#26(22e) What truth in the mind?
Here's what I find is true ...but it's not The Truth - it's only the translation of it into thought via language.
Everything is You
Everything is Me.
That's it..hehe
To expand on this I could say:-
Imagine the whole world and everything and everybody in it is your Dream.
A yacht sails on the Mediterranean with a couple on it gazing toward a beautiful sunrise. You can imagine that -right?
Then the TV goes click and turns off and the woman who is sitting nearby asks you if you liked their holiday video if you want another cup of tea!
Imagine that as well !
All of the reality you see is in your Dream, in your mind: the yacht, the Mediterranean,the couple,the TV,the tea-- The house,the houses,the carpet ,the children, the people, the dog and the goldfish called 'Bubbles'.
So - If this is my experience, my reality of what the world is, I think it's pretty clear how I regard "The Truth".
All the Laws of Physics and so forth are all your creation...and so is Socrates...and so is Bertrand Russell.
By the way : If your argument is that this is not so you may find yourself saying:
"What a load of rubbish- How can I have created the whole world it's ridiculous-
"The world is out there and does exist - Reality just IS !!! "
Which sounds an awful lot like "Let there be light" doesn't it..hehe
It's all a creation.
.How can you and I both be the Creator?
I got no idea how to answer that!
I have an answer but it's not really something I can communicate in writing or even thinking.
I think it could be because any answer I come up with is 'true' inasmuch as I just thought of it and created it!
.It gets worse !
All there is, is Now, this moment - 'This'.
The past and the future are not here right now - where are they?
Both can exist as images or ideas in the mind -but they are not here.
You must concede all that is available to view is here now even if it includes convincing evidence of the past.
"I lost my slippers yesterday -oh -here they are under the bed where I left them" -etc.
.The Truth.
.Lila (or Leela).
"Brahman is full of all perfections. And to say that Brahman has some purpose in creating the world will mean that it wants to attain through the process of creation something which it has not. And that is impossible. Hence, there can be no purpose of Brahman in creating the world. The world is a mere spontaneous creation of Brahman. It is a Lila, or sport, of Brahman. It is created out of Bliss, by Bliss and for Bliss. Lila indicates a spontaneous sportive activity of Brahman as distinguished from a self-conscious volitional effort. The concept of Lila signifies freedom as distinguished from necessity."
—Ram Shanker Misra,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila_%28Hinduism%29
I would like to add that the 'Bliss' (above) isn't really an emotion - it's not in the mind -sometimes we feel great and are happy - 'Bliss'(above) is not just feeling very,very,very good!
I would say , imagine God decided to make a world of stars and planets and oceans and beaches and mountains, and populate it with plants,and animals and people.
Then there was the idea -'why not BE all those things and see what that's like'.
I don't think Ram Shanker Misra is trying to define life - we are just pointing at the concept.
I have cup of coffee in my hand...I can write about it, photograph it, video it, but without putting it in your hands you would not experience the truth of it - - unless you simply perceived it for yourself by being the Divinity that you are.!!!
Dolano (see youtube) talks of the 'play of Leela'.
I cannot go much further than this -to say Life has no meaning isn't really my experience either !
When you find you cannot think about it and your mind starts to go POP -then just look without thought -all the answers are there.
I am still going to be a spiritual being though - and I am going to reincarnate!
Why not -it's my world isn't it?
But I don't want to fix the world anymore -worlds of paradise or suffering all seem the same to me -simply wonderful (most of the time ..lol)
.Finding Peace
Never mind all this stuff -what about being happier ? Right? hehe.
Dr. Pincus, at some point in your life,
you're gonna have to stop,
and ask yourself the ultimate question.
"This business of
"being such a fucking prick,
"what is it really getting me?"
Movie: Ghost Town(2008) Aasif Mandvi as Dr. Prashar.
My point is at some point I had to stop and ask myself a similar question:-
"This business of listening to the mental messages that occur in my mind - what is it really getting me?"
All those moments of angst and trauma and judgement and beliefs and guilt and blame and shame and regret - what good is it all?
Well it's good for depression and upset mostly -and occasionally moments of joy - but overall it's not a very good deal to 'sign up' for.
I know it's all made up -don't I?
Be honest with yourself!
I feel traumatised by my childhood and drama in my adult life because I thought I should be traumatised by my childhood and drama in my adult life. The only trauma in it is all my own fabrication.
My whole mini-me self is all made up - all a creation within a bigger me that's totally chilled and happy.
I decide not to mess around any more with little bits of unhappiness in the mind.
I've been trying that for years and years -maybe you have too?
I went for all of it at once - all of the mind- the whole lot-- - It's all a complete construct to play out a game of separation.
The mind here is currently upset about a family scenario and the fact that my money has run again. So what?
I see the judgements and I feel the emotion and the adrenaline -but it's all a big joke.
I just go kind of 'neutral' and look at all this mental activity - I meet it. And it all just fades away.
It's all smoke and mirrors , an illusion and no matter what happens I can feel grateful for everything.
Love,
'The Mind Popping'
Paloma Porta
26th May 2012
