MIND IS NOT THE ENEMY OF AWAKENING
The problem with the mind is that we’ve given all our power to the movement of mind. We’ve given allegiance to the movement of mind, not to the nature of mind—these are two different features of mind.
The movement of mind is the incessant stream of thinking that runs our lives in the “unconscious” state—this is the current state of the majority of humanity.
Most people believe that if a thought arises it must be true and then they act on it, either by following it into an imaginary future or by getting rid of the past problem that led to this thought.
Giving allegiance to the movement of mind is like the chasing the waves on the ocean—it’s exhausting and doesn’t lead to clarity . . . or sanity.
Truth cannot be found in the ever-changing nature of the waves.
Only by penetrating the deeper nature of the waves can we know the wisdom of our innate wholeness—the ocean of being-ness.
By recognizing that the ocean contains the wave but is not limited by the wave, we also recognize that being-ness contains thought but is not limited by thought.
This realization changes the function of mind—it stops being the source of incessant suffering and comes into its rightful place to serve as a vehicle for the recognition of awareness—we call this “waking up to true nature” or “awakening out of the dream of separation.”
In awakening out of the dream of separation—whether temporarily as a glimpse of oneness or permanently as a lived truth—the mind then continues to function when needed. It’s a tool for “right action” in the three-dimensional world—but it’s a tool we can pick up and put down.
It’s a useful function of mind to plan, to map, to focus, to concentrate. It’s not useful to plan when you’re just following some insane compulsion thought after thought after thought—but when mind falls into its rightful place, great things can happen. In its rightful place, mind is the source of true creativity and true intelligence.
When we live in right relationship to life, in right relationship
to ourselves—in other words, when we listen to the innermost, when we meet life as openness—mind comes into right relationship with the totality.
Mind comes down off its pedestal and bows to the deep heart.
It comes into service of that which is open and awake.
This is the right foundation for living.
And from this foundation, we come into alignment with an innate intelligence. When we listen to this innate intelligence, we are no longer tormented by mind.
Thanks for reading.