Peace of mind
What 'you' are ‘as a separate character’ is your 'state of mind'.
Analyse the following sentences :
I am angry - my state of mind is in agitation. Anger is more a state of mind than a state of the body.
I am happy - happiness is more a state of mind than the state of the body.
Similarly, I am bored, I am lonely, I am depressed, I am deceived ( the belief that I had in mind was proven wrong about something or some one), etc, including the statement that I am feeling very peaceful today.
Also fear and courage is a state of mind. Also feeling guilty, not guilty etc etc is a feeling in the mind.
The peace is a state of mind, when there is no defending the fiction that a character to a body is real. What disturbs the peace are the thoughts that are storming about, trying to maintain and defend a separate self.. The thoughts move like ripples in the stillness. Some are small or subtle and some are very big and can sway the body like in 'sweating' out of fear.
There are times when there are no thoughts. One feels peaceful. The stillness of the mind is very soothing. This state of mind- we think- is very rare, as long as there is a feel of the ‘me’, but actually it is the natural state of mind, in the absence of the ‘me sense’.
Even before the thought appears that- I am an entity inside the body- this state is very peaceful. Then somewhere and somehow a thought has been believed that I am a person inside this body. With this arises that all are persons inside their bodies. So we have very many bodies with so many persons all as an impression in our mind.
When we analyse and find that -the somebody that we think we are- is actually only a conviction of the mind about this imagination. We can analyse this understanding, that -our behavior - is simply -an expression of the state of mind. What I am 'is the mind' and my behavior is an expression of the state of mind.
The mind by itself is like the still pond. All thoughts are in their Zero state. In this stage there is no thought indicating that we exist as a body-mind entity. We in fact identify ourselves with no-body or no-thing. Also all thoughts that arise, must arise in relation to assuming that we are someone or something so that it feels like our thoughts.
Normally thoughts just happen to us and are impersonal. like - that the sound of a car passing by. etc. However some thoughts come with a prefix or postfix relating the thought to another thought that I am this body-mind, in short called 'me'. 'Me' is a short form for a thought that suggests that 'I am' this body-mind entity.
When we think that we are some- one or something, we are also forced to think the same of everybody and everything because that becomes relative.. But since all of this is only in thoughts, we surrender that this is a wrong assumption without any evidence and remain in stillness where our identity or the state of mind is still as if we were no-one or no-thing. In this state we also see others as no-one's or no-things and only as an expression of that energy that is responsible for creating the appearance of all that is seen, heard, thought etc..
Seeing ourselves as some-one or something is separation from anyone and anything. Seeing the no-one or nothing ( the 'shunya' or the zero ) in us and all the creation including ourselves, anyone and anything -is accepting the common essence of all appearance and thoughts as that same essence which has no- oneness or no-thingness. This is an energy termed as life. All that appears is this energy or so called expression of this energy or essence or life.
Such truth is experienced when the mind is still or without a thought, which is also a state where objects and time lose their 'separate independent ' reality and we experience the same no-oneness or no-thingness or tranquility within. The inside of us becomes this essence which is also seen as the outside of us. The clarity of wholeness is then revealed as that wholeness which includes all but not as some-ones and some-things. This wholeness reveals the no-oneness and no-thingness of anyone and anything as if the movement of the whole universe is one single movement or expression of life that includes all forms or objects and thoughts.
What 'you' are ‘as a separate character’ is your 'state of mind'.
Analyse the following sentences :
I am angry - my state of mind is in agitation. Anger is more a state of mind than a state of the body.
I am happy - happiness is more a state of mind than the state of the body.
Similarly, I am bored, I am lonely, I am depressed, I am deceived ( the belief that I had in mind was proven wrong about something or some one), etc, including the statement that I am feeling very peaceful today.
Also fear and courage is a state of mind. Also feeling guilty, not guilty etc etc is a feeling in the mind.
The peace is a state of mind, when there is no defending the fiction that a character to a body is real. What disturbs the peace are the thoughts that are storming about, trying to maintain and defend a separate self.. The thoughts move like ripples in the stillness. Some are small or subtle and some are very big and can sway the body like in 'sweating' out of fear.
There are times when there are no thoughts. One feels peaceful. The stillness of the mind is very soothing. This state of mind- we think- is very rare, as long as there is a feel of the ‘me’, but actually it is the natural state of mind, in the absence of the ‘me sense’.
