There are no subtractions and divisions in our mind there is only addition
and multiplication I will just remove negative thoughts and I will have
positive thoughts all the best it’s not going to work it’s just that you need
to pay little attention as to how it functions. You will see there is a
distinction between what are you and what you have gathered. Well see the way
the question is asked and also the way normally it’s addressed. People think
there is something called as negative thought and positive thought they want to
remove the negative thoughts and have only positive thoughts for such people I
would ask them to just experiment for 10-15 seconds.
Let them forcefully remove
one thought from their mind for example next 10 seconds just don’t think of a
monkey try not to think of a monkey for next 10 seconds you will see you will
be full of monkeys. So what I am saying is this is the nature of your mind
because in this mind all the three petals are throttle there is no break there
is no clutch whatever you touch it will only go faster in this kind of mind.
People have been taught from moral teachers and religious
teachers do not think about bad things. Since then it’s been a full-time job so
there is no way you can handle the mind like this, doesn’t need any great
enlightenment. if you spend two minutes with your eyes closed you will realize
you cannot do anything forcefully with this mind, so I want to remove negative
thoughts do not ever go in this direction because what you want to remove will
become your quality always you will be on it so what should I do ? The thing is
this without understanding the fundamental mechanism of this mind, because our
mind human mind is the most sophistic sophisticated computer on the planet. Even
all the super computers have come out of this when this is the case is it not important
that we understand the mechanics of how it functions. One simplistic aspect of
how it functions is there are no subtractions and divisions in our mind there
is only addition and multiplication. If you try to do something with it, it will
say one more if you try hard it will multiply into many more. In this mind you
don’t try to identify what is positive, what is negative and try to remove it. First
of all one need to understand this mind of yours, this body of yours is supposed
to serve you the life that you are is important.
Body and mind are vehicles that must serve us if you sit
in a vehicle it must go where you want to go. If it goes to its own destination
what is the point of such a vehicle, it’s just a nuisance. Right now most human
beings are unfortunately experiencing this fantastic possibility of human mind as
a nuisance, as a troublesome thing. This is the most beautiful thing you have, it’s
just that you need to pay little attention as to how it functions, one simple
thing is this first and foremost processes.
This is to distance yourself from your physiological and psychological
process. There is something called as You which exists. This is not a composite
of all your thoughts and emotions and physiological processes, beyond that there
are you. If you close your eyes even if you cannot see anything you are still
there, it is through the window of your eyes that you are looking out but if
you close your eyes it doesn’t mean that you don’t exist, you still exist. So
beyond your thought you still exist, beyond your emotion you still exist, so
that you, the life that you are this has to come into your experience. Why is
it that you’re not allowing that to come into your experience, which is the
most significant aspect of who you are, who you are right now. The most significant
aspect is you and me are alive right now this is it. What I’m thinking, what
you’re thinking is not the important thing; we are alive right now that is the important
thing. So it is important that you focus on this fundamental sense of aliveness
within you and then you will see there is a natural distance between you and
your thought process. Once there is a distance between your psychological
process and your physiological process this is the end of suffering because there
are only two kinds of suffering that human beings go through is physical
suffering and mental suffering. Once you create a little space between you and
your mind, between you and your body this is the end of suffering. this is
something every human being has to experience and know otherwise thinking I
will just remove negative thoughts and I will have positive thoughts, all the
best it’s not going to work 100 percent. It’s not going to work because nobody
can remove it, they can avoid it for some time so when negative thoughts come
you say Ram-Ram, Shiva-Shiva.
Whatever you want but this is just avoiding it’s
not gone the moment you stop that. it will pop back with great force otherwise
it will come back in your dreams, so it’s very important first of all you need
to understand your anger, your resentment, your fear, your anxieties, the
negativity that you generate generally resentment anger it is always directed
towards somebody. But we need to understand this is poisons that we are
drinking and expecting somebody else to die fortunately life doesn’t work like
that. if I drink poison I die, if I drink poison you don’t die so we need to
understand this when I say poison, today you can have yourself chemically
analyzed right now what is your blood work, what it says. Five minutes of
intense anger check your blood work and see there will be lots of negative
elements in it. Literally you’re poisoning yourself so do you want to poison
yourself definitely not. Now the very question is coming from certain
helplessness, what shall I do? don’t do
anything just sit back and just concern yourself with something which is a life
process maybe your heartbeat, maybe your breath, maybe just a sensation of
being alive, depending upon how sensitive or how perceptive you are accordingly
find something. It could be a sensation in the body, it could be breath, it
could be heartbeat, and it could be anything, something which indicates life to
you just pay attention to that for some time. slowly you will see there is a distinction
between what is you and what you have gathered which includes both your physiological
and psychological possibility or mess whatever you made out of it.
