Mind Awareness

A mind that’s not aware of itself can’t be changed with self help methods. Only through the quietness of the heart can one be set free from the questions that hold the mind captive…

A do it yourself self help mentality to a better life is like having directions to one place, but a trip to another place is planned. The directions have purpose, but their usefulness are limited. Even if the directions are used correctly it will never get you to your destination. I’m not insinuating there isn’t value in the directions, but their usefulness is limited, and they become useless if you’re not traveling to the place of the directions; self help methods and programs produce these same useless results. We are constantly trying to arrange life thinking we can fix ourselves by trying to fill an inner void with all kinds of things from the outside, and regardless of the fix the void never gets filled. This is not some theory I made up, it‘s factual because this is exactly what happened to me. Look around and you’ll see how the world is full of people doing this same exact thing; if you are truly honest with yourself you’re probably doing it too.

Think of this, the mind that creates the need for self help is the same mind that’s going to be used to fix it; this isn’t feasible. If this mind didn’t create a problem to begin with, the need for self help wouldn’t be required. It’s like rotating a flat tire, putting the flat side on top, and expecting the flat to be repaired. Something that’s broke cannot be used to repair itself. It would take a miracle for this to happen; if you want to rely on miracles so be it.

Another question to asked yourself, have you ever done something and questioned why it was done? Understand the mind that told you to do it is the same mind that is now questioning it; this is the mind that self help relies on. There’s no wonder humans are in the state we’re in. Humans have created the way the world is and the same humans are trying to fix it. And get this, with the same mind that made the world the way it is. A mind that is broke cannot fix itself because if it could, there wouldn’t be the need to fix it to begin with…