Discovering Your Own Mind
Inner Light
Nurturing inner light dispels darkness within.
Inner Light 2
Without inner light, darkness prevails within you.
Keeping Your Mind in Your Body
Keeping your mind in your body is vital to live as a human.
Keeping Your Mind in Your Body 2
Without keeping your mind in your body, you can function as a resource and be successful, but it is difficult to live as a human.
Knowing Your Mind
Knowing your mind is not essential if you live as a resource but is vital if you live as a human.
Knowing Your Mind 2
You can be successful without knowing your mind if you live as a resource. But it is difficult to live as a human if you do not know your mind.
Not Knowing Your Mind
Not knowing your mind prevents you from knowing what you truly want and your deep value, and further prevents you from living the life you truly want.
Not Knowing Your Mind 2
Not knowing your mind prevents you from knowing yourself. Not knowing yourself hinders you from knowing your life. Not knowing your life makes it difficult to live your life.
Neglected Mind
When you neglect your mind, it tends to operate on its own without your awareness and your permission.
The Best Place to Keep Your Mind
The best place to keep your mind is in your body.
Seeing a Flower
See a flower to discover the flower in your mind.
A Brakeless Car
A person who can think but can not stop thinking is like a running car without brakes.
Thinkaholic
If you can not stop drinking, you are called an alcoholic but if you can not stop thinking, you are called a thinker.
Thinking With Awareness
There are great differences between thinking with the awareness of thinking and thinking without it.
Self-Imprisonment
We are both guards and prisoners of the prison we create.
An Abandoned House
A mind unaware of itself is like an abandoned house, inviting unwanted things.
A Mind Without Self-Awareness
A mind unaware of itself operates on autopilot.
Your Best Friend or Worst Enemy
Take care of your mind and it will take care of you. Mistreat it and it will do the same to you. Your mind can be your best friend or worst enemy depending on how you treat it.
A Brakeless Car
A person who can think but can not stop thinking is like a running car without brakes.
Automatic Thoughts
Automatic thoughts keep you on autopilot.
An Incomplete Education
Teaching how to think without teaching how not to think is not a complete education.
The Limit of Thinking
Trying to know reality by thinking is like trying to understand colors by hearing sounds.
A New Way to Think
Think voluntarily instead of thinking involuntarily without awareness.
What You Believe
What you believe is because of what you do not know.
Information, Not Event
It is the information that you know, not the actual event itself, when you read, for example, a book that says the earth was formed four billion years ago.
Believing and Knowing
Knowing is knowing. Believing you know is not knowing.
Believing and Knowing 2
Knowing is like tasting while believing is like guessing the taste without tasting.
Believing and Knowing 3
If you have tasted something, you can not guess the taste. Likewise, if you know something, you can not believe it.
Believing and Knowing 4
If you know something, you just know it instead of believing or disbelieving it. If you do not know it, you can either believe or disbelieve it. Believing or disbelieving means not knowing.
Believing and Knowing 5
You can believe you know what you do not know if you do not know what you do not know. But you can not believe you know what you do not know if you know what you do not know.
I Overdose
A preoccupation with I-my-me-mine is harmful.
Rediscovering Anger
Being angry is punishing oneself.
Rediscovering Anger 2
Being angry with another person is punishing oneself for not knowing oneself.
Rediscovering Desire
Desire is not something to serve, fight or get rid of, but something you learn and benefit from.
Rediscovering Desire 2
Desire in you tells you so much about yourself and the world you live in.
Desire
Desire will use you if you do not use it
Desire 3
Desire empowers you if you use it, but enslaves you if you do not.
Noble Desire and Beastly Desire
Noble desire grows in the noble. Beastly desire grows in the beast.
Serving Desire
Serving desire leads to misery.
Serving Desire 2
Desire persistently tell you what to do throughout your day. If you are unaware of what desire is telling you, you are serving the desire.
Consuming Desire
Consume desire or it will consume you.
Freedom From Desire
Not fighting desire, but learning from desire leads to freedom from desire.
What You Truly Want
You miss what you truly want while chasing what you think you want.
What You Truly Want 7
To chase what you think you truly want is to miss what you truly want.
What Looks Attractive
What looks attractive to you reveals your inside.
Knowing Your Mind 2
You can be successful without knowing your mind if you live as a resource. But it is difficult to live as a human if you do not know your mind.
Abandoning Inner Self
Abandoning inner self, the core, causes many problems in one’s life.
Contradictory
Believing you know others without knowing yourself is contradictory.
Inner Contradictions
Believing one knows what one does not know. Acting against oneself while wanting to act for oneself. Doing what will cause unhappiness while wanting happiness.
Great Intelligence
Seeing a cup and knowing it as just a cup is ordinary intelligence but knowing the self and the world is great intelligence.
True Intelligence
Intelligence that is not aware of its own ignorance is not true intelligence.
True Intelligence 2
Intelligence without wisdom is not true intelligence.
True Intelligence 3
Intelligence without self-awareness is not true intelligence but functional intelligence.
Reliable Mind
A mind that does not know what it does not know is unreliable. A mind that believes it knows what it does not know is very unreliable. A mind that knows what it does not know is reliable.
source: New Direction Archive