Even before the thought appears that- I am an entity inside the body- this state is very peaceful. Then somewhere and somehow a thought has been believed that I am a person inside this body. With this arises that all are persons inside their bodies. So we have very many bodies with so many persons all as an impression in our mind.
When we analyse and find that -the somebody that we think we are- is actually only a conviction of the mind about this imagination. We can analyse this understanding, that -our behavior - is simply -an expression of the state of mind. What I am 'is the mind' and my behavior is an expression of the state of mind.
The mind by itself is like the still pond. All thoughts are in their Zero state. In this stage there is no thought indicating that we exist as a body-mind entity. We in fact identify ourselves with no-body or no-thing. Also all thoughts that arise, must arise in relation to assuming that we are someone or something so that it feels like our thoughts.
Normally thoughts just happen to us and are impersonal. like - that the sound of a car passing by. etc. However some thoughts come with a prefix or postfix relating the thought to another thought that I am this body-mind, in short called 'me'. 'Me' is a short form for a thought that suggests that 'I am' this body-mind entity.
When we think that we are some- one or something, we are also forced to think the same of everybody and everything because that becomes relative.. But since all of this is only in thoughts, we surrender that this is a wrong assumption without any evidence and remain in stillness where our identity or the state of mind is still as if we were no-one or no-thing. In this state we also see others as no-one's or no-things and only as an expression of that energy that is responsible for creating the appearance of all that is seen, heard, thought etc..
Seeing ourselves as some-one or something is separation from anyone and anything. Seeing the no-one or nothing ( the 'shunya' or the zero ) in us and all the creation including ourselves, anyone and anything -is accepting the common essence of all appearance and thoughts as that same essence which has no- oneness or no-thingness. This is an energy termed as life. All that appears is this energy or so called expression of this energy or essence or life.
Such truth is experienced when the mind is still or without a thought, which is also a state where objects and time lose their 'separate independent ' reality and we experience the same no-oneness or no-thingness or tranquility within. The inside of us becomes this essence which is also seen as the outside of us. The clarity of wholeness is then revealed as that wholeness which includes all but not as some-ones and some-things. This wholeness reveals the no-oneness and no-thingness of anyone and anything as if the movement of the whole universe is one single movement or expression of life that includes all forms or objects and thoughts.
Peace of mind is something
that comes about when attachment to 'me sense' and outside objects of
the world fall away and this is the realisation that there is no-one home to be
realised and life just IS. You cant make it happen because there is no-one who do
this making. It just happens, like all else happens, as if this world.
You can save yourself physically. But you can not save(that is, become peaceful) yourself psychologically.
ReplyDeleteAnd apart from immediate physical security, all insecurity is psychological insecurity.
You can take action for your physical safety. You can not take any action for your psychological safety. Energy is dissipated when one starts taking action (thinking) for psychological safety, security. Energy is at the peak when no action is taken for psychological security. Awareness takes over.
The gist of the this blog is in the last line :
ReplyDelete"It just happens, like all else happens, as if this world."
You can't save yourself physically because you are going to die physically.But you can save yourself psychologically by coming to know the IMPERSONAL AWARE mind of the IMPERSONAL NOW as your true BIG MIND identity.The way to do this is to open to QUIETNESS and stop ALL JUDGEMENTS.Following your breath with full attention,without paying attention to anything else...5,10,15,20,times.........brings you into NOW CONSCIOUSNESS,which is IMPERSONAL,unity with all consciousness.It feels spacious and peaceful.Here there are no personal judgements,which are the things that create the limited EGO......and you are impersonally able to accept whatever is,in this now moment,as time and forms impersonally passing by,that can not harm your impersonal awareness that is no longer psychologically threatened.as it is accepting and impersonal.Your new psychological frame of mind identifies itself with the ONE IMPERSONAL LOVE that is ALWAYS NOW ........and is the unknowable life presence!You then find psychological security in knowing yourself as this Eternal life presence that is unborn and undying and always here impersonally as you
ReplyDelete.You Are IT!(See Allan Watts)
In the absence of a doer, since fantasy is mind created. the chances that a 'you' can make it happen is zero. the chances that it can happen is close to zero and the chances that it cannot happen is close to a hundred. An intellectual understanding is possible but it does not imply that the 'me sense' can drop due to such understanding.
ReplyDeleteElizebeth, Thanks for your comment. It was a pleasure, reading it and True.
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