While i was learning how to psychic heal and read people, and not only people - animals, rooms, homes, buildings or groups, doesnt really matter, different method, same intention - i heard a lot about mindfulness, specially the kind Thich Nhat Hanh teaches. But then when i spoke with these students, they all still seemed stuck in the mind. Their mind simply found another trick to be right about something. So i came up with my own kind of teaching, called mind-fool-nes: how the mind fools you.
In the beginning i had many students. Most very open to these teachings, some just still loved discussing too much. But i would always be patient with them, no matter how frustrating my mind would become, or how much their mind tried to trigger me. Its such a clever system, very well designed. It has so many firewalls, backdoors, boobytraps and pitfalls. Its impossible to escape.
Therefor most of my teachings were simple. First of all, recognize the mind for what it does. Dont fight it, you will lose, 'cause thats what it wants you to do: to fight truth will all it has. Claiming it wants to find The Truth, knowing full well thát doesnt exist. Truth is dynamic, it changes shape and form, according to or mirroring its beholder.
Then the second step is to just notice the mind. Like watching a child playing in the garden, innocent and ignorant. The child isnt aware of a great many things. It just loves to play, discover and learn. And then there is the parent, another part or state of your ego. Usually critical, thinks it knows whats best, or better, protective or worried. But not always, it can be loving, caring, forgiving and nurturing as well. Depends on how they were raised as a kid. If they had very strict parents, then at least they had learned boundaries, but if their parents had not known discipline or restrictions, because their parents tried to be friends with their children. Then the rebel would often appear center stage. It is a great way for the dependent mind to fake independence, or vice versa.
Slowly but surely you are getting to know the mind, the ego and all its intricate parts. One might even tap into the soul level for a bit. Depends on how 'awake' or aware the Self is. But lets not go there yet ;] While getting to know the person, that you used to think you are, you will gradually become aware of that which is aware of the person. You are NOT the person. You have just been identifying with it most of your life. Which is actually not true, as a child you were very awake, highly aware. But we often quickly forget this state of mind, because our parents dont approve of it. Because their parents did the same, and theirs, and theirs, and so on, for centuries, for eons. I wont say forever, because not too long ago we were in a completely different state of being - in the times of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Once fully aware of what the mind does - its trickery, its dodging, always finding an escape, a way to be right, after all! - there's no more need for escapism. And plenty of time for fooling around. We can allow our ego to play out all its roles. The stage is ours, and not just the stage, the audience, the entire theater and everything in and around it. We get to choose who we are, when and where we are. We get to enjoy life again, at its fullest. Or should i say foolest =]
In the beginning i had many students. Most very open to these teachings, some just still loved discussing too much. But i would always be patient with them, no matter how frustrating my mind would become, or how much their mind tried to trigger me. Its such a clever system, very well designed. It has so many firewalls, backdoors, boobytraps and pitfalls. Its impossible to escape.
Therefor most of my teachings were simple. First of all, recognize the mind for what it does. Dont fight it, you will lose, 'cause thats what it wants you to do: to fight truth will all it has. Claiming it wants to find The Truth, knowing full well thát doesnt exist. Truth is dynamic, it changes shape and form, according to or mirroring its beholder.
Then the second step is to just notice the mind. Like watching a child playing in the garden, innocent and ignorant. The child isnt aware of a great many things. It just loves to play, discover and learn. And then there is the parent, another part or state of your ego. Usually critical, thinks it knows whats best, or better, protective or worried. But not always, it can be loving, caring, forgiving and nurturing as well. Depends on how they were raised as a kid. If they had very strict parents, then at least they had learned boundaries, but if their parents had not known discipline or restrictions, because their parents tried to be friends with their children. Then the rebel would often appear center stage. It is a great way for the dependent mind to fake independence, or vice versa.
Slowly but surely you are getting to know the mind, the ego and all its intricate parts. One might even tap into the soul level for a bit. Depends on how 'awake' or aware the Self is. But lets not go there yet ;] While getting to know the person, that you used to think you are, you will gradually become aware of that which is aware of the person. You are NOT the person. You have just been identifying with it most of your life. Which is actually not true, as a child you were very awake, highly aware. But we often quickly forget this state of mind, because our parents dont approve of it. Because their parents did the same, and theirs, and theirs, and so on, for centuries, for eons. I wont say forever, because not too long ago we were in a completely different state of being - in the times of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Once fully aware of what the mind does - its trickery, its dodging, always finding an escape, a way to be right, after all! - there's no more need for escapism. And plenty of time for fooling around. We can allow our ego to play out all its roles. The stage is ours, and not just the stage, the audience, the entire theater and everything in and around it. We get to choose who we are, when and where we are. We get to enjoy life again, at its fullest. Or should i say foolest =]
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