So you've decided to leave your suitcase of knowledge behind. Going fast down the road nothing looks familiar anymore. It feels, deeply, as if nothing is what it seems, but you can't quite pin point why, or what makes it this way. What's worse, the mind is playing only static. It seems frantic, desperate. Something BIG is going on...but what? You may get glimpses when you manage to turn the mind off, with a magnificent landscape, or meditation, but in any attempt to turn it on, to tune into to it again, the static continues on.
The mind is like a FM transmitter. It is there to transmit information. If you depend on the mind to find the answers, it's going to look for a station to transmit. The mind is not an enemy, a friend, or a wise father. It is a transmitter of your emotions, observation, thoughts, a cataloger of your sensory experience. The mind is tuned in to wherever you put it. If your focus and perceptual abilities are limited to what appears in front of you, to your emotions, and thoughts it will do with that it's been given.
Stop the car. Lay down. Watch all mental activity. Observe. With Breathe release your self from what is going on. Bring your mind into a calmer state. Breathe. Release. Breathe. Release. Remind the mind it is not in control, you are not in control. Nothing is. Nothing. Sink into this release of control. Watch how your mind drops the intent of trying to find the answers, and begins to allow transmission. Visuals, words, emotions, may arise, allow them to. Be the vessel that allows Life through.
Sit and listen to that station for a while. Drive with it. Observe with it. See what pops up.
Post blog comment: When I awoke this morning, I opened my blinds and watched the rain, as the mind ran down the daily to do list. Post Shift, (having no identification with mind)after the Eye of Calm, or living with complete mental silence, the mind eventually returned. I realized mind wasn't going to go away. It is part of what is arising. So, I figured, if it's going to be around, it doesn't need to be figuring things out anymore, not the existential kind anyway. I can let it do it's thing, like letting the heart beat, but, I also take the time, to remind it, and my self, where all knowing comes from. All I have to do now, is take a breathe in the morning, and allow things to arise, sink into the nothingness, and it's very good at setting the mind at ease, by tuning it into the right station. This makes it a much more productive tool through out the day. Flowers bloom without a mind. Oaks live grand lives without it. I am no exception.
ReplyDeleteYES! YES!
ReplyDeleteMaybe THAT is what is pointed to as beyond mind!
I found/find the same thing - I use/turn my critical mind on for planning and technical and day-to-day things.
But it is worse than useless for "figuring out" the Unknown.
My experience could be said to be "The Source" or Unknown, beyond mind - "intruding' into daily life and the mind uses what symbols it can to "understand" that which cannot be understood or conceptualized.
It occurred to me that the mind is acting like a filter or lens - taking the undifferentiated, undefined Unknown and using it as the source to "project" content.
ReplyDeleteThe mind "tunes in", to use your words, and spins a story of concepts and content from The Source. In a sense, making a story: perception, thoughts, feelings, from undifferentiated "vibration."
And, of course, the mind is of the same "substance" as The Source it's tuning to/filtering/lensing. The Painter is in the Picture.
Too true - the mind is a story telling machine and does not care what kind of story it weaves - good bad or indifferent.
So...learning to get control of the mind and guide the story it weaves can certainly be done and can help.
...i like UG's description where he calls it "working mind" (do your job, navigating in your car, etc) versus "thinking mind" (the BS noise that just arises because it does)..
ReplyDelete"My experience could be said to be "The Source" or Unknown, beyond mind - "intruding' into daily life and the mind uses what symbols it can to "understand" that which cannot be understood or conceptualized."
ReplyDeleteJoe: When the Filter is dropped in mind, it no longer feels 'intrusive'. The filter fall when you the entity make the commitment to see reality as it is, no icing or sugar needed. Mind produced, static, or nonsense, out of fear. When it is transcended, the fear drops or simple translates as a state to be in higher alertness.(Say..when your crossing a busy street). All is allowed to arise.