Today's Considerations
F.: Recall a key pointer from Maharaj yesterday: “Observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether.”Vital to being able to enjoy the stillness and - as Maharaj put it, "relaxing in the cool blue shade" - is ability of the “True Self” (that is, the Pure Witnessing”) to observe objectively. Most cannot tap into that “observation” ability which Maharaj referenced because the True Self has been pushed so deeply into the darkness that it can no longer reach the light; thus, most never observe themselves – their false selves – so most will never see how perverse is their relative existence which is being dominated by their unconscious go-do-zoom mentality.
They have never sat alone in a seat in the otherwise empty audience area of the “Theatre of the Lie” and watched (or, as Maharaj said, “observed”) "The Play of Their Life" which has since early on been unfolding on a stage. They have not seen clearly the sizeable cast of characters - their “you's” - which have been played unconsciously over the years. They have not understood all of the personality traits that the cast has assumed.
They have not comprehended the subconscious motives which have been driving the surplus of characters who have assumed far too many fictitious roles to have any chance to stabilize in what is real at all. They have not noticed that, of all of the characters running back and forth across the stage, not a single one has stopped the going and the doing and the zooming and sat down and relaxed for even a moment. Why such running and racing about?
As noted yesterday, when the mind is running at one speed, the body will be driven subconsciously to try to reach that same speed in order for some sense of balance and stability and harmony and body-mind equilibrium to manifest. It never occurs to them that the approach they are using is not working. Nor can they understand that it can never work, that there can be no such thing as body-mind equilibrium. It does not occur to them that, for the body to remain still and at peace, it is the mind which must “stop altogether,” as Maharaj noted.
Instead, they nrever address the constantly churning mind and the chaos and the inner sense of disharmony which it generates; they simply allow the body to continue to race in order to "catch up with" the racing mind.
The fact is that mind can literally go, even as the body remains; thereafter, they could function under the auspices of the natural brain rather than being driven by the unnatural and / or supposedly supernatural content of the mind.
When the case is that things unnatural and things deemed to be supernatural are driving all thoughts and words and actions, then the body will forever be driven, unconsciously, to speed up in an effort to try to align itself with the speed of the mind (which is filled in every case with totally bogus beliefs).
In such cases, running will be unending as the subconscious agendas of each assumed or assigned personality will drive a person to run away from some things and to run toward other things. More on that tomorrow.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
