Stop the flow of intelligence - why?
Why, its simple! The senses report to the mind, the mind conjures up thoughts which are analysed for how pleasurable or abhor-able they are. Once the appeal factor of the thought is determined, the intelligence decides to act upon the like/dislike and comes up with a fantastic desire.
And in one day we have more than a million desires. The unending flow of thoughts and desires converts us into containers of future karma. Outside the body, things may be calm. But inside the body - there is activity that we have no idea of. We don't really even think about becoming the person in the TV advert - but the mind registers the idea. And it's just a matter of time before we become that.
So what now. Well, great sages came up with many processes to stop future karma - like of course I may think a pig looks very cute, but I definitely don't want to live one life as a pig in any future - please! So how do you ask your intelligence to stop acting on the basis of random thoughts and inputs from the senses?
Yoga. You calm down the mind and focus it on the one most important thing - akincana - no desire except to satisfy the Self.
Wait a minute - you're stealing away my right to desire? No duffer, it only means that you have desires that don't force you to take rebirth in any species, these desires actually take you to a stage where you are aware always in charge and in control of your future.
People have desires like - hey look at angelina jolie - shes pretty. Well, there is your desire. You will get a chance to be angelina jolie in some future lifetime. No, no, no, no I didn't want to be her! Well, thats how nature works my dear friend - it does not consider that you may not really mean to desire that for YOURSELF. Any strong thought is a desire.
When people leave their body - they think of the one thing most dear to them. Their spouse, or favourite kid. So guess what - if a man thinks of his wife while dying - he gets a female birth in his next life because the "desire" is so strong. He may say - I just wanted to think of her. Well, nature is interpreting a strong memory of something as a positive desire for that state of existence or being. Consider what would happen in this case, if the man thought of his pet dog instead of his wife? Uh oh.
Isn't this why so many positive thinkers say that you can change things with your thoughts? It's because you actually can. You become what you desire. Everything becomes what it is because it was desired so by someone at some point in time. The sofa, the building, the.... the bombings? Oh yes. You can't stop people from thinking negatively - people can think any which way they like.
In this material world there are changing identities and time and space. In the spiritual world, time is conspicuous by its absence, identities are always constant. And you are in the region where the two - spiritual and material - almost overlap. You can choose one over the other.
Give up the false ego that tells you "you are this body". You know better - you are just consciousness - and the bonus mind and intelligence provided to you are no good unless they are under YOUR control. So take charge - go do some yoga. Calm down the monkey-like mind, and tame the intelligence to think spiritually instead of in a conditioned way.
Whatever happens to me, I can only deal with it if I accept my spiritual nature and reject the fallacy that I am this body. I am not limited by space or time. I am infinite.
And we have to take all of that with a pinch of salt and wisdom. Simply accept everything as the Lord's mercy without considering the appeal factor. What is happening is good, its not to be despised, loved, feared... just observed, without attachment, without reaction, without consideration of bodily pleasure or displeasure.
The human body and the human mind are the apparatus for making decisions dealing with favourability and unfavourability. If something is disadvantageous for my progeny, or bodily comfort, or mental satisfaction, or even intellectual satisfaction, then it is outright rejected. Even if it may be good for me - the spirit soul - the consciousness within, it is discarded as evil.
Thats probably what great men mean when they say "See no evil". You actually don't see it as evil anymore. You just see it and then say "oh here is something that exists". And it cannot touch you. Nothing can touch you, nothing can harm you, nothing can make you happy or unhappy. Your happiness is in you. And thats the highest form of control. You actually have it in you. You don't need to be secured from all directions to be happy. You don't need fulfillment of desires. You are a soul with full knowledge. Not lacking, complete.
In your uncovered state you are truly happy. In this bodily conception you think you are something that you are actually not. And this false ego will always stop you from attaining that realisation. So stop the flow of intelligence, focus the mind on the supreme, and attain the uncovered state of existence.
And in one day we have more than a million desires. The unending flow of thoughts and desires converts us into containers of future karma. Outside the body, things may be calm. But inside the body - there is activity that we have no idea of. We don't really even think about becoming the person in the TV advert - but the mind registers the idea. And it's just a matter of time before we become that.
So what now. Well, great sages came up with many processes to stop future karma - like of course I may think a pig looks very cute, but I definitely don't want to live one life as a pig in any future - please! So how do you ask your intelligence to stop acting on the basis of random thoughts and inputs from the senses?
Yoga. You calm down the mind and focus it on the one most important thing - akincana - no desire except to satisfy the Self.
Wait a minute - you're stealing away my right to desire? No duffer, it only means that you have desires that don't force you to take rebirth in any species, these desires actually take you to a stage where you are aware always in charge and in control of your future.
People have desires like - hey look at angelina jolie - shes pretty. Well, there is your desire. You will get a chance to be angelina jolie in some future lifetime. No, no, no, no I didn't want to be her! Well, thats how nature works my dear friend - it does not consider that you may not really mean to desire that for YOURSELF. Any strong thought is a desire.
When people leave their body - they think of the one thing most dear to them. Their spouse, or favourite kid. So guess what - if a man thinks of his wife while dying - he gets a female birth in his next life because the "desire" is so strong. He may say - I just wanted to think of her. Well, nature is interpreting a strong memory of something as a positive desire for that state of existence or being. Consider what would happen in this case, if the man thought of his pet dog instead of his wife? Uh oh.
Isn't this why so many positive thinkers say that you can change things with your thoughts? It's because you actually can. You become what you desire. Everything becomes what it is because it was desired so by someone at some point in time. The sofa, the building, the.... the bombings? Oh yes. You can't stop people from thinking negatively - people can think any which way they like.
In this material world there are changing identities and time and space. In the spiritual world, time is conspicuous by its absence, identities are always constant. And you are in the region where the two - spiritual and material - almost overlap. You can choose one over the other.
Give up the false ego that tells you "you are this body". You know better - you are just consciousness - and the bonus mind and intelligence provided to you are no good unless they are under YOUR control. So take charge - go do some yoga. Calm down the monkey-like mind, and tame the intelligence to think spiritually instead of in a conditioned way.
Whatever happens to me, I can only deal with it if I accept my spiritual nature and reject the fallacy that I am this body. I am not limited by space or time. I am infinite.
And we have to take all of that with a pinch of salt and wisdom. Simply accept everything as the Lord's mercy without considering the appeal factor. What is happening is good, its not to be despised, loved, feared... just observed, without attachment, without reaction, without consideration of bodily pleasure or displeasure.
The human body and the human mind are the apparatus for making decisions dealing with favourability and unfavourability. If something is disadvantageous for my progeny, or bodily comfort, or mental satisfaction, or even intellectual satisfaction, then it is outright rejected. Even if it may be good for me - the spirit soul - the consciousness within, it is discarded as evil.
Thats probably what great men mean when they say "See no evil". You actually don't see it as evil anymore. You just see it and then say "oh here is something that exists". And it cannot touch you. Nothing can touch you, nothing can harm you, nothing can make you happy or unhappy. Your happiness is in you. And thats the highest form of control. You actually have it in you. You don't need to be secured from all directions to be happy. You don't need fulfillment of desires. You are a soul with full knowledge. Not lacking, complete.
In your uncovered state you are truly happy. In this bodily conception you think you are something that you are actually not. And this false ego will always stop you from attaining that realisation. So stop the flow of intelligence, focus the mind on the supreme, and attain the uncovered state of existence.
posted by Lotus at 10/21/2007 08:10:00 PM
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