You, Your Mind and God

To believe that you are your mind is a delusion. Identification with your mind creates a screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments and definitions that block all true relationships. It comes between you and yourself, you and your fellow man, you and nature and between you and God. It creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and others. You forget that under the physical appearance and separate forms, you are one with all that is. You can no longer feel the oneness when you believe that you are your mind.

Free yourself from the mind. Listen to the voice in your head without judging and with impartiality and be there as a witnessing presence. You’ll soon realize there is a voice, and “I am” here listening to it. This “I am” realization, this sense of your own presence is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind. This is a new dimension of consciousness, your deeper self.

You can also create agape in the mind stream by focusing your attention into the now. Become intensely conscious of the present moment. Become highly alert and aware but not thinking; the essence of meditation. You can measure your success in this practice by the degree of peace you feel within.

Learn to disidentify from the mind. Every time you create agape, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.

80 – 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy. To identify yourself as your mind is false self or ego.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only the past and future are important. It’s always concerned with keeping the past alive because without the past, who are you? Or it goes to the future and says, “One day when this or that, I’ll be happy or okay or at peace.”

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The compulsive thinker lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict.

When you become emotional, observe what is happening in your body. Allow the emotion to be there without being controlled by it. Then, you no longer are the emotion, you become the watcher. Don’t analyze, just watch. Feel the energy. Notice what physical reaction it has.

“It’s awful or unacceptable.” No. It is as it is. Don’t label it or judge it. That creates unhappiness. Accept it, and then take action if it’s necessary or possible.
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