Dear friends,
Modern man is controlled and
conditioned by thoughts, ideas, ambitions, goals, opinions, aims, beliefs,
logical thinking, rational thinking, complexes of ego or inferior, stand points
of mind, comparison, social values, etc., and all these are called by a single
name “MIND” or more correctly can be called as “MINDING” because it is not a
separate thing, but instead it is a continuous action taking place in the
Brain.
There are activities in Brain which
are not of Mind but only of knowledge. Like you know driving and you drive and
this action of brain is not mind. Then what activity of brain is mind?
What is connected with emotions or
for the purpose to fulfil your emotions OR the knowledge based activities
connected with emotions or for the purpose to fulfil your emotions become your
mind or minding. Then emotions......... emotions are body based, body centered,
body protective, body needs and bodily unconscious information storage based. You
can call them simply animalistic. This is not a condemnation, please remember.
Moreover the humans’ emotion become more violent, more cunning, more political,
more exploiting and more developed. Humans become hypocrites with their
language, culture and diplomacy.
Humans born with a certain
consciousness, that is, he is conscious of his consciousness. Animals are only
conscious, only have feelings, no consciousness about its consciousness. But
man has a feeling about his feelings. This is a must because he is born as a
premature baby and so to protect him, this conscious of him is needed. So human
baby is born with this tool, but utterly dependent and looks up for help. Now
the society around him utilise this opportunity and cultivate him according to
their custom. He is given a SELF, a false SELF and he becomes self conscious.
His consciousness is utilised to conscious of his false self. This is not
conscious of his real self. This is self-conscious or conscience, you may call.
The working or the continuous
thinking process in the brain based on the false self and connected with
emotions are the Mind or Minding.
Ok. Now we have emotions and we call
the place of emotions as Heart.
Like thinking process is in brain,
emotion process is in the heart.
Like knowledge is stored in brain,
emotional experiences stored in heart.
So in the process of meditation or
in the process of finding the real SELF, the first step is to see your thought
process separately from you or Having a certain gap between you and your
thinking process. To taste this, we have many meditation techniques.
After attaining this, after you
learn to keep a gap of yourself from the process of minding, this is not that
you are free from minding; just you have a gap or little loose grip of minding
on you. Really without cutting the heart and making the heart empty, you cannot
stop minding or the minding will not stop or drop.
The real test comes after this. Now
you should become like this in your heart. You should create a gap or become
loosely griped by heart. Then you cut the heart and break away from the past,
from the body, from the emotional supports. You drop the old conditioned way of
functioning of the heart that it always looking or taking the support of
emotions. That may be from your own past or from the other. But you should
become an EMPTY HEART, a free heart, an empty path way for energy flow.
When you become the empty heart,
existence starts revealing to you the mysteries of life. You become the TAO
that means “simply the way”. This is LET GO, this is SURRENDER. And this is the
last step which happens on its own, but only when you are courageous to empty
your heart and stand alone. This courage is not against something you feel
power, but on the contrary, you are ready to die, you are able to accept and
enjoy your helplessness. This aloneness is not that you are lonely, but you
allow your loneliness to melt and merge with existence.
love,
sidd.
