Mind
MIND = that which thinks, feels, wills; mental faculty, the thinking process, intention
QUESTION: Does your mind belong to you or to “others”?
STORY: This morning I woke up with the question: What does it mean to own your mind? If you don’t own your mind - who does? Today our mind is blasted with emails, texts, Twitter, Facebook and advertising campaigns constantly flashing across our screens. Corporations are hungry to profit by capturing our attention. Totalitarian governments (our democracy included) eagerly define truth and conspiracy - so you don’t have to worry. Many people seem happy to be harnessed by our stimulating technology. I want to take ownership of my mental faculty. I am grateful that I have learned to practice a valuable REASONING PROCESS called TRANSLATION. In this process, I engage any 3D problem that concerns me - as if it is a KEY - to unlock and open my human mind to the deeper Universal MIND - which is formless, timeless, changeless Here Now. I am teaching this class once a year for the rest of my life. We each have to do some “WORK” to open up and identify ourselves with the ONE Universal MIND.
QUOTES
“All problems are illusions of the mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
“Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” ~ Joyce Meyer
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
EXERCISE
STOP.
Relax.
What do you - in this moment - hear, see, taste, smell, feel? These are your 3D senses. BE mindful that there is a deeper, formless part of you that is here now back and behind your 3D physical-ego-separate-self. The formless, essential part of you is your Universal MIND Self. Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines describing two selves: your ego-separate-self and your formless, ever present Universal MIND Self.