Then we discussed the following a mixture of wisdom from the internet.
Few
people realize it, but there really are great spiritual secrets. They
exist. In fact, your whole life has been a journey to find them. Once
you do find them, you'll hold the key to a life unimaginable
The
first point is to know how to be here and now. Second point is that
when I dream, I don’t have control over my dreams. You have no
conscious control over your dreams, over that part of mind which
dreams. You have no control over that part of mind which sleeps. The
vast part of mind remains buried, remains unknown. Only a small part
of mind is being cultivated by you and you are puffed up with pride
that, “I have a Ph.D., a D.Litt., I have education, I have money, I
have a car, I have all this.” What is my point of view? Human
beings are members of a fools’ paradise. I go around the world and
I see many, many intellectuals. But I find none of them practical and
I cry. I don’t say that you should accept whatever I tell you. I’m
just making you aware that a vast part of the mind remains unknown to
you. Now there is a third point. That which you consider peace,
happiness, and bliss, where does it live? Where does it exist? If it
was anywhere in the world, Americans would have found it first. They
have even gone to the moon. Where is it? If mind is within, peace
should be in the mind, or known by the mind, or known by
understanding the mind. What is mind? Now let me tell you something.
All of the body is in the mind, but all of the mind is not in the
body. How will you know that part of mind which is not in the body?
Therefore, to know mind is very important, not to know God because He
is already there. You don’t have to know Him. Body is already
there, you don’t have to know much about it. But you have to know
the mind. By understanding the mind you can be free from all
bondage.
Freud
likens the unconscious mind to a bag. You do not know, you are
carrying a bag all the time. It is like your shadow. Wherever you go,
your shadow follows and will not leave you. You are always carrying
that huge bag with you. Anything that you think goes into that bag.
You do not know that part of the mind. You are trying to understand
your mind, only a small part of the mind. You don’t know the
totality of your mind, both conscious and unconscious. If you know
how to train the vast part of mind, the totality of the mind, you can
do wonders on the earth. Anybody who has done wonders on this earth,
anybody who was considered to be a great man, was great because he
knew his mind. You do not have to know the soul because it’s
already there. In all conditions, the soul is there. What you have to
know is your mind, and that’s why you are called hu-man, your own
mind. And the moment you know the mind, you can go beyond the mire of
delusion created by your mind.
We
have to find out the secret of polishing, taming, or learning to have
perfect control over the mind which is the finest of all instruments.
But only a small part of the mind can be grabbed. The totality of the
mind doesn’t come under our control because a vast part of the mind
remains unknown to us. Many Easterners, those who have not studied
Western psychology and philosophy, say, “Oh! Western philosophy is
nothing, Western psychology is nothing.” They are stupid. Freud
says something very definite. Freud says that if the unknown part of
mind is known, then you know all of the mind. Adler, James, all these
psychologists tried to understand the mind. Whatever they understood,
in a scientific way, is remarkable. What I learned from both, the
interaction of East and West, is that the unconscious mind is like
that iceberg which is hidden beneath the water, not known to us. The
tip of the iceberg that is seen floating above the water is called
the conscious mind, that which is hidden is called the unconscious
mind. When we get closer we find that it is not actually the mind,
it’s a vast reservoir.
You
say the mind is roaming, let it roam. Why are you bothered? It will
never go anywhere. It will come back to you. Let it go, don’t
follow the mind. I once asked my Master, “How to practice?” He
replied, “Mind tells you to go there, but you don’t go. Tell
mind, ‘O mind, if you want to go, you’re free to go. What can I
do? But I am not going there.’ ” Fighting with the mind is never
considered to be control. Therefore learn to lead the mind, make a
certain route for the mind to travel and that is called learning to
have control over the mind and it’s modifications.
Now
I’ll tell you something about the kinds of problems that arise when
you try to know the mind. A friend of mine once told me, “On this
trail there is a ghost.” It was at night but I did not believe him
and I said, “I don’t care. I’ve not seen it and I’m not
curious to see it.” We forgot all about this. After one or two
months, I passed that way and it was a dark night. Suddenly I
remembered that my friend had said that a ghost lived here. Even
though I did not believe, why did I remember? Because anything that
comes into my conscious mind finally filters down to the unconscious
mind which is vast. The totality of mind should be understood, not
only a small part of mind, the conscious mind, that we cultivate in
our daily life.
The
human body has potential to cure its own ailments provided you know
about your body. I don’t discuss religion, No matter from which
religious background you come from, I want to give you something
which you need in your daily life. All the great bibles of the world
say one and the same thing—be still, be still. For a few minutes in
the morning and the evening, every human being should learn to be
still. Why, because you will meet God? No, that’s not necessary.
You will be healthy. For your mental health it’s important for you
to understand quietness, stillness. During that time, those muscles
which do not get rest even in sleep get rested. The voluntary system
you can control. You can exercise and develop all of your gross
muscles, but you don’t have control over your involuntary system,
the subtle set of muscles.
Please
remember, all of the body is in the mind, but all of the mind is not
in the body. This is accepted fact. The Upanishads, the final and
best part of the Vedas do talk about it, do discuss it, do explain
this. Confucius, Buddhists, Zen, Zazen, they all explain it. Everyone
found the same problem created by the mind. My mind does not create a
problem for you. Your mind doesn’t create a problem for me. Your
mind creates a problem for yourself.
The Secret Place of Peace
Within
each of us, in our hearts and in our minds, there lives a special
kind of light. In truth, it is everywhere. We can look at our
thoughts as particles suspended in this silent, illuminated space.
But, instead of seeing the beautiful stillness -- the source of that
which reveals the movement of these passing thoughts and feelings --
we grab onto each thought that passes through it. Why would we do
this?
