The mind isn’t the enemy. Identification with the mind is. Writing, teaching, or using the internet doesn’t trap you in the mind any more than walking traps you in your legs. Tools aren’t the problem. Mistaking the tool for the self is.

Presence doesn’t mean abandoning the world. It means moving through the world without being consumed by it. A person in deep awareness can write, teach, use the internet, cook dinner, or take out the trash. The difference is that they do it without the mind grasping for identity, validation, or escape. The action arises from clarity, not compulsion.

If you’re asking, “Would a fully awake person bother with the internet?” you’re still imagining enlightenment as a lifestyle or an aesthetic…something that dictates what you would or wouldn’t do. But enlightenment isn’t a set of behaviors. It’s the end of being pushed around by the mind. It’s the mind becoming a servant instead of a master.

The real question is never what you’re doing. It’s who is doing it.

Are you writing from hunger? From the need to be seen, to be right, to be praised?

Or are you writing because something true wants to move through you, and you simply get out of the way?

Awareness doesn’t withdraw from the world; it permeates it. It uses whatever is in front of it - whether it’s paper, breath, sunlight, or Substack - to point toward what can’t be captured in words.

The problem is not that we use the mind.

The problem is that we forget we are the sky, and mistake ourselves for one passing cloud.

You can write online, and still be free.

You can sit in stillness, and still pick up a pen.

You can use the mind without living inside it.

That’s the whole path.