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Ordinary Consciousness or Mindlessness |
The field of awareness in ordinary states of consciousness is contaminated with a variety of negative patterns of thought, feeling, and reaction. We remain largely unaware of these negative patterns and how they prevent us from reaching higher states of consciousness. In mindless states of unawareness, we are hypnotized, functioning like robots on automatic pilot, sleepwalking our way through life.
The biggest culprit is the mind. The undisciplined mind disrupts our lives by taking us out of the present moment, where our life is at its fullest. The story of life is unfolding in the now, the place where we learn, enjoy, help others, find our courage, and experience inner peace.
The undisciplined mind reaps havoc on our peace. Repeatedly, the mind takes us out of our current moments when it does not like what is going on. It fights when angry, runs when afraid, competes when jealous, creates imagined calamities, and projects fantasies from its desires.
The mind is strongly attracted to the past and the future. While it is good to learn from the past and have hopeful plans for the future, the mind goes overboard in its replays and projections. We relive past hurts, resentments, and regrets, which only serve to recycle anger, depression, and guilt. Our projections of the future breed unnecessary fear and insecurity.
We build a rigid structure of selfish, dogmatic, overvalued thoughts, opinions, likes, and dislikes. We try to get our needs met by controlling and pushing events and people. However, the world does not conform to our egotistical desires; when things do not fit, we create new desires. Instead of working with what we have that is good, we escape into fantasy, to what we think we want next. The result is an increase in mental restlessness and turbulent emotions.
The mind is at its best when it accepts and works with one moment at a time. It is not set up for the excesses of attraction, aversion, high emotional reactivity, and the avoidance of problems … all of which lead to restlessness and rumination, signs that the mind is overheated.
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