SESSION 10 - THE MIND .......... 28 - By Lester Levenson
セッション10 - 心..........28 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 10
THE MIND
The mind is an -instrument created by you to image the
Oneness as chopped up and separated into many parts
I interrelated.
***
The mind is simply the sum total composite of all
thoughts.
***
The mind becomes habitual.
***
The subconscious mind is merely the thoughts that we
are not looking at now.
***
The subconscious mind is running us - making us the
victims of habit.
***
The thing that keeps us from recognizing and expressing our infinity is simply the mind, conscious and
subconscious. If we are to express this infinite nature,
we can do it only by getting behind this mind. When we
reach the realm behind the mind we operate without
thoughts, intuitively, and are in harmony with the whole
universe. .
***
The direction is to still the mind. Quiet the mind and
you'll see your infinity right there.
***
Just let go of the mind completely and what's left over is
your infinite beingness, all knowing, all powerful,
everywhere present.
***
Were we to direct all our energies to stilling our mind, we
would soon be realized.
***
The mind quiets spontaneously in the company of a
great soul.
***
The more you quiet the mind, the more you feel the Self,
and the better you feel. You feel as good as your mind is
quiet.
***
When the mind vanishes, there the Self is. Where the
Self is, there is no mind.
***
The mind is reflected consciousness, reflected from its
source, the Self, just like the light from the moon is
reflected from the sun. While the moonlight may be used
to reveal objects, it is no more needed when the sun
rises. Although the moon may remain in the sky while
the sun shines, it is dim and useless. Likewise, the mind
is useless when we let the Self shine.
***
Your mind is an instrument used to identify your real Self
with your body and world.
***
If you do not identify with your body or mind, neither
your body not your thoughts will effect you. So it is when
you sleep. Not identifying with your body or mind you
have no problems nor suffering.
***
In meditation one subdues the mind and feels the wonderful peace of the Self. This is the start. The finish is
the total dissolution of the mind. This is accomplished by
recognizing the mind as not being apart from the Self, by
seeing it as a phantom product of the Self.
***
In this dream-illusion there's a thing called thought. And
thought determines and is the cause of all matter.
***
In your imagination you have written and projected a
cinema show of acts, actors and audiences on a screen
and have lost sight of the fact that it is all in your
imagination, your mind. Discover this and you discover
the absolute Truth.
***
The world and universe are a mental concoction.
***
Mind subsidence is Realization. There are two ways to
obtain it. On recognizing what the mind really is, it is
seen as an illusion and therefore subsides. By
concentrating on your Self and discovering You, mind
also subsides. Complete subsidence is full Realization. .
.
***
The reason why thoughts wander back into the world is
because we believe the world is real. But for this belief,
Realization would be!
***
Mind distraction is wanting more the things of the world
than the Self. Wanting more to hold your Self, the world
is not looked at!
***
A thought is an assumption of lack causing a wish to
fulfill it.
***
All thoughts are of non-truth. It's so simple. You just stop
the thoughts and the infinity that you are is self-obvious.
***
You've got to use the mind to quiet the mind. You need
to use determination to still it.
***
When you begin concentrating on the mind, you begin
rising above the mind.
***
Once you see what the mind is, you won't be subject to
it any more.
***
Strength of mind is the ability to concentrate
undistracted on a single thought.
***
Without concentrated mind progress is relatively small.
***
A wandering, wavering mind is one that dissipates one's
energy in the form of many thoughts. Hold one thought
and the energy is less dissipated and more conserved.
Direct this conserved energy toward the Self and your
Self will be revealed. The more you do this the stronger
becomes your direction and the easier it becomes to
abide in your Self.
***
In the beginning the mind pursues the Self intermittently
between long intervals. As one continues, the intervals
shorten. .Toward the end, the mind is constant in the
pursuit and does not wander from it.
***
The power of the mind is almost infinite. When there is
only one thought all that power is right there.
***
Restless thoughts keep the Great Ones away. A quiet
mind keeps the door open to them.
***
The more you eliminate mind, the more peace you feel.
***
The mind will never discover the Self because the mind
is the cover-up over the Self. It's only by letting go of the
mind that the Self is seen. You get the mind quiet
enough to allow your Self to be obvious to you so that
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you may use It to let go of the mind.
***
Eliminating what you are not is growth.
***
The biggest difficulty is the subconscious mind. We have
relegated things to the subconscious, stored them there,
and thrown away the key.
***
If we could make our subconscious fully conscious, we
would be fully realized.
***
Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence.
Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it
to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental
limitations a self imposed, he lets go of them. Then his
intelligence (I. Q.) can be raised to the degree that he
knows he has no limits.
***
We are all in the same mind and the only thing that
keeps us from reading the other one is that our attention
is too centered on our own little self.
