>\n
The Secret that Cannot be Found, is You.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This \u2018secret\u2019 is secret because of it\u2019s being<\/em> so. It\u2019s not hidden. There is not necessarily someone who doesn\u2019t want you to know it and therefore hides it from you. It\u2019s also not just difficult to be found. It cannot<\/em> be unveiled. It exists<\/em> as what cannot be found. Eventually, even \u2018something\u2019, being anything at all, is way beyond what \u2018secret\u2019 is about.<\/p>\n
And that is because it\u2019s about how<\/em> you \u2018think\u2019, how your mind works, how your brain forms mental content. It\u2019s about YOU opening (or not) your mind. Looking at what is a so-called \u2018secret\u2019, you look into the emptiness of your mind itself. YOUR thinking makes or un-makes the secret.<\/p>\n
Not-knowable because that is the way our mind\/brain works.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We do not know the neurons of our brain, nor the patterns that these neurons form in the depth of our mind\/brain. They are \u2018secret\u2019 by nature not because there is nothing, but because they are at any moment present BEFORE conceptual thinking. Forming conscious thoughts, we lose these pre-patterns. For instance, \u2018empathy\u2019 \u2013 so very important in many human endeavors \u2013 shows that we react to much more than we are consciously aware of. Grabbing it, is losing it. Not grabbing it, is being able to look at it as no-thing, no-thought, no-feeling.<\/p>\n
Yet this is the source of what drives us, the eventual source of deep motivation.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Therefore \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 it is the \u2018secret\u2019 that drives towards accomplishing anything: success, health and wellness, growth\u2026 if one doesn\u2019t try to grab these from mere shallowness. That would just not be realistic.<\/p>\n
There is no surface of any pond without the pond itself.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n