Mind is a Tool to be Used

Mystic Psychology

Western psychology thinks that the mind can be healthy. And, that as it is it can be treated and helped. Because for western thinking there is no transcendence, as there is nothing beyond mind. Transcendence is possible only if there is something beyond, so you can live in your present state and move further. But if there is no beyond, then transcendence is impossible.

If you think you are just a body, then you cannot transcend your body, because who will transcend and to where will you transcend? If you are just the body, then you cannot go beyond the body. If you can go beyond the body, that means you are not just the body, but the body plus. That plus becomes the dimension to move into.

Mind is Bridge

Mind is a Process, Not A Thing.

There is a Sanskrit word, Chitta, which means minding, a process. A process can never be silent. A person will always be tense, a process means a turmoil, and mind is always moving from the past to the future. The past goes on being a burden on it, so it has to move to the future. This constant movement creates another tension within you. If you become very conscious of it, you may go mad. So that is why we are always engaged in something or another, we do not want to be unoccupied.

If you are unoccupied, then you will become conscious of the inner process, of the minding, and that will give you some very strange and peculiar tensions.

So every one wants to be occupied in one way or another. If there is nothing to do, one goes on reading the same newspaper over and over again and again. Why? Can you not sit silently? It is difficult because if you sit silent you become aware of the totally tense process within. So everyone is in search of escapes. Alcohol and or drugs, will give you that, you will become unconscious. Sex can give that, for a moment you forget yourself completely. Television, music, computers the internet can give that also, anything where you can forget yourself and become occupied so much that for the time being you are as if you are not.

This constant escaping from yourself or oneself is really because of this process of minding. This is why so many people when they start to "meditate" they become more tense. they say, "We were not so tense before and we were not so worried before. Ordinarily the whole day we are not so worried. But when we sit down quietly and start meditating, thoughts rush upon us, they crowd in, this is something new." So they think it is because of meditation that thoughts are crowding them. it is not because of meditation.

Thoughts are crowding you every moment of your life, but you are so occupied outwardly you cannot be conscious of it. Whenever you sit down and are silent you become conscious of something you have been escaping constantly. Mind, or minding, is a process, and a process is an effort. Energy is wasted in it, dissipated in it. It is necessary, it is needed for "life" , it is part of the struggle for survival. It is a weapon, and one of the most violent weapons.

Master The Law , The Power Of Mental Focus, Understand The Process of Continuity

A Violent Weapon/of The Struggle for Survival.

So there are those who say "I cannot sit silently, give me a name that I can repeat, a mantra, then I can be silent." Really!, what are you doing? You are creating a new occupation. Then you can be silent, why? because the mind is still occupied. Now you are focused on the word, the mantra, the mind is still occupied.

The mind as a process is bound to be always ill. It cannot be so balanced as silence needs.

Created From Without.

Going Beyond The Mind

Then move in the mind and use it, the mind becomes the instrument and you are not identified with it. So two things: either you are identified with the mind-this is illness, or you are not identified with it, then you use it as an instrument, and then you are healthy and whole.

Your mind is not yours, it comes from your parents. Who are you? You were born as a pure consciousness. So, be skeptical and doubting about your mind, do not trust it.

To Know the Truth means to Know That Which is Neither Born nor Dies, That Eternal Element Which is Always Present.

Man Has A Center

When we are born we are rooted in a particular spot, in a particular "Chakra" (center); and that is the navel, but we have forgotten this center or we have never remembered it. It is there waiting, and we have been drifting away from it.

Inside the womb the unborn child grows around its mother‘s navel point, the fetus literally "breaths" through the umbilical cord from the mother into its own navel. The navel point is the starting point for the flow of the primordial life energy, and remains the center in the adult. You know your body, but you do not know your center.

The breath should be constantly going to the center and moving out, but we are not taking enough deep breath. Thus, ordinarily, it does not really reach to the center. That is why everyone feels "Decentralized", everyone feels off center. That creates an inner tension, a constant turmoil, anguish. You are off balance, and this being off balance, off center, is the base of all mental tensions. If it becomes too much, you will go mad.

