(Forgive me. This simply came out. I am not claiming it's completely accurate, worthy of going into the goal book/booklet, or better than any past teaching, or that I am fully enlightened.)
What is it you want? What is it you need?
What did you want when you were 5? Do you still think you know what you want? What you need? Who you are? What you are?
That's the problem. Without thinking, there is no "who." How could there be? Are you the same as you were at 5? No.
When you drive a car, you become the car. If it gets damaged, we assume we will get damaged. Some people are so identified with the cars they drive, they modify and "make it their own." If you lean against it, they might become angry with you. This is like the body and mind. But it is all ownerless and driverless.
What propels a car? Within a car is a construct, a fabrication, known as the engine. This engine is like the mind. It was constructed by the many experiences it has accrued. Instead of constructing the engine by fastening a part, like a piston inside the engine, the mind is conditioned by fastening experiences together. So, an engine could have a piston fastened to it. The mind will fasten something like an experience in your youth of someone telling you that "you'll never amount to anything." Once this experience is fastened, it has altered and become the condition of the mind. The mind in an ordinary human is always changing.
But what causes the engine to propel the car? It's the combination of compressing fuel and introducing a spark. First, however, the fuel is compressed. The fuel is consciousness. Consciousness is also not you. The compression of consciousness becomes your view of a current situation, which is narrowed by the piston's compression.
In the engine, a piston compresses the fuel until the fuel reaches a critical point. In the mind, conditioning from past experiences compresses the consciousness into a view. This view could be the appearance that someone is implying "you'll never amount to anything." In an ordinary person, a spark is automatically introduced to the view which consciousness is showing, which causes thought or action in relation to the view. You are the spark, which is awareness. "Un-conscience" awareness, but awareness nonetheless. But don't stop there, because it's not the whole story.
You don't actually do anything. The spark arises and falls away with extreme rapidity in an ordinary person, and is the slave to the car and engine. The spark isn't directly controlling the engine or the car. However, your body's engine--the fabricated mind--work to produce the illusion that you, the spark, are in control. After all, without the spark, without awareness, how could anything happen?
This process of the engine condensing the fuel, of the mind condensing the consciousness into a view, is perpetual, just like in an engine. It keeps happening, and normally we spark when the combustion chamber is at peak compression, thus keeping the engine going. This is why we begin to believe we are the mind, and therefor the body. The spark, you, is not a separate entity either. A spark is a form of "energy." This term "energy" is not literal. It's simply a signpost, pointing at the ineffable.
Coming back to the analogy of the engine in a car, in an enlightened being, they are no longer completely identified with the mind and body. They are increasingly RESIDING with this "energy." The engine might compress fuel, but an enlightened being doesn't spark, or at least not always. If they don't spark, the engine quickly comes to a stand-still. Without the spark, there is no combustion, no thought, no action. It is at this point that "energy" becomes most perceptible. If this goes on long enough, the engine shuts down completely, and the spark is fully identified with "energy." This is full enlightenment. The awareness has returned to it's natural state of harmony, of oneness.
But if that's the case, then how does the body or mind of a fully enlightened body "move?" What makes the wind blow? You can give a cause, but what is the cause of that cause? Keep following it, and you end up back where you started. So, what makes that entire cycle possible? This ineffable "energy" is how the body and mind of an enlightened being move. You may call the "energy" God, or whatever term you prefer.
Water doesn't need an engine to flow. It just flows.
