Problem with the mind.

Problem with the mind.

Mind is not an instrument that will take you to enlightenment.

So, stop investing your time in the mind ( beyond what is necessary for daily life ).

Once you rely on the mind, it will keep taking you back and back into the repetitive slippery slopes of Sansar, in one form or the other, one problem to the next, each one unsolvable, one object of desire to the next, never reaching anywhere, one guru to the next, one temple to the following, one scripture to the next, but never into enlightenment.

This is all the mind can do.

The mind is a product of the enlightened state of consciousness but not consciousness itself.

A wave is a wave, not an ocean.

A painting by Picasso is a painting, not Picasso.

This has to be firmly studded in your inner psyche.

When you realize this and realize the trickeries of the mind, your journey beyond will start.

Mind was devised to be an instrument, to be enslaved, not to be our boss.

You may make friends with your slave, as you want only friends in your life and not enemies, so don’t fight with it, but do not follow its advice.

If you do, it will only take you to the slum’s quarters, not the heavens, because it doesn’t know its path.

The situations in which the mind can take you where you shouldn’t be getting into.

1. Advising others when not asked for.
2. ⁠Criticizing someone ( or joining in their criticism by others ) when they are not in front of you instead of realizing that everyone has the freedom in their life.
3. ⁠Getting into arguments, outcomes of which never come. (e.g., politics ).
4. ⁠Making opinions about others, as everyone has a depth you cannot fathom, and when it eventually comes out, it may embarrass you.
5. ⁠Giving your opinions to others about them, because everyone’s situation can be and usually is different than yours.
6. ⁠Keep talking and not listening. 7. Letting the likes and dislikes disturb your inner mental status and make you run, leaving your peaceful inner state.

All these and more like these keep redefining your Ego every moment and keep intensifying it, dimming your chances of going within ( beyond the mind and ego).

7. Letting the mind go into a fantasizing mode instead of staying what is in now.

All these require only one thing.

Awareness.

Only meditation intensifies the awareness.