What is balance of Mind about? (Just awake Series -24) Dear - TopicsExpress



          

What is balance of Mind about? (Just awake Series -24) Dear friends In last lecture, we concluded that Ego`s basic nature is to possess, but due to over possesivness we react overly to avoid losing our possessions without any immediate threat. These overreactions will cause imbalance in our `mind system’ which will cause extreme emotions. For example: we become greedier when we achieved our desired goals that drive us to go for more & more. More possessions we collect more will be greedier. Same way if we lose any of these possessions we overreact by showing anger, anxiety, depression. Our mind is relative that means Mind makes new Reference point according to existing situations. For Example: if somebody gets sudden success in his career his mind will behave accordingly to his current status & as time passes his mind will start getting greedy to ask for more & more. His mind will not like to go in gradual way but want something fast. Many people I saw are very rich, but at same time they are greedier than any normal man. So these kinds of people have imbalance in their life while achieving success. Now let’s take another example: when closed one died, we always cry, sad for few days, few months. But Mind will take new reference & adjust according to situations of life... so we easily move on in our life. But some people overreact with these loosing situations. They keep on sticking with death, loss of money; loss of career, if property value is down in today’s market but they still sticking with the old prices. Some people make less money in business in recession time but still they stick with same old profits & cry for it. Our mind will always react upon extreme conditions whether they are favorable or not .So these kinds of emotions are very natural & balanced. But we make our mind system imbalance by over reacting & disturbing. That’s why Buddha & many more saints emphasize for middle path or balance path. That means we have all kind of emotions in our mind system but our mind should keep moving on with making new references, and start refresh. Children are more balanced than us because they easily forget the situations (like death, happiness, and fighting extra) and move forward. But if we are involved in argument or fighting with somebody, we keep on carry those arguments in our mind for days or months and producing emotion in our body unnecessarily which eventually cause blood pressure or palpitations. If somebody loses money in stock market during Crash & still hanging around that loss & cries, never accepts existing situations, is very imbalanced in life. I saw many celebrities became drug addict who get instant success and they start flying so high & subsequently greedy, upon losing their existing status, they got very upset and lose their mental balance. Our mind is a machine where thoughts are processed & these thoughts are responsible for our all actions & getting reactions in return. So this is the way of life. Some situations are in our control, some not. But in every case whatever the result comes, upon that our mind will produce emotions & those emotions are very natural. But if we don’t let our mind work in natural way by forcefully sticking with those good or bad moments for long, we are creating troubles for us. These self-created overreactions can blunt our Intellect & creates illusion in our memories which obstruct the decision making powers. Many girls or boys infatuate with each other, but if somehow one is dumped by other, they start crying for long & disturb their career, studies, family life So why we don’t want to let go the situations? Why we are sticking with the old patterns? Because our ego doesn’t like to lose its favorite possessions. More possessive we are for something (spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, money, business extra), more trouble to let go easily. Children are less ego tic than us so easily let go & move on than us. But without Ego we cannot survive in this world, so we should keep our possessions and should protect them as well, so whatever karmas need to done, we should go for that. But at same time SENSE OF DOER SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM. This point is most critical to understand. In Other words, ego is there, karmas are there, emotions are there but at root level we are aware THAT WE ARE NOT DOER DOER. I AM GOING TO REPEAT THIS.WE ARE DOER WHEN WE ARE INVOLVED IN SITUATIONS, BUT SOMEHOW OUR AWARENESS SYSTEM WILL BE ACTIVE AFTER SITUATIONS PASSED AND THAT SYSTEM WILL TELL US TO MOVE ON WITH LIFE. For example: if I call some guru with his name, he will definitely react upon calling. Even he will tell about his ashrams, Nobel deeds, projects, hospitals extra.so that means he is not an egoless person. Ego is part of our system. Guru is doing all his karmas & efforts. In return he is getting all kind of situations whether it is bad or good. But real Guru has no sense of doer ship involved in his karmas. Because EGO is the one who is DOING, Ego is the doer which keeps us separate from Real. But somehow Guru is aware of his real, so when his real get active, sense of doer ship will be erased from his system, and he will easily forget the situations in life. Children easily forget the situations even if they are ignorant, because children are relatively less equipped with ego than man. More awareness in our life means we are lesser overreacting in life. For example: suppose a civilian will always overreact with deaths than a military personal, that doesn’t mean that Marine is more aware than civilian. Situations made him more adapted in battle ground. Similarly we are lesser overreacted in those situations where we have gained more experience in life than others. Experience means more awareness. And more awareness means lesser overreactions. But the same person can be easily fall over-reacted in different situations. So that’s why GURU IS MORE AWARE ON ROOT LEVEL. HE IS READY FOR ALL KIND OF SITUATIONS EITHER HE HAS EXPERIENCE OF THAT SITUATION OR NOT. I am not talking about so called a guru who always says`` that there shouldn’t be any unnecessary thoughts, Mind is enemy, and emotions are not good, live in Now’’. Because even if those gurus can stop mind & live in presence or have some miraculous powers, what to do with our life. We are still standing at same place. So I am not talking here about extraordinary people, we are discussing about Normal people. Let’s say I don’t have emotions at all, because my guru says so. But without emotions (which are product of Mind), how I am going to Pray in temple. Do u think God can exist without emotions? God exist in this world because of our Emotions. If somebody has no emotions or less emotions, cannot be self-realized, enlightened or god messenger. And if somebody get self-realized, He will never teach people that MIND IS ENEMY, we should not be emotional, we should not be either happy or sad ( balance in so called Guru`s sense).Is this a Balance of Mind? Come on give a break…… If u can’t be happy or sad for your family, poor people, needy people .what the hell we gonna do with enlightenment or be spiritual. Its better be unchanged. So please instead of following teachers including me, please give some time yourself for self-evaluation so that your BUdhi (intellect) can pick up & you can decide yourself what is right or wrong for you. Regards Atulanand For previous lectures go to my page on Facebook JUST AWAKENING
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:12:15 +0000

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