THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF MAKING FRIENDS WITH AND TAMING YOUR OWN WILD HORSE MIND
Only through following our own spiritual path and practices such as meditation and prayer can we use our mind’s power to become free of all sources of suffering and attain lasting peace and happiness.
THE DAWNING LIGHT Volume 7, # 594 Thursday, November 16 2023
Spiritual Soup Kitchen Section # 76
Lovingly written by Chinmayan…to encourage you to make friends with and tame your own beautful, powerful and awesome wild horse mind!
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THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF MAKING FRIENDS WITH AND TAMING OUR OWN WILD HORSE MIND We must make friends with our own mind, So that it becomes our friend, Our sanctuary and source of immense strength When facing the inevitable challenges of Daily life lived here in this beautiful and painful world. Our minds can be our own worst enemy— Indeed, our normal ego mind which We are born with and which has dominated Us for countless lifetimes, is in itself The primary source of our suffering— Mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. Our minds are immensely powerful— In fact, all around us are people who Are being driven to committing suicide, To violence against others such as mass Shootings, who have become addicted to Ruinous substances or caught in Destructive emotional patterns resulting In out of control rage and craziness, And all other forms of intense suffering Caused by their own minds and it’s Flow of negative thoughts and perceptions. The first goal of any authentic spiritual path Is to make friends with your own mind And eventually to be able to not only control it, But to consciously direct it’s full power To attaining positive ends and the peace, Power and clarity of higher states of consciousness. Our own minds can either be our worst enemy or Our own best friend, depending on whether we Control and direct it or are dominated by it.
My daughter Dawa in deep meditation at 9 years old Photo by Chinmayan All authentic spiritual paths use the powers of The mind to become completely free of the mind’s Lower aspects through meditation and prayer, Through mantra and your own spiritual practices… On this path, we learn how to use the mind Itself to become completely free of the Endarkening ego mind structure, which Always has been and always will be the Primary source of suffering for everyone of us— We learn how to be so motivated by our own Suffering and the suffering of others and the world That we dedicate ourselves to becoming free of All suffering so that we can help others become free— The spiritual path is by far the most daunting, difficult And challenging thing we can ever do with This precious human life that we are endowed with— And it is also the most rewarding because until we Free ourselves from the sources of suffering, Those sources are so embedded, so deeply ingrained In our minds, heart and being that nothing But absolute dedication to our own spiritual path Will ever take us to those higher states of consciousness In which we are utterly free and have Awakened to who and what we really are. January 10, 2016 Still Mountain Retreat
Photo credit: Pixabay Expressing love and caring towards all beings is a major part of all authentic meditation pratices
Original Revelations Poem and Calligraphy by Chinmayan
Image Credit: Still Mountain Meditation Center
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