"Omnipresent pure consciousness is known as the soul when it experiences its own being."
~Yoga Vashista
To transcend the mind does not mean to suppress it, or control it, or annihilate the ego. To transcend the mind does not mean engaging in any of the neurotic inner conflict that monks and renunciates have handed down to us for centuries in the name of "spiritual practice."
To transcend means gracefully relinquishing every mechanism of control, to become the scintillating, boundless, clear space in which mind arises and dissolves. Thinking is not the perceiver, but the object of perception. Thinking is just a tool, like any other thing we might pick up to use, and lay down again when we finish using it. We 'have' mind, but our mind is not who we 'are.' Mind is not our Being. Our Being the expanse of pure consciousness. You are the fresh sparkling stream of awareness, in which the mind and all its thoughts are just tumbling pebbles.
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