Who's The Boss. Your Spirit
or your Mind?
by Hu Dalconzo
The human school has a beautiful system of balance created between
the SELF1 and the EGO MIND. Your ego mind is your instrument of
separateness. Your Self is your vehicle of unity. This transformational
paradox creates a very profound polarity between your ego mind
and your Self. It manifests as a creative tension in which the
ego tries to preserve your separateness, while the Self tries
to merge into the unity of all things.
Your ego mind isn't good or bad, right or wrong. It is just the
software that your Self uses to create the human identities that
enable you to function on the earth plane. Your ego is a survival
mechanism that has been evolving for millions of years. Ego transcendence
can be quite a challenge because your ego's primary purpose is
to keep you safe, sane, and secure. That's why psychologists call
them ego... DEFENSES!
"Your comings and goings are no where
but where you are!"
ZEN PROVERB
Your ego mind acts like a defense attorney who is being paid
to supply you with any evidence that you need to keep your psyche
convinced that all your actions are justified. Your ego
mind will do anything to keep you from experiencing something
that it THINKS might harm you. If necessary, it will create
false, half true, or imaginary illusions to keep your psyche
safe from what it perceives to be harmful. The ego rationalizes
your experiences, and the word "rationalizes" means rational
lies! We buy our own rational lies in an attempt to feel safe.
Let's review what we learned about HUMAN IDENTITIES. The term
HUMAN IDENTITY is used because most people identify themselves
as the roles that they play such as a body, broke, sick, fat,
a mother, a doctor, a teacher, a lawyer, or a drunk. It is similar
to when an actor gets so caught up in a role that he's playing
that he acts that way off stage. Most people identify themselves
by the roles that they play. However, you are not your roles any
more than an actor is the villain or hero he plays. You are first
and foremost a spiritual being having a human experience. When
your dharmic2 roles seduce you into identifying who you are by
the roles you are playing, you block your creative powers. You
lose access to your divine powers because you're identifying yourself
as the human actor instead of the divine producer of your life.
You are a SPIRIT that is having a human experience. You
have created human identities like mother, daughter, and holistic
practitioner to function on the earth plane. Most people think
that they are their thoughts and identify themselves as their
thoughts to the point where if they think sad thoughts they feel
sad, and if they think glad thoughts they feel glad. Again, this
is not the truth, it is merely an illusion created by your ego
because... "you have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts;
you are a SPIRIT!"
When you focus your mind on worldly objects, you'll obtain what
is outside of you. When you focus your mind inward with meditation
and prayer, you'll discover your real Self. Your Self is the source
of the life force energy that makes your heart beat, your eyes
see, and your lungs breathe.
Your mind produces an endless series of thoughts like a 24-hour
radio station that never goes off the air. The human challenge
is to learn how to observe the difference between the thoughts
that you think and the LANGUAGE OF FEELINGS of your intuitive
Self. Meditating regularly will train you to feel the difference
between your spirit and ego mind. Many people erroneously think
that the purpose of meditation is to shut off their thoughts.
The mind cannot be shut off. However, it can be quieted, observed,
and witnessed. By practicing the Spiritual Distinction Meditation
you'll develop your ability to distinguish between your Self and
your mind. Your ego is fear-based and therefore it needs to be
in control to feel safe. Your ego is quite adept at making you
believe that it is your intuitive spirit. It does this by whispering
thoughts in your ear like, "Hey listen to me... I'm your intuitive
spirit!"
"Invisible and subtle is the mind. It
flies after fears and fanaticizes whenever it likes; it is difficult
to restrain. But a mind that is Self controlled is a source of
great joy!"
THE DHAMMAPADA
I'm sure that some time in the past you were busy doing something
and there was a radio playing in the background. Even though you
weren't consciously focusing on the music, you could hear it.
When a song came on that you liked, you paid attention to it and
maybe you even started to sing. Your ego is constantly producing
thoughts, just like a radio station that is constantly transmitting
music and advertisements. You need to learn how to train your
mind to FEEL the difference between the thoughts that serve you
well and the ones that don't.
Imagine that your mind and your spirit both have a human body.
Now imagine that for each minute you use your mind to process
your life, that minute directly correlates to a minute spent in
the gym by your mind's body; and for each minute you use your
spirit to process your life, that minute directly correlates to
a minute spent in the gym by your spirit's body. Based on this
analogy, how big and strong would your spirit's body be as compared
to your mind's body? If you're like most people your mind's body
would look like Mr. Universe, and your spirit's body would look
like a 98-pound weakling. That's why we all need to let our ego
mind atrophy as we build our ability to use and put "Spirit First!"
in a world that makes the ego a god.
The relationship between your Self and your ego can be compared
to two people riding a bicycle built for two. You need to train
your ego to sit in the back seat as your humble servant and peddle.
Your Self needs to sit up front steering and guiding you down
the roads of life towards the fulfillment of your spiritual purpose
for living.
Namaste, my soul friends..... Hu Dalconzo
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