A madman means one who has gone "out of himself" completely. The Enlightened man is just the reverse of the madman, he is "Centered" in himself.

Look at a child sleeping, observe its breath. The breath goes in, the abdomen comes up, the chest remains unaffected. That is why children have no chests, only abdomen - very dynamic abdomens. The breath goes in and the abdomen comes up, the breath goes out and the abdomen goes down. Children are in their Center. That is why they are so happy, so bliss-filled, so energy-filled; never tired, overflowing, and always in the present moment: with no past, and no future. The child can be angry, but when it is angry, it is totally angry.

The child becomes the anger. Then its anger is a beautiful thing. When one is totally angry, anger has a beauty of its own, because totality always has beauty. A child even in anger and violence is total. Its face becomes radiant and beautiful, it is here and now. Its anger is not something concerned with the past or something concerned with the future, it is not calculating. It is just angry, the child is at its center. When you are at your center you are always total. Whatsoever you do will be a total act, good or bad it will be total. When you are fragmentary, when you are off center, your every act is bound to be a fragment of yourself, your totality is not responding - just a part. And the part is going against the total, that creates ugliness.

Breath Deep To Be Real

If the breath goes deep to the abdomen it gives energy to the sex center. It touches the sex center, it messages the sex center from within. the sex center becomes more active, more alive. Civilization is afraid of sex. We do not allow our children to touch their sex center, their sex organs. We say "STOP don’t touch!" Look at a child when it first touches his sex center, and then say "STOP!" and then observe his breathing. When you say "STOP! don’t touch your sex center!" the breathing will become shallow immediately, why? because it is not only its hand which is touching the sex center, deep down the breath is touching it. And if the breath goes on touching it, it will be difficult to stop the hand. If the hand stops, then basically the breath is not touching the center, the breath should not go deep, it must remain shallow.

When a child is born it is rooted in the navel, he lives through the navel center. Look at a child breathing, its navel goes up and down. It breaths with the belly, he lives with the belly - not with the head, not with the heart. But by and by the child will have to drift away. He will develop another center - the heart, the center of emotions. It will learn "love" , the love center will become developed, this is not the real center, this center is a by product. The navel is the original center.A child is born with it, it is not a by product. Without it "life" is impossible, so it is given. The navel is the given center, the original one. The heart and head centers are to be developed, not the navel center. the navel center is just to be discovered, it is not to be developed. The navel center is already there, you have to uncover it. It is there fully developed. the heart center and the head center are developments. They are not there to be discovered, they have to be developed.

Society, culture, education conditioning, help to develop them. But you are born with a navel center, without that center you cannot exist. You can be without the heart center, you can be without the head center. They are necessities, it is good to have them, but you can be without them. It will be very inconvenient, but you can be without them. However without the navel center you cannot be. It is not a necessity, it is your life.

Many things are implied in this. One, it may not be possible for you to have a mind, a reasoning faculty, like an Einstein. It just may not be possible for you, but you can become a Buddha, or a Jesus. Why? Why is it possible for you to become a Buddha or a Jesus than it is to become a Einstein.

Because The Christ or Buddha hood is not to be developed in you, it is already there. It is concerned with the basic center in you, the original center - the navel. It is already there! You are already a Buddha, you are already the Christ, only unaware. You are not already an Einstein. You will have to try, and then too it is not a guarantee, because, really it seems impossible. You cannot become an Einstein.

Becoming a Christ. or Buddha

When a child is born, the first thing he is going to do is cry. with that cry his throat opens. With that cry comes the first "AH", The oxygen and air that had been given by the mother is exhaled. This is its first effort at breathing. That is why the cry. If a child is not crying, then the doctor will become uneasy. It stills feels dependent on the mother, it must cry. That cry shows that now it is becoming an individual and no longer needs the mother, it will take its own breath. A child is here, you call it pure. It gets angry, it has greed, so why do you call it pure.

