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Awareness (Part II)

Posted April 23, 2009 in Awareness.

B. Now, think of your MIND. You use your mind to generate thoughts. This is your computer. But, and this is a very important thing to realize: you are able to see its function, therefore it does not comprehend you.

It is a part of you, just as your body, but it is not you. It isn’t either the place where your Reason resides, or you would not have random, undesirable, or unreasonable thoughts. It is the part of you that thinks. This is not all I have to say about your mind. We will work extensively with your mind, but for now, this is enough.

NOW YOU ARE AWARE OF YOUR MENTAL SELF!

C. You have physical feelings like cold and pain. These are signals of your body that call your attention to vital needs, as in the case of cold, or to situations around you that you are not aware of. Say your knee hurts; it is your body calling your attention to the fact that you are afraid of going ahead with something.

Sickness does not exist; it is all an illusion. I prefer to call “symptoms” of any kind “dis-ease”, not being at ease.  Something is bothering us and we do not see it.

Our body acts up, and a part of us vibrates at the wrong frequency. Then we get the symptoms. Of course, if we do not identify and redress the situation, those symptoms can eventually kill our physical body, in the same way that soldiers, marching over a bridge, create a resonance that makes the bridge collapse.

And what about your emotions? Emotions are sometimes a direct consequence of our thoughts: we remember someone insulting us and we feel anger and hurt all over again.

At other times, they are a result of conditioning. You were taught, a lot of times by example:  “If you hear this, you should feel that”, and the brain, like the computer, once programmed, is obedient. Another way how feelings come forth is through association. An event that happened last year was so traumatic, it created a deep neural avenue in my brain. Today, something happened that reminded me of that event. As a consequence I feel the same I did then. Conclusion: Yes, you feel, but you are not your feelings.

NOW YOU ARE AWARE OF YOUR EMOTIONAL SELF

This is the moment to dismantle another of the BIG cultural lies that are cheating us of our rightful place in this Universe: “I think, therefore, I exist”.

Attributed to Descartes, this one is probably the most pernicious BIG lie, the most hurtful to us, and to Nature. It forces us to identify completely with our thinking process, to the exclusion of everything else. It obliterates the Observer in us, and gives our minds a totally exclusive power over our existence. Not that only but, since we consider the human being the only sentient being in the planet, it separates us from all other beings, and from Nature. Creating the fiction of our superiority to animals and trees, it has given us permission to destroy others thoughtlessly.

It is a lie! We do not exist because we think. We ARE, even when we do not think. Actually, we are MORE ourselves when we are not thinking. The Observer is not the mind, it is the OWNER of the mind. Having said enough about this for the moment, lets proceed with a truly revolutionary concept:

You, the Observer, the one beyond your mind, your body and your emotions, are the one who now will do the work that follows!