Tag: mind

Your most fundamental fears are inherited

Your most fundamental fears, the ones that grievously spoil your quality of life, the ones that paralyze you completely, happen to be fears you inherited from your parents.

The mind is like an elastic spring. You push it, you press it, you resist it, you apply force against it, and it only gets more power and more energy from your very action.

Take no prisoners!

Open the gates and release them all, set them free, chase them out, be firm, be vulgar if necessary.

Fear, Pressure, Worries - the sacred trinity of miserable quality of life which unnoticeably has become a norm for almost everyone.

A few years ago, I took a 10-day Vipassana course. At the end of the retreat, I have noticed a surprising strange phenomenon: Some "hardcore" senior Vipassana meditators which evidently seemed during the retreat as truly advanced, as soon as the official retreat ended and thus talking started, they happened to switch immediately to unconscious behavior with their egos inflated to monstrous propositions.

Try just for one day to abstain from text. No reading, no writing, no internet, no profound contemplations, no looking for explanations and reasons, no text.

MMMM, I am the manifestation of god almighty and only I. You are nothing. But you have this opportunity to learn from my words. Therefore listen to me carefully with no trace of vanity.

Every so-and-so seconds
a beam of bliss
is hitting you.

It is so ecstatic
that you want it again that bad.

Believing that all is dependent
you desperately search for reasons

For purposes of this discussion, let's talk about the brain (although the brain is actually an image in the mind).

My ego is screaming. It feels abandoned. It feels betrayed. It feels completely ignored.