You have been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens – Louise Hay
We come into the world naked but we are soon clothed with the thoughts and ideas of others. When we look in a mirror do we see who we really are or what society and our life circumstances have created?
You are unique, there has never been and will never be another like you. Each of us has our own essential nature. Yet we live with the aspiration of conformity. We become so embroiled in external events that we disdain our inner life. So much so that our thoughts are given precedence over our feelings, and so live the illusion that our inner feelings are dependent on external circumstances rather than the other way around.
Change your inner state if you want to transform your outer condition. You see nothing with your eyes. They are no more than lenses by which the brain perceives and observes. Our grey matter is not objective but subjective. Inevitably, the mirror by which we reflect our life is coloured with shapes and images unprinted by our prior experiences . If we see no God outside of us it is because we have not first seen God within us.
Do we experience or react? The more we involve our ‘reactive ego’ the less we communicate with our innate essential nature. Man has become an economic animal not because he is devoid of spiritual content but because we have developed customised instinctive reactions. So we just react, and think less.
We have evolved from caves to skyscrapers but have brought with us the same survival obsessed ‘reactive ego’. We believe that we need to act or react in a particular way to fulfil our perceived needs, and hence enhance our chances of survival. Our minds have become mathematical.
Everything has always existed. In the truest sense nothing has ever been created, only shaped differently. Whether we recognise it or not we are members of a limitlessly intelligent universe
The Big Bang did not create anything, it just rearranged that which already existed. When Descartes said “I think therefore I am” he was suggesting that life must be self-conscious. In fact, the difference between being alive and not being alive is the ‘life urge’. Similarly, I postulate that we die because we adopt the opposite; the ‘death urge’. All starts and ends with mind.
Thoughts are things. And the ‘death urge’ may be nothing more than a deep subconscious desire for the cessation of mind or human experience. It is very commonplace for relatives to wait to exhale their final breath only once their long lost kin has arrived at their deathbed. And every study proves that those who tend to plan forward longer, live longer.
The brain is not the mind, it is that which processes mind, and filters it into the human condition. Our brains are biological computers. The deep held beliefs and views we hold in our lives are the software. The monitor or screen is the ‘reactive ego’. Which correspond to the actions of the keyboard or mouse. Which in turn are the subconscious mind which stirs the ‘reactive ego’ into action. It is the real doer. That which wakes us in the morning, which tells us when to eat, which leads our thoughts and bodily movements.
Mind is truly you, the controller of both keyboard and mouse, originator of the software, of the biological computer itself. All great spiritual traditions of mankind have tried to lead you to that understanding. To tame to bring mind under conscious control.
The real you is an observer, you are the witness of the interplay of life. In fact the purpose of meditation is to extricate you from the human condition, and change your point of perspective to that of the witness or observer.
