There are two ways to view life. One is from the mind, which is the view of ideas, concepts, beliefs, and stories, and the other is from the heart which needs none of the things listed from the mind, especially the stories. When the minds view is in control it produces stress, fear, tension, greed, anxiety and a slew of other things that don’t necessarily add anything to life. When the heart is the controlling view, there’s peace, and as one learns to sit quietly and the mind settles peace becomes the norm. There are many distractions of a mind state that keeps you entrapped to all the things mentioned before. These distractions will only subside when I wanting is let go of. Living from the mind is learned and because it’s so much more influenced by the world, unconsciously it becomes the norm.
Living from the heart will also have to be learned because of these influences. Any suffering that occurs is directly linked to the thought about it, so if you don’t have the thought of suffering you won’t suffer. Simple, but this will only occur through understanding and learning what it will take to remove the mind view. Mind and heart reactions are much different and because the mind has been conditioned to fulfill I wants and desires, I becomes the cause of the mind made suffering. When there’s a thought of I want peace initially it’s from the mind, but for it to become of the heart, this has to happen, I want will have to be let go of so all that’s left is peace, until this happens the mind will continue its control of the way life is viewed…
No comments:
Post a Comment