***
Everyone unconsciously reads everyone else and thinks
that it is his own thoughts.
***
All minds are influencing each other.
***
A high-level mind tunes in with other minds of high level.
A low-level mind tunes in with other minds of low level.
***
Mind is catchy. It's immediately infectious.
***
Thought is a mechanism of limitation.
***
The only intelligence the mind has is what you give to it.
***
Thoughts smother the capacity to be happy.
***
Every thought causes a demonstration.
***
There is no limit to the number of new ideas that man
can have.
***
Anything man can think can be.
***
You use your mind to still your mind. When you are
meditating, holding one thought, other thoughts drop
away.
***
Mind is always seeking external knowledge. Direct it
internally.
***
Introvert the mind and realize to full realization.
***
The ego-mind struggles for survival and tries to subvert
your direction.
***
The mind cannot give the ultimate answer because it's
part of the ego, part of our limitation.
***
Real knowledge lies just behind thought, which is relative knowledge, and relative knowledge is ignorance.
***
When the Self, which is just behind the mind, is discovered, you see that the mind is limited and let go of it.
***
There is a mind that runs this planet. There is a mind
that runs the solar system and a mind that runs the
universe. All these minds are in the illusion.
***
Where is the world without your mind? Is there such a
thing as world when you submerge the mind? The
thought of the world creates it. This whole solid universe
that you mentally say is a solid universe is just your
thought that it is a solid universe.
***
Anything your mind is absolutely convinced of materializes instantly.
***
Mind can do anything with the body.
***
The utmost that the intellect and reasoning can do for us
is first, recognize its limitations and secondly, do that
which helps the quest for the Self.
***
Every thought is an affliction. When the thought waves
are completely stilled there are no more afflictions.
***
Every thought is motivated by a desire for pleasure or an
aversion to pain.
***
Letting go of all attachments and aversions is letting go
of all your thoughts.
***
Thought and desire are the same.
***
The only thing we are aware of is our own thoughts.
***
What we're seeing out there is our own mind.
***
That which you really want you never forget, it's always
on your mind. Really want to discover your Self.
***
The mind is the brain of the astral and causal bodies.
***
The mind can be made quiet wherever you are. The
place to do it is right where you are.
***
Don It mind the mind and the mind won It need minding!
***
The mind is not made noisier, it is just that you get quiet
enough to notice how noisy it is.
***
Everything falls perfectly into line effortlessly and harmoniously without thoughts.
***
As mind gets quiet, first the sense of havingness decreases until a measure of security is felt. It becomes
less necessary to have in order to be. Then the sense of
doership decreases until a further security is felt in that
one is not the real doer, that the real doer is a higher
power, that one can actually be with much less doing
and it becomes less necessary to do in order to be.
Finally your real Self that has always been in the
background steps in and takes over and you feel that
there is nothing necessary any more that you must have
or do, that there is no choice but to only be!
***
Use omniscience, don't use the mind! The goal is to
eliminate the mind.
***
If there are no thoughts then there is no mind. Mind is
only thoughts.
***
If you take away your mind what's left over is Omniscience. You are that omniscient Being that you are
seeking, clouded over by mind.
***
Mind detached from world and centered only on Self is
Liberation.
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***
Depth of meditation is the degree of quietude of mind.
***
Unless we're eliminating mind, unless we're eliminating
ego, we're not progressing.
***
The more we keep looking into the mind, the quieter we
become.
***
Where the mind is all quiet, there is all knowledge.
***
Knowing the mind is full Realization.
***
The first thought of all thoughts is “I am an individual,
separate.” In order for there to be a he, she or it, first
there has to be an I. So we create I, and then there are
others. Without the first thought of I there can't be any
other thoughts of anyone else. That's the first basic
error, I am a separate individual. If I am separate then
there has to be others, he, she and it. And you start
dividing up the One by first becoming an individual
separate from It. Thought first divides and separates you
from the One Beingness, and then creates a multitude of
beings and things and all the relationships. It's all your
thought, that's all it is. Let go of thought and what1s left
over is you, infinite, eternal, glorious, all joyous. serene!
***
METHODS OF MIND REVELATION .......... 30
METHODS OF MIND REVELATION
See the source of the mind and you will find your Self .
Turn the mind back upon the mind and it will reveal its
secrets.
Concentrate the mind on one thought and all other
thoughts will drop away. Then drop this one thought.
Learn to control the breath and you will automatically
control the mind.
Eliminate the ego. The ego thinks' and causes all
thought. The ego is the identifier of the Self as the body.
Surrender the mind to God.
Eliminate all objectivity and the mind resolves. Then
there is only subjectivity.
The mind must be eliminated permanently by realizing
that it is not real but only an apparency, an illusion that
has its source in your Self.
