Secrets to Mastering Your Mind
BY J.OZWALD
"Do not rely on your mind for liberation. Go beyond it altogether. Be aware of being aware. Broaden and deepen the field of awareness. You are beyond space and time, uncaused, the very matrix of existence, the Supreme Absolute... the Source of being, life and consciousness." ~Nisargadatta
You may be more busy and distracted than you realize or even want to admit. The mind tends to get fixated on thoughts about your survival, as it keeps itself occupied with getting all those ever so important things done so you can remain happy, successful, loved, at peace and free. The mind tends to form habitual ways of thinking which give you a sense of security in life and can experience yourself as you and not someone else. If you only had brand new and original unique thoughts all day long and all life long, you probably wouldn't have any clue about who or what you are. So there are many positive and negative aspects to repetitive thinking patterns, yet this is not what creates the suffering you experience in your life. It's the lack of stillness, silence and total quietness of mind where all of life's apparent problems can be found.
Remember to use the cleaning tools daily.
You can also arrange for Zannie to include you in her daily cleaning practices.
Most people say that they just don't have the time to relax, meditate or sit still and do nothing. They are too busy, too worried, too hooked into their desires to get everything done that needs to get done so they don't feel even more stressed, overwhelmed and more tired tomorrow. If this sounds like you on any level, my advice is that if you ever want to get out of the rat race, you have to stop thinking like a rat. You will need to entice your mind to step completely out of its busy comfort zone, and start slowing everything down. If you ever want to win this insane rat running race, you have to slow down.
It may seem preposterous, illogical, and that you'll only fall far behind, yet do you remember who won the race between the tortoise and the hare? The hare fell asleep because he was so tired, and then missed the entire journey while the tortoise slowly strolled on by.
Perhaps the most essential and vital foundation to lay down before you attempt to find this omnipresent silence inside you, is knowing about the background of thoughts, beliefs and programs that are playing out in your subconscious mind. This deeper mind is a bit more difficult to hear than the incessant chattering noise in the head, yet its always there. Its there just like all the things in your basement and storage closet are there even though you don't see them everyday.
You cannot know what is hiding in your basement until you go down there to look. It will never be cleaned and organized unless you make it your #1 priority, as if the fulfillment of your entire life depended on it. The devotion to unraveling yourself is huge and will pay off for many years to come! This is why I'm urging you now to start the process of slowing everything down, just so that one day you can make it down to the very bottom basement floor and see exactly what has been stored away in your deepest subconscious programming.
Remember to use the cleaning tools daily. You can also arrange for Zannie to include you in her daily cleaning practices.
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