When you see people who are engrossed with life and find it difficult to abandon things that they pursue, you can see a mental process which is interesting.
Every human being seeks something. For each one it may be different. The pursuits are sometime stated explicitly, Sometimes it just carries on with the pressures of the society. For some it is spiritual , for some it may be materialistic, for some a mixture of both. But most people are engrossed in their pursuits so much so that they don't have time to sit back and see what they are doing. This seeking is what keeps the mind engaged. There are moments of stillness in which do realize that something is missing. But it is only a fleeting moment. What keeps them so engrossed?. Why are they relentless in their pursuits?.
It is again the capability of the mind to make you forget about anything else. It comes from personalizing your thoughts involved in your actions. By personalizing your thoughts your mind keeps you attached to the mind. If you have thoughts which are all pertaining to you and it belongs to you , naturally you feel engaged to listen. It is only when you start talking about it and meditating do you realize this.
So the first step in a spiritual practice would be to find your attachment points. What is that you are currently trying to do?. Am i attending to my own actions and thoughts?. If you continuously do that you can see that instead of personalizing your thoughts and experiences you can have the true perception that it is an impersonal thing.
Because if you are seeing it happening , then certainly you are not that emotion or feeling .
Instead of believing that "Something is happening to me ", you can perceive that "Something is happening" and i am observing it.
The moment the personalization drops the attachment is severed with the happening and the mind can no longer attach to it. Detachment is all about true perception. Freer your mind becomes, the more the true self shines. Remember this, the detachment can come only when you stop believing in the personalization process. Accept that something is happening. But dont accept it is you to which it pertains. An happening is only attached when your mind attaches it to it.
After you detach and become a witness to your emotions and feelings etc , try to think "What is happening to me as a witness?". Am i getting disturbed as a witness. Am i changing all the time?.
Only when you are identified with the witness do you realize the pursuits in your life . It is alright to have them provided you just dont personalize it anymore. Slowly they would drop their hold on you. It is alright to do actions if you have the correct perception.
You can always see another process by the mind when it personalizes something. After a particular event happens , there is a commentary or analysis by the mind. It starts to create a story-line about some event that just happened, or sometime back. Beware of this. This is where it entangles you in the sea of miseries. Shut of the narration and say , " I caught you my dear mind, stop this !!!".
For e.g. Suppose you are having a headache. It may be a tension headache created out of work pressure or some such thing. You may experience it and then the mind starts a commentary. See how your life is . Not only are you made to work day in day out there is pressure and nobody understands me and my problems. Nobody even asked me whether i have headache. They just pretend that nothing is wrong. What a life ?and so on. This may be a rather exaggerated example , but this is how the mind starts.
So in life you can see there are two perceptions. One is the happening and second is the personlization process including a commentary by the mind , interpreting the situation for you. This is also the process by which the mind attaches roles to you and responsibilities. Since you have already believed in the roles and responsibilities you start to feel the pressure.
Mind is such a fleeting being. So if it has to exist all the time and make you feel that you exist , it has to do all these tricks. If you dont believe that you exist , you will no longer function. So a mind can never stop the thoughts. The true self needs no such tricks it is the feeling of "I am" . It can never be disturbed by experiences and it never ceases to be.
Every human being seeks something. For each one it may be different. The pursuits are sometime stated explicitly, Sometimes it just carries on with the pressures of the society. For some it is spiritual , for some it may be materialistic, for some a mixture of both. But most people are engrossed in their pursuits so much so that they don't have time to sit back and see what they are doing. This seeking is what keeps the mind engaged. There are moments of stillness in which do realize that something is missing. But it is only a fleeting moment. What keeps them so engrossed?. Why are they relentless in their pursuits?.
It is again the capability of the mind to make you forget about anything else. It comes from personalizing your thoughts involved in your actions. By personalizing your thoughts your mind keeps you attached to the mind. If you have thoughts which are all pertaining to you and it belongs to you , naturally you feel engaged to listen. It is only when you start talking about it and meditating do you realize this.
So the first step in a spiritual practice would be to find your attachment points. What is that you are currently trying to do?. Am i attending to my own actions and thoughts?. If you continuously do that you can see that instead of personalizing your thoughts and experiences you can have the true perception that it is an impersonal thing.
Because if you are seeing it happening , then certainly you are not that emotion or feeling .
Instead of believing that "Something is happening to me ", you can perceive that "Something is happening" and i am observing it.
The moment the personalization drops the attachment is severed with the happening and the mind can no longer attach to it. Detachment is all about true perception. Freer your mind becomes, the more the true self shines. Remember this, the detachment can come only when you stop believing in the personalization process. Accept that something is happening. But dont accept it is you to which it pertains. An happening is only attached when your mind attaches it to it.
After you detach and become a witness to your emotions and feelings etc , try to think "What is happening to me as a witness?". Am i getting disturbed as a witness. Am i changing all the time?.
Only when you are identified with the witness do you realize the pursuits in your life . It is alright to have them provided you just dont personalize it anymore. Slowly they would drop their hold on you. It is alright to do actions if you have the correct perception.
You can always see another process by the mind when it personalizes something. After a particular event happens , there is a commentary or analysis by the mind. It starts to create a story-line about some event that just happened, or sometime back. Beware of this. This is where it entangles you in the sea of miseries. Shut of the narration and say , " I caught you my dear mind, stop this !!!".
For e.g. Suppose you are having a headache. It may be a tension headache created out of work pressure or some such thing. You may experience it and then the mind starts a commentary. See how your life is . Not only are you made to work day in day out there is pressure and nobody understands me and my problems. Nobody even asked me whether i have headache. They just pretend that nothing is wrong. What a life ?and so on. This may be a rather exaggerated example , but this is how the mind starts.
So in life you can see there are two perceptions. One is the happening and second is the personlization process including a commentary by the mind , interpreting the situation for you. This is also the process by which the mind attaches roles to you and responsibilities. Since you have already believed in the roles and responsibilities you start to feel the pressure.
Mind is such a fleeting being. So if it has to exist all the time and make you feel that you exist , it has to do all these tricks. If you dont believe that you exist , you will no longer function. So a mind can never stop the thoughts. The true self needs no such tricks it is the feeling of "I am" . It can never be disturbed by experiences and it never ceases to be.
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