It is up to you to tame the mind, to call it’s bluff, to not believe everything it tells you. Use it appropriately but with a certain healthy skepticism. It has power, but YOU have the ultimate control. Not as a servant of the mind, but as its master. But you can’t master the mind using the tactics of the mind. You have to be wise. This often means doing the opposite of what the mind is suggesting. You let go when the mind is screeching at you that you will surely die!This is how you housetrain this instrument – the mind, the bronco – that you have been given. If you don’t house train it, it will mess all over your house
The mind is really a conservative, it is a bit of a Nazi. When important things come up to be processed it tells you it is time to be afraid. It tells you that your life, as you know it, is in danger. It tells you to clench up, clamp down, resist and contract. The mind is primitive in this way.
Real wisdom is gritty and uncompromising in its ability to recognize what is really going on. Where the mind will be screeching and advocating a police-state of control, wisdom is suggesting you take a deep breath and relax. The mind says this is a wicked gamble, too much of a crazy risk. The mind speaks in these absolutes.
Real wisdom is gritty and uncompromising in its ability to recognize what is really going on. Where the mind will be screeching and advocating a police-state of control, wisdom is suggesting you take a deep breath and relax. The mind says this is a wicked gamble, too much of a crazy risk. The mind speaks in these absolutes.
Wisdom is audacious, radical and liberating. Wisdom is about freedom and peace. When you learn the way of wisdom you will not lose the knife-edge of the intellect. On the contrary you will be able to use the instrument of the mind appropriately and to its fullest capacity.
