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Big Mind and Small Mind:
We were walking in the rain [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], breathing in the heady scent of the washed earth that clung to our bare feet as we strode languidly through the forest which surrounds Hang Sen’s house. I had come seeking his counsel and, as usual, the old man was more than willing to provide me with a teaching.
Hang Sen moved ahead of me in silence, leading me onward to a place I had not been with him before. I allowed myself to enjoy the playful stroking of the rain on my skin and to listen to the liquid whisper of the drenched forest.

After a while we came to an opening set into a cliff. It was a cave and I followed Hang Sen inside and waited as he laid out two blankets and lit some candles. We sat down and the lesson began.
Hang Sen told me to close my eyes and to relax
“Observe your breathing for now,” Hang Sen said quietly “become still and calm and watch your thinking”
“You mean, watch my thoughts” I replied, meaning to correct him.
“No” he replied “Watch your thinking. Watch the entire process of yourself as a thinking being and perhaps you will discover something interesting”
I opened my eyes and saw the old man smiling disarmingly at me. It was a smile laced with a hint of mischief [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], yet his eyes, as always were two compassionate gems set in a face of pure peace and wisdom.
I closed my eyes and set about ‘watching my thinking’.
I began by watching my breathing; observing the gentle intake of air and the rising of my chest and belly as I breathed in and the warm rush of breath as I exhaled, allowing my body to deflate. Again and again I observed my breathing in this way, trying as best I could to detach from every thought as it arose in consciousness. As each thought would pop up I would merely acknowledge it but try not to attach or be carried away by it.
I sat like this for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, always with Hang Sen’s command to ‘watch myself thinking’ guiding this entire process.
Gradually my thoughts slowed and I became completely immersed in stillness. It was then that I experienced a gentle shift in my perception. I felt as if I were now removed from merely watching the thoughts themselves and was now actually watching myself thinking. I was watching the thinking process itself from outside of it.
It was at this point that Hang Sen’s voice drifted into my awareness
“Observe closely what your thinking is’ he directed ‘Observe also what is observing yourself as a thinking being”
I realized then that I was actually two minds at the same time; one mind I knew was the thinking, rational mind of my everyday life wherein I placed my identity and from where everything in my life - my thoughts, my feelings, my actions and my experiences stemmed from. But encompassing and permeating this ‘small mind’ was a mind that was incomprehensibly vast, pure and brimming with wisdom and infinite possibility. It was a mind which expanded in a way that did not seem to adhere to any time-space restriction. It was boundless. This mind was a mind that was not of thought because it was beyond thought yet it contained the thinking mind. It was aware of itself and aware of the small mind - it was aware of its identity and yet assumed no identity at all.
“That is your Big-Mind” Hang Sen explained as I sat utterly mesmerized.
“Big mind cannot be experienced through rationality. It cannot be locked into a definition through words or thoughts because it is beyond rationality and words and thoughts and yet it encompasses all these things!” he said.
As I rested in the state of big mind I was able to see this

Big Mind [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Small Mind
How when you learn to wield the one with the other you will come to know what limitless living is really about
From ‘The incredible teachings of Hang Sen’ Wisdom that Works? series.