Where there is only subject and no object, there the Self
is.
***
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セッション10 - 心..........28 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 10
THE MIND
The mind is an -instrument created by you to image the
Oneness as chopped up and separated into many parts
I interrelated.
***
The mind is simply the sum total composite of all
thoughts.
***
The mind becomes habitual.
***
The subconscious mind is merely the thoughts that we
are not looking at now.
***
The subconscious mind is running us - making us the
victims of habit.
***
The thing that keeps us from recognizing and expressing our infinity is simply the mind, conscious and
subconscious. If we are to express this infinite nature,
we can do it only by getting behind this mind. When we
reach the realm behind the mind we operate without
thoughts, intuitively, and are in harmony with the whole
universe. .
***
The direction is to still the mind. Quiet the mind and
you'll see your infinity right there.
***
Just let go of the mind completely and what's left over is
your infinite beingness, all knowing, all powerful,
everywhere present.
***
Were we to direct all our energies to stilling our mind, we
would soon be realized.
***
The mind quiets spontaneously in the company of a
great soul.
***
The more you quiet the mind, the more you feel the Self,
and the better you feel. You feel as good as your mind is
quiet.
***
When the mind vanishes, there the Self is. Where the
Self is, there is no mind.
***
The mind is reflected consciousness, reflected from its
source, the Self, just like the light from the moon is
reflected from the sun. While the moonlight may be used
to reveal objects, it is no more needed when the sun
rises. Although the moon may remain in the sky while
the sun shines, it is dim and useless. Likewise, the mind
is useless when we let the Self shine.
***
Your mind is an instrument used to identify your real Self
with your body and world.
***
If you do not identify with your body or mind, neither
your body not your thoughts will effect you. So it is when
you sleep. Not identifying with your body or mind you
have no problems nor suffering.
***
In meditation one subdues the mind and feels the wonderful peace of the Self. This is the start. The finish is
the total dissolution of the mind. This is accomplished by
recognizing the mind as not being apart from the Self, by
seeing it as a phantom product of the Self.
***
In this dream-illusion there's a thing called thought. And
thought determines and is the cause of all matter.
***
In your imagination you have written and projected a
cinema show of acts, actors and audiences on a screen
and have lost sight of the fact that it is all in your
imagination, your mind. Discover this and you discover
the absolute Truth.
***
The world and universe are a mental concoction.
***
Mind subsidence is Realization. There are two ways to
obtain it. On recognizing what the mind really is, it is
seen as an illusion and therefore subsides. By
concentrating on your Self and discovering You, mind
also subsides. Complete subsidence is full Realization. .
.
***
The reason why thoughts wander back into the world is
because we believe the world is real. But for this belief,
Realization would be!
***
Mind distraction is wanting more the things of the world
than the Self. Wanting more to hold your Self, the world
is not looked at!
***
A thought is an assumption of lack causing a wish to
fulfill it.
***
All thoughts are of non-truth. It's so simple. You just stop
the thoughts and the infinity that you are is self-obvious.
***
You've got to use the mind to quiet the mind. You need
to use determination to still it.
***
When you begin concentrating on the mind, you begin
rising above the mind.
***
Once you see what the mind is, you won't be subject to
it any more.
***
Strength of mind is the ability to concentrate
undistracted on a single thought.
***
Without concentrated mind progress is relatively small.
***
A wandering, wavering mind is one that dissipates one's
energy in the form of many thoughts. Hold one thought
and the energy is less dissipated and more conserved.
Direct this conserved energy toward the Self and your
Self will be revealed. The more you do this the stronger
becomes your direction and the easier it becomes to
abide in your Self.
***
In the beginning the mind pursues the Self intermittently
between long intervals. As one continues, the intervals
shorten. .Toward the end, the mind is constant in the
pursuit and does not wander from it.
***
The power of the mind is almost infinite. When there is
only one thought all that power is right there.
***
Restless thoughts keep the Great Ones away. A quiet
mind keeps the door open to them.
***
The more you eliminate mind, the more peace you feel.
***
The mind will never discover the Self because the mind
is the cover-up over the Self. It's only by letting go of the
mind that the Self is seen. You get the mind quiet
enough to allow your Self to be obvious to you so that
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you may use It to let go of the mind.
***
Eliminating what you are not is growth.
***
The biggest difficulty is the subconscious mind. We have
relegated things to the subconscious, stored them there,
and thrown away the key.
***
If we could make our subconscious fully conscious, we
would be fully realized.
***
Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence.
Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it
to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental
limitations a self imposed, he lets go of them. Then his
intelligence (I. Q.) can be raised to the degree that he
knows he has no limits.
***
We are all in the same mind and the only thing that
keeps us from reading the other one is that our attention
is too centered on our own little self.
