Words From The Master - 24 April 2008

Mind your mind

In its own way the mind leads us, sometimes in strange ways – in the way it ‘thinks’ and ‘responds’. Thoughts rise and fall in a chaotic manner in our mind; nothing is logical; thoughts rise, live and fall. It is not thought; it is just association. Association is jumpy, not logical. This is why there’s so much confusion.

When the thinking process is brought into consciousness our desires too become conscious.

At the moment they are mostly unconscious. You realise after a while that whatever it is that led to a problem is just the association, not desire. It’s like sitting in a car that moves on its own – something that you are not controlling.

A mind that is moving in association with unconscious desire is dangerous.

We try to suppress desire or we fulfil it. But suppression does not work. Fulfilment does not remove desire, it only creates more desire. Bring your desire to consciousness from unconsciousness. If the desire is really worth fulfiling, it will have its own energy for fulfilment.

If this is not so, it will disappear. However, either way you will be in a state of relaxation. Without consciousness, either suppression or fulfilment will lead to suffering, guilt and tension.

Psychologists say that if you make a wrong choice your unconscious mind is your first and worst enemy – which tries to ensure that you fail.

Whenever your unconsciousness does not recognise your desire it works against the desire.

The unconscious part of you is 90 per cent of the mind. They say the mind's safety mechanism works against the fulfilment of wrong desire, which results in much disappointment.

Once desire enters the consciousness it energises you.

Energy is the source of desire.

The same energy – converting food into muscle, blood circulation – moves the body. Between body and energy desire happens; it is closer to energy than the body; it is more powerful than the body. If you change your desire your whole body can change. Writing is the best way to raise desire to awareness.

Once a week give yourself an appointment for 30 minutes, and ask your ‘Being’ what it wants. Just listen to your mind and make a few points. Whatever is necessary will stand, whatever is not, will disappear.

We never verbalise many desires, we never bring them to light; many of them are not even our own deep desires; they are the desires of others. We have life and energy only to ‘experience’ our own desires.

In order to mind your mind, you need contemplation, concentration and meditation. To guide the mind contemplation is needed; to focus on a subject concentration is necessary. When the mind disappears into the subject and there is no mind left, it is meditation.

Meditation makes you aware of reality. It is liberating.