My collections on the ways of the mind

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The ways of the mind:

Life is flowing and parallel to it, a mind interprets. Have this

understanding, then you will flow with life.

 

The moment you do not give attention to the mind, mind will slow

down. If you hold hands with the mind, you will run along with it.

Then it will flow. It will go on chatting, chatting and chatting.

 

The difference is that the Jnani is the master and not a slave to

his mind. It is the nature of the mind to think in dualities. If you

ask for a glass of water, then the mind wants to judge over the

water - is it too cold or is it warm ? The enlightened one merely

asks for water and drinks it without interpreting the water. His

mind is still.

 

……. So it is not what I say that is important. We have to get

those answers ourselves, and that we can do only by silencing our

minds.

 

All of us have the capacity to get those answers, because every

question has an answer within silence. When the mind has reached a

state of stillness, the answer comes. This will not happen in one or

two days, but it is certain that we will get the answer in the

silence.

 

Indeed, he (Ajja) does seem to be a literal example of one whose

mind and body have become a truly empty vessel, through which that

One without a second shines through, untainted by even a trace of

individuality.

 

Sometimes you keep the radio on without listening to it. Like that

we should handle our mind. Don't be identified with the mind! The

problem is that we are afraid that we will miss something essential

if we do not listen to the interpreting mind.

 

"When a drop of rain leaves the sky and approaches the ocean, it

does not attempt to put on the brakes and cry out in despair of

losing its rain-dropness. Yet the mind will often do just that. The

sense of personal `I' will attempt to resist all motion that

it perceives heading in the direction of it losing itself. The

raindrop has no such fear and when it merges into the ocean, it does

not lose its rain-dropness but gains the entire ocean. The same is

true of the personal `I.' As it merges with the heart of

consciousness, it gains the entire universe."

 

The moment you are in the mind, it isn't Advaita. But the moment

you're in the moment-to-moment, that is Advaita.

 

... embrace life without the mind… there is love in the moment

… there is aliveness in the moment

 

.… When you are in the mind, you cannot embrace life, you cannot

celebrate life.

 

……… the bliss of a non-mental life

 

The soul reflects it's images through the manure of the mind

gloriously, filled with the fragrance of LOVE.

 

….. look upon the world with nectar flowing from your eyes.