The MIND enigma – Mystical, Impressionable, Neutral, Directable – Insights for better mental health
[Talk at University of Texas, Dallas, USA]
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The MIND enigma – Mystical, Impressionable, Neutral, Directable – Insights for better mental health
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what I spoke today, I spoke on the topic of the mind enigma and I focused on an acronym mind, M was mystical, yeah so the mind is mind can make heaven out of hell and hell out of heaven we think of our emotions as a one step experience this makes me happy that makes me sad but emotions are actually a two step experience the same situation based on the conception or the context can bring a different emotion within us, so not having a desert might cause annoyance to some and might cause relief to another and the mind can by its mystical powers suddenly and entirely change our mood and emotions like a train moving fast in one direction the mind’s power is so mystical can suddenly make the train move in another direction, we will be cheerful at one moment and we will become resentful at the next moment so we often don’t realize how much the mind influences us its power is phenomenal and now what determines how the mind’s power works for that we discuss the second aspect I was impressionable the mind whatever we experience whatever actions we do, whatever situations we experience, that becomes stored as an impression so from the action of the situation comes the impression and this impression comes out as a proposition somebody has never taken drugs, even they pass by a drug peddler or a drug joint they don’t feel any agitation, somebody has taken it repeatedly feels strongly agitated so the kind of emotions that we experience right now they are the results of the impression stored therein in the mind and in that connection I talked about we did the thought experiment of how we can see things on an inner screen we can see the inner screen but we can’t see the seer of that inner screen so the materialistic materialism offers us no explanation of what the mind is the mind cannot be physically documented in the body but its effect can be physically demonstrated on the body as it is in placebos not just placebo pills but even placebo surgeries so the mind is best understood through the Bhagavata’s three level model of the self, body, mind and soul is like the hardware, software and the user I talked about a security monitor on which inputs from five cameras are coming in and particular camera particular window zooms out so that is like the five senses bringing in the inputs but which window zooms out that is determined not just by what is interesting, most interesting but also by what impressions are stored so when if somebody is repeatedly visiting Bollywood.com type B to go to Bhagavad Gita.com still Bollywood.com will come up when the impressions on the mind make the mind go into the past and replay all the bad things that have happened to us, that’s when we get depression when the mind goes in the future and starts depicting all the things that may go wrong, we get anxiety and so the mind can seem to be like our enemy, we discussed third N was what? neutral the mind may be circumstantial or enemy but intrinsically it simply reflects what impressions are stored within us so if we change the kind of situations that we put ourselves in the kind of association that we place ourselves in the kind of environment the culture that we put ourselves in then the mind will have positive impressions within it and those positive impressions will come up as positive propositions so by recognizing that the mind is neutral we can have the confidence that just because my mind is a particular way right now doesn’t mean I am like that not that I am a depressed person, it is my mind which is a depressed mind it’s neutral and I can change the depression of the mind also and the last D was directable, directable means what? if I understand that I am different from my situations and I am different from my emotions then I can direct my attention where I want the computer may propose a particular website to me but I don’t have to let the computer direct where I go I can direct where I go and this directability becomes easier for us to access when we understand that we belong to a higher level of reality I talked about this friend of mine who was trapped in the waterlogging, the flood that happened after the hurricane Irma and then when he found it in the room, there is an attic he survived by that so like that, at the physical level sometimes situations may overwhelm us emotions and situations may come upon us like a heavy irresistible flood but if we by our spiritual practices raise our consciousness to the spiritual level understand that I am the seer not the screen and not the scene then we can get inner calmness and that can help us to bring about outer effectiveness whatever life may get us to, our spirituality can get us through life determines our problems but our mind determines the size of those problems by understanding that we are bigger than our mind, we can ensure that the mind doesn’t exaggerate our problems but we find effective ways of dealing with the problems thank you very much yes please