What is pure in childhood? Innocence! There is no division in the mind of a child. The child is unaware of any division into what is good and what is bad. That unawareness is the innocence. Even if it gets angry, it has no mind to be angry. It is a pure and simple act. It happened, and when anger goes, it goes. Nothing is left behind. The child is again the same, as if anger has never been there.

The purity is not touched, the purity is the same. So the child is pure because there is no mind. When someone becomes like a child, he is pure. Of course, he is not a child - only like a child. The difference is there and the similarity is there. The similarity is the innocence regained. But the difference is also there, and the difference is great. The Child is simply ignorant, hence the innocence, but the enlightened one is wise; that is the reason for his innocence.

How We Become False and Unreal

The child is sensitive, its whole body is sensitive. But it is helpless, it cannot be independent. it has to depend on parents, on family, on society. Because of this dependence and helplessness the parents, the society, go on forcing things on the child, and it has to yield. Otherwise he cannot remain alive, it will die. So it has to give many things in this bargain. The first and very deep significant thing is sensitivity, it has to leave it. Why?

Because the more the child is sensitive , the more it is in trouble, the more it is vulnerable. A slight sensation, and it begins to cry. The crying has to be stopped by the parents, and they cannot do anything. But if the child goes on feeling every detail of sensation, the child will become a nuisance. And children do become nuisances, so parents have to curtail their sensitivity. the child has to learn resistance, the child has to learn control. And by and by the child has to divide its mind into two.

So there are many sensations which it just stops feeling because they are “not good”. It is punished for them. The child’s whole body is erotic. It can enjoy his fingers, it can enjoy its body. The whole body is erotic. It goes on exploring its own body, it is a great phenomenon for the child. But the moment comes in the exploration when the child gets to the genitalia. Then it becomes a problem because the father and the mother are all repressed. The moment the child (boy or girl), touches the genitalia, the parents become uneasy. This is to be observed deeply.

Their behavior suddenly changes, and the child notes it, something wrong has happened. The parents start crying, “Don’t touch! Then the child starts feeling that something is wrong with the genitalia. It has to suppress. And the genital is the most sensitive part of your body, the most delicate. Once the genitalia are not allowed to be touched and enjoyed, you have killed the very source of sensitivity, then the child will become insensitive.The more it grows, the more it will become insensitive.

A child left to himself, will be just an animal. It will be authentic, but it will be an animal, it will not become a man. So that is not possible, we cannot leave a child to himself. We have to do something and whatsoever we do will disturb the real self.

It will give clothing, it will give faces and masks to the child. It will become a man, but then it will become an actor. It will not be real. A child, a boy, is born, or a girl is born. They do not have minds. They have only the possibility that the mind can sprout. It can be there, but it is not there. It is just a seed. Then you start to train them. You, the society give them mind.

Man as he is, is a repressed being. He is not allowed. He has to follow rules. He is not a free agent, but just a kept slave, and the whole society is the prison. The walls are very subtle, they are glass walls, very transparent. You cannot see them, but they are there. Your morality, your culture, your religion, they make up the walls. they are transparent, you can not see them, but whenever you want to cross them you are thrown back. This state of mind is neurotic. The whole society is ill.

When a child is born, it is a feeling being, it feels things. It is not a thinking being yet. It is natural, just like anything natural in nature - just like a tree or an animal. But we start molding and cultivating. The child has to suppress its feelings because without suppressing its feelings it is always in trouble. When it wants to cry it cannot cry because his parents will not approve of it. It will be condemned, it will not be appreciated, it will not be loved. It is not accepted as it is. It must behave, it must behave according to a particular ideology, ideas. Only then will it be loved. Love is not forthe child as it is. It can be loved only if it follows certain rules. Those rules are imposed, they are not natural. The natural being begins to become suppressed, and the unnatural, the unreal is imposed over it.

