B ANATTA

The no-mind cannot arise out of the mind. It is not a growth of the mind, it is not in
continuity with the mind; it is discontinuous. It is as discontinuous as disease is with
health. The health does not arise out of the disease, it arises out of the removal of the
disease. Disease was encroaching the space and was not allowing the health to bloom.
The disease has to be removed. It is like a rock blocking the path of a small spring. You
remove the rock and the spring starts flowing. It does not arise out of the rock. The rock
was blocking it, the rock was a block. So is the mind. Mind is the block for the no-mind.
No-mind simply means that which is not mind at all. How can it arise out of the mind? If
it arises out of the mind, it may be super-mind, but it can't be no-mind. That's where I
differ from Shree Aurobindo. He talks about the super-mind. A super-mind is the same
mind more decorated, more cultivated, more cultured, more sophisticated, more strong,
more integrated -- but all the time the same old mind.
Buddha says not super-mind but no-mind; not super-soul but no soul; not superindividuality, super-self, but no-self, ANATTA.