Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.