This unreal is your mind, and a moment comes when the split is so great that you cannot bridge it. You go on forgetting completely what your real nature was or is. You are a false face, the original face has been lost. And you are also afraid to feel the original, because the moment you feel it the whole society will be against you. So you yourself are against your real nature.

We are All Neurotic

When they are suppressed you create symbolic needs. For example: you may go on eating more and more, stuffing yourself with food, and you may never feel that you are filled. The need is for love, it is not for food. But food and love are deeply related, so when the need for love is not filled, or it is suppressed, a false need for food is created and you can go on eating. Because the need is false, it can never be fulfilled. And we live in false needs. That is why there is no fulfillment.

The child is born as one, whole. that is why every child is so beautiful. The beauty is because of the wholeness. The child has no gaps, no split, no divisions, and no fragments. And this is because there is no mind. The capacity for mind is there , but mind as a fact is not. The child is one, the real and the unreal are not there. the child is simply real, authentic.

You cannot say that the child is moral, the child is neither moral nor immoral. It is just unaware that there is anything moral or immoral. The moment he becomes aware, a split starts. Then the child begins behaving in unnatural ways because to be real becomes more and more difficult. This happens of necessity, remember, because the family has to regulate, the parents have to train. The child has to be civilized, educated, given manners and cultivated, otherwise it will be impossible for the child to move in the society. He has to be told, “Do this, don’t do that.”

And when we say, “Do this,” the child’s reality may not be ready to do it. IT may not be real, There may not be any real desire within the child to do it. And when we say, Don’t do this or that, the child’s nature may like to do it. A real child will be in a basic difficult with the society, because the whole society is unreal. This is a vicious cycle.

A child is born in a society, the society is there with its fixed rules, regulations, behaviors and moralities which the child has to learn. Then he will grow to become false. Then, children will be born to him, and he will help make them false, and this goes on and on. When a child is born he has to be forced into a certain discipline. He cannot be allowed freedom. The child has to be disciplined.

What are you doing when you are disciplining a child? You are forcing something which is not natural to him. You are asking and demanding something which he will never do spontaneously. You will punish him, you will appreciate, you will bribe him, you will do everything to make him social - to take him away from his natural being. You will create a new center in his mind which was never there, and this center will grow and the natural center will go into oblivion, into the unconscious.

Your natural center has moved into the unconscious, into the dark, and your unnatural center has become your conscious. There is really no division between unconscious and conscious, the division is created. You are one consciousness. This division comes because your own center has been forced to some dark corner, suppressed or repressed.

Even you are not in contact with it, you are not allowed to be in contact with it. You yourself have become unconscious that you have a center. Freedom is killed, and without freedom you lose your center. You live what the society, the culture, the family have taught you to live. You live a false life. For this false life a false center s needed. That center is your EGO, your conscious mind. So in a way everything is forcing you not to be yourself, and this cannot be changed just by saying that this is wrong.

The society creates the disease, and then the disease has to be treated. Meditation is therefore medicinal, Religion is also Medicinal. If someday it becomes possible for a human society based in freedom can evolve, then there would be no need of Meditation nor Religion. However, because we are ill medicine is needed.

So, here is the conflict, your real center rooted in reality, which cannot be destroyed; a false center rooted in your mind which is just a shadow, a reflecting process. The conflict comes into existence because the real remains. It remains in the center, and just on the periphery an unreal center is created and you go on being identified with the mind. Between these two centers there is a constant struggle, a constant anxiety, a constant tension. This must be transformed, and there is only one way. THE FALSE MUST DISAPPEAR, AND THE REAL MUST BE GIVEN ITS PLACE.

Getting Grounded Again

Can you remember any moment in your life when you were spontaneous, when you just lived in the moment- when you were living yourself and you were not following someone else? THE REAL CENTER CAN FUNCTION ONLY WHEN YOU ARE SPONTANEOUS AND FREE!

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