Your Mind is Holding You Back; How We Define Mind
Your mind is holding most of you back. We define mind as everything you have come to know as you: brain, perceptions about what your 5 senses tell you, understandings, habits, skills, fears, etc. Your habitual reliance on these tools acquired in the 3rd dimension, including teachers & gurus, will be of no use where you’re going.
We define mind as everything, every aspect, that you have come to know as you: understandings, knowledge, wisdom, habits, hopes, fears, desires, skills, perceived weaknesses; your 5 senses and how you’ve come to use them, and your perceptions about the reliability of what they tell you; and of course your brain. These are the TOOLS you used for growing, thriving and surviving 3rd dimensionally. But in terms of your spiritual growth, your habitual reliance upon your mind as we define it is holding most of you back. We offer an analogy where everything we describe as the mind is a boat and you and your boat have been on an adventure sailing the sea of duality. Over the course of the journey, you have come to perceive you and your boat as being inseparable. Now you’ve run aground, but the habit of you and boat, the appearance of absolute reliance, is so deeply engrained, so strong, it doesn’t occur to most people that they can leave their boat behind. It’s confusing and uncomfortable, because the database and toolbox of the mind is no longer providing very clear information upon which decisions and understanding will be made. Many are aware that their boat is no longer moving, but it doesn’t occur to most that it’s safe to get out of the boat. A few brave souls have hopped out of their boat but it does not occur to most of them that they can leave the boat—this partnership with the mind—behind. So they drag the boat with them, which is difficult, plus the tools constituted in the boat are becoming ever less reliable. Then one day you come across a sheer cliff, and it is apparent that you and your boat will not navigate this in any way. People will search the database of their mind for a way. Some will read more and listen to teachers. Some will attempt to scale the cliff using their mind, but it doesn’t work because the tools they’re using don’t work: they see a hand hold, reach for it, but it's not there. At some point, you’ll realize there is no figuring anything out, there are no books or teachers, there is nothing in your tool bag, library, wisdom, understanding, skills, or earthly memory that you acquired in your 3rd dimensional existence that will be of any use where you’re going. So you finally make the decision to let go of everything, even at depths you cannot yet see. At the top of your list of things to let go of are those perceptions, understandings, definitions having to do with you. Let go of all instincts for survival, of gravity being real. In your meditations and walking through life, it is a human habit to have expectations of experience, wondering what something is going to be like, ideas about what’s happening. Let go of those too .As you let go, your higher chakras will open in ways that you’ve not yet experienced in the 3rd Dimension. With regard to people, teachers and gurus who have advice, they’re doing the best they can but remember that they’re using concepts developed in the 3rd dimension. It's not possible to know anything about what lies ahead.