Delusional Mind

Understanding the nature of a delusional mind is one of the attributes of waking up. But it’s not the delusion of the world that one wakes up from, it’s the delusion of your own mind…

What is a delusional mind that runs your life? The delusional mind manifests because there’s attachment to your thoughts. The first thought that arises about something is inconsequential, it’s the attachment to the second thought that forms the delusional mind. To understand the delusional mind one must be aware of their attachments, desires, confusions, and the way your mind works. Without this awareness the puppet on string pattern prevails. Certain practices turns one inward to see this. If what you’re doing doesn’t turn you inward, you’ll remain trapped to your delusional state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the delusional mind. A broken mind can’t fix itself and as long as it’s reaching for something on the outside, it remains trying to fix itself and thus it remains broken. Until this truth is seen, things have to stay as they are because nothing is being done to change it.

We can only go beyond the surface knowing if there’s awareness of it. What this means is one has to develop mindfulness of what they are doing as they are doing it so there‘s awareness of what’s being done. If you know what you’re doing as you’re doing it, it leaves little room for a delusional mind to arise. Mindfulness is probably the single most discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment of what is being done. A delusional mind only occurs when one lives in the story of a past or future. These delusional mind made constructs keeps the delusion alive. The present moment can be seen without making it a story even though it passes as quickly as it arises. But the past and future can never truly be seen without a story. And because of this lack of discipline to be present, most people live a delusional mind existence…