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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS PEACE OF MIND “MIND” and MEMORIES: When Nature’s “Assets” Become Warped into “Liabilities” Part Four The “deficient and distorted” part of the brain that Maharaj referred to is, of course, that part which stores and accesses memories, so all memories are deficient distortions. Nothing is as it appears to you, and nothing that has ever appeared to you was really the way it was perceived. You have been fooled because that which "they" gave you to use for perceiving is an accumulation of foolishness. Since the “mind” is the sum total of memories, and because all memories are distortions, then the “mind” is the sum total of your distortions. Want to be free of distortions and to realize truth? Be rid of the “mind.” Yet you cannot go beyond the “mind” when you are constantly looking at the “mind” (that is, paying attention to "thought"). In order to go beyond the mind, Maharaj said, you must look away from the “mind” and its fictional contents. That means, therefore, that “minds” are nowadays so deficient and distorted that they should be ignored. If you have not realized, you do not see things now the way that they truly are, so it would have been totally impossible to have seen them the way they truly were in the past; therefore, the invitation is to realize, to see that none of the memories that you are clinging to are accurate (including memories about “happenings,” memories involving “persons,” and all of the things you were taught to believe that are still stored “in your memory”). Next, understand the reason that there is some talk in the teachings about “Now.” (By the way, there is no “power of now” since there is no power. Power is just a concept to which persons become addicted). “Time” too is a concept, so why even speak of now? Because anything supposedly recalled from the “past” is a memory, and it has been established that memories are distortions, so there is no past and there are no accurate memories. In fact, your entire world is in you . . . in your "mind," so how could that which is merely in your "mind" and which you think is "the world" possibly be real? The most that the I-Amness can ever claim, therefore, is now, but if realization has not happened, even perceptions regarding "now" are distortions. (Eventually, even that speck of now-time measurement will become meaningless, if you realize.) If realized - and thereby free of (false) memories and beliefs - no action now would be triggered by a memory of something past. That in itself would be another level of freedom. For example: MEMORY-DRIVEN DISTORTION LEADING TO EMOTIONAL INTOXICATION: “I am upset because we are no longer together and I don’t have the love now that I had back then.” CLEAR PERCEPTION NOW AS A RESULT OF NOT BELIEVING IN A DISTORTED, ILLUSORY MEMORY: “What I thought I had back then was not even close to True Love.” For the realized, only the now is happening and even that is fleeting. The more significant point is this: focus on “the now” only as long as it takes to allow all illusions about “the past” to dissolve. “They” spent so much time building the walls of your prison with “their” concepts. Then, you took over the task by taking memories of wrongly-perceived events and persons to be real and thereby increased the content of your “mind.” In that process, you have spent far too much time adding to the walls and strengthening your prison. Focus any effort only on breaking the wall which your “mind” has built and which blocks clear witnessing. Bring in the wrecking crew. You and your teacher together form that crew. It is time to demolish those walls. See that, because of programming and conditioning and enculturation and hidden agendas, what nature had intended to be an asset (memory / “mind”) has become a liability as persons began to desire to control other persons, began to desire power in order to control others and to control events, and then began to store misperceptions and misconceptions in the brain. Earlier it was mentioned: See that the distorted memories being stored today are not being used for survival but are driving conduct that is detrimental to survival. A body that nature intended to be guided by a brain is not being guided more often by a “mind,” and whereas the brain is “wired” for self-constructive behavior, the “mind” is now “wired” for self-destructive behavior because of the vast pool of learned ignorance that is being passed on to, and accepted as truth by, billions of persons. (The other factor which drives the "mind" to inspire destructive or self-destructive conduct is the accumulation of the distorted memories of which the "mind" is now composed.) “MIND” and MEMORIES: When Nature’s “Assets” Become Warped into “Liabilities” Part Five To review, the brain (which was intended by nature to function in a “sustain and preserve” capacity) has now been overridden by the “mind” (which is bent toward chaos, destruction, and self-destruction). The parts of the brain that store and retrieve memories are overshadowing and overpowering all of the rest of the brain in determining how persons emote and behave. Historically, humankind in general attempted to take all necessary action to survive. That has changed. Today, honor is bestowed by some on those who brag, "I'm willing to die for my country." Today, persons are