You do not need to directly restrain the mind or try to oppose its movements at all. The thinking mind tends to function like a mechanism that has been wound up and which consequently is impelled to follow its train of thought. To struggle with this - to try to control it - is pointless. This is where many experience the frustration of attempting and failing in their practice of meditation.
We are habitually identified with the mind and its movements - with its thought-content. It is a cliché because it has had to be repeated so often by spiritual teachers, but it is an essential truth: we are not the mind. We are the source of mind. We are consciousness, we are pure Awareness. We are the 'Being' - the 'I Am'. Dwelling in that pure awareness is Meditation.
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Friday, September 22, 2006
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