***
Everyone unconsciously reads everyone else and thinks
that it is his own thoughts.
***
All minds are influencing each other.
***
A high-level mind tunes in with other minds of high level.
A low-level mind tunes in with other minds of low level.
***
Mind is catchy. It's immediately infectious.
***
Thought is a mechanism of limitation.
***
The only intelligence the mind has is what you give to it.
***
Thoughts smother the capacity to be happy.
***
Every thought causes a demonstration.
***
There is no limit to the number of new ideas that man
can have.
***
Anything man can think can be.
***
You use your mind to still your mind. When you are
meditating, holding one thought, other thoughts drop
away.
***
Mind is always seeking external knowledge. Direct it
internally.
***
Introvert the mind and realize to full realization.
***
The ego-mind struggles for survival and tries to subvert
your direction.
***
The mind cannot give the ultimate answer because it's
part of the ego, part of our limitation.
***
Real knowledge lies just behind thought, which is relative knowledge, and relative knowledge is ignorance.
***
When the Self, which is just behind the mind, is discovered, you see that the mind is limited and let go of it.
***
There is a mind that runs this planet. There is a mind
that runs the solar system and a mind that runs the
universe. All these minds are in the illusion.
***
Where is the world without your mind? Is there such a
thing as world when you submerge the mind? The
thought of the world creates it. This whole solid universe
that you mentally say is a solid universe is just your
thought that it is a solid universe.
***
Anything your mind is absolutely convinced of materializes instantly.
***
Mind can do anything with the body.
***
The utmost that the intellect and reasoning can do for us
is first, recognize its limitations and secondly, do that
which helps the quest for the Self.
***
Every thought is an affliction. When the thought waves
are completely stilled there are no more afflictions.
***
Every thought is motivated by a desire for pleasure or an
aversion to pain.
***
Letting go of all attachments and aversions is letting go
of all your thoughts.
***
Thought and desire are the same.
***
The only thing we are aware of is our own thoughts.
***
What we're seeing out there is our own mind.
***
That which you really want you never forget, it's always
on your mind. Really want to discover your Self.
***
The mind is the brain of the astral and causal bodies.
***
The mind can be made quiet wherever you are. The
place to do it is right where you are.
***
Don It mind the mind and the mind won It need minding!
***
The mind is not made noisier, it is just that you get quiet
enough to notice how noisy it is.
***
Everything falls perfectly into line effortlessly and harmoniously without thoughts.
***
As mind gets quiet, first the sense of havingness decreases until a measure of security is felt. It becomes
less necessary to have in order to be. Then the sense of
doership decreases until a further security is felt in that
one is not the real doer, that the real doer is a higher
power, that one can actually be with much less doing
and it becomes less necessary to do in order to be.
Finally your real Self that has always been in the
background steps in and takes over and you feel that
there is nothing necessary any more that you must have
or do, that there is no choice but to only be!
***
Use omniscience, don't use the mind! The goal is to
eliminate the mind.
***
If there are no thoughts then there is no mind. Mind is
only thoughts.
***
If you take away your mind what's left over is Omniscience. You are that omniscient Being that you are
seeking, clouded over by mind.
***
Mind detached from world and centered only on Self is
Liberation.
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***
Depth of meditation is the degree of quietude of mind.
***
Unless we're eliminating mind, unless we're eliminating
ego, we're not progressing.
***
The more we keep looking into the mind, the quieter we
become.
***
Where the mind is all quiet, there is all knowledge.
***
Knowing the mind is full Realization.
***
The first thought of all thoughts is “I am an individual,
separate.” In order for there to be a he, she or it, first
there has to be an I. So we create I, and then there are
others. Without the first thought of I there can't be any
other thoughts of anyone else. That's the first basic
error, I am a separate individual. If I am separate then
there has to be others, he, she and it. And you start
dividing up the One by first becoming an individual
separate from It. Thought first divides and separates you
from the One Beingness, and then creates a multitude of
beings and things and all the relationships. It's all your
thought, that's all it is. Let go of thought and what1s left
over is you, infinite, eternal, glorious, all joyous. serene!
***
METHODS OF MIND REVELATION .......... 30
METHODS OF MIND REVELATION
See the source of the mind and you will find your Self .
Turn the mind back upon the mind and it will reveal its
secrets.
Concentrate the mind on one thought and all other
thoughts will drop away. Then drop this one thought.
Learn to control the breath and you will automatically
control the mind.
Eliminate the ego. The ego thinks' and causes all
thought. The ego is the identifier of the Self as the body.
Surrender the mind to God.
Eliminate all objectivity and the mind resolves. Then
there is only subjectivity.
The mind must be eliminated permanently by realizing
that it is not real but only an apparency, an illusion that
has its source in your Self.
Where there is only subject and no object, there the Self
is.
***
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