willing to strap on a dynamite vest and blow up their own bodies and the bodies of those whom they dualistically view as “others” simply because those “others” have different beliefs stored in their “minds.” The brain would say, “This is stupid. Do not do that.” The dualistic beliefs that make up the “mind” say, “Do it anyway. They are different, so they deserve to die.” Supernatural (i.e., religious or spiritual) thinking has perverted the “mind’s” original role and has produced more dualistic concepts than any other single source. That single source, in turn, has resulted in more relative existence human deaths than all other causes combined (after natural causes). NOTE: When such pointers are offered, volumes of mail arrive, asking, “Do you hate religions and spiritual movements?” The response is, “What WHO could be present to hate anything?” If the bag containing your household garbage for several days is finally discarded, are you discarding it because you hate it? Or is it just the sane thing to do? As the garbage is sitting there, are you hating it? No. If your neighbors have not taken out their garbage and really want to hang onto their garbage for a few more days, or even forever, do you hate them for clinging to their trash? Of course not. As you are taking the garbage out to the collection site, are you resenting it? No. You are not giving it a single thought. You realize that it is nothing of value which is being cast aside but is, instead, just garbage. The tossing of the trash happens without emotion or attachment because you can look at it objectively and see clearly that it is garbage. And if a roommate or spouse says, “This trash has been here too long. It’s having a negative impact our lives. Would you throw it away when you go out, please?” Would you ask, “Why do you hate the garbage so much? Why do you suggest I get rid of it? I was taught to love the garbage. I am even willing to fight to preserve the garbage. What is wrong with you that you do not love the garbage?” (Actually, the garbage served a purpose for a time, but it cannot serve a purpose for all time. There comes a point in the history of all garbage when the sane thing to do is to cast it aside and move on. Today, most garbage is stored in that part of the brain called the "mind." It's time to discard the garbage. Will that happen? Only among a very small percentage of the earth's population. So it is.) To continue, here are a couple of current examples of the “mind” overruling the brain, and the subsequent consequences: 1. The brain of one might say, “You people have no right to start a war and to drop bombs on a country that has done nothing to your country.” Similarly, the pure consciousness, aware of the Oneness, would never even consider such an act. But a person functioning under the control of a distorted “mind” that has been programmed with dogmatic nonsense can claim that he has talked with a god from another realm and can claim that his god told him that he should drop bombs on a country that has done no harm to his country. It should be seen that all conduct that is considered harmful or destructive in the relative existence is a result of programmed and conditioned “minds” overriding the natural aspects of persons' brains. Therefore, all harmful or destructive conduct (relatively speaking) is based in that which is supernatural or in that which is unnatural (all inspired by the content of the warped “mind”). None of that conduct is inspired by the brain or by the pure consciousness. 2. Consider as another example the case of a person who has weak coping skills. As pressure mounts, that person might begin to abuse alcohol to escape. One night, that person might consume alcohol until consciousness is lost. The next day, the brain registers the physical condition of the body and sends the message, “That hurt . . . don’t do that anymore.” The brain-inspired mouth says, “That hurt. I’m not going to do that anymore.” By 6 P.M. the next evening, the body will have processed much of the alcohol out of the system, the person is feeling better physically, the stress has returned, and he / she repeats the same process of alcohol poisoning again. Where the brain would normally have prevented the insane and harmful repetition, the “mind” nowadays overrules the brain. The person over-drinks again because of the influence of the illogical, unnatural “mind” while ignoring the messages being sent by the logical, natural brain. The “mind,” intended by nature to function in coordination with the brain in order to inspire sane, constructive, and self-constructive behavior (relatively speaking) now short-circuits the natural process and drives destructive and / or self-destructive behavior instead. Thus today the unreal, fictional “mind” drives persons more often, not the real brain and not the real (pure) consciousness. The “mind,” no longer a register of things perceived properly, has become a storehouse of beliefs and concepts and dogma and lies and distortions and illusions and all other kinds of faulty perceptions. Whereas the “mind” and brain were intended by nature to work in tandem, today the “mind” supersedes the brain, and since the “mind” is false and corrupt, it reinforces continued belief in the false and corrupt. To be continued. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. |
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