Mind Management
When we are afflicted with a disease like Malaria, we don’t treat each symptom like fever, pain and shivering, one by one. We just treat the disease and the symptoms automatically vanished. So deal directly with the mind and symptoms, like stress and strain will disappear.
There is no attempt, however, to control the mind; the idea is to go beyond it. The mind is compared to monkey drunk with the wine of desire, stung by the scorpions of jealousy, and possessed with the demon of pride. Lust, greed, jealousy, anger, ego, tension, re-actions, grudges, depression, stress, and strain are however, the symptoms and not the diseases.
The common misconception is that meditation is concentration of mind and various techniques are taught to achieve this.
Meditation has got no technique. There are techniques of concentration. Concentration is a mental exercise between the mind and the object of attention. But meditation is neither a mental exercise nor a practice. Meditation is a direct and natural process beyond the mind itself. Meditation is not the concentration; it is the mother of concentration.
Remember, concentration is where one tries to control thoughts, where thoughts got dissolved naturally, enhancing your powers of concentration, memory, will, right thinking and fitness.
When your thought current is interrupted- which mean that all thoughts are fixed on one object- it is concentration. But when the flow uninterrupted, that is meditation. This is when the thought is not fixed on any one object, rather we just remain a non- doer and directly watch thoughts as a neutral energy without any judgment, analyses, participation, visualisation, imagination, contemplation, suppression, repression, condemnation or concentration.
Meditation is a non-doing entity where you are simply a seer, witness; you are an observer of the mind’s happening.
To watch is our true nature. It is a natural, non-doing state. No effort is required to watch. We all have full potential to look with in directly as we all are blessed with the “Third Eye.”
Meditation is mind management. It is not forcing the mind to be quiet. It is to find the quiet that is there already. We are children of bliss. We suffer from stress, and strain, because we gave all the power to the mind and made it our master. Not only that, we consider ourselves nothing, but the mind.
Mind is matter. It has no power of its own. It is useful in the external world but in the spiritual, internal world, it has to be overcome. Otherwise we will be the victim of mental and physical diseases.
Meditation is seeing the mind as a witness, a neutral energy. It is not interfering with the intricacies and doing of mind. Just be a seer, be a witness. We just stay in our own source, in own true nature; All bliss.
We are happy when the mind is cheerful, we are depressed when the mind is gloomy. We are at the mercy of the mind that waxes and wanes. We consider ourselves nothing but mind. It is blasphemy to consider ourselves as victims of an unforeseen incident when the unending Bliss is flowing with in all of us.
First and foremost is our speech- A pure mind makes for pure words. It is said that speech may exalt someone to kingship or send him to the gallows.
I should never let myself indulge in false bitter and vicious speech. My words should reflect my true inner nature that of purity and peace.
Words once spoken can never be recalled.
When we are afflicted with a disease like Malaria, we don’t treat each symptom like fever, pain and shivering, one by one. We just treat the disease and the symptoms automatically vanished. So deal directly with the mind and symptoms, like stress and strain will disappear.
There is no attempt, however, to control the mind; the idea is to go beyond it. The mind is compared to monkey drunk with the wine of desire, stung by the scorpions of jealousy, and possessed with the demon of pride. Lust, greed, jealousy, anger, ego, tension, re-actions, grudges, depression, stress, and strain are however, the symptoms and not the diseases.
The common misconception is that meditation is concentration of mind and various techniques are taught to achieve this.
Meditation has got no technique. There are techniques of concentration. Concentration is a mental exercise between the mind and the object of attention. But meditation is neither a mental exercise nor a practice. Meditation is a direct and natural process beyond the mind itself. Meditation is not the concentration; it is the mother of concentration.
Remember, concentration is where one tries to control thoughts, where thoughts got dissolved naturally, enhancing your powers of concentration, memory, will, right thinking and fitness.
When your thought current is interrupted- which mean that all thoughts are fixed on one object- it is concentration. But when the flow uninterrupted, that is meditation. This is when the thought is not fixed on any one object, rather we just remain a non- doer and directly watch thoughts as a neutral energy without any judgment, analyses, participation, visualisation, imagination, contemplation, suppression, repression, condemnation or concentration.
Meditation is a non-doing entity where you are simply a seer, witness; you are an observer of the mind’s happening.
To watch is our true nature. It is a natural, non-doing state. No effort is required to watch. We all have full potential to look with in directly as we all are blessed with the “Third Eye.”
Meditation is mind management. It is not forcing the mind to be quiet. It is to find the quiet that is there already. We are children of bliss. We suffer from stress, and strain, because we gave all the power to the mind and made it our master. Not only that, we consider ourselves nothing, but the mind.
Mind is matter. It has no power of its own. It is useful in the external world but in the spiritual, internal world, it has to be overcome. Otherwise we will be the victim of mental and physical diseases.
Meditation is seeing the mind as a witness, a neutral energy. It is not interfering with the intricacies and doing of mind. Just be a seer, be a witness. We just stay in our own source, in own true nature; All bliss.
We are happy when the mind is cheerful, we are depressed when the mind is gloomy. We are at the mercy of the mind that waxes and wanes. We consider ourselves nothing but mind. It is blasphemy to consider ourselves as victims of an unforeseen incident when the unending Bliss is flowing with in all of us.
First and foremost is our speech- A pure mind makes for pure words. It is said that speech may exalt someone to kingship or send him to the gallows.
I should never let myself indulge in false bitter and vicious speech. My words should reflect my true inner nature that of purity and peace.
Words once spoken can never be recalled.
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