Rediscovering Your Own Mind
True Intelligence
Seeing a cup and knowing it is not true intelligence, but seeing a cup and knowing oneself and the world is.
See Yourself for Yourself
Have you seen yourself? If you have not seen your mind, you have not seen yourself. See yourself for yourself.
Instead of Knowing Oneself
If you have never seen your mind, you understand yourself like a person who has never seen any color and shapes understands red.
Not Knowing Your Mind
If you do not know your mind, it prevents you from knowing what you truly like and want, and further prevents you from living a life you truly want. Not knowing your mind also prevents you from knowing your inner cause that hinder your life, and further prevents you from solving the inner cause. As a result, your life is trapped in hindrances.
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If you don’t know your own mind, it will prevent you from knowing yourself. If you do not know yourself, it will prevent you from knowing your life and the people you meet in your life.
When You Neglect Your Mind
When you neglect your mind, it operates on its own without your awareness and your permission.
Rediscovering A Flower
See a flower to discover the flower in your mind.
A Powerless Owner
When you have no power to choose what to think and what not to think, any thoughts can enter and stay in your mind without your permission. It is like when a house owner can not act as an owner but always stays in bed, anyone entering and staying in the house without the owner’s permission.
When You Neglect Your Mind
When you neglect your mind, it operates on its own without your awareness and your permission.
Your Best Friend and Worst Enemy
If you take care of your mind, your mind also takes care of you. But if you don’t take care of your mind, your mind also doesn’t take care of you.
If you mistreat your mind, your mind also mistreats you. Your mind can become your best friend or worst enemy depending on how you treat your mind.
A Brakeless Car
A person who can think but can not stop thinking is like a car running without brakes.
Stop Thinking
If you don’t have the ability to stop thinking, automatic thoughts will run and even could ruin your life.
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.
Rediscovering Believing
What you believe is because of what you do not know. Knowing what you do not know is knowing what you believe.
Information, Not Event
When reading a book telling the earth is four billion years old, you know the information about the event but not the actual event.
Believing and Knowing
After reading a book telling the earth is formed four billion years ago, accepting the words to be true is believing.
Realizing that you are believing is knowing.
Realizing that you do not know whether the event stated in the book actually happened four billion years ago or not is also knowing.
Believing Means Not Knowing
Believing means you do not know. If you know, you just know instead of believing or disbelieving.
Rediscovering Anger
Being angry is punishing oneself.
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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 and Happiness
Serving desire can give you temporary pleasure but not happiness.
Desire 3
A person who does not know the true nature of desire serves desire. A person who knows the true nature of desire uses desire well.
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.
A Sign of a Higher Intelligence
Self-awareness is a sign of a higher intelligence.
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A voluntary mental action is a sign of a higher intelligence.
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Knowing one’s own ignorance is a sign of a higher intelligence.
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Wisdom is a sign of a higher intelligence.
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Thinking with awareness of thinking is a sign of a higher intelligence.
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Voluntary thinking is a sign of a higher intelligence.
source: New Direction Archive