*** MIND - You have many minds but you have only one heart. Have you observed this fact? You don't have one mind; you are multipsychic, you have many minds. They constantly change-every moment your mind changes. One moment it is full of doubt, another moment it is full of belief, and another moment again it is full of doubt. One moment it wants to take the jump, another moment it escapes. One moment you are so full of love, another moment so full of anger and hate. --- Watch it: you have a thousand and one minds, and they go on rotating. There is a kind of rotation system in your head. For a moment one mind becomes the master, and in that moment you decide something and you think you will be able to do it. You will not be able to, because next moment the monarch is gone. It is a rotation system: another mind has come up, now another spoke of the wheel has come up. And this mind knows nothing of the decision that the other mind has taken. - This self knows nothing of the other self; it will destroy whatsoever you have decided. One moment you decide never to smoke again, another moment you are pulling out your cigarette packet. And you are surprised-just a moment ago you had decided, and the decision seemed so total, so TRUSTABLE. And now it is all gone, gone down the drain, nothing of it is there. And you are perfectly willing to smoke again. And again that old mind will come back and torture you, and you will repent and think that you are guilty. - But this will go on changing. Mind is a flux, it is a continuum of many minds. And that's why those who live in the mind live a disintegrated, fragmentary life. - The heart is one, it is always one. The heart means the watching consciousness in you. Who is the watcher of the head? Try to meditate over it. Anger comes: who is watching? You know perfectly well that there is anger; you know perfectly well that it is coming and growing, you know perfectly well that soon you will be overwhelmed by it. And then it is going, receding, disappearing, you know it is gone. Gone, gone, gone, it is no more there. Who is watching? - Love comes and goes. Misery comes, happiness comes, everything comes and everything goes. Who is watching? The watcher remains. - Only one thing in you is constant, and that is the watcher. Everything changes, only the watcher abides. That watcher is your soul. - The real silence happens when you start watching the noise of your mind. - There is a constant traffic in the mind-thoughts, memories, imagination, thousands of desires. It is always a crowd moving in all directions. If you can stand by the side of the road and just watch, without any evaluation, judgment, without condemning something or appreciating something - just sitting on the bank of the river, watching the flow of the river, unconcerned, detached, just being a pure witness, then the miracle happens. *** |
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= Cross Over The Bridge = To Go From - Mind to Heart, Fear to Love, Doubt to Trust, Density to Light. Scroll 'ALL' The Way Down To > "ANXIETY" *** "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. If you judge people, you have no time to love them." *** {Mother Theresa}
*** Grandfather, Look at our brokenness. We know that in all creation Only the human family Has strayed from the Sacred Way. We know that we are the ones who are divided And we are the ones Who must come back together To walk in the Sacred Way. Grandfather, Sacred One, Teach us love, compassion, and honor That we may heal the earth And heal each other. *** - Ojibway people of Canada "And this is the essence of wisdom - to be in harmony with nature, with the natural rhythm of the universe. And whenever you are in harmony with the natural rhythm of the universe you are a poet, you are a painter, you are a musician, you are a dancer. Try it." A Zen Master, Ikkyu, a great poet, has said: I can see clouds a thousand
miles away, hear ancient music in the pines. This is what Zen is all about.
You cannot see clouds a thousand miles away with the logical mind. The
logical mind is like glass, too dirty, too covered with the dust of ideas,
theories, doctrines. But you can see clouds a thousand miles away with the
pure glass of intuition, with no thoughts - just pure awareness. The mirror is
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