concepts, energy and mindfulness

Here I would like to share my recent personal viewpoints on the energy and concepts, looking from mindfulness perspective. This is a rephrased essay from a post of mine on the Mindfulness group, and to be honest, it's way too difficult for most of the people here. To that extend, this is a little experimental post, so please bear with me.

And here it is. I thought I found a principle as simple as below:
– more concepts, less energy
– more energy, fewer concepts.

That is. The more we indulge in conceptualization or our own waves of thoughts, we have less energy left to ourselves. Vice versa, the more we focus on our own inner energy, the more concepts become dimmer and dimmer in our mind. Consider that, to me mindfulness then provide a specific setting where one may experience pure flows of energy in his/her own mind, without any interference of conceptualization or conditioning.

Further stretching this idea, if we express everything in the land of mind using just concepts and energy, we may consider that the ego, or the sense of self is the first and the most primitive concept, which in turn lays a foundation for any other concepts. The “self”, then play a central role for the whole conceptualization processes. At the opposite side, ego-less or selfless or no-mind is a state where all concepts are undone into energy, as the foundation for conceptualization has gone. From this viewpoint, we can see an ordinary mind and an utterly freed mind are just two ends of a single spectrum, i.e. concept-energy spectrum. While an ordinary mind enjoys the endless complicacies of conceptualization (also known as endless manifestation of duality) in daily life at one end, an extraordinary mind just experiences the reversed process of ultimate de-conceptualization in meditation at the other end.

The mind is often imaged as an ocean with its waves long before. Taking that metaphor, conceptualizations in the mind can be considered as waves, and observation energy can be seen as the background ocean. Any thought arises, it is a form of a specific conceptualization enclosed with an particular energy. Without any re-fueling, that particular energy will fade away and the wave will return to its original background energy of pure observation. Waves of thoughts arise endlessly but not randomly, rather following specific patterns fabricated by the “self”, their core concept. An ordinary mind enjoys vast waves of thoughts (very often negligence of the background), where as an zen mind always enjoys the calm ocean underneath.

Pure state of mind then, may be is no different than a pure state of (pure observation) energy.