Tame the mind to master your life
That’s right, you are a glowing fragment of consciousness floating on the sea of the mind. You can no more control the mind than a boat can control the ocean.
Hold that analogy close — because I’m going to rock it in a storm of radical ideas. The boat and ocean analogy holds true only at rare moments of calm and clarity. It’s not true at all other times. That’s because your so called boat has capsized in the ocean and you no longer have the faintest idea as to who ‘you’ might possibly be. Ninety-nine per cent of the time you and your mind seem as one entity. That’s because of a long history of dependence.
You have been using the mind to get things done for you. You have no direct experience of a higher power inside that could be greater — far greater than what your mind can ever be. Since the mind is your only gateway to dealing with the world, you fill it everyday with a wish list.
Over the years, you and your mind have got interlocked into each other so much that you tend to identify yourself with it. You have become dependent on it. Like all one-sided relationships based on dependence, you tend to start submitting to your mind’s whims and fancies. It’s like having a millionaire friend who gives you all the fancy goodies you want — now when he asks for something perverted in return, you can’t possibly refuse.
So when the mind loads up long buried fears into you — you cannot say ‘get lost’. You have accepted a subservient position to your mind and you have no choice but to bend to its command. So a hundred times a day your mind throws its secret perversion on to you and makes you submit like a slave.
That’s the secret reason you cannot get rid of your fears, because you have no idea what they are, where they are lodged, who is making you feel them or why. You have given away your most precious freedom — your independence from your mind. Now you have no alternative but to suffer.
Just imagine, something traumatic happened twenty years ago when you were in your infancy. Today that fear is colouring your decision, your thought, your action. Today, that fear is preventing you from living and enjoying this sacred moment in time. Today, that fear has wrapped its tendrils around you and is choking your spirit into submission. And you have no idea it even exists.
Dwell on what I said. Roll it over and over until its truth comes in plain sight.
There is no point in my saying anything more until you have absorbed this deeply.
More next week.
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